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!

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)

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.

Prof. Bert de Groot visited our group on 26 June 2017. All of the group members presented their work (in English) and did a great job.

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”.