News

2023

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9/1/23: New chapter for Ling and his lab. The first day for Ling as the Chair of the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics (MPBP) at UVA. He is looking forward to working with each and every one in the department and on campus for many years to advance the mission and goals of this great department. Graduate students and fellows please join us in Charlottesville!

2023

8/22-25/23: This is it. We ended our 7-year run here at U-M, packed and relocated to UVA. Here in 7 years we brought in over 9 R01s and many fellowships with over 15 millions $ to UM. We could not have done it without the support of many outstanding colleagues and the MIP department. Big shout out to my past and present talented trainees! It was the honor of my lifetime to be your mentor during this incredible journey.
8/3/23: Ben's paper in JCI Insight is now online. Congrats Ben and the team!
7/31/23: Ben's thesis defense day. We are so proud of him and what he has accomplished in the last 6 years in the lab. Now he is Dr. Abdon. Congrats Ben!
7/26/23: Countdown to our big moving day in 1 month. Leaving a place you have loved for many years is indeed very emotional.
7/1/23: Countdown to our big moving day in 2 months.
6/30/23: You Lu's last day in the lab. He joined us in November 2020 and has contributed to 3 co-authored papers and 1 co-first-authored paper currently under review. We really appreciate his contributions to our lab. He will be missed. Wish his best of luck at the Lin lab at LSI.
6/23/23: Our lab had a strong showing at CADA meeting, winning an outstanding oral presentation award (Alivia), and two poster presentation awards (Elina and Hancheng). Congrats on all the awards for trainees! Alivia did an oral presentation at the ADA meeting, while Xinxin, Elina and Hancheng did poster presentation.
6/20/23: We are glad to contribute in a small way to a great story from the Yi Lin group at Tsinghua U, in Cell on the role of phase separation in the translation during circadian (CELL).
5/30/23: Our paper on the role of ERAD in LPL biology and its crosstalk with autophagy in adipocytes is online @ Nat Comm.
5/4/23: Our paper on the role of ERAD in STING regulation is finally online @ Nat Cell Bio.
5/3/23: This is a big day for Ling who is appointed as the Chair of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics at UVA, a top Physiology-Biophysics department in the country, in Sept 2023. See the press release. It will be an exciting journey at Charlottesville for many years to come!
4/18/23: Our paper on the role of ERAD and autophagy in the degradation of misfolded proteins in the ER is accepted in principle by Nat Comm. It was first submitted on 10/21/22, revised couple times. Kudos to Alivia and all the other collaborators in the lab and Yi Lin lab @ Tsinghua University!
4/14/23: Congrats to Xiaoqiong for receiving Ben J. Lipps Research Fellowship from American Society of Nephrology and designation as the Ben J. Lipps Research Fellow! The first ever for the Qi lab. Way to go Xiaoqiong! ASN website
04/06/23: Congrats to Helen for receiving the Bishr Omary Physiology Early-Stage Postdoctoral Research Award. She will give a talk on May 3.
2/28/23: Today is Neha's last day in the lab. She came to us 6.5 years ago in Sept 2016 after graduating from Singapore. She started the ERAD beta cell project and has been the pillar connecting with all other beta cell lab on the 5th floor of Brehm Tower. She published two JCI papers on beta cells and wrote two reviews. She submitted one K99 and one K01 with scores of 20 and 15. What accomplishments! We are so proud of her. She will be deeply missed. Wish her best of luck at Regeneron as a Scientist and becoming a colleague with our former fellow Dr. Hyang Kim!
2/27/23: Congrats to Alivia for being awarded a Barbour Scholar by University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School, a highly prestigious honor given to the very best graduate students at U-M. Way to go Alivia!
2/16/23: Our 2nd year graduate student Jason Li received the predoctoral fellowship from the National Ataxia Foundation! Congrats! Way to go Jason!
1/3/23: Our JCI cover is out. What a great way to start a new year!
1/1/23: FIRST WORD FOR 2023: As we enter the new year, I want to express my gratitude for the hard work of everyone in the laboratory in 2022. 2022 was a year mixed with great achievement in the laboratory and grave personal losses. There were many bright spots: Leo’s National Ataxia Foundation post-doctoral fellowship and best poster award at PFD Symposium, Ben and Alivia as finalists for the MIP graduate Davenport award, and Xiaoqiong's MIP Department Young Investigator award. In terms of publication, two research articles published in iScience by Asmita and JCI by Neha (with JCI as a cover story- second year in a row!), one paper was just accepted in NCB. In terms of career, 8 new members joined us in 2022 and Elina became a graduate student at UoM. There will be a lot to look forward to in 2023: we will finish the revision of 2 more manuscripts, wrap up/submit at least another 5-6 papers in 2023, and will submit more grants and fellowships. Two graduate students will defend their thesis and graduate; and two junior faculty members, Neha and Mauricio, will move to their own positions in 2023! All these show the resilience and dedication of everybody in the lab, for which I am very grateful. I am confident that 2023 will be another great year for many of us. (Join us if you are excited about what we do!)

2022

12/14/22: Our paper on the role of ERAD in STING regulation is accepted in principle by Nat Cell Bio. It was first submitted on 6/21/22, revised on 11/14/22. It was not an easy paper! Kudos to Yewei Ji and his team at Zhejiang University!
12/7/22: Dr. Hui Wang (Romily), graduated from Third Military Medical University, joins our lab as a postdoc research fellow. Hui was an associate professor and associate Chief Endocrinologist in Military Medical University. She is interested in the role of Sel1L-Hrd1 ERAD in neurons. Welcome!
12/1/22: Welcome Dr. Debora Scheffer, a postdoctoral fellow/visiting scholar from University of São Paulo, joins our lab. She is interested in the crosstalk between mitochondria and ER in skeletal muscle.
11/14/22: Dr. Qiao Shi (Joe), graduated from Wuhan University, joins our lab as a postdoc research fellow. Qiao was an associate professor and associate chief surgeon in Wuhan University in 2021 and 2020, respectively. He is interested in the role of Sel1L-Hrd1 ERAD in the islets and pancreatic diseases. Welcome!
11/2/22: Our 5th JCI paper on the role of ERAD-autophagy crosstalk in beta cell function is accepted. It was first submitted on 7/13/22, revised on 10/17/22 and now online on 11/8/22. Kudos to Neha and all other collaborators!
8/16/22: Dr. Wenzhen Zhu, graduated from Peking University, joins the Reinert lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Wenzhen is interested in ERAD function in alpha cells. Welcome!
8/1/22: Jason passed his prelim in the Biochem Program. Congrats!
7/14/22: Ling has two NIH R01s got fundable scores (5 and 8%) on the liver biology and podocytes, respectively! We have two new fellow and tech positions open. Please check us out.
7/14/22: Ling successfully organized the first in-person mini-symposium Frontiers in ERAD and Metabolic Regulation, with Drs. Sander Kersten, Iris Sun, Deyu Fang, Xi Chen, Rajat Singh and Kezhong Zhang as speakers! We wrapped the day with a BBQ at Ling's house (see photos). It was an awesome day.
6/22/22: Dr. Zhihong Wang, graduated from Michigan Technological University joins our lab as the newest fellow. Dr. Wang is interested in the role of ERAD in PSC differentiation. Welcome!
5/18/22: Congratulations to Dr. Xiaoqiong Wei for receiving the Bishr Omary Physiology Early-Stage Postdoctoral Research Award. She will give a talk in 5330 MS1 on June 10.
5/12/22: Congratulations to Dr. Leo Lin for poster presentation 1st place award at 2022 Michigan Postdoctoral Pioneer Program Symposium. This is the top 1 from 42 posters. He always surprises us.
4/20/22: Congratulations to Rachel and Xiaoqiong to be nominated as outstanding UROP mentor for the 2021-2022 academic year.
4/16/22: Elina accepts the offer to Michigan PIBS graduate program. She will start in the summer 2022! Congrats!
2/17/22: Leo's NAF postdoctoral fellowship is awarded. Congrats! (https://www.ataxia.org/2022-naf-funded-research/)
2/15/22: Zexin (Jason) Li, a first-year graduate student in Biological Chemistry, joins our lab as a graduate student. Jason is interested in the human mutations of the Sel1L-Hrd1 ERAD. Welcome!
1/27/22: New fellow, Xinxin Chen, joins us. Xinxin got her PhD from Institute of Biophysics, Beijing, China. Xinxin is interested in organellar crosstalk in BAT. Welcome!
1/21/22: Ling is elected as an AAAS Fellow. Congrats!
1/5/22: Graduate student Jason Li from biochem program joins us for a rotation. He is working with Helen on the human variants. Welcome!
1/1/22: FIRST WORD FOR 2022: As we enter the new year, I want to express my gratitude for your hard work in 2021 and optimism for 2022. 2021 was another challenging and stressful year for us all due to the quickly evolving and seemingly never-ending pandemics. We really did the best we could to maintain some sort of normalcy in terms of lab activities. There were many bright spots in 2021: Alivia’s AHA predoctoral fellowship was funded in April, Rachel’s K08 was funded in August, Neha's K01 got a fundable score (15). In terms of publication, one research article published in JCI in March, as a cover story. In terms of career, two fellows went on to their professorial positions in China, one tech went to grad school, and five new members joined us in the second half of the year. There are a lot to look forward to in 2022: we will submit at least five papers in the first half of 2022; we will have two new members Drs. Xinxin Chen and Zhihong Wang join us in winter-spring; we have several pending grants/fellowships that are being reviewed, and many more grants and fellowships will be submitted. All these show the resilience and dedication of everybody in the lab, for which I am very grateful. I truly enjoy the moment of everyone's success and am confident that 2022 will be another great year for many (if not all) of us.

2021

10/17/21: Welcome our new tech Mrs. Linyao Zhou. She came to us from Shanghai, China, after obtaining her master in plant biology (ERAD in plants working with Dr. Jianming Li). She will work on the role of ERAD in the liver.
10/13/21: Welcome our new fellow Dr. Xiawei Zhang. He came to us from Shanghai, China, after obtaining his PhD in plant biology (ERAD in plants working with Dr. Jianming Li). It took him over 1.5 yr to get here due to covid and other visa related issues.
9/1/21: Welcome a new fellow Dr. Helen Wang. Helen obtained her PhD in Physiology at University of Michigan Medical School in August 2021.
8/27/21: We marked our own end of pandemics by having a happy hr and dinner at Gandy Dancer. We celebrated the departure of 7 members (Guojun, Sei, Asmita, Yewei, Gensheng, Jason, Anna) and the arrival of 7 members (Xiaoqiong, You Lu, Brent, Yusheng, Helen, Xiawei, Linyao), 2 fellowships (K08-Rachel and AHA predoc-Alivia), 5 papers (Science, 2 JCI, two reviews), 3 promotions (Rachel to Assist Prof, Mauricio and Neha to Research Investigator), and one upcoming wedding (Mauricio-Neha) in the last 18 months. Food was great and the conversation was even better. What a group we have! Go ERAD! Go Qi lab! Go blue!
8/2/21: Welcome a new fellow Dr. Yusheng Liang. Yusheng obtained his PhD in Animal Sciences ay UIUC.
8/1/21: It's official now! Dr. Rachel Reinert becomes tenure-track Assistant Professor at Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School. Hooray! Congrats to Professor Reinert!
7/15/21: Anna's last day in the lab. She is heading to Wayne State as grad student in Pharmacology. We wish her the best of luck in her future career.
7/6/21: Brent Pederson joins us as lab assistant.
620/21: Ling was awarded Scientific Achievement Award from the Chinese American Diabetes Association in June.
5/17/2021: Jason's last day in the lab. He is heading to Shanghai as the Professor in Institute of Nutritional Sciences. We wish him the best and all the success in his future endeavor.
4/21/2021: Gensheng's last day in the lab. He is heading to Hangzhou, China as the Associate Professor in Zhejiang University. We wish him the best and all the success in his future endeavor.
3/29/2021: Alivia's AHA application is awarded. She got an impressive 9.75%. Congrats!
3/12/2021: Rachel's K08 application got a score of 15. Congrats!
3/2/2021: Our cover submission is chosen for the April issue of JCI . This is our third cover from the lab.
2/23/2021: Yusheng Liang, a graduate student at UIUC, has accepted the offer and will join us in the summer as a fellow. Welcome!
2/3/2021: Our JCI paper on kidney podocytes is finally accepted in principle and will appear in the April issue. Kudos and congrats to Sei, Xiaoqiong and Gensheng! It was submitted on 9/3/2020, revised on 1/3/21 and 1/30/21. It was a quite unbelievable journey, which involved the departure of Sei, the birth of a baby (XQ) and successful rebuttal of editor's decision to add 10 more patient samples. We thank JCI for being open minded and our colleagues for their support! We have published 4 papers in JCI in the last 4 years (2017, 2018, 2020, and 2021)!
1/27/2021: Huilun (Helen) Wang, a MIP graduate student in Eugene Chen laboratory, has accepted the offer and will join us in the fall. Welcome!
1/19/2021: Ashley Mello, a graduate student in the IMMUNOL program, started her rotation in the lab. Welcome!
1/1/2021: Happy New Year of 2021 (the Year of Ox)! Wishing everybody a productive, healthy and happy 2021!

2020

12/31/2020: FINAL WORD FOR 2020: This has been a challenging and stressful year for us all. Pandemics made the lab completely shut down for three months (March-June), and then partial lockdown for the rest of the year. All the meetings were zoom. However, there were some bright spots in 2020: One multiPI R01 (with Arvan and Tsai) and two supplements for R01s were funded, Neha's K99 got a fundable score (20), Rachel submitted a K08, two research articles published in Science and JCI (one more under second around review at JCI), two reviews published in Seminars and Trends, three fellows went on to their professorial positions and one graduate student for her postdoctoral position, three new members joined us in March and Oct, one babe (12/11, Xiaoqiong's first babe) and one engagement (Neha and Mauricio, 12/22) ... All these show the resilience and dedication of the Qi lab, and terrific colleagues at Michigan and around the world, for which I am forever grateful. Hopefully, in 2021, we will be back to normal again.
11/4/2020: Alivia's first author review on LPL biology was accepted by Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism. This was her effort during the covid lockdown. Congrats!
10/12/2020: Miss Anna Gretzinger B.S. from Wayne State University joined us as a lab research assistant. Welcome Anna!
10/7/2020: Dr. You Lu, PhD (from UMN), accepted the offer and will join us later this year as a postdoctoral fellow. His PhD work was focused on the immune response in plants.
6/25/2020: Ling's NIGMS R35 Admin Supplement was funded, which was totally unexpected. It was submitted March this year.
6/18/2020: Phase-one reopening for the lab! Can't wait to going back to work again.
6/18/2020: Ling finished his two year term as the Chair of NIH CADO study section. No more study sections in the next couple years!
6/11/2020: Ling finished his two year term as the President of Chinese American Diabetes Association.
4/2/2020: Amid this crazy time, there are some exciting news to share: First, our multi-PI NIDDK renew R01grant with Arvan and Tsai was scored at 16 (2%, submitted Dec 2019); Second, Ling's NIDDK R01 Admin Supplement was notified for funding (submitted in Feb 2020).
3/20/2020: Lab closed down due to COVID-19. Let's mark this day in history. We will be working from home for some time and look forward to the day when life comes back to normal.
3/15/2020: Dr. Xiaoqiong Wei officially joined us as a fellow. Welcome!
3/9/2020: Welcome the 1st-year PIBS graduate student Brendon Chen to rotate in the lab!
3/4/2020: What a day! We had two papers accepted in Science and JCI on the same day. Kudos and congrats to Jason/Mauricio and Neha! For the science paper, it was submitted on 06/04/19, revised on 1/15/20 and 3/1/20. For the JCI paper, it was submitted on 11/8/19, revised on 1/16/20 and 2/20/20. It was an unbelievable journey to have two papers submitted and revised around the same time! We thank our colleagues for their support!
3/1/2020: Sei's last day. He left us for the Professor position at Tianjin University, China. Congratulations! We wish him best of luck!
2/15/2020: Guojun's last day. He left us for the Professor position at Zhongshan University, China. Congratulations! We wish him best of luck!
1/7/2020: Welcome the 1st-year PIBS graduate student Erik Peterson to rotate in the lab!

2019

10/23/2019: Welcome our new postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Liangguang Lin!
9/23/2019: Welcome our new postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Jingxiang (Jane) Zhu!
8/23/2019: Welcome our new postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Gensheng Zhang!
9/3/2019: Welcome the 1st-year PIBS graduate student Chesta Jain to rotate in the lab!
8/5/2019: Welcome Ms. Siwen Wang, a medical school student from Xiangya Medical University (China), to our lab! Siwen will spend next two years here as an exchange student.
7/19/2019: Asmita successfully defended her thesis at Cornell. Congratulations!
5/20/19: Nature Immunology cover story and paper are online. Read the press release.

5/15/19: Welcome Dr. Teresa Vitali to join the lab as a Fellow.
5/7/19: Welcome Dr. Xianwei Cui to join the lab as Visiting Scholar.
- 4/17/19: Dr. Liangguang Lin from Chinese Academy of Sciences (Shanghai China) has accepted the offer to be a fellow in the lab. He will start sometime in the summer. His background and expertise is plant ERAD. Welcome!
4/11/19: Today is the last day for Dr. Hyang Kim, whom joined us 4 years ago (3/2/15). Time flies! She left us with two first authored and co-authored paper in JCI. He will join Regeneron as a Scientist. Wish her the best in her new position!
4/1/19: Welcome Miss Hancheng Mao in MIP to join the lab as a graduate student.
3/31/19: Congratulations to Dr. Yewei Ji for receiving the Research Investigator Award in the Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology! He will give a talk in the Postdoctoral Symposium on 4/24/19! The Qi lab has received this award two years in a row.
3/14/19: Dr. Gensheng Zhang from Zhejiang University has accepted the offer to become a fellow in the lab. He will start sometime in the summer or fall. His background and expertise is in kidney disease. Welcome!
3/8/19: Last day for Tiana. We wish her the best in her future endeavor in China!
2/26/19: Dr. Teresa Vitali from Biochemistry Department at UoM has accepted the offer to become a fellow in the lab. She will start sometime in June. Her background is enzymology and biochemistry. Welcome!
2/12/19: Hyang received an offer from Regeneron as a Scientist. She will start in 2 months. Congrats!!
1/17/19: Our fourth paper from Michigan on the regulation of beta cell proliferation by TLRs is accepted by Nat Immunol. Kudos to Yewei and Iris for their effort! This paper was initially submitted on 3/31/17, revised on 7/18/17, 10/18/17, and 1/5/19 - so the submission process took almost two years. [Update: Editor's pre-editing took more than 2 months to complete; revision was submittted 3/30/19] The whole paper took more than 8 years to complete!
- 1/12/19: Our former graduate student Iris received a job offer from the Center for Molecular Medicine at the Wayne State University. She will start as an Assistant Professor in July. Congrats!!
1/5/19: Welcome the first year PIBS graduate student Hancheng Mao to rotate in the lab. UPDATE: She has decided to join us. Welcome!
- 1/1/19: Happy New Year of 2019 (the Year of Pig)! Look forward to another great year for the Qi laboratory at U Michigan! Looking back 2018, it was a wonderful year. I believe that 2019 will be another productive year!

2018

12/11/18: Congratulations to Jason (Zhangsen) Zhou who is awarded the highly competitive ADA Postdoctoral Fellowship with total cost of $190,000 for three years. This is the third postdoctoral fellowships and 2 from ADA for the lab! Way to go Jason!
12/7/18: Congratulations to Alivia for receiving the Rackham International Student Fellowship, an award given to academically outstanding international graduate student in UoM. This is the first one for our department! Well done Alivia!
11/16/18: Jiwon's last day in the lab. We wish her the best of luck in her new position in Department of Biochemistry at University of Michigan Medical School.
10/7/18: Congratulations to Ben for receiving one year predoctoral support from the Career Training in the Biology of Aging Training Grant T32-AG000114.
9/7/18: Congratulations to Alivia for receiving the Bean Fellowship, an award given to the best 1st year graduate student academically in the Department of MIP.
9/5/18: Welcome the first year graduate student Megan Schaller to rotate in the lab.
9/1/18:Welcome Dr. Sei Yoshida join the lab as the Assistant Research Scientist. Sei was an Assistant Research Scientist at the Department of Immunology at UoM Medical School.
8/17/18: Our third paper from Michigan on the regulation of FGF21 by Sel1L-Hrd1 ERAD is accepted by EMBO J. Kudos to Asmita for her effort! It was submitted on 2/18/18, revised on 8/7/18, and accepted on 8/17/18 (final acceptance decision was received 9/5/18).
8/8/18: Congratulations to Dr. Yewei Ji for receiving one-year U-M Obesity Center Pilot Feasibility Grant at 25K.
8/8/18: Congratulations to Ms. Alivia Wu for passing her prelim.
7/16/18: Welcome Ms. Xiaowei Sun, from Tianjin Medical School, join the lab.
7/7/18: Lab celebrates the 2nd year in Ann Arbor at Rappourt Brew & Chew. It has been a great year for the lab, with 2 JCI paper and 1 TiBS review, with the join of Xuya, Rachel, Tiana, Jiwon, and Alivia, and with several pending R01s...
7/1/18: Congratulations to Ling to become the chair of CADO study section. He will serve a two-year term (2018-2020).
6/23/18:Congratulations to Ling to become the President of Chinese-American Diabetes Association. It provides the platform for over 160 Chinese-born scientists in the area of metabolism worldwide (mostly in US and China). He will serve a two-year term (2018-2020).
5/23/18: Congratulations to Dr. Guojun Shi for receiving one-year U-M Center for Gastrointestinal Research (UMCGR) Pilot Feasibility Grant.
5/7/18: Congratulations to Dr. Guojun Shi for receiving the Research Investigator Award in the Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology! He will give a talk in the Postdoctoral Symposium on 5/16/18!
4/16/18: Welcome Miss Alivia Wu, the first year graduate student in MIP, to join our lab as a graduate student. Alivia is interested in the role of ERAD in adipose tissue.
2/19/18: POMC paper is now online in JCI. Please read the UoM Press release. This is the second paper on prohormone maturation after our initial report on AVP neurons in JCI in Nov 2017. The story has been highlighted in Nat Review Endocrinology and picked up by Neuroscience News, R&D Magazine, Bariatric News and others news organizations.
1/8/18: Welcome Dr. Jiwon Hwang to our lab as Research Investigator from Johns Hopkins University! She obtained her PhD at UW Madison and two postdoctoral fellowships at the Kopito and Espenshade laboratories at Stanford and Johns Hopkins University. We are excited to have her! Jiwon is interested in ERAD biochemistry, ERAD substrate identification and neurodegeneration.
1/1/18: Happy New Year of 2018! Look forward to another great year for the Qi laboratory at U Michigan! Looking back 2017, it was another fantastic year. I believe that 2018 will be another productive year!

2017

12/8/17: Welcome Miss Tiana Wang to our lab from Tianjin Medical University as a visiting student!
11/14/17: Our second paper from Michigan is again accepted by JCI. Kudos to Hyang for her effort! It was submitted on 9/10/17, revised on11/1/17, and accepted on 11/14/17. The whole process took ONLY 2 months.
11/7/17: Today's Dr. Hana Kim's last day. She is heading to XBiotech Inc in Austin, Texas. We wish her best of luck in her future endeavor. She will be missed.
11/6/17: Dr. Jiwon Hwang has accepted our offer to join us as a Research Investigator in Feb 2018. Dr. Hwang currently is a postdoctoral fellow in the Espenshade lab at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
8/20/17: Welcome Ms. Xuya (Dorothy) Pan, a medical school student from Xiangya Medical University (China), to our lab who will spend next two years here as an exchange student.
8/20/17: Welcome Dr. Rachel Reinert, MD PHD, to our lab as a clinical fellow.
8/1/17: Today marks the 20-year anniversary of coming to US, 10-year anniversary of becoming independent, and 1-year anniversary of moving to Ann Arbor. What will happen for the next 10 years? Who knows, but we are excited to take it on...
7/27/17: Hana Kim successfully defended her thesis at Cornell. Congratulations!
7/26/17: Our first paper from Michigan is accepted by JCI. Kudos to Guojun, Diane and Hyang for their effort! It was submitted on 4/24/17, revised on 6/27/17, and conditionally accepted on 7/14/17, so the whole process is not bad at all - 3 months. Just found out the publication fee is shocking $4500!
7/13/17: Lab's JDRF Strategic Program Project with Arvan, Satin and Soleimanpour laboratories (5th floor Brehm Tower buddies) are funded! Ling is the lead contact PI of this grant.
7/5/17: Welcome Alivia Wu (MIP) to rotate in the lab!
6/2/17: Congratulations to Dr. Yewei Ji to receive a 3-year AHA Scientist Development Grant (2017-2020)! We are very proud of his achievement!
5/20/17: Welcome Laura Reigold (from Boston University Medical School) and Roger Zhou (from Wageningen University) for NIDDK summer research and MS Internship, respectively. Laura will be here for 8 weeks and Roger will be here for 5 months.
4/13/17: Welcome Ben Abdon (Physiology) to join the lab! We look forward to an exciting journey ahead!
3/16/17: Congratulations to Dr. Mauricio Torres to become a Pew Latin American Fellow! See Press release (http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/about/news-room/press-releases/2017/06/pew-supports-10-latin-american-scientists-conducting-innovative-research)
3/10/17: Congratulations to Dr. Guojun Shi for an outstanding score (20) for his K99/R00 application! Fingers crossed for him! Hope NIH payline keeps up! Regardless, this is a huge achievement! Well deserved! - [Update] The grant was not funded due to the issue with "program priority" - which is difficult to understand. Nonetheless, we wish Guojun keep going and keep fighting for his career.
3/7/17: Welcome Hanh Truong (CMB) to join the lab! We look forward to an exciting journey ahead!
1/5/17: Welcome two rotation students, Hanh Truong (CMB) and Ben Abdon (MIP) to our lab!
1/1/17: Happy New Year of 2017! Look forward to another great year for the Qi laboratory at U Michigan! This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Qi lab! Looking back 2016, it was another fantastic year - with SO MUCH achievements and progress at both individual and group levels. Looking forward, we should have at least three papers coming out this year - fingers crossed!

2016

- 12/16-21/16: A series of lab celebration of the new year! Secrete Santa, Lab Lunch and... What a year it has been! Looking back 2016: Iris' MCB paper in Feb and Yewei/Hana's paper in July. Asmita got AHA and later Hyang got ADA postdoc fellowships. Ling's multi-PI R01 grant with Arvan, Tsai and Liu funded in July. In the summer, lab moved to Ann Arbor and everybody relocated with the lab at the same time; we started working again in two months. It was an unbelievable year for the lab and it was a tour de force for everybody. I am so thrilled to be a leader and a part of this vibrant group. Bye 2016!

10/28/16: Congratulations to Hyang and Asmita for great presentations at the Department seminar. We made a great first impression to the Department.
- 10/14/16: Congratulations to Hyang who just received the highly competitive ADA Postdoctoral Fellowship with total cost of nearly $190,000 for three years. This is the first postdoctoral fellowship for the lab! Way to go Hyang!
9/1-10/16: Wellcome three new postdoctoral fellows, Neha, Mauricio and Zhangsen, who joined us from Nepal, Chile and China. We look forward to an exciting journey for all of them in the years ahead.
8/15-19/16: The third week at Ann Arbor, the first genotyping, the first Western blot, the first cell culture... Everything is so new and exciting. We are testing out all the new fancy gadgets! It's really really cool!
8/1-5/16: The first week at Ann Arbor. The lab is unpacked and almost ready to go. Everything is so exciting and new! There are many training courses and unexpected issues, but that's a part of the life. Look forward to more exciting and challenging days ahead. Here is the picture of the crews (missing Hana Kim) that moved to Michigan from Cornell.

7/31/16: Yewei and Hana's B cell paper is accepted by Cell Reports. It was submitted in 4/10/16 (decision received on 5/11/2016), resubmitted on 6/20. Well done and congratulations!
7/29/16: Michigan - here we come!
7/27-29/16: Lab big moving day to UMich Ann Arbor. It's becoming so sad to leave Ithaca, where we have been for the last 9 years, to leave all the wonderful undergrads (Diane, Nir, Soo-Bin and etc), and to leave THE NS3310 Nutrient Metabolism. Nonetheless, we are truly excited about our future in Ann Arbor. Go Qi Lab Go!
7/26/16: The lab had lunch at Banfi followed by the lab meeting presented by two undergrads Nir and Soo-bin. When the undergrads presented Ling with Frozen-themed cake with his picture, he was so moved that there were tears in his eyes. Then there were many celebrations for Yewei/Hana's paper (in Cell Reports), Diane's medical school (Yale), Ling's promotion (to full professor), Diane/Guojun's birthday, and the upcoming graduation for three undergrads (Nir, Laurel and Soo-Bin).
7/26/16: Notes from Ling on the lab move: Thank you all for the wonderful day! I am so grateful for everybody for the love and passion to this lab. It is very gratifying to know that the Qi lab has touched the life and career of many here - I promise that we will keep doing that in UMich. I feel so lucky to have everybody here as a group - as Diane said, "this is a truly terrific group”. To all, thank you all, the past and present Qi lab members, again for a wonderful Cornell experience! I truly truly appreciate it very much! I would never want it in any other way! I wish that we will have another amazing run in UMich, esp with all the new folks joining us.
5/20/16: Congratulations to Asmita for her impressive 0.02% score and funding from AHA pre-doctoral fellowship! Her funding will start from 7/1/16. Her score sets the best record for the lab! The payline for the AHA pre-doctoral fellowship is ~10% this round.
5/3/16: Congratulations to Ling being elected as a faculty speaker at the graduation ceremony for the Nutrition graduating class 2016 at Cornell on 5/27. This is a great honor because it was voted by the graduating class and because he is leaving Cornell in July. He was also the speaker two years ago in 2014.
5/2/16: Welcome Dr. Zhangsen Zhou, from Shanghai Institutes of Biological Sciences, who just accepted the offer to join our laboratory in the fall of 2016. Zhangsen is interested in the role of ERAD and ER quality control in adipocyte and enterocyte biology.
3/15/16: Ling's multi-PI grant (with Arvan, Tsai, and Liu) on the role of ERAD in beta cells got an impressive score of 7% (single digit for the first time ever!). Congratulations to the Michigan team! Look forward to an exciting collaboration!
2/15/16: Congratulations to Iris for our first cover image! http://www.molbiolcell.org/content/27/4.cover-expansion

2/12/16: Haibo's last day! We wish him the best of luck in his future endeavor in Boston!
1/27/16: We now have our first journal cover! Our image related to the work of intestinal epithelial ERAD is accepted for the cover image by Mol Biol Cell, which will appear on the Feb 15th issue.
1/20/16: Welcome to Dr. Dongliang Wang, who joins us from the Sun Yat-Sen University as a visiting scholar for one year. Dongliang is interested in ERAD in macrophages and adipose tissue.
1/8/16: Welcome to Dr. Mauricio Torres, from the University of Chile, who just accepted the offer to join us in the summer of 2016 in Ann Arbor. Mauricio is interested in neurobiology, aging, neurodegeneration, and metabolism.
1/1/16: Happy New Year of 2016! Wish a great year for the Qi laboratory both at Cornell and U Michigan!

2015

12/20/15: Haibo Sha, a long-time fellow in the lab, accepts the offer to become the Investigator at Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research. Haibo has been in the lab for the last 8.5 years, with two Cell Metabolism, one Diabetes, and one review paper. Congratulations to Haibo and his family! We will miss him!
12/17/15: Ling accepts the offer from the U Michigan Medical School and decided to move the laboratory to Ann Arbor in the summer of 2016.
11/24/15: Iris' second last paper is accepted by Mol Biol Cell. It was submitted on 10/19 (decision received on 11/20), resubmitted on 11/20. It was an absolutely easy experience compared to her previous paper. She is the co-corresponding author with Ling. Well done and congratulations!
10/21/15: Welcome to Dr. Neha Shrestha, from National University of Singapore, who just accepted the offer to join us as a postdoctoral fellow in the summer of 2016 in Ann Arbor. Neha is interested in beta cell biology and metabolism.
10/5/15: Iris and Guojun's paper is finally accepted and was accepted "in principle" on 9/9/15 by Nat Cell Biology. It was submitted on 3/15 (decision received on 4/21), revised on 5/10 (decision received on 5/12/15), resubmitted on 7/1 (decision received on 8/11), resubmitted on 8/13 (decision received on 9/9/15 with "accepted in principle"), and then resubmitted on 9/12. It was an absolute tour de force. Well done and congratulations to both of them!
9/20/15: Iris' last day in the lab. She left the lab with an impressive achievement, including an HHMI fellowship, one JDRF innovative award, and 6 first- and co-first authored papers in 6 years (Diabetes, PNAS, Cell Reports, Nat Cell Biol and two more on the way). Her recent paper is now accepted by NCB. She is heading for a postdoc position at the Mango lab at UTSW. We wish her best of luck! She will be deeply missed!
9/16/15: Asmita passed her A-exam with flying colors. Congratulations!
6/22/15: Diane Somlo, our beloved senior, will return to the lab as an assistant for her gap year. She will start on 7/14/2015. Welcome to Diane!
6/5/15: Sheng's paper is accepted in Endocrinology. Sheng is currently an associate professor at Jiangsu University. Congratulations!
4/11/15: Our new R01 on Sel1L in adipocytes (11%) is funded by NIDDK. It's funded at the A0. Congratulations!
3/18/15: Review co-written by Hana and Asmita is published in Seminars in Cancer Biology.
3/2/15: Hyang Kim joined us from Sanford Burnham. Hyang is interested in ERAD function in neurobiology. Welcome!

2014

12/11/14: Iris passed her B-exam and defended her thesis. Congratulations!
12/5/14: Iris is nominated by Cornell to compete for DP5. Best of luck, Iris! You can do it!
12/3/14: Reilly accepts the offer to become a clinical fellow at Duke. Congratulations!
11/27/14: Our new R01_A0 on ERAD substrates (17%) has been selected for funding by NIGMS. Congratulations! What a great Thanksgiving day gift!
11/16/14: Yewei is promoted to Research Associate. Congratulations!
5/30/14: Congratulations to Haibo on his paper, the characterization of adipose-specific Sel1L KO mice, is accepted by Cell Metabolism. It was initially submitted on 9/29/13, after several rounds of revision. Final revision was on 4/26/14.
5/28/14: Congratulations to Ling who received SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching (Cornell Chronicle).
5/24/14: Congratulations to Zhen and Iris, who graduated as Ph.D. Ling and the lab attended the hooding ceremony.
5/23/14: Congratulations to Erica Shu who graduated with B.S. with highest honor at Human Ecology. She is staying in the lab as a Nutrition graduate student! Welcome Erica!
5/23/14: Congratulations to Ling who gave the faculty speech at DNS graduation ceremony - selected by the graduating class of 2014.
5/20/14: Our grant application to JDRF Strategic Research Agreement Program is funded. Congratulations to Ling, Iris and Yewei for their effort!
5/19/14: Welcome to Asmita Bhattacharya as a rotation student; she is a first year GGD graduate student
5/16/14: Congratulations to Yewei and Iris, whose paper on the survival of TLR2/4 DKO mice on Western diet is accepted by Cell Reports. It was initially submitted on 3/18/14 and revised on 4/24/14.
1/2/14: Congratulations to Sheng, a lab alumni (currently an associate professor at Jiangsu University), who published his first independent paper in Cancer Immunol Immunother
1/2/14: Iris and Guojun's paper on inducible Sel1L KO mouse and cell models accepted in PNAS. It was initially submitted on 9/25, and comments back on 11/21. After a week revision, we sent it back on 12/3/13. Congratulations to both of them! What a New Year Gift!
1/1/14: Happy the Year of Horse! May all the efforts to be rewarded in 2013!

2013

12/17/13: Zhen passed her B exam. Congratulations!
12/5/13: Ling's Seed Grant application to Clinical and Translational Science Center at Weill Cornell is funded! Congratulations.
11/15/13: Cindy's last day in the lab. She is heading down to the sequencing core facility. We wish her best of luck in her new position.
11/13/13: Haibo's paper on the link between adipocyte XBP1 and adiponectin folding is accepted by Diabetes. Initially submitted on 7/9/13, revised on 10/12/13 and 11/11/13, accepted on 11/13/13.
11/12/13: Ling's Seed Grant application to CVG is funded to study the role of TLR in lethal pulmonary damage! Yewei and Iris helped put it together. Congratulations.
9/12/13: Liu's last day in the lab. She is heading to Toronto Canada. We wish her best of luck in her future endeavor.
8/21/13: Ling is interviewed by ABC News to discuss the effect of diet on obesity control [Story]
8/14/13: Liu's passed her B exam. Congratulations!
8/14/13: Hana's passed her A exam. Congratulations!
8/2/13: Celebration of the 6th year anniversary of the Qi lab.
7/30/13: Nuno Mendonca's last day. What a four-month he had in the Qi lab at Ithaca! We wish him the best.
6/20/13: Robert Guber (rising Junior) is selected as the Hunter R. Rawlings III Presidential Research Scholar.
5/29/13: Ling is promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. Congratulations!
5/2/13: Iris Sun receives the Hsien Wu and Daisy Yen Wu Scholarship and The Liu Memorial Award from Cornell Graduate School. Congratulations!
4/16/13: Yin's last day; she is heading back to Virginia and then looking for positions. We wish her best of luck in her future endevors. She will be missed.
4/8/13: Yin He officially becomes Dr. He. Congratulations!
4/2/13: Liu's paper on the Phenformin effect on UPR signaling is accepted by J Biol Chem, initially submitted on 2/19/13 and revised on 3/31/13. Congratulations!
4/1/13: Erica Shu, a Junior, receives the Human Ecology Summer Research award. Congratulations!
4/1/13: Nuno Mendonca, from Wageningen University, joins us for a 4-month internship.
1/1/13: Happy the Year of Water Snake! What a year 2012 we had! May all the efforts to be rewarded in 2013 and Ithaca's winter remains as tolerable as 2012!

2012

11/12/12: Yin’s paper accepted in Dev Cell, initially submitted on 5/22/12, revised on 9/19/12 and 10/23/12, and accepted 11/12/12. This manuscript is the cumulative result of over two years of collaborations among four groups (Yates at Scripps, Kemphues at Cornell and Adelstein at NHLBI). Congratulations! [story]
10/29/12: Dr. Guojun Shi joined us from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is interested in the physiological role of ER homeostasis. Welcome.
7/11/12: Ling’s grant was awarded by JDRF. This goal of this one-year grant is for "Pioneering Studies on Beta Cell Regeneration, Survival and Beta Cell Stress Biomarkers".
5/29/12: Yewei’s paper accepted in JBC, initially submitted on 4/12/12 and revised on 5/16/12.
4/23/12: Hana Kim, a first year graduate student from the field of Immunology, joins the lab. She obtained her B.S and M.S. in The California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Welcome, Hana!
4/6/12: Robert Guber was awarded summer fellowship from Human Ecology.
4/2/12: Ling was awarded the Lehman Fund from the Office of the Vice Provost for International Relations, Cornell University.
3/14/12: Ling's research on diabetes and obesity was featured in the Cornell Daily Sun. Read the [story].
3/6/12: Yewei's JBC paper accepted, initially submitted on 2/5/12, revised on 2/29/12, and appeared online on 3/6/12. Chronicle [story]
2/7/12: Iris' paper accepted in Diabetes, initially submitted on 10/3/11, revised on 1/17/12, and appeared online on 3/13/12.
1/1/12: Happy the Year of Dragon! What a year 2011 we had! May all the efforts to be rewarded in 2012!

2011

12/16/11: Ling is awarded the Career Development Award from ADA. President Skorton sends his letter. Congratulations! [story | flyer]
12/5/11: Liu is awarded the predoctoral fellowship from American Heart Association with an impressive 1.2 score and 4.3 percentile. Congratulations!
8/4/11: Iris was awarded the HHMI International Research Fellow. Congratulations! Read the public announcements [HHMI and Cornell]
8/1/11: Celebrate lab's 4th anniversary!
7/13/11: Zhen's paper on IRE1a activation is accepted in JBC (6/19/11 submitted and 7/7/11 revised) and appeared online immediately. The whole process took 3 weeks. The fastest ever for the lab.
7/6/11: Xiao-Qing Li (rising Junior) was selected as the Hunter R. Rawlings III Presidential Research Scholar. Congratulations!
6/15/11: Ling's R21 grant got a priority score of 11.
6/10/11: Iris is notified about the status of her application for the HHMI International Research Fellow. Public announcement will be made at the end of July by HHMI.
6/2/11: Ling is invited to the IPOD study section for the second time in a row.
5/25/11: Sheng leaves the lab for an Associate Professor position in Jiangsu University, China. We wish him well.
5/18/11: Sheng's paper on MDSC in obesity is accepted in JBC (3/11/11 submitted and 5/12/11 revised) and appeared online immediately.
4/21/11: Iris passed her A-exam. Congratulations!
4/11/11: Ling is awarded the Bio-Serv Award from American Society for Nutrition. Congratulations!

2010

12/6/2010: We received a seed grant from Cornell CVG to fund our study on the role of UPR in obesity/diabetes.
10/28/2010: Iris was chosen by Cornell to compete for the HHMI International Student Research Fellowship (ISRF). Congratulations and wish her the best of luck!
7/29/2010: Liu passed her A-exam. Congratulations!
6/21/2010: Liu's paper on "Quantitating physiological UPR" is accepted in PLoS ONE. The paper was initially submitted on 5/16/2010 and revised on 6/12/2010.
4/22/2010: Hui's paper on "SUMOylation of XBP1s" is accepted in Biochem. J. The paper was initially submitted on 2/2/2010 and revised on 4/2/2010. The paper is immediately online.
3/9/2010: Iris Sun, the first year BMCB student, have decided to join the lab and will be here in June.

2009

11/17/2009: Dr. Yewei Ji joins the lab.
11/13/2009: Yin passed her A-exam (see picture below). Congratulations on her job well-done!
10/29/2009: Haibo received the CVG Scholars Award. Congratulations!
8/15/2009: Yin received the G&D training grant award. Congratulations!
8/8/2009: Yewei Ji, Ph.D., accepts the offer to join the lab as a postdoctoral associate in October. Dr. Ji is an expert in NK and NKT cells.
8/7/2009: Zhen (Jen) Xue, the first-year Nutrition graduate student, joins the lab.
6/2/2009: Our Cell Metabolism paper comes out and Cornell Chronicle reports on the link between ER and fat cell formation [link].
6/1/2009: Liu Yang, a BMCB graduate student, joins the lab.
4/20/2009: Haibo and Yin's paper on adipogenesis, the first for the lab, is accepted in Cell Metabolism. The paper was initially submitted on 12/18/2008 and revised on 4/2/2009. The official letter came in on 4/28/2009 and the paper will be out in June issue.
2/3/2009: Sheng Xia joins the lab.
1/26/2009: Yin and Haibo present their poster in the NIH workshop at Bethesda (see pic below).
1/15/2009: Lab settles into its new home.
1/10/2009: Lab gets its first 5-year NIH R01 funding.

2008

8/7/2008: Sheng Xia, Ph.D., an Associate Professor from Jiangsu University (China) accepted the offer to join the lab in December 2008. Dr. Xia recently got his Ph.D. in Dr. Xuetao Cao's laboratory at Zhenjiang University with strong publications in Blood and Molecular Immunology.
8/1/2008: Celebrate lab 1st year anniversary.
7/5/2008: Ling is featured on Ithaca Times [article]
6/8/2008: Lab is featured on Cornell Chronicle [story or download pdf].
6/5/2008: Ling receives American Diabetes Association Junior Faculty Award.
6/3/2008: Ling receives 2008 Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation/American Federation for Aging Research New Investigator Awards in Alzheimer's Disease.
6/2/2008: Yin He, the first-year G&D graduate student, joins the lab.
3/28/2008: Congratulations to Anna Zenno! She is awarded the Human Ecology Summer Research Award to support her summer research in the lab. And she has been selected as a Hughes Scholar this summer.
3/12/2008: The IBC application finally approved [pdf; MUA#15702; approval date: 2/28/2008].
2/18/2008: Cindy Wang joins the lab.
2/4/2008: Lab New Semester Party at Samurai for Lunar New Year as well as Yin's Birthday.

2007

12/18/2007: The IBC application approved (conditional).
11/2007: The lab featured on the Cornell Human Ecology magazine. [pdf]
11/27/2007: The Lab Warming Party.
11/10/2007: First adenovirus culture - 30x HEK293 plates.
11/1/2007: First luciferase assay.
10/23/2007: First tissue culture plate - HEK293T cells.
10/19/2007: First Western blot.
10/19/2007: Radiation application approved [permit #07-06]
10/11-13/2007: First miniprep and Maxiprep.
10/8/2007: Haibo joins the lab.
8/31/2007: First lab meeting.
8/26/2007: Cornell Sophomore Anna Zenno joins the lab.
8/2/2007: The lab officially opens its business.
6/29/2007: The long-awaited animal protocol #2007-0051 was approved! It covers the mouse work in the laboratory through 6/29/2010.
6/28/2007: Hui Chen, Ph.D., accepted offer to join the lab on 8/15/2007.
6/1/2007: Haibo Sha accepted offer to join the lab sometime in September. Haibo recently obtained his Ph.D. degree from Animal Model Research Center, Nanjing University, China.