User:Xinjiang Cai

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2009-July

I just moved to the Big Apple in July. I joined the Skirball Institute at New York University Langone Medical Center. Manhattan is so dynamic and is also crowded!

New information - multiple two-pore channel homologues are present in choanoflagellates. I performed the bioinformatics analysis in this study. See

1. Brailoiu E, Churamani D, Cai X, Schrlau MG, Brailoiu GC, Gao X, Hooper R, Boulware MJ, Dun NJ, Marchant JS, and Patel S. Essential requirement for two-pore channel 1 in NAADP-mediated calcium signaling. J Cell Biol 2009 Jul 27; 186(2) 201-9. doi:10.1083/jcb.200904073 pmid:19620632. PubMed HubMed [Cai2009]

2009-June

I am currently a postdoctoral research associate at Duke University Medical Center. One of my research interests is to study functional genomics of Ca2+ and receptor signaling pathways.

For more details on my background and publications, please see my community of science profile.

My contribution to the choanoflagellate field is my recent publication in Molecular Biology and Evolution -

2. Cai X. Unicellular Ca2+ signaling 'toolkit' at the origin of metazoa. Mol Biol Evol 2008 Jul; 25(7) 1357-61. doi:10.1093/molbev/msn077 pmid:18385221. PubMed HubMed [Cai2008]