2024-12-15: MAO Lab organized its first retreat at the beautiful Luzui Mountain Villa and the ancient city of Dapeng in Shenzhen. Everyone fully relaxed, drank freely, and played soooo hard. What wonderful memories!
2024-12-08: Professor Runze MAO was invited to the Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS-TIB), where he delivered a talk titled “Engineering Enzymes for New-to-Nature Functionalities.” He also had highly engaging discussions with faculty members and students at CAS-TIB, very rewarding!
2024-10-30: Prof. Marc Garcia-Borràs from Girona University came to SIGS and gave a lecture on computational enzyme design. Welcome!
2024-10-07: MAO Lab welcomes our 8th student, Lei LIANG, currently an associate professor at Henan Institute of Science and Technology. Lei joins the MAO lab as a visiting scholar, and we extend a warm welcome! Lei will leverage his background in organic synthetic chemistry to explore how engineered enzymes can better address synthetic challenges.
2024-09-23: MAO Lab welcomes our 7th student, Haoyang SUN, currently a master’s student at Yunnan University. Haoyang joins the MAO lab as a research assistant, and we warmly welcome him! Haoyang will use his background in organic synthetic chemistry to explore how engineered enzymes explore more chemical space.
2024-09-15: MAO Lab had its first gathering at Music Live House, but everyone was having so much fun that we forgot to take a group photo as a memento.
2024-09-15: MAO Lab welcomes our 6th student, Bei TANG, obtained BS from East China University of Science and Technology. Bei joins the MAO lab as a master’s student, and we warmly welcome him! Bei will use his background in inorganic material synthesis to aid in the rational design of new enzymes!
2024-09-13: Runze participated in Ph.D. interviews and selected two Ph.D. students to join the lab, stay tuned!
2024-09-08: MAO Lab welcomes our 5th student, Xiaoxian XU, obtaind BS from Harbin Institute of Technology. Xiaoxian joins the MAO lab as a master’s student, and we warmly welcome him! As we continue to expand the MLDE team, Xiaoxian will use his deep learning and image processing expertise to advance MLDE!
2024-09-08: MAO Lab welcomes our 4th student, Wen QIAN, obtained her BS from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Wen joins the MAO lab as a master’s student, and we warmly welcome her! As we foray into MLDE, Wen will contribute with her deep learning background in the biomedical engineering field!
2024-09-04: MAO Lab welcomes our 3rd student, Jiwei ZHANG, BS graduated from China University of Petroleum. Jiwei joins the MAO lab as a master’s student, and we warmly welcome him! Jiwei will leverage his understanding of petrochemical products to better promote green biomanufacturing.
2024-09-01: MAO Lab welcomes our 2nd student, Hao LEI, who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Fudan University. Hao joins the MAO lab as a master’s student, and we warmly welcome him! Hao will apply his background in medicinal chemistry and chemical biology to create more brand new enzymes.
2024-09-01: MAO Lab welcomes our 1st student, Xianwen CHEN, who graduated from Shenyang Pharmaceutical University. Xianwen joins the MAO lab as a research assistant, and we warmly welcome him! Xianwen will use his background in biocatalysis to expand the development of new enzymes.
2024-08-26: Runze was invited to kick off the first Faculty & Staff Exchange Meeting - 16th Young Scholars Salon and gave a presentation titled “Engineering Heme Enzymes to Navigate New-to-Nature Chemical Space.”
2024-08-22: Runze was invited to give a talk titled “Engineering Heme Enzymes to Navigate New-to-Nature Chemical Space” at the Chinese Society for Micro and Nanotechnology.
2024-08-13: At 31 years old, Runze officially joined iBHE, Tsinghua University as the 31st PI. Extremely excited! Runze named himself TIE 31 (Tsinghua iBHE).
2024-08-11: Runze was invited to give a talk titled “Engineering Heme Enzymes to Navigate New-to-Nature Chemical Space” at the 2024 3rd China Medical and Chemical Engineering Conference.
2024-07-24: Runze was invited to give a presentation titled “Engineering Heme Enzymes to Navigate New-to-Nature Chemical Space” at the 2024 Chiral China Conference hosted by the Chinese Chemical Society.
2024-07-20: Runze was invited to give a presentation titled “Engineering Heme Enzymes to Navigate New-to-Nature Chemical Space” at Yunnan University.
2024-07-12: Runze hosted the unveiling ceremony for iBHE, Tsinghua University and witnessed the 5th anniversary of iBHE.
2024-07-11: Runze landed in Shenzhen, China after so many years-feeling great!