Kai Li, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Physiology
School of Medicine

Awards

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• HFSP Fellowship, Human Frontier Science Program, 2019-2022
• The Ray Wu Prize, Ray Wu Memorial Fund, 2017

Publications (8)

Top publication keywords:
ERG1 Potassium ChannelPotassium ChannelsEndoplasmic ReticulumAnimals, Genetically ModifiedDrosophilaCaenorhabditis elegans ProteinsChannelopathiesHSP47 Heat-Shock ProteinsCaenorhabditis elegansShal Potassium ChannelsLysosomesPolyadenylationHSP40 Heat-Shock ProteinsMechanotransduction, CellularEther-A-Go-Go Potassium Channels

• Drosophila TMEM63 and mouse TMEM63A are lysosomal mechanosensory ion channels.
  Nature cell biology 2024 Li K, Guo Y, Wang Y, Zhu R, Chen W, Cheng T, Zhang X, Jia Y, Liu T, Zhang W, Jan LY, Jan YN
• Diverse cell-specific patterns of alternative polyadenylation in Drosophila.
  Nature communications 2022 Lee S, Chen YC, FCA Consortium, Gillen AE, Taliaferro JM, Deplancke B, Li H, Lai EC
• Fly Cell Atlas: A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult fruit fly.
  Science (New York, N.Y.) 2022 Li H, Janssens J, De Waegeneer M, Kolluru SS, Davie K, Gardeux V, Saelens W, David FPA, Brbic M, Spanier K, Leskovec J, McLaughlin CN, Xie Q, Jones RC, Brueckner K, Shim J, Tattikota SG, Schnorrer F, …
• The Biosynthesis and Folding of Oily Peptide Chains
  Advances in Membrane Proteins 2019 K Li, SQ Cai
• Identification of small-molecule ion channel modulators in C. elegans channelopathy models.
  Nature communications 2018 Jiang Q, Li K, Lu WJ, Li S, Chen X, Liu XJ, Yuan J, Ding Q, Lan F, Cai SQ
• A forward genetic screen identifies chaperone CNX-1 as a conserved biogenesis regulator of ERG K+ channels.
  The Journal of general physiology 2018 Bai X, Li K, Yao L, Kang XL, Cai SQ
• Genetic variation in glia-neuron signalling modulates ageing rate.
  Nature 2017 Yin JA, Gao G, Liu XJ, Hao ZQ, Li K, Kang XL, Li H, Shan YH, Hu WL, Li HP, Cai SQ
• Tetrameric Assembly of K+ Channels Requires ER-Located Chaperone Proteins.
  Molecular cell 2016 Li K, Jiang Q, Bai X, Yang YF, Ruan MY, Cai SQ