Professor | Shujun Cai | Asia Growth Partners

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Name

Shujun Cai

Contact Information

caisj@sustech.edu.cn

Language ability

Chinese, English

Province

Guangdong

University/Lab Affiliation and Title	Southern University of Science and Technology
Faculty	Life Sciences
Academic Background & Achievements	2013-2018 PhD: National University of Singapore 2009-2013 Bachelor: Beijing Normal University
Work Experience	2023-Present - Southern University of Science and Technology - Assistant Professor 2019-2023 - Yale University - Postdoctoral Researcher (Dr. Pietro De Camilli's lab) 2018-2019 - National University of Singapore - Postdoctoral Researcher (Dr. Lu Gan's lab)
Awards	2020-2022: Parkinson's Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship

University/Lab Affiliation and Title

Southern University of Science and Technology

Faculty

Life Sciences

Academic Background & Achievements

Work Experience

2023-Present - Southern University of Science and Technology - Assistant Professor
2019-2023 - Yale University - Postdoctoral Researcher (Dr. Pietro De Camilli's lab)
2018-2019 - National University of Singapore - Postdoctoral Researcher (Dr. Lu Gan's lab)

Awards

Areas of Focus	In situ structural mechanisms of membrane remodeling Method development for cryo-electron microscopy
Publications	In situ architecture of the lipid transport protein VPS13C at ER-lysosome membrane contacts, Cai, S., Wu, Y., Guillen-Samander, A., Hancock-Cerutti, W., Liu, J., and De Camilli, P., 2022 Heterogeneous non-canonical nucleosomes predominate in yeast cells in situ, Tan, Z.Y., Cai, S., Noble, A.J., Chen, J.K., Shi, J., and Gan, L., 2023 The in-situ structures of mono-, di-, and trinucleosomes in human heterochromatin, Cai, S., Bock, D., Pilhofer, M., and Gan, L., 2018 Cryo-ET reveals the macromolecular reorganization of S. pombe mitotic chromosomes in vivo, Cai, S., Chen, C., Tan, Z.Y., Huang, Y., Shi, J., and Gan, L., 2018 Natural chromatin is heterogeneous and self-associates in vitro, Cai, S., Song, Y., Chen, C., Shi, J., and Gan, L., 2018

Areas of Focus

In situ structural mechanisms of membrane remodeling
Method development for cryo-electron microscopy

Publications

In situ architecture of the lipid transport protein VPS13C at ER-lysosome membrane contacts, Cai, S., Wu, Y., Guillen-Samander, A., Hancock-Cerutti, W., Liu, J., and De Camilli, P., 2022
Heterogeneous non-canonical nucleosomes predominate in yeast cells in situ, Tan, Z.Y.*, Cai, S.*, Noble, A.J.*, Chen, J.K.*, Shi, J., and Gan, L., 2023
The in-situ structures of mono-, di-, and trinucleosomes in human heterochromatin, Cai, S.*, Bock, D.*, Pilhofer, M., and Gan, L., 2018
Cryo-ET reveals the macromolecular reorganization of S. pombe mitotic chromosomes in vivo, Cai, S., Chen, C., Tan, Z.Y., Huang, Y., Shi, J., and Gan, L., 2018
Natural chromatin is heterogeneous and self-associates in vitro, Cai, S., Song, Y., Chen, C., Shi, J., and Gan, L., 2018

Membrane Remodeling Structural Mechanisms In Situ Cryo-Electron Microscopy Method Development Biomolecules

Xiao-Lei Wang - Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Mao-Fu Liao - Southern University of Science and Technology

Xiao-Lei Wang - Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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