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On October 27, “BUCTiGEM2024”, a student team from the College of Life Science and Technology, BUCT, won the gold medal in the 2024 International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition held at Paris, France. This achievement is a vivid demonstration of the innovative talent and entrepreneurial spirit of BUCT students on the international stage.Team BUCTiGEM2024(From Left to Right: Shen Xiaolin, Long Zhihua, Yu Linwei, Li Junbin, Liu Li, Li Zihao)The iGEM competition, initiated by Mass

On October 30, 2024, professor Yue Fengs research group of Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT) and Joseph Bondy-Denomy s research group of the University of California, San Francisco, USA, collaborated again and published a research paper entitled， “Single phage proteins sequester signals from TIR and cGAS-like enzymes” online in Nature.This paper and the series of work on Acb2 by Yue Fengs group confirmed that the only three known sponge proteins, Acb2, Tad1, and Tad2, are super sp

On October 2nd, 2024, professor Yonggang Zhens research group of Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT) published a research paper entitled “In situ continuous hydrogen-bonded engineering for intrinsically stretchable and healable high-mobility polymer semiconductors” in Science Advances. This paper by Yonggang Zhens group demonstrates that a regular sequence structure with continuous hydrogen bonding sites facilitated the formation of big nanofibers with a high degree of aggregation

On October 16, Dionissois Mantzavinos, Vice President of the University of Patras, visited BUCT. The two sides engaged in in-depth conversations on cooperation in of Confucius Institute construction, and then signed agreement papers. BUCT Vice President Wang Feng received and welcomed the Vice President Mantzavions. After a warm welcome, Wang Feng reviewed briefly the past cooperation between the two sides since 2018. He said that the two universities have achieved fruitful results in research c

On October 15, Marko Princevac, Vice Provost of the University of California, Riverside, and Jun Wang, Assistant Provost, paid a visit to BUCT. Song Laixin, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of BUCT, met with the delegation. The meeting was chaired by Zhang Bing, Director of the International Exchange and Cooperation Office of BUCT.Song Laixin extended a warm welcome to the delegation. He pointed out that the two sides have maintained academic exchanges and cooperation since 2015, and he b

Liu Guiqin, Secretary of the BUCT Party Committee, led a delegation to visit six Latin American universities on invitation from September 17 to 27 for the construction of an open BUCT with more exchanges and cooperation in the region. The six universities include Universidad Tecnológica de la Habana José Antonio Echeverría, Universidad de La Habana, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, University of Tolima, and Universidad Nacional de Colombia. The delegat

In September 2024, Professor Yu Zhongzhen/Zhang Haobins team from the College of Materials Science and Engineering and the State Key Laboratory of Organic-Inorganic Composites of BUCT published a research paper entitled Insulating electromagnetic-shielding silicone compound enables direct potting electronics in Science. The research proposes a theoretical model of insulating electromagnetic shielding structure, which breaks the limitation of the traditional concept that electrical insulating mat

On August 9, a delegation from the University of Georgia (UGA) led by Bjorn Birgisson, Chair of the School of Environmental, Civil, Agricultural and Mechanical Engineering, Luke Li, Associate Dean of the College of Engineering, and Yajun Yan, Professor from the College of Chemical Materials, Materials Science and Biomedical Engineering visited BUCT for discussion on cooperation and academic exchanges. Wang Feng, Vice President of BUCT met with the delegation. Attending the meeting were Zhang Bin