Invited and hosted by Prof. Chao Tang, Prof. Michael Levitt is visiting Center for Quantitative Biology and Peking University. Prof. Levitt received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems. Dr Chen Song is honored to have hosted one of Prof. Levitt’s seminars entitled “Hybrid Multiscale Models for Simulating Functional Motion in Macromolecular Complexes”. The whole group attended the seminars and listened to the talk from the ‘master’ of computer simulations.

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We have two new members joining us lately. Dr. Yanyan LIU is joining us as a postdoctoral researcher and will work with us for two years. Lei WANG is a rotation student of CQB, who joined the group in early September, and will study and work with us for three months (at least). Warmest welcome to both!

Some of our group members participated the meeting on interdisciplinary research of proteins at Guangzhou.

Invited and hosted by Prof. Luhua Lai, Prof. Ruth Nussinov is visiting Peking University. She visited our group, had lunch with the group members, and gave a wonderful talk on K-Ras signaling at CQB today. She will give one more seminar on Friday. Looking forward to that!

Dr. Shanshan Qin is joining us as a research scientist. Shanshan has got extensive multi-scale calculation and simulation experiences from her previous research work at Tsinghua and NIBS Beijing. We are pleased to have her on aboard.

Dr. Sai LI visited our group and gave an exciting seminar entitled “Viral glycoproteins mediated membrane fusion studied in situ by Cryo-electron tomography” at CQB. Sai is currently a senior research associate at the Oxford Particle Imaging Centre, Wellcome Trust for Human Genetics, UK. It’s nice to see molecular dynamics simulations work well with Cryo-electron tomography in structure determination of large protein complexes in situ.

Sadly, Man XUE has left the group to pursue her PhD at another institution. Man XUE worked with us for a year and did a great job in both research and administration. We wish her all the best in her future endeavors.

Caixia MA has joined our group as a research assistant today. She got her Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the “University of Chinese Academy of Sciences” in June. She will be working on computational studies of antimicrobial peptides with us. Welcome aboard!

It is the lab open day today. Jiangguo and Dali presented the fun of computer simulations to undergraduate students, who were selected from all over the country to participate the Summer School of Quantitative Biology at PKU.

Chunhong has officially joined our group as a PhD student after finishing her three-month rotation with us. She graduated from school of life sciences at Peking University, and performed independent MD simulation studies during her rotation, which was very impressive. Welcome aboard!