QB2017 International Meeting

We organized an international conference, held from 23 to 27 June at Peking University: “Quantitative Biology 2017: Computational and Single-Molecule Biophysics“. Around 200 attendees from seven countries and areas (including Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, Singapore, UK, US) participated. Dr. Chen Song was the organizer for computational biophysics, while Dr. Zhi Qi was responsible for single-molecule sessions.

QB2017_Programme

Invited Speakers:

Yann Chemla (UIUC, USA)
Bert L. de Groot (Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany)
Jiangfeng Du (USTC, China)
Ilya Finkelstein (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Yiqin Gao (Peking University, China)
Ido Golding (Baylor College of Medicine, USA)
Hong Guo (University of Tennessee, USA)
Xuhui Huang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Syma Khalid (University of Southampton, UK)
Luhua Lai (Peking University, China)
Guohui Li (Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Ming Li (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Ying Lv (Harvard University, USA)
Sergei Noskov (University of Calgary, Canada)
Yibing Shan (DEShaw Research, USA)
Maria Spies (University of Iowa, USA)
Xiaodong Su (Peking University, China)
Lei-Han Tang (Beijing Computational Science Research Center, China)
Hongwei Wang (Tsinghua University, China)
Guanghong Wei (Fudan University, China)
Ruhong Zhou (IBM Research & Columbia University, USA)

Hua Yu won a poster prize

Congrats to Hua, who won a poster prize at the QB2017 conference. She presented her work about the antimicrobial peptide PSI with a poster, which was selected as one of the five excellent posters by an independent evaluation committee.

Dr. Shuguang Yuan’s Visit

Dr. Shuguang Yuan visited our group and presented his interesting work on “The activation mechanism and drug discovery of G-protein-coupled receptors”. Shuguang is a research scientist in the Swiss drug company “Actelion”.

Prof. Benzhuo LU’s Visit

Prof. Benzhuo LU (Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, CAS) visited our group and gave us a seminar about continuum theories of ion channels.

Two New Members

Welcome Hanyuan Sun and Jiangguo Zhang, two very motivated undergraduate students, to join our group.

Prof. Ren LAI’s Visit

Prof. Ren Lai (Kunming Institute of Zoology, CAS) visited our group and gave a very inspiring seminar about antimicrobial peptides today.