The taste sensory system is responsible for examining food nutrition and avoiding ingestion of harmful substances. In humans, the tastants evoke five distinct taste sensations: sweet, bitter, salty, sour and umami. Interestingly, ion channels transduce the sour and salty signals, whereas, sweet, umami and bitter taste are mediated by G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). Among the five ta...

The ASSIST 2022 co-organized by SIST and ICN was concluded on August 28. The topic of this year’s symposium was focused on carbon neutrality and intelligent interconnection. ASSIST, stands for Annual ShanghaiTech Symposium on Information Science and Technology, is a research and technology exchange platform for professionals, scholars, investors and relevant experts to advance the interconnection...

On August 22, a letter of intent (LOI) was signed by ShanghaiTech University, Institut polytechnique de Grenoble (Grenoble INP-UGA, France) and École nationale supérieure de chimie de Montpellier (ENSCM, France). Vice President (VP) of ShanghaiTech Jiang Ge, President of Grenoble INP Pierre Benech and Director of ENSCM Pascal Dumy signed the LOI on behalf of their respective institutions. Ba...

On July 27, Xi Nanhua, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) was invited to ShanghaiTech to give the opening report of Calabi Lectures to IMS faculty and students.   Academician Xi Nanhua is doing the proof on the blackboardThe Calabi Lectures is a lecture series of IMS intended as an academic exchange platform for students and faculty to follow the cutting-edge, crea...

On August 21, the 2022 newly admitted undergraduates arrived at ShanghaiTech and started their first day of university life. This year, a total of 473 freshmen from 14 provinces and 4 municipalities were enrolled to 11 majors. The average admission scores across China this year hit record high, making ShanghaiTech among the most selective universities in China. The Class of 2026 showed great talen...

From August 8 to 12, the 4th Photon Science Summer School of ShanghaiTech University (PSSS) was virtually held. This year’s summer school was co-organized by the Center for Transformative Science, the School of Physical Science and Technology, and the Graduate School, with the focus on the field of materials science and its application. 20 experts and scholars from 9 institutes and 805 students g...

                                  Coronoids are polycyclic aromatic compounds formed by annulated benzene rings that enclose a cavity in the center. They can be regarded as nanoporous graphene molecules whose electronic properties are critically dependent on the size and topology of their outer and inner peri...

In recent years, the development and application of gene editing technology mediated by CRISPR/Cas9 (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats-associated peptide 9) and its derivatives has attracted worldwide attention. A variety of gene editing tools relying on the homologous recombination (HR) pathway have been able to achieve precise DNA insertion or gene deletion, which not onl...

Recently, the research team led by SLST Associate Professor Sun Bo, in collaboration with the team led by Professor Liu Cong from the Interdisciplinary Research Center on Biology and Chemistry, CAS, have jointly published a research result in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, which reveals a novel interaction model between bloom syndrome helicase (BLM) and single-stranded DNA (ssDNA). ...

SIST Assistant Professor Fu Minfan’ s research group in the Center for Intelligent Energy (CiPES), has made significant progress in capacitive power transfer (CPT). Two achievements have been published in IEEE transactions. As a non-contact power transmission technology, wireless power transfer is safer and more convenient, and has been widely used in electric vehicles, consumer electronics,...

 In July 2022, ShanghaiTech University and Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) reached a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and a Student Exchange Agreement, signed by Jiang Ge, Vice President of ShanghaiTech, and Pancras Hogendoorn, Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors and Dean of LUMC. Both institutions will cooperate in areas of mutual interests, which include exchange of faculty and st...

Chromosome segregation is critical to ensure that a complete copy of the parent's genetic information is passed on to each daughter cell. In most bacteria and plasmids, the correct segregation of chromosomes relies on the ParABS system, which consists of the ATPase protein ParA, the DNA-binding protein ParB and its target sequence parS. The formation of the ParB-DNA nucleoprotein complex ...

The sequence of the human genome is currently well-known, but the functions of the 20,000 protein-coding genes in over 500 types of cells remain unsolved, which severely hampers disease diagnosis and treatment. To systematically decipher the functions of all the genes in all the cells, one needs to inactivate (perturb) these genes and characterize the resulting cellular phenotypes, namely to map t...

As the global warming trend inevitably intensifies, and extreme high temperature become more and more frequent around the world, high temperatures become one of the most threatening factors in the challenge of global food security.  Temperature is a complex physical phenomenon. When plants face changes in environmental temperature, they must transduce this physical signal into a biologic...