The great advances in deep learning techniques bring us a large number of sophisticated models that approach human-level performance in tasks such as image classification, speech recognition, and natural language processing. Despite its success, deep neural network (DNN) models are still vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Even with adding human-unrecognizable perturbations, the predictions of the ...

From October 3 to 6, the 13th China Undergraduate Physics Tournament (CUPT) was held online. ShanghaiTech team, consisting of 12 second-year undergraduates majoring physics, ranked ninth among 65 teams representing universities all over the country, and was awarded the First Prize, which was the best result since ShanghaiTech’s first participation in CUPT in 2019. ShanghaiTech team...

On September 30, Shanghai Clinical Research and Trial Center (SCRTC) managed by ShanghaiTech broke ground in Zhangjiang. This construction underway is the first phase of SCRTC, with 500 hospital beds planned, including 200 beds for clinical treatment and 300 for research, and the diseases under focus are tumors and those in the nervous, pan-vascular, respiratory, rheumatic, musculoskeletal as well...

Rich and tunable physical properties could emerge from the moiré superlattice constructed from two-dimensional multilayers. The magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) is one of the most distinguished examples, which exhibits unconventional superconductivity, correlated physics, ferromagnetism, and nontrivial topology far beyond monolayer graphene. Recently, magic-angle twisted trilayer grap...

A new study has been reported by the laboratory of Associate Professor Li Xiajun at SLST, ShanghaiTech, to elucidate maintenance of DNA methylation in embryonic stem cells. This paper entitled “DNA methyltransferases are complementary in maintaining DNA methylation in embryonic stem cells” is published in iScience, a Cell press journal, on September 16, 2022. DNA methylation is th...

The taste sensory system is responsible for examining food nutrition and avoiding ingestion of harmful substances. In humans, the tastants evoke five distinct taste sensations: sweet, bitter, salty, sour and umami. Interestingly, ion channels transduce the sour and salty signals, whereas, sweet, umami and bitter taste are mediated by G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). Among the five ta...

The ASSIST 2022 co-organized by SIST and ICN was concluded on August 28. The topic of this year’s symposium was focused on carbon neutrality and intelligent interconnection. ASSIST, stands for Annual ShanghaiTech Symposium on Information Science and Technology, is a research and technology exchange platform for professionals, scholars, investors and relevant experts to advance the interconnection...

On August 22, a letter of intent (LOI) was signed by ShanghaiTech University, Institut polytechnique de Grenoble (Grenoble INP-UGA, France) and École nationale supérieure de chimie de Montpellier (ENSCM, France). Vice President (VP) of ShanghaiTech Jiang Ge, President of Grenoble INP Pierre Benech and Director of ENSCM Pascal Dumy signed the LOI on behalf of their respective institutions. Ba...

On July 27, Xi Nanhua, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) was invited to ShanghaiTech to give the opening report of Calabi Lectures to IMS faculty and students.   Academician Xi Nanhua is doing the proof on the blackboardThe Calabi Lectures is a lecture series of IMS intended as an academic exchange platform for students and faculty to follow the cutting-edge, crea...

On August 21, the 2022 newly admitted undergraduates arrived at ShanghaiTech and started their first day of university life. This year, a total of 473 freshmen from 14 provinces and 4 municipalities were enrolled to 11 majors. The average admission scores across China this year hit record high, making ShanghaiTech among the most selective universities in China. The Class of 2026 showed great talen...

From August 8 to 12, the 4th Photon Science Summer School of ShanghaiTech University (PSSS) was virtually held. This year’s summer school was co-organized by the Center for Transformative Science, the School of Physical Science and Technology, and the Graduate School, with the focus on the field of materials science and its application. 20 experts and scholars from 9 institutes and 805 students g...

                                  Coronoids are polycyclic aromatic compounds formed by annulated benzene rings that enclose a cavity in the center. They can be regarded as nanoporous graphene molecules whose electronic properties are critically dependent on the size and topology of their outer and inner peri...

In recent years, the development and application of gene editing technology mediated by CRISPR/Cas9 (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats-associated peptide 9) and its derivatives has attracted worldwide attention. A variety of gene editing tools relying on the homologous recombination (HR) pathway have been able to achieve precise DNA insertion or gene deletion, which not onl...

Recently, the research team led by SLST Associate Professor Sun Bo, in collaboration with the team led by Professor Liu Cong from the Interdisciplinary Research Center on Biology and Chemistry, CAS, have jointly published a research result in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, which reveals a novel interaction model between bloom syndrome helicase (BLM) and single-stranded DNA (ssDNA). ...