November 1, 2023

Hsiang-Ting Lu has joined us as a Laboratory Technician II. Welcome aboard, Hisang-Ting!

August 28, 2023

Yichan Yang, a PhD student from the MCB program, has joined us for her rotation. Welcome, Yichan!

June 29, 2023 (Links to an external site)

Ke’s paper on the bioinformatic analysis of E2F1-induced replication stress and its impact on the tumor mutational burden and immune microenvironment has been accepted by DNA Repair. Congratulations, Ke!

June 26, 2023

Lingzhen has successfully defended her PhD thesis – Congratulations, Dr. Kong!

February 16, 2023 (Links to an external site)

Mol Cell has published a preview by Dr. Jungsan Sohn on our featured article in the same issue on the noncanonical function of the cGAS/STING signaling axis in regulating TRPV2, intracellular Ca2+ and genome protection during replication stress

January 24, 2023 (Links to an external site)

WUSM News Release featuring our latest paper on the cytosDNA-elicited, Ca2+-dependent signaling pathway in the replication stress response and its implications for cancer treatment.

December 14, 2022

Zhongsheng has been promoted to Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology and of Medicine at Washington University.

December 7, 2022 (Links to an external site)

Manuscript by Shan and Lingzhen on the novel roles of cytosolic DNA, cGAS/STING and TRPV2 in Ca2+ release and replication fork protection has been accepted by Molecular Cell. This manuscript, together with a previous paper by Shan and others (Li et al, Mol Cell 2019), describe a novel Ca2+-dependent signaling pathway that is activated upon […]

October 7, 2022

Qingwei Niu in the MCB Program has joined us for her rotation. Welcome, Qingwei!

June 10, 2022 (Links to an external site)

Zheng’s paper on the unique roles of ZKSCAN3 in the regulation of replication fork processing in BRCA1-proficient and BRCA1-deficient cells has been accepted by JBC. Congratulations, Zheng!