On November 19, as the life science special, (the third competition of the 4th Innovation & Entrepreneurship Summit (IES 2021)) ended, the special competition stage of IES 2021 came to an end. The next part will be the Entrepreneurship Carnival event held in the middle of December, where all participating project leaders can enjoy on-site matchmaking with investors and business executives. Now...

On November 19, the SC21 (Super Computing Conference 2021) Student Cluster Competition came to an end. The GeekPie_HPC team from ShanghaiTech University ranked second among 10 teams in the SC21 Student Cluster Competition Finals, the best result for GeekPie_HPC in the past several years so far. Tsinghua University took the overall winner place this time. The GeekPie_HPC is composed of 10 unde...

 On November 15, the 2021 International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition (iGEM) global finals came to an end. ShanghaiTech’s team “ShanghaiTech_China” composed of 19 undergraduate students won the gold medal and iGEM global Second Runner Up with their project “Mussel Inspired Biological Operational Material (MIBOM)”. ShanghaiTech’s team is instructed by Associate Professors Ya...

Mitochondria and peroxisomes are widely recognized as independent but functionally close-related organelles. Both are critical for the metabolism of lipids and reactive oxygen species. MARCH5 is a mitochondrion-associated ubiquitin ligase, with a function of regulating mitochondria fission and fusion, so as to maintain a dynamic balance of mitochondria. It also promotes mitophagy and regulates mit...

ShanghaiTech University is building new infrastructure and creating incentives for research and teaching innovations. As China looks to become carbon-neutral by 2060, new opportunities arise in targeting the largest population in the world for cross-disciplinary research and teaching, according to Yin Jie, Vice President and Provost of ShanghaiTech University. Jointly...

  The voltage-gated potassium (Kv) channels promote the outflow of potassium ions in the repolarization phase of the action potential and play a crucial role in regulating the membrane potential of excitable cells in the neuronal and cardiovascular systems. The human Kv channels are composed of 12 subfamilies (Kv1-Kv12), among which Kv7, also known as KCNQ channe...

Food is one of the most important resources for the growth and development of all animals including humans. Along with other key factors, such as water and air, food is often the rate-limiting factor that determines the expansion and decay of the animal population, due to its relative scarcity in the environment. For this reason, animals have evolved a powerful nutrition-sensing system to cor...

 On November 5, the first competition of the 4th Innovation & Entrepreneurship Summit was successfully held at the Auditorium of ShanghaiTech. This competition was a physical science special, featuring a total of 38 projects, with 27 inner-campus projects and 11 projects from outside campus. The judges of this competition were comprised of more than 50 heads of well-known investment organ...

On October 19, 2021, Assistant Professor He Shuijin’s group at SLST published a research article entitled “PUPIL enables mapping and stamping of transient electrical connectivity in developing nervous systems” in Cell Reports. In this study, they modified PUP-IT (developed by SLST Assistant Professor Zhuang Min, (read more at https://www.shanghaitech.edu.cn/eng/2018/0815/c1418a31492/p...

On October 20, Assistant Professor Liu Ru-Juan and her colleagues at SLST, together with her collaborators, published a research article entitled “THUMPD3-TRMT112 is a m2G methyltransferase working on a broad range of tRNA substrates” in Nucleic Acids Research. This study reveals that THUMP domain-containing protein 3 (THUMPD3) interacts with an auxiliary protein (methyltransferase activato...

On October 28, Managing Director of Elsevier Greater China, Li Lin, and other delegates visited ShanghaiTech University. President Jiang Mianheng, Vice President & Provost Yin Jie, Vice President Zhu Zhiyuan, Vice Party Secretary and Vice President Jiang Ge, the directors of relevant administrative departments and some professors who are in cooperation with Elsevier attended the meeting.During...

On October 23, Accounts of Materials Research (AMR), hosted and based at ShanghaiTech University and jointly published by ShanghaiTech University and American Chemical Society, celebrated its first anniversary! Since its establishment, more than 110 commentary and review articles have been published in AMR, with over 230,000 downloads in total. The authors are from 18 coun...

On October 17, ShanghaiTech University held the Fourth Meeting of the Second University Governing Board. Members of the University Governing Board, Ding Zhongli, Chen Qun, Zhou Xiaochuan, Fu Chengyu, Zhang Jie, Gong Ke, Jiang Mianheng and Li Ruxing attended the session. Members of the university leadership, Yin Jie, Zhu Zhiyuan, Ding Hao, Wu Qiang and Jiang Ge attended the session as non...

Recently, SIST Associate Professor Shi Yuanming was honored with the “2021 IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award”. This award is provided by the IEEE Communications Society to reward young researchers under age 35 who make outstanding achievements. This award is the highest honor for young researchers in the information communication field in Asia-Pacific.Prof. Shi and his ...