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...

CRISPR-Sirius, a sensitive and bright imaging system, has been developed by research groups led by Dr. Ma Hanhui at ShanghaiTech University and Dr. Thoru Pederson at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Their study was recently published in Nature Methods, a prestigious scientific journal.CRISPR-Sirius makes it possible to detect low-copy repeats distributed in the intergenic and genic ...

The 2018 World VR Industry Conference was held in Jiangxi from October 19-21. Jointly sponsored by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and Jiangxi Province Government, the conference featured 14 sub-forums, including one hosted by SIST on Artificial Intelligence. Ma Yun, chairman of the Board of Directors of Alibaba Group and George Smoot, Nobel Laureate in Physics, and academician...

The 14th International Conference on Electronic Spectroscopy and Structure (ICESS-14) was held October 8th - 12th at ShanghaiTech University. Originally started in 1971 and held every three years, this is first time the conference was held in China.ShanghaiTech University Vice President Professor Yin Jie, Chair of International Advisory Board (IAB) for ICESS Professor Wolfgang Eberhardt, and Co-ch...

Recently, the Baidu Star Developer Competition, a deep learning algorithm competition for global AI technology enthusiasts was held in Beijing, and a team from ShanghaiTech took the second place to the team from South China University of Technology who won the first prize; competing alongside teams from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Northwestern Polytechnical U...

Recently, SIAIS’s Stem Cell Biology Lab has revealed a new mechanism of Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway activation in triple-negative breast cancer, which was published as a cover story in Journal of Molecular Cell Biology with the title "MiR-221/222 activate the Wnt/beta-catenin signaling to promote triple negative breast cancer."Breast cancer is the most invasive type of cancer ...

Research Associate Professor Liu Jia from SIAIS Professor Jiang Biao’s ADC Chemistry Lab has completed editing the 1867 volume of Methods in Molecular Biology (MiMB) with titled “Zinc Finger Proteins: Methods and Protocols,” now available from Springer, Amazon and other booksellers.The MiMB series, providing methods and protocols in molecular biology, was founded by editor John Walker in 1...

On a tour of ShanghaiTech’s newest school, we pass by a life drawing class and an art gallery. Some people might look at ShanghaiTech’s newly established School of Creativity and Art and wonder…what’s art got to do with scientific research? Well, according to SCA Vice Dean John McIntosh, quite a lot.He’s part of the team that is spearheading a groundbreaking academic program in Scientific Rep...

Recently, School of Physical Science and Technology Professor Ning Zhijun’s research group developed a 2D-quasi-2D-3D hierarchy structural tin perovskite photovoltaic materials. Tin perovskite solar cells (PSCs) based on this structure achieved a power convention efficiency (PCE) of 9.41%, which is the highest steady-state PCE of lead-free PSCs reported up to now. Their work was recently publishe...

Recently, successful teamwork by several SPST research groups (including those of Professors Chen Yulin, Liu Zhongkai,  Xue Jiaming and Li Gang) and Peking University Professor Peng Hailin’s group has made remarkable progress in the understanding of the electronic structures of a new layered oxide semiconductor Bi2O2Se. Their work was published in the September issue of Science Advances, wit...

School of Physical Science and Technology (SPST) Professor Yang Xiaoyu’s research group has developed a novel method for chiral indole derivatives synthesis through chiral anion catalysis. Their work, "Regioselective and Enantioselective Synthesis of β-Indolyl Cyclopentenamides by Chiral Anion Catalysis" was recently published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, a top chemical ...

School of Physical Science and Technology (SPST) Professor Chen Yulin’s group recently published a review article on the photoemission study of quantum materials in Nature Reviews Materials titled ‘Visualizing electronic structures of quantum materials by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy.’ Electronic structures are the genes of materials that determine their electronic, magne...

The 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was announced on October 3rd.  The winners for this year are Frances H. Arnold (USA), George P. Smith (USA) and Sir Gregory P. Winter (UK). Frances Arnold shares half of the prize for her research for the directed evolution of enzymes. George Smith and Gregory Winter share the other half of the prize for their research for the phage display of peptides and an...