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164. Pragti, B.K. Kundu, J. Diao, Y. Sun. Rational design of organic chromophores for simultaneously triggering redox imbalance and tracking organelles in biological systems under near-infrared light irradiation. Adv. Healthc. Mater. 15, (2026).
163. Z. Tian, J.-L. Guan, J. Diao. Mitochondria power the cell's recycling center. Autophagy 22, 1737 (2026).
162. E. Lee, T.-Y. Chang, J.-H. Tsai, J. Diao, C.-Y. Lee. Hierarchical pre-training of vision encoders with large language model. IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) MMFM5 Workshop, Denver, USA, 2026, pp. 7415-7424, doi: . [arXiv 2604.00086]
161. E. Lee, Y.-C. Lin, J. Diao. Learning to select visual in-context demonstrations. IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Findings, Denver, USA, 2026, pp. 9455-9465, doi: . [arXiv 2603.26775]
160. Z. Tian, R. Chen, G. Fang, K. Qiu, W. Wu, X. Shao, D. Liu, H. Que, X. Wang, J. Gao, J. Zhang, B. Kundu, Q. Chen, J.-L. Guan, Y. Rong, B.Z. Tang, K. Li, Y. Sun, J. Diao. Mitochondria acidify lysosomes through membrane contacts. Cell Rep. 45, 117112 (2026). Highlighted by: UC News
159. J. Liu, J. Liu, B. Bu, L. Tian, J. Diao, B. Ji, D. Li. Mechanisms of fusion protein transmembrane segments in fusion pore formation. ChemBioChem 27, e202500776 (2026).
158. Y. Wang, K. Qiu, W. Zou, P. Amom, T.H. Ganjawala, Z. Tian, X. Xu, T. Huang, N.-P. Tsai, D. Shi, P. Kang, H. Bai, A. Zacharias, K. Zhang, J. Diao. Modulating inter-mitochondrial contacts to increase membrane potential for mitigating blue light damage. eLife 15, RP110524 (2026).
157. Z.-W. Liu, E. Lee, J.-H. Tsai, J. Diao, C.-Y. Lee. Semantic-guided slow-fast pruning of visual tokens for vision-language models. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Barcelona, Spain, 2026, pp. 5901-5905, doi: 10.1109/ICASSP55912.2026.11460400.
156. W. Tan, Q. Zhang, Z. Liu, K. Qiu, D. Mahajan, T. Gerton, N. Copperman, E.C. Dresselhaus, C. Xia, C. Lin, W. Lau, M. Lee, I. Ashton-Rickardt, P. Hong, D. Dinulescu, J.-T. Hsieh, A.A. Rodal, D. Loeb, R. Drapkin, J. Diao, L. Lu, B. Xu. Cycling molecular assemblies for Golgi imaging and disruption. Nat. Commun. 17, 2102 (2026).
155. Q. Pei, Q. Chen, Z. Tian, L. Zhu, Y. Chen, J. Gong, S. Wang, Y. Xiang, J.S. Khamo, J. Fan, Y. Rong, Y. Yu, Y. Qin, S. Wu, Y. Faragalla, P. Cao, K. Zhang, Y. Lai, L.-G. Wu, C. Ma, X. Yang, J. Diao. Munc18 modulates syntaxin phase separation to promote exocytosis. Nat. Neurosci. 29, 306 (2026).
154. D. Li, K. Liu, D. Li, A.T. Brunger, C. Liu, J. Burré, J. Diao. α-Synuclein condensation in synaptic vesicle function and synucleinopathies. Trends Cell Biol. 36, 57 (2026).