@LabTsai

Unraveling the mysteries of the molecular mechanisms involved in viral entry and ER quality control.

 Ann Arbor, MI
billytsailab.org/
Joined March 2020
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Lab lunch! Better late than never!! :)
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Happy Birthday Billy!!! It is a delayed post, but better late than never! Thank you Emily :)
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Watching the eclipse with the best people 😊
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Lovely lunch at Sava's on April 5th with Dr. Covés-Datson!
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Congratulations to Emily Wang for receiving the NSF fellowship!
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Welcome Dr. Chao-Yin Cheng, Emily Wang, Whitney Reid, and Luke Gohmann to the team!
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Congratulations to Dr. Billy Tsai and Dr. Ryan Baldridge! The W.M. Keck Foundation has awarded them to develop a next-generation protein degradation technology! @UMCDB
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It's a little late, but happy 20th birthday to Tsai Lab! I genuinely appreciate our excellent PI, Dr. Tsai, and all the previous and current members! See you all for the 40th anniversary! ;)
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New Publication by Dr. Tai-Ting Woo and Jeff Williams! "How host ER membrane chaperones and morphogenic proteins support virus infection." has been published in @JournalofCellScience journals.biologists.com/jcs/…

How host ER membrane chaperones and morphogenic proteins support virus infection

Summary: We review recent advances revealing how diverse viruses exploit host endoplasmic reticulum membrane chaperones and morphogenic machinery to cause infection.

journals.biologists.com
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Congrats to Jeff and Katy for winning Outstanding Graduate Student Poster Awards at 41st Annual CMB Spring Symposium!
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Check out this cool article!: michiganmedicine.org/health-… Congrats to Jeff Williams and Dr. Jay (Yu-Jie) Chen!

How SARS-CoV-2 sets up a literal shop inside cells to cause infection

A highly complicated experiment designed to reveal how SARS-CoV-2 causes infection by hijacking cellular machinery is published by a team of investigators at Michigan Medicine.

michiganmedicine.org
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New Publication by Jeff Williams and Dr. Yu-Jie Chen! "Reticulons promote formation of ER-derived double-membrane vesicles that facilitate SARS-CoV-2 replication." has been published in @JournalofCellBiology Read more :rupress.org/jcb/article/222/…

Reticulons promote formation of ER-derived double-membrane vesicles that facilitate SARS-CoV-2...

SARS-CoV-2 is the etiologic agent of COVID-19. Understanding how SARS-CoV-2 exploits host factors to replicate its genome is of great importance. Here, the

rupress.org
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Celebrating Mara's defense! Thank you everyone for coming and thank you Billy!
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Congratulations to @knspeckhart for receiving the NIH F31 fellowship.🥳🥳
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Lunch @ManiOsteria to celebrate Katy's F31 grant!
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Congratulations to Jeff and Jay for publishing their paper in Nature Communications! Also, thank you for joining us today @SpriggsLab #Celebratory_lunch #late_celebration
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My first, first-author paper is out! @LabTsai @UMCDB #PLOSPathogens #Virology journals.plos.org/plospathog…

A specific EMC subunit supports Dengue virus infection by promoting virus membrane fusion essential...

Author summary Although DENV infection causes significant morbidity and mortality, no effective DENV antivirals exist. Here we discover a host factor that promotes an important DENV entry step....

journals.plos.org
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New Publication by #Parkishit_Bagchi and #Katy_Speckhart (#Tsai_Lab)! "A specific EMC subunit supports Dengue virus infection by promoting virus membrane fusion essential for cytosolic genome delivery" Read more: journals.plos.org/plospathog… #CDB #umichCDB #virology

A specific EMC subunit supports Dengue virus infection by promoting virus membrane fusion essential...

Author summary Although DENV infection causes significant morbidity and mortality, no effective DENV antivirals exist. Here we discover a host factor that promotes an important DENV entry step....

journals.plos.org
We are hiring! #postdocjobs #researchers #virology #Biology #universityofmichigan #UMCDB #Hiring
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Congratulations on the publication, Chelsey! rupress.org/jcb/article/219/…
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