Dr. Chen Song was invited to give a talk at the “Workshop on the Methods of Protein Structure and Dynamics”, at Beijing Computational Science Research Center on 12-13 Dec, 2018. The whole group attended the session of computational methods.

Dr. Chen Song was invited to attend the 18^th KIAS Conference at Seoul, Korea,  15-17 Nov 2018.

Prof. Ran Friedman (Linnaeus University, Sweden) visited us and delivered a seminar entitled “Computer simulation in cancer research … and whisky” on 8 Nov 2018.

Invited by Dr. Chen SONG, Prof. Catherine C.L. WONG (Director of the Center for Precision Medicine Multiomics, PKUHSC) visited us and gave a wonderful talk entitled “Mass Spectrometry-based Omics Technologies in Life Science: Basic Research and Applications”.

Ms. Huijiao REN has joined our group as an administrative assistant. Warmest Welcome!

Based on Lei CHEN Lab’s cryo-EM structure of OSCA, we explored the possible ion permeation pathway of this mechanosensitive ion channel and simulated its conformational changes in response to membrane surface tension. The results match with mutagenesis and electrophysiology studies, and a mechano-gating mechanism was proposed. It’s been a very smooth and successful collaboration between three labs: Lei CHEN’s lab@PKU, Zhiqiang YAN’s lab@Fudan, and us.

Dali Wang performed the computational work. The paper has appeared online: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41594-018-0117-6

Prof. Ulrich Zachariae from the University of Dundee visited us 26 Aug – 2 Sep. He gave us a brilliant seminar, and had lots of interesting discussions with faculties and students at CQB.

Hiking at the Fragrant Hills Park. Should do this more often.

Dr. Chen Song was invited to attend the 16th Chinese Biophysics Congress and give a talk at Chengdu on 25 Aug.

http://www.bsc.org.cn/2018/

We won two research grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC): one to Dr. Chen Song and one to Dr. Yanyan Liu. Thanks to all the group members who have been involved in the research and grant application.