Dr. Chen Song was invited to give a talk in the CECAM workshop: “Frontiers in Computational Biophysics: understanding conformational dynamics of complex lipid mixtures relevant to biology” at Lugano Switzerland on 10 Jan 2018.

https://www.cecam.org/workshop-1452.html

CECAM, European Center for Atomic and Molecular Calculations, “is the oldest European Institute for the promotion of fundamental research on advanced computational methods and their application to problems in frontier areas of science and technology” (wikipedia).

Dali’s first paper about GPCR-Arrestion has appeared online: http://rdcu.be/ApQn. Dali did very well in this training project. Congratulations!

Congratulations to Yanyan, who has been awarded the “Boya Postdoctoral Fellowship”. Boya（博雅） fellowship is the most prestigious fellowship at Peking University for the outstanding early-career postdoctoral researchers.

Invited and hosted by Dr. Chen Song, Prof. Daron Standley from Osaka University visited our group. Prof. Standley gave us a seminar entitled “Quantifying structural and functional convergence in immune cell repertoires” at the Center for Quantitative Biology on 16th Nov, in which he presented his wonderful work on B-cell receptor modeling. Many questions were asked and ideas exchanged after the seminar.

Three graduate students from Center for Life Sciences, Limin Chen, Hui An and Xiaotong Wang, joined our group for a two-month rotation training. Welcome!

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.

http://pkunews.pku.edu.cn/xwzh/2017-10/25/content_299707.htm

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!