The Symposium on Probing Protein Structures with Bio-MS and Complementary Technologies was held at ShanghaiTech University on November 18th, organized by Shui Wenjing Group of iHuman Institute and supported by Shanghai Institute for Advanced Studies, CAS. This symposium aims at exploring multiple Bio-MS techniques and complementary approaches to studying the structural composition, interactio...

On November 22th, Chemistry Nobel Laureate Richard Henderson delivered the ShanghaiTech Lecture on “The CryoEM Revolution in Structural Biology” in the ShanghaiTech auditorium. Vice President Yin Jie introduced the host of this lecture, Professor Rao Zihe, a fellow of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a distinguished professor at iHuman Institute and Shanghai Institute of Advanced Immunoc...

Recently, School of Information Science and Technology Professor Yu Jingyi and Assistant Professor Gao Shenghua’s research group’s work on personalized saliency detection problem was published online in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) in an article titled, ‘Personalized Saliency and Its Prediction.’Nearly all existing visual saliency models so far have fo...

On November 20th, the American Mathematical Society announced that the 2019 Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry has been awarded to Chen Xiuxiong, along with Simon Donaldson and Sun Song, for their three-part series entitled Kähler-Einstein metrics on Fano manifolds, I, II and III”, published in 2015 in the Journal of the American Mathematical Society. Chen Xiuxiong is a Distinguished Adjunct Pr...

ACS (American Chemical Society) Publications, in partnership with ShanghaiTech University,hosted Symposium: Innovation in Materials Science in late July. The three-day event at ShanghaiTech University featured world-renowned scientists from China and around the world.ShanghaiTech University President Professor Jiang Mianheng, ACS Executive Director and CEO Thomas Connelly welcomed the attendees, m...

Recently, School of Information Science and Technology Assistant Professor Wang Haoyu’s research group proposed a highly efficient LLC resonant topology for plug-in electric vehicle charging applications. Their work, “A Five-Switch Bridge Based Reconfigurable LLC Converter for Deeply-Depleted PEV Charging Applications,” was recently published in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics.This ...

A team of scientists led by Dr. Zhou Tao from ShanghaiTech’s School of Life Science and Technology, Dr. He Chuan from University of Chicago and Dr. Song Hongjun from University of Pennsylvania, have made a breakthrough in the field of RNA methylation (m6a) in regulating brain functions. Their work, entitled “m6A Facilitates Hippocampus-Dependent Learning and Memory through YTHDF1” was published...

Fang Hanming, School of Entrepreneurship and Management Dean and Class of 1965 Term Professor of Economics of University of Pennsylvania, was among 22 academics newly elected as fellows of the Econometric Society. He is the 14th Chinese economist to be elected to this top economics professional society.Founded in 1930, The Econometric Society is the most renowned society in economics and publishes...

On November 2nd, the 17th International Conference on the Crystallization of Biological Macromolecules (ICCBM17) and the 6th iHuman Forum successfully concluded. Co- hosted by iHuman Institute and Northwestern Polytechnical University as well as Shanghai Biophysical Society, ICCBM is a well-recognized international academic conference affiliated to the International Organization for Biological Cry...

On November 7th, Royal Dutch Shell Chief Technology Officer Yuri Sebregts led a delegation to visit ShanghaiTech University.President Jiang extended a warm welcome to the visitors and expressed his wishes that the two sides would cooperate in energy efficiency and environmental protection on the basis of their existing solid partnership. Yuri Sebregts also expressed his strong willingness to boost...

ShanghaiTech welcomed heavyweight speaker Henry Chapman, director of the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) and professor at University of Hamburg (Germany). As a guest of the 17th International Conference on Crystallization of Biological Macromolecules (ICCBM17 2018) and the 6th iHuman Forum, Professor Chapman gave a speech entitled “Imaging Mac...

On October 19th to 20th, SLST held its sixth annual Frontier of Genome Engineering (FoGE2018). Vice President and Provost Yin Jie delivered opening remarks, highlighting the remarkable progress that ShanghaiTech University has achieved. The conference was officially opened by SLST Vice Dean Professor Liu Jilong, who focused on the SLST’s achievements in the last few years. Nearly 400 researchers ...

Recently Shanghai hosted BitRun Hackathon 48H, a national contest for blockchain technology developers and enthusiasts. Undergraduate and graduate students competed on the blockchain hackathon, and nearly one hundred technology enthusiasts from Zhejiang University, Fudan University, Tongji University and Central University of Finance and Economics, and others took part. After several days, Pyxis, ...

On October 25th, ShanghaiTech Distinguished Professor-in-Residence Rao Zihe and his team’s research on “An electron transfer path connects subunits of a mycobacterial respiratory supercomplex” was published online in Science journal.On the strength of cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) with high resolution (3.5 Å) structure of mycobacterial respiratory supercomplex, the team revealed a new...