On April 22, Shi Yigong, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, president of Westlake University and a structural biologist, gave a lecture to share ideas with faculty and students at Nankai University. In the lecture with the theme of The Beauty of Life, the Brilliance of Structure, he shared his views on science through the two topics of macroscopic astrophysics and microscopic life sciences.Describe the beauty of structure and explain the connotations of the spirit of scienceAt the b
On May 6, the eighth lecture of Medical Frontiers and Challenges, a general elective course of Nankai University, was held. Li Lanjuan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and an infectious disease scientist, gave the online lecture entitled Scientific and Technological Innovation Promotes Medical Advancement to Nankai students, sharing her experience and thoughts on medical development and technological innovation. More than 150,000 people attended online. Cao Xuetao, president
Schematic diagram of the mechanism for Uropathogenic Escherichia coli(UPEC) escape from fusiform vesiclesA recent study from a Nankai research team reveals the molecular mechanism of a key vesicle escape step in the pathogenesis of UPEC, and the team finds that silence of host phosphate transporter PIT1 using Accell siRNA can effectively inhibit UPEC infection. This discovery provides new ideas for treating urinary tract infection (UTI). The paper describing aforesaid work is published in intern
On April 27, the parallel session of BRICS Forum on Big Data for Sustainable Development, Big Data for Digital Economy, co-organized by the China Association for Science and Technology, Tianjin Municipal Peoples Government, the Digital Economy Research Center of Nankai University (hereinafter referred to as the Digital Economy Center) and the World Federation of Engineering Organizations-China (hereinafter referred to as WFEO - China), was held online.The forum was co-chaired by professor Gong K
On April 29, Prof. Hu Shengshou, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and expert in cardiovascular surgery, was invited to give the 7th lecture of Medical Frontiers and Challenges, a general elective course launched by Nankai University. Prof. Hus lecture was entitled how far xenotransplantation is from the clinical application—scientific questions we have to answer. Professor Cao Xuetao, President of Nankai University, presided over the lectureProf. Hu introduced the cutting-edge t
On April 29, Nankai University held the Talent Work Conference with the aim of promoting connotative and high-quality development of the talent work at the University in the new era. University leaders, including Yang Qingshan, Cao Xuetao, Xu Jingjun, Yang Kexin, Li Jing, Wang Lei, Chen Jun, Wang Xinsheng, Liang Qi, Niu Wenli, attended the conference.Yang Qingshan, Secretary of the CPC Nankai University Committee, stressed the importance of undertaking responsibility and vigorously promoting the
On April 22, the final competition in China of the first Universities for SDG13 was held in Tsinghua University. The five-member team composed of 3 students of Nankai University and two students respectively from Peking University and the University of Hong Kong, stood out from 11 final teams nationwide. With the Xihe System as its entry, the team won the championship with the highest score.Xihe System is a one-stop service platform based on geographic information and IoT technology, which provi
On April 24, the delegation led by Zhang Wenzhong, founder of Wumart, Vice Chair of Nankai Alumni Association and Chair of Nankai Alumni Entrepreneur Association, visited Nankai University. Yang Qingshan, Secretary of the CPC Nankai University Committee and Chair of Nankai Alumni Association, met the delegation at Balitai campus.Yang Qingshan expressed his gratitude to Zhang Wenzhong and other alumni for their contributions to the development of Nankai University, and a special thanks to Wumart
This year marks the 100th anniversary of Nankai Universitys biology discipline. Recently, the College of Life Sciences has officially released the anniversary logo.The logo is composed of two representative elements, i.e. DNA topology structure in biology discipline and number of the year. 1 is formed by adding year span to the DNA chain structure, and 0 is formed by planarizing the DNA double helix structure, both of which contributes to the graphic change process of 100. The ends of the chain
The 12th Reading Festival of Nankai University with the Theme of Embracing and Enjoying New Life Through Reading has been held on April 23, coinciding with the World Book Day. Hosted by Nankai University Library, this years reading festival has launched more than 40 activities and many annual awards were issued, such as Reading Enthusiast, Daily Excellent Student, Superb Student Librarian, Excellent Volunteer, Sterling Curator of Theme Book Fair, and Student Association Contribution Award.In add
On April 22, the Commemorative Conference on the 130th Anniversary of Dr. Pengchun Chang co-held by Nankai University, Columbia University, and Chang Poling Research Association was held online and offline.Chang Pengchun at Economic and Social Council—ECOSOC in 1947Chang Pengchun (April, 1892 - July, 1957), the younger brother of the famous educator Chang Poling, was an educator, drama activist and diplomat. He was one of the major founders of modern Chinese drama, known as the pioneer of modern
2022 International Criminal Court Chinese Moot Competition was held online from April 16 to 17. Nankai Universitys team, among all 81 teams, won the second prize of the group award and the first prize of the best prosecutor lawyer pleading award after 6 rounds of court debates.International Criminal Court Chinese Moot Competition is organized and sponsored by Chinese Initiative International Criminal Justice (CIICJ). The competition language is Chinese, one of the six official languages of the I
To celebrate the 27th “World Book Day”, Nankai university held a book theme fair at its library. Different from previous book fairs, this years book fair is the first one independently planned and arranged by the students.Wang Sijia, a postgraduate student majoring in design from the School of Literature, and He Peirou, an undergraduate student majoring in cultural relics and museology from the School of History, have jointly acted as the curators of this book fair.The theme book fair is a uniqu
Presenter: Liangzhi Yu, Ph.D.On May 13, a webinar sponsored jointly by The Asia Pacific Chapter of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST-AP)and The Information Behavior Chapter of the Chinese Society for Scientific and Technical Information was hosted by the Department of Information Resources Management in the Business School at Nankai University. Around 300 participants from different countries participated in the webinar. The presenter, Dr. Liangzhi Yu, is professor of
Recently, Yu Zhilin’s research group from Nankai University published a paper in Journal of the American Chemical Society and proposed a new concept of “enzyme amplified peptide assembly”, which realized the intracellular in situ assembly process at normal enzyme levels through the amplification relationship between polypeptide assembly and enzyme expression, thus providing a new strategy for the early diagnosis and intervention of diseases.Based on previous studies of polypeptide controllable a