On May 2017, Yuan Yuan and Huan Hu successfully defended their Ph.D. thesis. In the thesis research, Yuan Yuan constructed an inducible cell apoptosis system. By combining single-cell quantitative experiments with mathematical modeling, she unraveled the rational behind the apoptosis circuitry and came up with a criterion for the life-death cell fate. Huan Hu developed a new method for mammalian genomic loci labeling: BiFC-TALE, and realized the imaging of telomere and alpha-satellite sequences. Compared with previous methods, the system dramatically improved the Signal-to-Background-Ratio of gene labeling by firstly introducing BiFC technology to this field. Congratulations to Drs. Yuan and Hu!
