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Needleman Lab Study Named “MBoC Paper of the Year”

Needleman Lab Study Named “MBoC Paper of the Year”

The editorial board of the journal The Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC) chose a study led by Che-Hang Yu (Applied Physics, Ph.D. ‘19) and MCB and Applied Physics professor Daniel Needleman to receive the annual “MBoC Paper of the Year” award.

The full paper, titled “Central-spindle microtubules are strongly coupled to chromosomes during both anaphase A and anaphase B,” is available on MBoC’s site.

“I am incredibly thrilled and honored to receive this award,” says Yu, who is currently a postdoc at UC Santa Barbara. “Publishing this work is an arduous journey, but it is great to see this paper recognized by cell biologists. Throughout my academic career, I have been building new tools to see things that people have never or hardly seen before. This recognition is a great encouragement for me to keep innovating.”

In an award citation that ran in the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) newsletter, MBoC’s editor-in-chief wrote, “Che-Hang Yu’s work is a technical tour-de-force that reveals a tight coupling between central-spindle microtubules and segregating chromosomes in the mitotic spindle during anaphase.”

“I am thrilled that Che-Hang’s work was honored in this way,” says Needleman. “Che-Hang is an out-of-the-box thinker and a careful experimentalist. His discoveries fundamentally challenge the way that I, and many others, thought about the mechanism of chromosome segregation.”

Congratulations to Professor Needleman and Dr. Yu!

 

by Diana Crow

 

Che-Hang Yu

Che-Hang Yu