• 2015-2018, Newly-Appointment Academic Research Grants of Academia Sinica
• 2015-2018, Young Talent Investigator Recruitment Award, Ministry of Science and Technology
• 2017-2021, Career Development Award
• 2023-2027, Investigator award
• 2023, Academia Sinica Early-Career Investigator Research Achievement Award
• 2023, NSTC Outstanding Research Award

Publications arising from my own independent laboratory (Since 2015; corresponding* only)

1. Saju, A., Chen, P.P., Weng, T.H., Tsai, S.Y., Tanaka, A., Tseng, Y.T., Chang, C.C., Wang, C.H., Shimamoto, Y., Hsia, K.C.*(2024). HURP binding to the vinca domain of β-tubulin accounts for cancer drug resistance. Nature Communications 15(1): 8844.
2. Liao, C.C., Wang, Y.S., Pi, W.C., Wang, C.H., Wu, Y.M., Chen, W.Y.*, Hsia, K.C.* (2023). Structural convergence endows nuclear transport receptor Kap114p with a novel transcriptional repressor function toward TATA-box binding protein. Nature Communications 14(1):5518.
3. Shankar, S., Hsu, Z.T., Ezquerra, A., Li, C.C., Huang, T.L., Coyaud, E., Viais, R., Grauffel, C., Raught, B. Lim, C., Lüders, J.*, Tsai, S.Y.*, Hsia, K.C.* (2022) A γ-tubulin complex-dependent pathway suppresses ciliogenesis by promoting cilia disassembly. Cell Reports 41(7), 111642.
4. Shih, P.Y., Shankar, S., Lee, S.P., Fang, Y.L., Chen, H., Wang, T.F., Hsia, K.C.*, Hsueh, Y.P.* (2022). Zinc-induced phase transition modulates synaptic distribution of autism-linked CTTNBP2. Nature Communications 13(1):2664.
5. Chang, C.C., Hsia, K.C.* (2021) More than a zip code: global modulation of cellular function by nuclear localization signals. FEBS J. doi: 10.1111/febs.15659 (Invited review).
6. Huang, T.L., Wang, H.J., Chang, Y.C., Wang, S.W., Hsia, K.C.* (2020) Promiscuous binding of microprotein Mozart1 to 𝛾-TuRC mediates specific subcellular localization to control microtubule array formation. Cell Reports 31(13), 107836.
7. Wieczork, M., Huang, T.L., Urnavicius, L., Hsia, K.C.*, Kapoor, T.M.* (2020) MZT proteins form multi-faceted structural modules within the 𝛾-tubulin ring complex. Cell Reports 31(13), 107791 (Cover of the issue).
8. Liao, C.C., Shankar, S., Pi, W.C., Ahmed, G.R., Chen, W.Y., Hsia, K.C.* (2020) Karyopherin Kap114p-mediated trans-repression controls ribosomal gene expression under saline stress. EMBO reports, 21(7):e48324.
9. Chang, C.C., Chen, C.J., Grauffel, C., Pien, Y.C., Lim, C., Tsai, S.Y.*, Hsia, K.C.* (2019) Ran pathway-independent regulation of mitotic Golgi disassembly by Importin-α. Nature Communications 10(1):4307.
10. Chang, C.C., Huang, T.L., Shimamoto, Y., Tsai, S.Y., Hsia, K.C.* (2017) Regulation of mitotic spindle assembly factor NuMA by Importin-β. J. Cell Biol. 216(11):3453-3462.

Publications arising from earlier work (First author only)

1. Hsia, K.C., Wilson-Kubalek E,M., Dottore A., Hao, Q., Tsai, K.L., Forth S., Shimamoto Y., Milligan, R.A., Kapoor, T.M. (2014) Reconstitution of the augmin complex provides insights into its architecture and function. Nat. Cell Biol. 16(9):852-863 (Cover of the issue).
2. Hsia, K.C., Hoelz, A. (2010). “Crystal structure of α-COP in complex with ϵ-COP provides insight into the architecture of the COPI vesicular coat” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 107(25):11271-11276.
3. Hsia, K.C., Stavropoulos, P., Blobel, G., Hoelz, A. (2007). “Architecture of a coat for the nuclear pore membrane.” Cell 131(7):1313-1326.
4. Hsia, K.C., Chak, K.F., Liang, P.H., Cheng, Y.S., Ku, W.Y., Yuan, H.S. (2004). “DNA binding and degradation by the HNH protein ColE7.” Structure 12(2):205-214.