Invited by Dr. Chen SONG, Dr. Xin YI delivered a wonderful CQB seminar entitled “Elasticity and shape effects on the cell-nanomaterial interaction” on May 27. Dr. Xin YI is a principal investigator from College of Engineering, Peking University, and shares common interests on membranes with us.

Invited by Dr. Chen SONG, Prof. Yuji SUGITA, from the Theoretical Molecular Science Laboratory of RIKEN (Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, Japan), visited us on May 22-24.  He gave us a talk entitled “Machine Learning approach to link single-molecule FRET and MD simulations for understanding protein folding dynamics” on May 23, and had extensive discussions with us.

We studied the effect of the lipid bilayer composition on the orientation and conductance of the antimicrobial dermcidin channel. It was a collaborative project with the Sansom and de Groot group. The paper is now online at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2019.03.033

We had a spring retreat and played real-life counter strike.

The housewarming party of CQB in the new building.

Dr. Hua YU and Chunhong LIU attended the 2019 BPS meeting and presented posters at Baltimore (2-6 March). Dr. Chen SONG could not attend due to VISA delay…

We have moved to the new “Lui Che Woo Building”.

Dr Chen Song was invited to visit Martinac group at  Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute , and gave a seminar entitled “Activation of the mechanosensitive ion channel OSCA” on 15 Feb, 2019.

Dr Chen Song was invited to visit Corry group at Australian National University, and gave a seminar entitled “To understand, predict and design membrane proteins” on 6 Feb, 2019.

Prof. Jie ZHENG from UC Davis visited our group on 13 Jan 2019, after the CQB annual meeting. We discussed and exchanged interesting thoughts on TRPV1 gating.