On Apr. 20th , 2015, Professor Yigong Shi, a world-renowned structural biologist, the Academician of CAS, Dean of the School of Life Sciences at Tsinghua University, Principal Assistant of Tsinghua University, cameto visit SUSTC. Participants listened to a speech delivered by Professor YigongShi, with the topic of Life science with our planet, at the 25th SUSTC Lecture. The lecture was moderated by SUSTC President Professor Shiyi Chen in a packed auditorium, drew more than 400 teachers and students.

In the lecture, Professor Yigong Shi traced the history of the universe and pointed out that the birth of human civilization is an incredible thing for the great contrast existed in the time sequence of the appearance of solar system, the earth and human. The beauty of the microscopic world and super microscopic world is stunning. The life sciences comprise the fields of science that involve the scientific study of living organisms, including the human body. Life sciences is based on four important subjects, including cytology, biochemistry, genetics and auxanology, composed of many branches. Meanwhile, life sciences, is the most important pillar subject in 21st century, which leads the development of modern university. Modern is adeveloping front line of life science and the basis of clinical pharmacy.

Professor Yigong Shi attached importance to the Structural Biology for the application in pharmaceutical industry will be helpful inimproving the quality and standard of life. He also showed many examples inthis area.

During the question and answer period, hands filled the air. Professor Yigong Shi also had an informal discussion with students in the field of biology. Professor Yigong Shi thinks highly of the students’ potential.

ABOUT Prof. Yigong Shi

Biography

Dr.Yigong Shi is a University Professor and Dean of the School of Life Sciences at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Shi was born in Zhengzhou, China in 1967,and grew up in Henan Province. He received his Bachelor’s Degree from Tsinghua University in 1989 and Ph.D. in Biophysics at Johns Hopkins University Schoolof Medicine in 1995. He performed his post-doctoral research at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He joined Princeton University as an Assistant Professor in 1998 and was promoted to Full Professor in 2003. He was named the Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University in 2007.

For his research contributions, Dr. Shireceived a number of recognitions, including the 2003 Irving Sigal Young Investigator Award from the Protein Society and the 2010 Sackler Prize in Biophysics and 2014 Gregori Aminoff Prize in crystallography. Dr. Shi is an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Sciences, an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences, and a Foreign Associate of the European Molecular Biology Organization.