Research teams led by Dr. Yu Ping and Dr. Li Gang of the School of Physical Science and Technology have found a new way for engineering the zigzag edge state of Graphene Nanoribbons with atomic precision. Their work, entitled “Edge State Engineering of Graphene Nanoribbons,” was published online in Nano Letters on August 15, 2018.Graphene nanoribbon, a novel one-dimensional graphe...

The Xu Laboratory at ShanghaiTech’s iHuman Institute has deciphered the high-resolution crystal structure of the first human Frizzled receptor. As a gatekeeping protein in regulating the fundamental Wnt signaling in embryonic development and tumorigenesis, the Frizzled receptors (FZDs) have been cancer drug targets for decades without success.However, these results, which illustrate the unique ar...

A team of scientists led by Dr. Jia Chen and Dr. Xingxu Huang from ShanghaiTech’s School of Life Science and Technology and Dr. Li Yang from the CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have developed a series of novel base editors (BEs) using a spectrum of cytidine deaminases from different species, including human APOBEC3A (hA3A). Their work, ...

Cell and cellular organelles communication are often controlled by the membrane protein interaction. Despite the many existing methods to detect protein-protein interactions (PPIs), there are still challenges in detecting membrane PPIs. Transient and weak PPIs are mostly associated with membrane receptor-mediated signaling pathways. Mass spectrometry-based membrane protein interaction studies have...

A research collaboration between the laboratories of Yang Guang and Richard Lerner of SIAIS in ShanghaiTech University and the laboratory of Xu Tianle in Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine has led to an article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on July 25th. The article, “Selection of an ASIC1a-blocking combina...

27 ShanghaiTech University students arrived in Berkeley for their summer school visiting program on July 23rd. This is the fourth year ShanghaiTech students have participated in UC Berkeley’s Summer session. After settling down in their dormitories, the students took a campus tour to get familiar with the campus. They enjoyed seeing the classic buildings and getting to know the stories about...

From July 17th to July 27th, the 2018 Santander-ShanghaiTech Innovation Workshop was successfully held at School of Entrepreneurship and Management. The theme of workshop was “InnoLab: Innovation for Urban Living.” SEM Vice Dean Professor Lu Ding pointed out in his opening remarks that the workshop is of great importance as the Chinese economy transitions from quantitative expansion to qual...

The Zuo Group at the School of Physical Science and Technology recently developed a photocatalytic methane conversion methodology which can directly transform methane, ethane and other gaseous alkanes into value-added liquid product. This breakthrough in organic chemistry provides a novel, green and mild catalytic platform for natural gas utilization, and could lead to broad applications in the en...

On July 23, 2018，Professor Christian Terwiesch from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania visited ShanghaiTech University to deliver a lecture on “Connected Strategy and Digital Disruption.” The lecture was hosted by Professor Hanming Fang, Dean of School of Entrepreneurship and Management at ShanghaiTech University.In his talk, Dr. Terwiesch discussed three significant and highl...

The Annual ShanghaiTech Symposium on Information Science and Technology (ASSIST) 018 was held at ShanghaiTech from July 2-4, 2018.Focusing on artificial intelligence and computer vision, the symposium aims to provide a forum on state-of-the-art information technology that is “international, high-level, and application-oriented.” Nearly 800 people from both academia and industry participated in t...

SEM successfully held the International Students Innovation Competition (ISIC 2018) from July 7, 2018 to July 14. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland (HES-SO) and ShanghaiTech University were the co-sponsors of this event. Professor Ding Lu, Vice Dean of SEM, hosted the final session on Investor Pitching where the stud...

Ivan Sutherland, known as the "father of computer graphics" and winner of the 1988 ACM Turing Award, was invited to give the ShanghaiTech Lecture, along with his research partner and wife Marly Roncken.Before he began his speech, Sutherland chatted with the audience, including college students from different colleges, high school students and corporate employees, to understand ...

ISC-2018 Student Cluster Competition(ISC-SCC) announced the final results on June 27th local time at Frankfurt am Main, Germany. ShanghaiTech University team GeekPie_HPC won the Fan Favorite Team award. In addition, GeekPie_HPC team achieved the highest scores for HPCG Benchmark and AI application. Nearly three hundred teams from all over the world took part in the ISC-SCC this year, and 12 teams ...

On June 27-28, the School of Entrepreneurship and Management (SEM) held an international conference on "Addressing Population Aging: Institutional and Public Policy Innovation." The conference was co-organized by SEM, Center for Employment and Social Security (Fudan University) and ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (University of New South Wales). The one and ha...