2024
Prof. Chu, Tao Zhu and Cibo Feng participated in The 11th International Symposium on 3D Genome. Zhu’s poster won the third prize, with a prize of 2800 RMB.
11/3/2024
Dean Wen and Prof. Chu held the 2025-26 fall doctoral enrollment lecture at Dalian University of Technology.
10/22/2024
Congratulate again! The article Unraveling the Interplay between Stability and Flexibility in the Design of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) Hydrolases by group member Shiqinrui Xu, Chengze Huo, and Prof. Chu has been published in Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling.
9/13/2024
Congratulate! The research articile Balancing Thermodynamic Stability, Dynamics, and Kinetics in Phase Separation of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins by group member Guoqing Zhang and Prof. Chu has been published in Journal of Chemical Physics as the journal cover.
9/7/2024
Welcome new students! Our group has new members: Jiahu Tang (B.S. in Nanjing University, M.S. in South University of Science and Technology of China) and Xuezhen Cai (B.S. South China Normal University). Meanwhile, Mphil student Shiqinrui Xu converted to PhD student, and RA student Chengze Huo converted to Mphil student.
9/1/2024
The paper Redesigned Guide DNA Enhanced Clostridium butyricum Argonaute Activity for Amplification-Free and Multiplexed Detection of Pathogens by group member Shuai Wang and Prof. Chu on collaboration with Huazhong Agricultural University is published in Nano Letters.
7/25/2024
Prof. Chu gave a talk at Chinese Biophysics Congress.
7/25/2024
Group member Jinyu Chen participated in the Chinese Biophysics Congress.
7/25/2024
Cheers! Group member Shiqinrui Xu successfully passed the Mhpil graduation defense, and is about to continue pursuing a PhD with Prof. Chu. To celebrate, we had a group dinner together.
7/19/2024
Prof. Chu led some group members to participate in the face-to-face exchange meeting with campers at the 2025fall doctoral summer camp hosted by Function Hub.
7/12/2024
Group memeber Cibo Feng gave a themed presentation on “the faculty-student interaction and the atmosphere of the reseach group” at the 2025fall doctoral summer camp hosted by Function Hub.
7/12/2024
Prof. Chu gave a presentation introducing the overview of the Advanced Material Thrust (AMAT) as a faculty representative at the 2025fall doctoral summer camp hosted by Function Hub.
7/12/2024
Group member Cibo Feng went to Nanya Middle School and Hunan Normal University Affiliated Middle School respectively to participate in the undergraduate enrollment promotion acticities of HKUST(GZ) for Hunan Province.
6/27/2024
The paper Deciphering the dynamical chromosome structural reorganizations in human neural development by Prof. Chu and group member Cibo Feng is published in Physical Review Research.
6/21/2024
Welcome! Tao Zhu, a joint training student of Prof. Chu and Prof. Chuhe Li from Fudan University, come to our group for visit and exchange during summer vacation.
6/20/2024
Group member Cibo Feng participated in the “‘未来之桥’中美青年交流计划旗舰活动（由共青团中央主办）”, and wrote folding fan artworks as gift for American youth.
6/15/2024
Group member Shiqinrui Xu participated in the 3MT® competition (Mphil group) and won an award.
6/5/2024
Prof. Chu gave a talk at The 13th National Conference on Soft Matter and Biological Physics at Xi’an.
4/3/2024
Preview! Please pay attention to Prof. Chu’s online lecture at 19:00 on April 10th (Wednesday).
3/30/2024
The review article Large-scale Data-driven and Physics-based Models Offer Insights into the Relationships among the Structures, Dynamics, and Functions of Chromosomes (By Prof. Chu and Cibo Feng) has been published in Journal of Molecular Cell Biology as journal cover. The JMCB sent us paper manuscripts.
3/9/2024
Group member Guoqing Zhang won the Excellent Poster Award and an 800 yuan bonus in The Second Academic Forum on the Progress of Biochemistry and Biophysics
1/11/2024
2023
Group members Cibo Feng and Jinyu Chen each got a bonus of 2000 yuan in final project of class UCMP6030
12/27/2023
Prof. Chu gave a talk at Department of Life Science, Zhejiang University.
11/27/2023
Jinyu attended Chinese Protein Society Symposium organized by Westlake University at Hangzhou.
11/25/2023
Prof. Chu gave a talk at Bioinformatics and Systems Biology conference at Qingdao.
10/28/2023
Prof. Chu attended the early career editorial member meeting of Journal of Molecular Cell Biology and gave a talk at Systems Biology conference at Taian.
09/23/2023
Chengzhen, Guoqing and Cibo attended Mindspore Summer School organized by Peking University at Beijing.
08/21/2023
Prof. Chu gave a talk at Statistical physics and complex system conference at Kunming.
07/28/2023
Chengzhen and Shiqinrui attended the biophysics conference (organized by the Chinese Biophysics Society at Changsha) and presented their work (Poster).
07/19/2023
We have two new group members, Boran Zhao and Chengze Huo. Welcome!
07/04/2023
Prof. Chu gave a talk at Wenzhou Institute, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
07/04/2023
Our first paper (Review article) at HKUST-GZ was finally out on Journal of Molecular Cell Biology! Congrats, Cibo!
06/26/2023
Prof. Chu visited Fudan University and gave a talk at Shanghai Center for Mathematical Sciences.
06/05/2023
Guoqing attended the biomolecular phase-separation meeting (organized by the Chinese Biophysics Society at Shanghai) and presented his work (Poster).
06/04/2023
2022
Xiakun joined the Advanced Materials Thrust, Function Hub, HKUST-GZ as an Assitant Professor. He was also appointed as an affiliate Assistant Professor at the Division of Life Science, HKUST.
08/03/2022