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 ...

Recently, School of Physical Sciences and Technology (SPST) Professor Osamu Terasaki, director of Center for High-resolution Electron Microscopy (CћEM), was awarded the 2018 Magnolia Silver Award in recognition of his positive contributions to Shanghai’s economic and social development, especially for fostering international exchange of advanced technology.Professor Terasaki is a world-renowned s...

In a paper titled “All-Inorganic Perovskite CsSnBr3 as a Thermally Stable, Free-Carrier Semiconductor,” School of Physical Science and Technology (SPST) Professor Mi Qixi’s group studied a new semiconductor material CsSnBr3 (cesium tin bromide). Compared with similar materials, a more favorable crystal structure and electronic band structure enable CsSnBr3 to generate free charge...

On September 18th, the School of Creative Arts and the Office of Student Affairs invited Jay Yagnik, Google Vice President and Engineering Fellow, to speak on AI at Google and share his views on the application and development prospects of the artificial intelligence industry at ShanghaiTech’s International Conference Center.Jay began by introducing different ways to deal with spam e-mails, showi...

Li Jinghai, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was invited to ShanghaiTech to give the ShanghaiTech Lecture on “Mesoscience: Exploring Mesoscale of Different-Level Mesoarea.”Hosted by President Jiang Mianheng, more than 300 teachers and students, including 2018 new graduate students, attended the lecture. Li Jinghai first reviewed the history of chemical engineering science,...

On September 14, ShanghaiTech held an opening ceremony for the entering class of 2018. The ceremony was attended by representatives from institutes affiliated to Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), ShanghaiTech faculty and students.  ShanghaiTech this year welcomes its fifth class of 422 undergraduates coming from 17 provinces and municipalities nationwide. The university also admitted it...

On September 6th, Professor Ling San, Provost & Vice President of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and alumna Ms. Ye Hairong, and met with Vice President Li Ruxin. VP Li Ruxin introduced ShanghaiTech’s establishment and the latest developments. As quite a few ShanghaiTech faculty members have study or research experience at NTU they agreed to explore collaboration opportunities based on...

On August 31, Columbia University Professor and 2017 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry Joachim Frank delivered the first ShanghaiTech Lecture of the new academic year on “Single-particle cryo-EM -- A Journey to High Resolution without Crystals” to a packed auditorium.Vice President Gong Jinkang introduced the host of this lecture series, Professor Kurt Wüthrich, Distinguished Adjunct Professor of...

Professor Shi YuanMing and his collaborators at HKUST and Tsinghua University have recently developed large-scale sparse and low-rank frameworks for optimizing across the communication, computation and storage resources in ultra-dense networks (UDNs), thereby providing principled ways to design communication-efficient mobile artificial intelligence (AI) systems and intelligent internet-of-things (...

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...