{"id":640,"date":"2023-07-05T08:24:56","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T08:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xiakunchu.people.ust.hk\/?page_id=640"},"modified":"2026-02-24T09:41:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T09:41:58","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/xiakunchu.people.ust.hk\/?page_id=640","title":{"rendered":"Group News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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At the last group meeting before the Lunar New Year, we held a happy academic presentations over pizza.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2\/6\/2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Prof. Wenfei Li<\/strong> from Nanjing University visited HKUST(GZ) and gave a lecture on “Multiscale Molecular Simulations of HBV Genome Organization Driven by Phase Separation<\/mark>“, hosted by Prof. Chu<\/strong>. The lecture also attractd experts and students from related fields at South China Normal University, Guangzhou University, Fudan University, and University of Tokyo, etc.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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1\/12\/2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Prof. Jin Wang<\/strong> (Academician of the European Academy of Sciences) from Stony Brook University visited HKUST(GZ) and gave a lecture on “Quantifying the Landscape and Flux as the Driving Forces for Cell Fate Decision Making<\/mark>“, hosted by Prof. Chu<\/strong>. The lecture also attractd experts and students from related fields at South China Normal University, Guangzhou University, Fudan University, and University of Tokyo, etc. After lecture, our group took a photo with Prof. Wang<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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1\/12\/2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Welcome! Tao Zhu<\/strong>, a joint training student of Prof. Chu<\/strong> and Prof. Chunhe Li from Fudan University, come to our group for visit again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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1\/3\/2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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At the end of 2025, our group held a camping party. We make barbecue on our own, play cards, sing KTV, and chat freely around the stove. What a nice day!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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12\/29\/2025<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Welcome! Diayan Tang<\/strong>, the undergraduate student from Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, come to our group for visit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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11\/20\/2025<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Prof. Chu<\/strong> visited Hong Kong Baptist University<\/mark> and gave a talk in Mini Worshop on Computational Frontiers in Biological Dynamics<\/mark>, <\/mark>on a topic of Coarse-grained Molecular Dynamics Simulations of 3D Genome Architecture, Dynamics, and Function.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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11\/10\/2025<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Prof. Chu<\/strong> gave a talk in The 14th Symposium on Computational Statistical Mechanics of Complex Systems<\/mark>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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11\/9\/2025<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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PhD student Guoqing Zhang<\/strong> and Mphil student Chengze Huo<\/strong> participated in the \u7b2c\u5341\u4e5d\u5c4a\u201c\u6311\u6218\u676f\u201d\u4e2d\u56fd\u79fb\u52a8\u5168\u56fd\u5927\u5b66\u751f\u8bfe\u5916\u5b66\u672f\u79d1\u6280\u4f5c\u54c1\u7ade\u8d5b-\u201c\u4eba\u5de5\u667a\u80fd+\u201d\u4e13\u9879\u8d5b\u2022\u6311\u6218\u8d5b<\/mark>, and won the first prize.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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11\/1\/2025<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Prof. Chu<\/strong> gave a talk in SMART Symposium: 2025 Frontier in Computational Chemistry, Biophysics, and Biological Sciences<\/mark>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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10\/25\/2025<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Prof. Chu<\/strong> gave a talk in The 14th National Conference on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology<\/mark>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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10\/8\/2025<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Prof. Chu<\/strong>, PhD student Cibo Feng<\/strong>, Jiahu Tang<\/strong>, Jinyu Chen<\/strong>, and Yu Cao<\/strong> participated in The 2nd Frontier Issues Symposium on Soft Physics and Biophysics<\/mark>. Prof. Chu<\/strong> gave a talk in the symposium, introducing the recent advances on phase separation in chromatin dynamics. Cibo<\/strong>, Jiahu<\/strong>, and Jinyu<\/strong> gave their postor presentations and were awarded best poster awards.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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9\/20\/2025<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Welcome new students! Our group has new members: Yu Cao<\/strong> (B.S. and M.S. in Zhejiang Normal University) and Yuchuan Shi<\/strong> (B.S. in Southwest Jiaotong University, M.S. in China Academy of Engineering Physics).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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9\/15\/2025<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Goodbye! Shuai Wang<\/strong>, the research assistant of our group, has successfully completed his work here and is going to work as a postdoctoral fellow in the Hangzhou Institute of Medicine, Chinese Academy of Sciences. We wish everything goes well for his postdoctoral research.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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9\/11\/2025<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Happy Teacher’s Day! We together expressed our blessings to Prof. Chu<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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9\/10\/2025<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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One of our group’s works, led by PhD student Jinyu Chen<\/strong>, was showcased as a model by the principal in his speech at the opening ceremony of the 2025 freshman class<\/mark>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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