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Last Update:
August 21, 2024

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 2024

08/21  Congratulations! Xincheng Wu passed his A-exam of graduate study in the field of Nutritional Sciences.  
08/03 The Qian lab summer picnic party was held at Dr. Qian's house backyard. See Gallery. It also serves as a fareweill party for Dr. Longfei Jia. 
05/14  Dr. Qian attended NSF UIDP (University-Industry partnership) meeting in Washington DC.
02/23  Dr. Qian was invited to give a seminar at the Southern University of California Medical School.
01/24  Welcome Dakota Voitcu as a BMCB rotation student.
   
   
2023
   
12/16 The Qian lab holiday party was held at Dr. Qian home.
11/10 Becky Stewart from Duke University visited our lab for a postdoc interview.
11/06 Welcome! Bowen Hao joined our lab as a NS graduate student. She gratulated from University of Califormia at Berkeley.
10/09 Dr. Qian was invited to give a seminar at the Northwestern University in Chicago.
10/05 Dr. Qian was invited to give a talk at New England Biolabs.
09/07 Congratulations! The paper decribing start codon-associated ribosome frameshifting was accepted by NSMB. See Publications
08/05 The Qian lab summer picnic party was held at Dr. Qian's house backyard. See Gallery.
08/04 Congratulations! The CysRx paper was accepted by Mol Cell. See Publications
07/28 Dr. Dragony Fu from University of Rochester visited our lab and discussed about collaboration
06/07 Dr. Qian attended High-Rish High-Reward meeting at Bethesda organized by NIH.
05/15 Dr. Qian was selected to give a talk at EMBO Workshop on Non-coding RNA.
04/25 Congratulations! The collaborative work on SAMD9 with Dr. Xiang's group at UT San Ontonio was accepted by Sci Adv.
03/12 Dr. Qian started his sabbatical at the European Institute of Chemical Biology  in Bordeaux, France.
03/09 Dr. Qian was invited to give a talk at Moderna Inc. in Boston.
02/20 Shu-Bing, Leiming, and Ashley attended Gordon Conference on Translation machinery in health and disease at Galveston, TX.
02/13 Dr. Qian was invited to give a seminar at  University of California at Santa Barbara.
02/07 Welcome! Shengchao Shi joined our lab as a Postdoc research fellow. She reveived her PhD from Nanjing University, China.
02/07 Dr. Qian was invited to give a seminar at Duke University.
   
   
 
2022 [+]
   
12/17 The Qian lab holiday party was held at Dr. Qian home.
12/13 Dr. Qian was invited to give a seminar in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Hamburg.
10/31 Welcome! David Arboleda joined our lab as a rotation graduate student in the field of GGD.
10/04 Dr. Qian was invited to give a talk in the Burke Institute of Neurosciene at Cornell Medical College.
09/10 Congratulations! Dr. Qian received a NSF award to co-investigate RNA regulatory logic with NYU investigator Dr. Oded Regev.
09/07 Dr. Qian was selected to give a talk in the Translational Control Meeting at Cold Spring Harbor.
08/22 Welcome! Ashley (Xinyi) Liu joined our lab as a graduate student in molecular nutrition.
07/23 The Qian lab summer picnic party resumes after two years of pandemic break. It also serves as the farewell party for Yuanhui. Best wishes for his new endeavour!
07/21 Welcome! Xuezheng joined our lab as a visiting student. Xuezeng is a MS student at Nanjing Medical University.
07/12 Dr. Qian was invited to give a talk at Ribosome 2022, Bordeaux.
05/26 Dr. Qian was invited to give a talk at University of Texas, San Antonio.
05/12 Dr. Qian was invited to give a talk at Johns Hopkins University.
04/09 Dr. Qian was invited to give a talk at EMBO Workshop on Codon Usage, Edinburgh.
04/02 Welcome! Saori Uematsu joined our lab as a Postdoc research fellow. Saori reveived her PhD from University of Tokyo.
03/20 Welcome! Rachel Cheang joined our lab as a NS graduate student.
02/07 Welcome! Yanru (Cindy) Liu joined our lab as a BMCB rotation student.
   
   
2021 [+]
   
   
10/28 Congratulations! Yifei Gu's paper has been accepted in Nat Commun.
10/25 The Whiteoak group visited Qian lab as part of the future collaboration in mRNA engineering.
10/22 Dr. Qian was invited to give a talk at University of Wisconsin, Madison.
09/29 Congratulations! Erica Shu's paper has been accepted in Nat Chem Biol.
08/15 Welcome! Xincheng Wu joined our lab as a NS graduate student.
07/19 Welcome! Yizhen Jin joined our lab as a BMCB rotation student.
07/14 Dr. Qian was invited to give a talk at mRNA-based Therapeutic Summit (virtual).
05/20 Congratulations! Quanquan Ji's paper has been accepted in PNAS.
   

2020 [+]
12/21 Congratulations! Leiming Dong's paper has been accepted in Science Advances.
12/18 Congratulations! Robert Swanda has been selected to join the Cornell University Chapter of the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society.
12/11 The Qian Lab held a facemask farewell party for Yifei (Michelle).
12/04 Dr. Qian was invited to give a talk at MBSJ2020 on Cell Fate Conversion by innovative RNA modulation  (virtual).
11/16 Welcome! Fjordor Merkuri joined our lab as a GGD rotation student.
10/06 Congratulations! Dr. Qian received the pretigious NIH Director's Pioneer Award. See Chronicle News , NIH website and ASBMB Today.
09/25 Dr. Qian was invited to give a talk at NCI Workshop on Epitranscriptome and Cancer (virtual).
09/02 Dr. Qian was selected to present at Cold Spring Harbor meeting: Translational Control (virtual).
08/12 Congratulations! Erica (Xin) Shu received the I-Corps Team project award from NSF.
07.27 Congratulations! Longfei Jia 's paper has been published in Nature Struct & Mol Biol. See Publication.
07/10 Congratulations! Yifei (Michelle) Gu successfully defended her PhD thesis and passed her B-exam.
07/07 Congratulations! Erica (Xin) Shu successfully defended her PhD thesis and passed her B-exam.
05/29 The lab was approved for research reopenning with social distancing.
03/16 Due to COVID-19 pandemic, the lab is closing down with limited research activities.
02/06 Congratulations! Robert Swanda was selected as one of the two winners of the BBS Recruitment Event Poster Session.
01/21 Welcome! Luke Arnce joined our lab as a GGD rotation student.
   
   
 
2019 [+]
   
12/21 The Qian Lab annual holiday party was held at the House. See pics in Gallery.
12/16 Congratulations! Dr. Qian received a seed grant from Cornell CVG.
12/04 Congratulations! Robert Swanda has been awarded a predoctoral fellowship from American Hear Association (AHA).
11/20 Congratulations! Yuanhui Mao's paper has been published in Nat Commun. See Publication.
11/08 Qian lab has a farewell party for Xiao-Min. Good luck for everything!
10/07 Welcome! You Chen joined our lab as a GGD rotation student.
10/07 Qian lab has a babyshower party for Longfei.
10/03 Welcome! Chenjie Kuang joined Qian lab as an undergraduate research assistant. He is a senior undergraduate student from Wuhan University.
08/17 The Qian lab annual summer picnic party was held at Stewart Park (See Gallery).
08/05 Congratulations! Xiao-Min Liu's paper has been published in Nat Chem Biol. See Publication.
07/01 Welcome! Yongchang Yan joined Qian lab as a summer research volunteer. He is a junior undergraduate student in Peking University.
06/24 Welcome! Aakarsha Pandey joined our lab as a BMCB rotation student.
06/24 Welcome! Xinyi Liu joined Qian lab as a summer research volunteer. She is a junior undergraduate student in China Pharmaceutical University.
06/14 Qian lab has a babyshower party for Quanquan.
05/24 Congratulations! Amy Han received CALS research honors for her research in our lab.
05/21 Congratulations! Dr. Qian has been promoted to be full professor.
03/13 Wellcome! Zhou Zhou joined our lab as a BMCB rotation student.
03/12 Congratulations! Robert Swanda was selected as one of the finalists in Cornell's 5th annual 3-Minute Thesis (3MT) competition.
01/29 Dr. Qian was invited to give a talk at UC Irvine.
   
   
 
2018 [+]
   
12/15 The Qian lab annual Holiday party was held at Statler (See Gallery).
10/22 Wellcome! Alexis Dziubek joined our lab as a GGD rotation student.
09/07 Dr. Qian chaired a session at the Cold Spring Harbor Meeting: Translatioanl Control
08/16 Wellcome! Jingfan Qiu joined our lab as a visiting fellow. Jingfan is a professor at Nanjing Medical School.
08/11 The Qian lab annual sumer picnic party was held at Dr. Qian's house (See Gallery).
07/25 The Qian lab has a farewell party for Ben. Best wishes for his new endeavour.
07/10 Congratulations! Ben's paper has been accepted by Nat Chem Biol (See Publications).
05/04 Congratulations! Kevin's paper has been accepted by Sci Reports. 
05/04 Jingjing Fu from UT Southwestern Medical Center visited us as a postdoc candidate.
04/27 Shu-Bing was invited to give a talk at EMBL Epitranscriptome meeting in Heidelberg.
04/16 The Qian lab moved to Weill Hall after nearly 10 years of residence at Biotech building. Check our new address.
04/03 Wellcome! Beata Makenroth joined our lab as a BMCB rotation student.
03/23 The Qian lab has a farewell party for Joy. Best wishes for her new endeavour.
03/07 Welcome onboard! Longfei Jia joined our lab as a postdoc. Longfei received his PhD from Nanjing Agriculture University. Longfei was a visiting graduate student in Qian lab for 2 years.
02/15 Congratulations! Dr. Qian's art work for Joy's paper has been selected as the cover of Mol Cell.
01/22 Raul Jobava and Zhaofeng Gao from Case Western visited the Qian lab for two weeks, conducting Ribo-seq as a collaborative project.
01/17 Congratulations! Jun (Joy) Zhou's paper has been published in Mol Cell.
   
 
2017 [+]
   
12/10 The Qian Lab annual Holiday Party at Statler Hotel (See Gallery).
12/03 Congratulations! Shu-Bing Qian has been selected as the next James Jamison Professor in the Division of Nutritional Sciences.
12/01 Congratulations! Jun (Joy) Zhou has been awarded "Young 1000 Talents Program" in China.
11/16 Congratulations! Yifei (Michelle) Gu has passed her qualification A-exam.
11/01 Congratulations! Shu-Bing Qian has become an Editorial Board Member of JBC.
10/23 Welcome! Quanquan Ji joined our lab as a postdoc fellow. Quanquan received her PhD from Chinese Academy of Science, Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology.
09/30 Congratulations! Alex and Xiao-min's paper has been accepted in Mol Cell. see Publications.
08/24 The Qian lab is featured at Cornell Research.
08/12 The Qian lab annual Picnic Party was held at Treman State Marine Park (See Gallery).
08/07 Welcome! Xia He joined our lab as a 1st year graduate student. Xia is a first year NS graduate student (See People).
06/29 Shu-Bing was invited to give a talk at Ribosome Dynamics meeting at Sicily.
06/12 Congratulations! Robert Swanda has been selected as a Chemistry/Biology Interface (CBI) trainee for the 2017-2018 academmic year.
06/06 Shu-Bing was invited to give a talk at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
05/10 Shu-Bing was invited to give a talk at Case Western Reserve University
04/17 Shu-Bing was invited to give a talk at Beijing University, China.
03/20 Shu-Bing gave a talk in the Gordon Research Conference, Galveston, TX.
02/24 Rachel Green from Johns Hopkins was hosted by Qian lab to give a MBG talk.
02/20 Welcome! Hui Ji joined our lab as a rotation graduate student. Hui is a first year GGD graduate student.
   
   
2016 [+]
   
12/17 The Qian lab annual Holiday Party was held at Statler Hotel (See Gallery).
10/27 Shu-Bing was invited to give a talk at University of Rochester.
10/23 Congratulations and welcome the next generation! Joy and Xiaomin's baby girl was bron.
10/06 Welcome! Xin Zong joined our lab as a visiting graduate student. Xin is from Zhejiang University.
09/22 Congratulations! Dr. Qian has been selected to receive the pretigious HHMI Faculty Scholar Award. See Chronicle News and HHMI Announcement
09/09 Congratulations! Mridu's research paper has been published in RNA. see Publications
09/08 Shu-Bing gave a talk in the RNA modifications and epitranscriptomics conference at Chicago, IL.
09/06 Shu-Bing gave a talk in the CSH Translational Control meeting at CSH, NY.
08/29 Welcome! Robert Swanda joined our lab as a rotation graduate student. Robert is a first year BBS graduate student.
08/22 Welcome! Shuo Zhang joined our lab as a rotation graduate student. Shuo is a first year NS graduate student.
07/30 The Qian lab annual picnic retreat was held at Myers Park. It is also our farewell party for Mridu, Alex, and Saisai (See Gallery).
07/29 Congratulations! Alex Coots defended his thesis and passed his B-exam.
07/09 Shu-Bing gave a talk in the EMBO Ribosome meeting at Strasbourg, France
06/30 Shu-Bing gave a talk in the 2016 RNA Society meeting at Kyoto, Japan
05/28 Alex attended 2016 Cornell PhD hooding Ceremony.
05/06 Welcome! Dr. Xiao-Min Liu joined our lab as a Postdoc Fellow.
04/16 The Qian lab organized a Baby shower party for Saisai and Xaingwei.
04/04 Our computational biologists Ji and Yuanhui moved to the new office in Weill Hall (Rm 215).
03/31 Welcome! Dr. Wenqiang Ma joined our lab as a Visiting Fellow. Wenqian is from Nanjing Agriculture University.
01/19 Welcome! Erica (Xin) Shu joined our lab as a rotation graduate student. Erica is a second year NS graduate student.
01/04 Congratulations! Botao's research paper has been published in Translation. see Publication
   
2015 [+]
   
12/12 The Qian lab annual holiday party was taken place at Statler Hotel. See Gallery).
12/11 Dr. Qian's research is highlighted on the CDMRP website.
11/19 Welcome! Longfei Jia joined our lab as avisiting graduate student. Longfei is from Nanjing Agriculture University.
10/19 Welcome! Kara Rode joined our lab as a rotation graduate student. Kara is a first year BMCB graduate student.
10/12 Congratulations! Joy's paper has been published in Nature. see Publication & Chronicle News
08/15 Welcome! Yuanhui Mao joined our lab as a postdoc. Dr. Mao is a computational biologist.
08/01 The Qian lab annual picnic party was held at Buttermilk Falls State Park. (See Gallery).
08/01 Welcome! Yifei (Michelle) Gu joined our lab as a NS graduate student.
07/30 Congratulations! Joy's paper has been accepted in Nature.
06/11 Maria Angelica Medina from Venezuela joined our lab as her summer program "Summer Lab at Cornell".
05/15 Shu-Bing was invited to give a seminar at NICHD, NIH
04/23 Shu-Bing was invited to chair the Translational Control workshop at Genopolys, Montpellier, France.
03/13 Congratulations! Ben's paper has been published in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. see Publication & Chronicle News
03/02 Welcome! Justin Nicholatos joined our lab as a rotation graduate student. Justin is a first year BBS graduate student.
01/27 Farewell luncheon for Botao. Botao is going to U Mass Medical School for a postdoc position.
01/19 Welcome! Aaron Jonier joined our lab as a rotation graduate student. Aaron is a first year BMCB graduate student.
01/12 Welcome! Alexandra Mandarano joined our lab as a rotation graduate student. Alex is a first year GGD graduate student.
01/12 Welcome! Lauren Choate joined our lab as a rotation graduate student. Lauren is a first year GGD graduate student.
   
 
2014 [+]
   
12/13 The Qian lab annumal holiday party was help at Statler Hotel. (see Gallery)
11/13 Congratulations! Xiangwei and Ji's QTI-seq paper has been published in Nature Methods. see Publication.
09/11 Shu-Bing was invited to give a seminar at Department of Cell Biology, Duke University.
09/08 Welcome onboard! Leiming Dong joined our lab as a Visiting Research Scholar.
08/03 The Qian Lab annual summer picnic party was held at Fillmore Glen State Park. (see Gallery)
08/01 Welcome on board! Saisai Wei joined our lab a postdoc research associate. (see People)
06/01 Basem Oraby from Cornell Medical Schol at Qatar joined our lab as part of the SSRP summer research program.
05/29 Congratulations! Mridu has received a prestigious AHA postdoc fellowship.
05/28 Congratulations! Shu-Bing has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure by Cornell Board of Trustees.
05/27 Welcome onboard! Rachel Schmidt joined our lab as a BBS graduate student. (see People)
05/24 Botao attended 2014 Cornell PhD hooding Ceremony. (see Gallery)
05/13 Shu-Bing was invited to attend the EMBO meeting: Genetic Recoding at Killarney, Ireland.
04/30 Shu-Bing and Botao attended the Cold Spring Harbor Meeting: Stress Proteins and Diseases.
04/29 Shu-Bing was invited to give a seminar at Department of Cell Biology, Yale University.
04/25 Congratulations! Yan and Xiangwei's research paper has been accepted for publication in Cell Research. (see Publications)
04/15 Shu-Bing Qian and Samie Jaffrey received a seed grant for collaborations between Cornell Ithaca and Weill Medical College.
03/28 The Qian lab held a farewell party forJuliana Magdalon after one year of visiting graduate study.
03/07 Congratulations! Botao has passed his B-exam of GGD field.
03/05 Shu-Bing Qian received a DOD Idea Award, which comes with a grant of $425K for three years.
02/28 A NIH R21 co-applied by John Parker and Shu-Bing Qian has been funded by NIAID.
01/07 Welcome! Vandana Raghavan joined our lab as a rotation graduate student. Vandana is a first year BMCB graduate student.
   
 
2013 [+]
   
12/14 The Qian lab annual Christmas party was held at Statler. (see Gallery)
11/18 Qian lab hosted DNS seminar speaker Michael Sherman from Boston University.
11/01 Qian lab hosted MBG seminar speaker Christopher Nicchitta from Duke University.
10/16 Congratulations! Ji's research paper has been accepted for publication in Nucleic Acids Research. (see Publications)
08/30 Welcome! Ariel Ganz joined our lab as a rotation graduate student. Ariel is a first year NS graduate student.
08/28 Welcome! Rachel Schmidt joined our lab as a rotation graduate student. Rachel is a first year BBS graduate student.
08/24 The Qian lab annual summer picnic party was held at Robert Treman State Park. (see Gallery)
06/04 Mohammed Sheriff joined our lab for summer lab research. From Cornell Medical School at Qatar, Mohammed is selected for the pretigious SSRP program.
06/03 Congratulations! Crystal passed her B-exam. (see Gallery for Dr. Conn celebration party)
05/25 Crystal attended Cornell Ph.D. Hooding Ceremony.
05/02 Congratulations! Botao has been chosen for 2013 Hsien Wu and Daisy Yen Wu Scholarship / The Liu Memorial Award.
03/29 Welcome on board! Juliana Magdalon joined our lab as a visiting Graduate student. Juliana is a PhD student in the University of San Paulo, Brazil.
03/27 Welcome on board! Jun Zhou joined our lab as a postdoc research associate. Jun received her PhD degree from Fudan University in China.
03/25 Qian lab hosted DNS seminar speaker Tao Pan from the University of Chicago.
03/25 Welcome! Benjamin Fair started his rotation in our lab. Ben is a first year BMCB graduate student.
03/14 Congratulations! Crystal's research paper has been accepted for publication in Science Signaling. (see Publications)
02/13 Congratulations! Shu-Bing has been chosen as the recipient of the 2013 Peter J. Reeds Young Investigator Award from the American Association for Nutrition (ASN).
02/08 Congratulations! Botao's research paper has been featured on the cover of Mol Cell. (see Publications) (Chronicle News)
02/01 Welcome on board! Ji Wan joined our lab as a postdoc research associate. Graduated from the University of Iowa, Ji is a computational biologist.
01/24 Rada Omanovic started her new role in our lab as a joint lab technician.
01/10 Congratulations! Alex passed his A-exam for his graduate study.
01/08 Welcome! Paul Ross started his rotation in our lab. Paul is a first year GGD graduate student.
   
   
2012 [+]
   
12/09 The Qian lab had the Fourth Christmas party at Statler Hotel (see party pics at Gallery).
12/02 Shu-Bing received a Honorary Member of Golden Key International Honor Society.
11/30 Congratulations! Botao's research paper has been accepted in Mol Cell. (see Publications)
11/20 Congratulations! Botao has been selected to be a recipient of the 2012 Genomics Scholar’s Award from CVG. 
10/15 Peter Sullivan started his rotation in our lab. Pete is a first year BMCB graduate student.
10/01 Thomas Dever from NIH visited Cornell and gave a DNS seminar entitled "Molecular Genetic Analysis of Cellular Protein Synthesis: from Structure-Function to Disease".
10/01 Blake Barr joined our lab as an undergraduate research assistant. Blake is a freshman majoring HBHS.
09/04 Shu-Bing and Xiangwei attended the Cold Spring Harbor meeeting: Translational Control.
Shu-Bing
gave a talk entitled "Deciphering translational re-programming using high resolution ribosome profiling".
07/24 Congratulations to Charlie and Botao! Their research paper has been accepted in PNAS. (see Publications) (Chronicle News)
07/21 The Qian Lab fourth annual summer picnic party was held at Watkins Glen State Park. (see party pics at Gallery).
06/20 Congratulations to Yan! Her research paper has been published in PNAS. (see Publications) (Chronicle News)
06/04 Khalid Al-Dasuqi joined our lab for summer lab research. From Cornell Medical School at Qatar, Khalid is selected for the pretigious SSRP program.
05/30 Elizabeth Ferrie joine our lab for summer lab research. Elizabeth ia a sophomore with a Biology major at School of Arts and Sciences.
05/30 Hyunsoo Lim joined our lab for summer lab research. Hyunsoo is a sophomore at School of Arts and Sciences.
05/17 The Qian lab had a farewell party for Vincent, Haerin, Ivor, and Esther. They are about to graduate next week! Congratulations!
05/08 Shu-Bing gave a VERGE Seminar talk entitled "Translational control in gene expression: from nutrients to ribosome".
05/08 Haerin gave her honors thesis presentation entitled "Functional analysis of ribosomal proteins using systemic RNA interference in mammalian cells".
05/01 Shu-Bing, Yan, Crystal, and Botao attended the Cold Spring Harbor meeeting: Molecular Chaperones & Stress Responses.
04/25 Shu-Bing visited George Washington University and gave a Biophysics seminar entitled "Nutrient signaling in protein homeostasis".
03/29 The Qian lab has a farewell party for Charlie. He is going to Harvard for his new endeavor.
03/12 Robert Fragoza started his rotation in our lab. Robert is a first year BMCB graduate student.
02/06 Alex David from NIH visited our lab and gave a talk in lab meeting. He stayed for a whole week learning ribosome profiling.
01/01 Welcome, Xiangwei Gao will join our lab as postdoc research associates.(see People).
Xiangwei received his PhD from Zhejiang University and had several years of postdoc experience there.
   
2011 [+]
   
12/15 The Qian lab had the Third Christmas party at Statler Hotel (see party pics at Gallery).
12/03 Shu-Bing attended ASCB Annual Meeting in Denver and gave an oral presentation.
11/23 Botao's review paper was published in Adv Nutrition. (see Publications)
It was highlighted on the cover.
10/30 Ben Shen from Scripps Research Institute at Florida visited Cornell and gave a DNS seminar entitled "Natural products drug discovery: challenges and opportunities".
10/12 Shu-Bing visited the Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in Shanghai.
09/26 Shu-Bing attended the Cold Spring Harbor Asia Meeting (Protein Homeostasis in health and diseases) in Suzhou and was selected to give an oral presentation.
09/22 Shu-Bing visited the Buck Institute for Research on Aging and gave a seminar entitled "Linking nutrient signaling and protein homeostasis in growth and aging".
08/06 The Qian Lab third annual summer picnic party was held at Taughannock Falls Park. (see party pics at Gallery).
07/27 Congratulations! Botao passed his A-exam in G&D field.
07/16 Shu-Bing attended the GRC meeting (Stress proteins in growth, development & disease) and was selected to give an oral presentation.
07/14 Congratulations! Ben's research paper was published in Mol Biol Cell. (see Publications)
07/03 Welcome! Alex Coots decided to join our lab as the first NS graduate student.
06/12 Shu-Bing attended the FASEB Summer Research Conference (Protein aggregation) and was selected to give an oral presentation.
01/24 Ivor (Xiaoxing) Shen joined our lab as an undergraduate research assistant.
As an exchange student from Jiaotong University in Shanghai, Ivor is interested in molecular nutrition.
01/07 Welcome, both Soonhyun Lee and Soonchoel Lee will join our lab as postdoc research associates.(see People).
Soonhyun received her PhD from Boston University, while Soonchoel from Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).
   
2010 [+]
   
12/22 Congratulations! Jane and Crystal's research paper was accepted in J Biol Chem. (see Publications)
The paper will be highlighted in the journal of Cell Cycle.
12/12 The Qian lab had the Second Christmas party at Statler Hotel (see party pics at Gallery).
Welcome, new friends!
11/10 Congratulations! Shu-Bing was selected by DOD for Exploration-Hypothesis Development Award. (see Chronicle News )
This Award is a two-year $100,000 grant for tuberous sclerosis complex research.
10/01 Shu-Bing visited Jonathon Yewdell's lab and gave a presentation entitled: "Genome-wide analysis of ribosome dynamics and mRNA translation".
09/30 Shu-Bing attended 6th Annual NIH Director's Pioneer Award Symposium.
The Symposium was held at North Bethesda Marriott Hotel.
09/02 Welcome, R. Alex Coots joined our lab as rotation graduate student (Nutrition).
Graduated from SUNY Geneseo with a Biochemistry major, Alex is interested in nutrient signaling.
07/24 The Qian Lab seocnd annual picnic party was held at Stewart Park. (see party pics at Gallery).
We had a good time with BBQ at the bank of Cayuga Lake.
07/13 Crystal passed her A-exam. Congratulations!
07/12 Botao Liu joined our lab as a G&D graduate student. (see People).
Graduated from Zhejiang University, Botao will study nutrient signaling and mRNA translation.
07/06 Shu-Bing and Ben's research paper was accepted in J Biol Chem. (see Publications)
The paper has been selected as the "paper of the week", with top 1% significance.
06/07 Welcome, Josephine Lee joined our lab as a summer research etudent.
Josephine is a CALS junior majoring in Nutrition.
05/20 Congratulations! Ben's daughter Stella was born.
She weighted 7 lbs 10 oz .
05/09 Congratulations! Jane's daughter Iris was born in the early morning.
This is Jane's first baby
05/04 Crystal and Shu-Bing attended Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meeting: Molecular Chaperones and Stress Response.
Both Crystal and Shu-Bing gave their poster presentation.
04/29 The Qian lab had a baby shower party for Jane Sun and Ben Zhang.
We are expecting the second generation of our lab members from Jane's family and Ben's family..
04/05 Cassandra (Vic) Innocent decided to join the lab as a G&D graduate student.
Graduated from City College of New York, Vic is interested in exploring life science using genetic approach.
03/30 Shu-Bing gave a Biomedical Sciences departmental seminar entitled "Chaperone Stress in Growth and Aging".
This talk was held at Veterinary Research Tower.
03/08 Elliot Kahen joined the lab as our first BMCB rotation graduate student
Graduated from University of Florida, Elliot is interested in protein biocemistry.
03/05 Shu-Bing gave a MBG departmental seminar entitled "Lost in Translation:  a Tale of Protein Birth and Protein Death".
This talk serves as a BMCB field application seminar.
01/27 Hae Jin Kang joined our lab as an undergraduate researcher.
A Hunter Rawlings III College Presidential Research Scholar in 2009, Hae Jin is interested in protein biochemistry..
01/21 Donghao Li joined the lab as a G&D rotation graduate student
Graduated from Beijing University, Donghao is interested in mouse genetics.
01/04 Botao Liu joined the lab as a G&D rotation graduate student
Graduated from Zhejiang University, Botao is interested in aging study.
   
2009 [+]
   
12/18 The Qian lab had the first Christmas party at Statler Hotel (see party pics at Gallery).
The party also served as a welcome party for upcoming new graduate rotation students in the lab.
09/24 Shu-Bing received the prestigious NIH Director's New Innovator Award ! (see Chronicle News and NIH announcement)
This award is a five-year, $1.5 million grant for highly innovative projects that have the potential for unusual high impact.
09/01 Josephine Lee joined our lab as undergraduate researcher.
A CALS junior majoring in Nutrition is interested in doing laboratory research.
08/01 The Qian lab had the first annual picnic party at Dr. Qian's house backyard (see party pics at Gallery).
The party also served as a welcome party for Dr. Yan Han, the new postdoc in the lab.
07/15 Cassandra V. Innocent joined the lab as a G&D rotation graduate student.
Graduated from City College of New York, Vic is interested in exploring life science using genetic approach.
06/28 Ben and Shu-Bing attended Gordon Research Conference: Stress Proteins in Growth, Development & Disease.
Shu-Bing made an oral presentation entitled: chaperone-regulated mTOR signaling links protein quality and quantity control.
06/25 Shu-Bing was selected by Ellison Medical Foundation for 2009 New Scholar Award (see Chronicle News).
President David Skorton sent a mail of congratulation.
06/22 G&D graduate student Crystal Conn decided to join our lab.
Graduated from Pennsylvania State University, Crystal is interested in genetics and development using mammaliam system.
05/10 Shu-Bing received Integrated Research Grant from Nanaobiotechnology Center.
This research project is a collaboration with Chen lab in the Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology.
04/21 Shu-Bing attend the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory meeting: the Ubiquitin Family.
Shu-Bing made an oral presentation entitled: engineering ubiquitin ligase CHIP..
03/13 Vincent Yeung joined our lab as undergraduate researcher.
Majoring in Biological Sciences, Vince is interested in laboratory research.
03/09 Jane (Jun) Sun joined our lab as technician volunteer.
Graduated from Kunming Institute of Zoology as a PhD student, Jane is interested in managing and supporting laboratory.
   
2008 [+]
   
12/21 Shu-Bing visited Shanghai Jiaotong University Medical School and gave a talk entitled: "Molecular chaperones and mTOR signaling".
10/24 Shu-Bing gave a MBG seminar talk as the G&D graduate field application.
The talk was entitled: "Sensing Nutrients to Growth: the Role of Chaperone Network in mTOR Signaling"
10/10 Najah Levers joined our lab as undergraduate researcher.
A member of the Hunter Rawlings III College Presidential Research Scholars, Najah is interested in laboratory research.
08/01 Ben (Xinqian) Zhang joined our lab as a postdoc research fellow..
Ben received his PhD from Shanghai Jiaotong University. He had one year postdoc research exprience at Florida Atlantic University.
07/01 The Qian Lab was born.