• ShanghaiTech signs the MOU and an agreement with LUMC
     In July 2022, ShanghaiTech University and Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) reached a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and a Student Exchange Agreement, signed by Jiang Ge, Vice President of ShanghaiTech, and Pancras Hogendoorn, Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors and Dean of LUMC. Both institutions will cooperate in areas of mutual interests, which include exchange of faculty and st...
    2022-08-01
  • The mechanism of multimerized ParB orchestrating DNA assembly uncovered by ShanghaiTech scientists
    Chromosome segregation is critical to ensure that a complete copy of the parent's genetic information is passed on to each daughter cell. In most bacteria and plasmids, the correct segregation of chromosomes relies on the ParABS system, which consists of the ATPase protein ParA, the DNA-binding protein ParB and its target sequence parS. The formation of the ParB-DNA nucleoprotein complex ...
    2022-07-30
  • World’s first “Perturb-Atlas” for deciphering gene function!
    The sequence of the human genome is currently well-known, but the functions of the 20,000 protein-coding genes in over 500 types of cells remain unsolved, which severely hampers disease diagnosis and treatment. To systematically decipher the functions of all the genes in all the cells, one needs to inactivate (perturb) these genes and characterize the resulting cellular phenotypes, namely to map t...
    2022-07-25
  • A new breakthrough in the study of high temperature resistant genes in rice
    As the global warming trend inevitably intensifies, and extreme high temperature become more and more frequent around the world, high temperatures become one of the most threatening factors in the challenge of global food security.  Temperature is a complex physical phenomenon. When plants face changes in environmental temperature, they must transduce this physical signal into a biologic...
    2022-06-30
  • 2022 ShanghaiTech Commencement
    For the first time, ShanghaiTech University held its Commencement mainly for online spectators, due to the new wave of Covid-19 which started spreading in Shanghai in mid-March and was just abated in June. On the morning of June 26, about 900 graduates of the Class of 2022, faculty and staff, families, alumni, and friends watched the live Commencement remotely. The on-site Commencement was held at...
    2022-06-28
  • ShanghaiTech signs Memorandum of Understanding with The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    In June of 2022, ShanghaiTech and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI) reached a Memorandum of Understanding, signed respectively by Vice President of ShanghaiTech Dr. Jiang Ge and Vice President of HUJI Prof. Oron Shagrir. Both institutions agree to support the development of programs and activities that advance scholarship through cooperation, which may include joint educational, cultu...
    2022-06-22
  • ShanghaiTech has 4 subjects identified for development with first-class status
    On June 7, 2022, the list of undergraduate subjects to be developed with first-class status at the national and provincial level was announced by the Ministry of Education. ShanghaiTech achieved its very first undergraduate subject to be awarded the national level first-class status: Computer Science and Technology. Three more subjects were awarded the Shanghai city (provincial) level first-class ...
    2022-06-17
  • Several promising progress made to move forward to solid-state lithium-metal batteries
    A critical factor in next-generation energy storage systems is that all-solid-state lithium-metal batteries are expected to provide better safety and higher energy density than traditional lithium batteries which contain liquid materials inside which can be unsafe, flammable and hard to recycle. The significant difference in all-solid-state lithium-metal batteries is the solid electrolytes which r...
    2022-06-16
  • ShanghaiTech undergraduates achieved great results in the 12th MathorCup College Mathematical Modeling Challenge
    Two undergraduate teams from ShanghaiTech under the guidance of SEM Assistant Professor Liu Baolong, won the first and third prizes respectively in the 12th MathorCup College Mathematical Modeling Challenge. The two teams are composed of students from different majors. The first prize team has one SEM student and two SLST students, and the third prize team has two SEM students and one SIST student...
    2022-06-15
  • SLST researchers report a novel activity transition pathway of a DNA repair-involved helicase
    Recently, the research team led by SLST Associate Professor Sun Bo published a research article in PNAS entitled “The convergence of head-on DNA unwinding forks induces helicase oligomerization and activity transition”, revealing a novel activity transition pathway of a DNA-repair-involved helicase.Helicases are ubiquitous molecular motors found in all organisms from phages t...
    2022-06-13
  • IH research teams publish two research papers
    Recently, IH research teams published two study achievements, respectively revealing the social organization structure of Neolithic settlements and the prevalence of Chenwei during the Yuan-Ming transition. The research about the social organization structure of Neolithic settlementsThe transformation of human society from a hunter-gatherer society to an agricultural society has not only chan...
    2022-06-06
  • Realizing room temperature ultra-broad spectrum photodetection by a single photodetector
    Since different gases have different characteristic peaks, spectrum detection technology can be used to detect various gases. The current full-spectrum (from ultraviolet to infrared) detection technology usually utilizes multiple discrete detectors with different wavelength bands, thus the system is relatively complex, with an unsatisfactory performance, high dark currents, and rare response spect...
    2022-05-27
  • A new strategy for bionic meso-assembly-processing engineering
    In natural silk spinning process, the molecular assembly synergistically realizes the complex and ordered mesoscopic hierarchies. Inspired by this, SPST Ling Shengjie's group cooperated with Yao Yuan's group from ZJU-Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Center, to combine the “molecular-supramolecular assembly” and “phase transition-induced mechanical training” ...
    2022-05-24
  • ShanghaiTech’s team gets a good ranking in the 2022 International Mathematical Contest in Modeling
    Recently, the results of the 2022 International Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) were announced, and ShanghaiTech team won the Outstanding Winner, the top price of MCM. This year, the MCM attracted a total of 15,105 teams from all over the world, including teams from Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, Tsinghua, UC Berkeley and other well-known universities. There are 23 teams won the Outstan...
    2022-05-16