Congratulations to Dali WANG, who has won the “CLS Postdoctoral Fellowship”! With this prestigious postdoctoral fellowship awarded by the “Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences”, Dali will continue to work with us in the group after his PhD graduation.
Dr. Chen SONG was invited to give a talk at “The Ninth National Conference on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology” in Shanghai on 28 September. This was one of the first offline conferences since the COVID-19 in 2020.
Most of the group members have returned to the University lately. And we have two new members joining the group, Qingyang HU and Song YANG, PhD candidates from CQB and CLS, respectively.
As the secretary-general, Dr. Chen SONG organized “The 3rd Worldwide Chinese Computational Biology Conference” together with Prof. Luhua LAI, Prof. Chao TANG, and Dr. Zhiyuan LI. The conference was successfully held online by using Zoom meeting and Koushare live streaming on 3-6 August. 64 invited speakers presented their wonderful work and more than 500 attendees participated in the meeting. The online conference was more smooth and popular than we had expected. Many thanks to everyone who helped and contributed! We are getting used to online academic exchanges, which should not be stopped for any reason.
Hua’s work on the antimicrobial peptide PSI has appeared online at https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.RA120.014311. This is a collaborative project from three groups: the Yada lab from the University of British Columbia, the Wang lab from Beijing NMR Center, and us. The paper has been selected as one of the “Editors’ Picks” of Journal of Biological Chemistry, a great honor from the journal (about 1 out of 100 published papers).
A big congratulation to Chunhong, who has won the Peking University President’s Scholarship (北京大学校长奖学金) ！Chunhong has been working on MD simulations of Ca2+-permeable ion channels, and has done an excellent job.
We have been having online group meetings for months. Without a spring retreat this year, we decided to take a group photo in the video meeting today.
The lab has been empty for nearly three months due to the new coronavirus. Although things are difficult and slow, we have been working remotely from home. Today we have a piece of good news: Dali‘s new paper on GPCR-Arrestin interaction is online. Congratulations! https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CP00473A
Dr Chen SONG attended the 64th Biophysical Society Meeting at San Diego, California, Feb 15-19, 2020, and presented a poster about our Ca++ simulations on Feb 17.
We developed a new calcium ion model that can reproduce the interaction between calcium and protein in a quantitative manner, and studied the ion permeation mechanism of the RyR1 channel with MD simulations. The work is now published online in Nature Communications:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-14573-w
