Dr Chen SONG attended the 64th Biophysical Society Meeting at San Diego, California, Feb 15-19, 2020, and presented a poster about our Ca++ simulations on Feb 17.

We developed a new calcium ion model that can reproduce the interaction between calcium and protein in a quantitative manner, and studied the ion permeation mechanism of the RyR1 channel with MD simulations. The work is now published online in Nature Communications:  
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-14573-w

After two week’s self-isolation in LA, Dr. Chen SONG visited the University of California Irvine (Yu Group and Luo Group) and presented a talk entitled “The Ca2+ permeation mechanism of the open-state ryanodine receptor 1” on Feb 5, 2020.

Invited by Dr. Chen SONG, Prof. Jinbo XU from Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago visited us and delivered a seminar entitled “Progress on Protein Structure Prediction by Deep Learning” at CQB on 16 Dec 2019. Due to flight delay, the seminar had to be rescheduled to 19:30. Still, the seminar room was fully filled and the discussion continued till 22:20 …

Dr. Chen SONG was invited to attend the “Tsinghua Sanya International Mathematics Forum” and gave a talk on 12 Dec 2019. The talk was entitled “Lipid contact probability: an essential property of (membrane) proteins”, presenting the latest progress of one of our deep learning-based methods.

We organized a BPS (Biophysical Society) networking event, “Youth Workshop of Biophysics, Beijing“, at Peking University on 7 Dec 2019. It’s the first networking event of the biophysical society in China, and around 140 researchers and students participated in the events. The workshop was supported by BPS, CQB (Center for Quantitative Biology) and CLS (Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences).

Dr. Chen SONG was invited to participate in the “2019 International Workshop on Multiscale Biological Imaging” at Fudan University, Shanghai, on 8-10 Nov 2019. The workshop was organized by Prof. Jianpeng MA and Prof. Michael Levitt. Dr. Chen SONG delivered a talk entitled “Visualizing Ca2+ Permeation through the Ryanodine Receptor by Molecular Dynamics Simulations”, and chaired a session.

Congratulations to Lei WANG, who has passed the PhD qualifying exam with a great grade!

Dr. Chen SONG was invited to attend “The 6^th Structural Biology Conference of China” and gave a talk entitled “Computational studies of mechanosensitive ion channels” at Jixi, Anhui on Oct 12, 2019.

Dr. Chen SONG was invited to give a talk at the “Nationwide Mechanics Forum for PhD Students” and chaired a session at the College of Engineering of Peking University on 22 Sep 2019.