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Yi has been recognized as Dean’s Faculty Fellow! We are very grateful with the support!

Feb. 17, 2021—Dean’s Faculty Fellows program recognizes Neuert, Ren  

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SARS-CoV-2 shares a similar character with influenza. Check out our collaborative work on Nsp1 published in Science Advances!

Feb. 5, 2021—Nsp1 protein of SARS-CoV-2 disrupts the mRNA export machinery to inhibit host gene expression https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/6/eabe7386

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Our work on the RNA Pol II CTD kinase in press at PNAS!

Jan. 4, 2021—

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Our work on SARS-CoV-2 Orf6 features on Vanderbilt news!

Nov. 9, 2020—Vanderbilt biologist uses rabies-like virus to illuminate how SARS-CoV-2 blocks immune response

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Our team features on MyVU! We are very grateful with all the support!

Nov. 6, 2020—Ren’s lab advances SARS-CoV-2 research and prioritizes safety during Research Ramp-up

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Congratulations Mei for his findings published in PNAS! A wonderful collaborative work on elucidating how SARS-CoV-2 hijacks Nup98 to antagonize interferon signaling!

Oct. 24, 2020—We previously revealed the mechanism of how vesicular stomatitis virus hijacks Nup98 to block host gene expression. Our most recent work published in PNAS shows that SARS-CoV-2 utilizes a similar strategy to target Nup98 in order to block interferon signaling.

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Thanks to Danielle Breezy at WKRN News 2 for the wonderful report and thanks to VICC and ACS colleagues and ResearchHERs Ambassadors!!!

Jun. 16, 2020—ResearcHERS: Women Fighting Cancer in Tennessee  

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Andrew successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Morris!

Apr. 30, 2020—

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We welcome Mei to join the lab as a graduate student!

Apr. 27, 2020—

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Andrew’s work features on VUMC Reporter!

Apr. 4, 2020—Cellular factor helps package flu genome

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Big congrats to Andrew on the acceptance of his first-author paper!

Feb. 10, 2020—

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Farewell lunch for Austin!

Jan. 17, 2020—Farewell lunch for Austin. We wish him all the best!

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Holiday celebration!

Dec. 16, 2019—

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We welcome Bradley to join our lab as a postdoc!

Dec. 1, 2019—

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We welcome rotation student Mei to the lab!

Oct. 28, 2019—

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Our review “Mechanisms of nuclear mRNA export: a structural perspective” is online now!

Sep. 12, 2019—It is published in the virtual issue “Membrane Traffic at Atomic Resolution” of Traffic, edited by Dr. Lauren Jackson. 

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Yi presented at the Nuclear Transport 2019 meeting in Scotland.

Aug. 27, 2019—Thanks to Eric Schirmer and Mark Field for organizing such a wonderful meeting!

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Our NIH MIRA grant is funded!

Aug. 16, 2019—Our MIRA grant entitled “Mechanisms and Regulation of Nuclear mRNA Export” is officially funded!

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Our work features on VBS discoveries

Jul. 15, 2019—This is why we can’t have nice things: How influenza impairs the host defense

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Ren lab’s first paper online in Nature Microbiology

Jul. 1, 2019—Our first research paper “Structural basis for influenza virus NS1 protein block of mRNA nuclear export” has just been published online in Nature Microbiology.

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