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Babak Javid is a physician scientist with an interest in tuberculosis, infectious diseases and protein translational fidelity.  He did his medical training in the UK, his PhD on antigen processing and presentation with Paul Lehner at Cambridge, and post-doctoral training on mycobacterial genetics with Eric Rubin at Harvard.  He joined Tsinghua School of Medicine in October 2011.<br><br>
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Ph.D., Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Dakota 2012;<br>
 
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Mycobacterial infections are characterized by the need of the host to contain the invading pathogen as well as by the need of the pathogen to escape the host cell in order to infect other cells.  An important phase during this interaction pertains to host cell death decision pathway.  My project involves looking at this pathway using proteomic tools to get some clues about how mycobacteria can influence the manner in which host cells die.;</div>
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2011.09-present:  College of Life Science, Peking University, PhD;<br>
2007.09-2011.07: College of Life Science, Peking University ,Bachelor;<br>
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Hobbies: basketball, painting and cooking<br>
E-mail address: newforlofe{at}gmail.com (Please replace {at} to @ in the address.)<br>
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In a homogeneous bacterial population (identical in genomic information), the phenotypes of individual cells may vary significantly due to gene expression, protein synthesis  and other processes.  One reason for this  variation may be the rate of errors generated during protein synthesis (mistranslation), which we hypothesise may benefit cell survival when they are challenged by stress or antibiotics. I am designing novel reporters to measure mistranslation at the single cell level.  I hope to find what's controlling the heterogeneity of mistranslation in a clonal population and a potential clues for novel drug development.
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2012.09-present: College of Life Science, Tsinghua University, PhD;<br>
2007.09-2012.07: College of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary, Jilin university, Bachelor;<br>
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Email: suhongwei0108{at}gmail.com (Please replace {at} to @ in the address.)<br>
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Based on previous work of the lab, mycobacteria could tolerate high mistranslation rates and this phenotype could help them to adapt to different kinds of environment including some antibiotic such as rifampicin. So there may be some specific elements which control translational fidelity.
My project is to find the genetic elements controlling mycobacterial translation fidelity using forward genetic screens.
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2012.09-present:  School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, PhD;<br>
2008.09-2012.07: College of Animal Sciences & Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Bachelor;<br>
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Hobbies: computer techniques<br>
Email: kim32000{at}hotmail.com (Please replace {at} to @ in the address.)<br>
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In mycobacteria tRNAAsn and tRNAGln are generated by a two-step synthesis, involving physiological misacylation to Glu-tRNAGln and Asp-tRNAAsn intermediates which are amidated to the cognate forms by GatCAB. I am focusing on the role of GatCAB in this indirect pathway to identify its potential link to relative mistranslation rate in mycobacteria. I am also interested in mechanisms to manipulate mycobacteria genetically including generation of SNPs via recombineering.
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My projects are based on the hypothesis that mistranslation may contribute to mycobacterial adaption to the intracellular environment. One of my projects is to verify the hypothesis by measuring the mycobacterial mistranslation rate before or after infection; the other one is to understand the interactions between the host and mycobacteria during the process of infection.
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2011.07-present: School of medicine, Tsinghua University, Research assistant;<br>
PhD student, Oxford University
2008.09-2011.07: Shang Dong University, Graduate student;<br>
2004.08-2008.8: Ocean University of China, Bachelor degree;<br>
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Hobbies: climbing, hiking<br>
Email: xuejiaying2006{at}hotmail.com (Please replace {at} to @ in the address.)<br>
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My work is to make our lab run in an orderly and efficient manner. This includes procurement and management.  I also help Professor Babak Javid as his assistant, for example translation of documents between English and Chinese and generally making sure he doesn’t get into too much trouble.</div>
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2008.09-2011.07: Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Graduate student;<br>
2004.08-2008.8: Henan Agricultural University, Bachelor degree;<br>
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E-mail address: leehao{at}biomed.tsinghua.edu.cn (Please replace {at} to @ in the address.)<br>
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The Main research field: The interaction of Mycobacterial with the host.<br>
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1: Research on the protein Trehalose-6-phosphate Phosphatase (OtsB2) from Mycobacterium tuberculosis.<br>
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Medical student, PUMC
2009.09-2012.07: Nankai University, Master degree;<br>
2005.09-2009.07: Shaanxi University of Technology, Bachelor degree.<br>
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E-mail address: panmm99{at}gmail.com (Please replace {at} to @ in the address.)<br>
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I am interested in the hypothesis that a high phenotypic drug resistance in mycobacteria species is caused by high adaptive mistranslation. I am currently developing a gain of function reporter to measure the mistranslation rate using a M. smegmatis model. I will use this reporter assay to screen drugs in order to find hits which can decrease mycobacteria mistranslation. My ultimate goal is to decrease the phenotypic drug resistance of Mycobacteria tuberculosis. My hobbies are.</div>
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Senior Undergraduate Student (Tsinghua University)<br>
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Hobbies: calligraphy, poem recitation performance, singing, and sports.<br>
Emali: bobthu09{at}gmail.com (Please replace {at} to @ in the address.)<br>
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My project focuses on the dynamics of macrophage surface proteins following mycobacterial infection. Mycobacteria have co-evolved with its host, macrophages, so that they are fully adapted to living inside this effector cell of the innate immune system. Many changes to surface proteins occur following infection but it is unclear whether these changes represent host responses to infection, or mycobacterial adaptations to the host – subverting the host machinery for their own needs. Further experiments will attempt to answer these questions.</div>
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Junior Undergraduate Student (Peking University)<br>
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Hobbies: Marvel superhero movies, swimming, table tennis and badminton.<br>
Email: lengtq{at}gmail.com (Please replace {at} to @ in the address.)<br>
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My project investigates the repertoire and rate of mycobacterial mistranslation in the model organism Mycobacterium smegmatis.  I will use gain of function luminescence reporters to accurately identify the rate of many different types of translational error.
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Medical student, Ankara University
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I am interested in using fluorescent reporters to measure mycobacterial mistranslation rates.
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Senior Undergraduate Student (Nanjing Agricultural University)<br>
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Hobbies: Korean language, reading novels<br>
Email: chenyanan90618{at}163.com (Please replace {at} to @ in the address.)<br>
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I am investigating the role of EF-Tu discrimination in mycobacterial mistranslation, which will examine one potential mechanism for mycobacterial mistranslation. The residing dogma states that misacylated tRNAs cannot take part in protein translation due to discrimination by EF-Tu, but this has not been investigated in vivo. <br>
We know that fidelity in translation is associated with two key events: synthesis of correctly charged aminoacyl transfer RNAs (aa-tRNAs) by aminoacyl tRNA synthetases (aaRSs) and accurate selection of aa-tRNAs by the ribosome.  However, the precise molecular mechanism of mycobacterial mistranslation is poorly understood.
Specifically, it is not known if mistranslation results from errors of ribosomal decoding or misacylation of amino-acylated tRNAs. This is particularly relevant since mycobacteria physiologically misacylate glutamine and asparagine tRNAs before modifying them to the correct form by the action of the enzyme GatCAB.
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Former Postdocs


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CURRENT POSITION

   Flavia Sorrentino

Post-doc, UBC/ GSK



Former Technicians/ Lab Managers


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CURRENT POSITION

   Jess Pinkham

Research associate, Harvard School of Public Health

   Jiaying Xue

Consultant

   Jingfei Xu

PhD student, CLS, Tsinghua University



Former Undergraduate Thesis Students


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   Nina Jain

MD-MBA student, Harvard MIT and Oxford

   Yuxian Du

PhD student, Texas A&M University



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CURRENT POSITION

   Jonathan Foxwell

PhD student, Oxford University

   Frankie Wong

MD student, UCLA

   Sian Williams

Technology Consultant

   Xia Wu

Medical student, PUMC

   Shaohan Wu

Undergraduate, China Agricultural University

   Veronica Su

PhD student, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

   Zheng Hua

Medical student, PUMC

   Da-Ya Lee

Undergraduate, Smith College

   Dilara Akcal

Medical student, Ankara University


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   Kaiji Wang

Biomedical Sciences student, Imperial College

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High school student, Harrow School Beijing


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