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- March 04, 2024, congratulations to Hongzhang Xue for his paper published in Plant Biotechnology Journal!
- Sept. 15, 2022, graduate student Xiaorui Dong and Zhongqu Duan's paper about pan-genomic analysis of chinese gastric cancer was published on line in Nature Communications ! Congratulations!!
- April 8, 2022, graduate student Hongzhang Xue's paper about rice pan-genome constructed from long-read sequencing data was published on line in Genome Research! Congratulations !!
- June 3, 2020 Doctoral student Ben Jia finished his PhD thesis defence. Congratulations!!!
- Dec. 30, 2019, Doctoral student Zhongqu Duan finished his PhD thesis defence. Congratulations!!
- July 31, 2019, Zhongqu Duan's paper about human pan-genome construction was published in Genome Biology! Congratulations!!
- April 25, 2018, our rice pan-genome paper was published in Nature! Congratulations!!
- April 7, 2017, Zhiqiang Hu's paper about EUPAN: a pan-genome analysis system for a large number of eukaryotic genomes was published in Bioinformatics! Congratulations!
- Dec. 6, 2016, graduate student Chen Sun's paper about the Rice Pan-genome Browser was published in Nucleic Acids Research! Congratulations!
- July 27, 2016 , graduate student Zhiqiang Hu finished his PhD thesis defence. Congratulations!
- Spet. 30, 2015, graduate student Zhiqiang Hu won National Scholarship for Graduate Students. Congratulations!
- Sept. 30, 2015, SJTU-software iGEM team won 2015 iGEM competition Gold Medal Award. Dr. Wei was one of the instructors.
- Sept. 16, 2015, Prof. David Adelson from Adelaide Univeristy, Austrilia, visited SJTU, and gave a talk titled "Retrotransposons and genome evolution".
- July 6, 2015, Dr. Jianhua Ruan from Univisity of Texas San Antonio visited SJTU, and gave a talk titled " Network-based, personalized methods for accurate prediction of metastasis in breast cancer ".
- Nov. 27, 2014, Dr. Zhirong Bao from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center visited SJTU, and gave a talk titled "The making of a worm: genes, cells and organisms".
- Nov. 4, 2014, SJTU-software iGEM team won 2014 iGEM competition Gold Medal Award. Dr. Wei was one of the founders and instructors of SJTU-software iGEM team.
- Aug. 25, 2014, Dr. Wei received an RMB 800K NSFC fund to find and characterize sequence modules with complex structures in metagenomes.
- Jan. 14, 2014, Dr. Wei received an National High-Tech R&D Program (863)RMB 650,000 to create a new generation of microbial genome analysis system. (Total fund RMB 7.2M, PI: Prof. Yin Jiang, SCBIT)
- Oct. 22, 2013, graduate student Ben Jia Won SJTU AMD HPC Award. Congratulations!
- Dec. 4, 2012, Prof. Philip Green, one of the leading scientists in Genomics, visited Shanghai Jiao Tong University and gave a talk "How much of the human genome is functional? " .
- Oct.11,2012, Dr. Wei received an RMB 1.04M fund from the National Basic Research Program of China (973) about the degeneration mechanism and recovery potential of coral reefs in South China Sea. (total fund 5.72M, PI: Zhiyong Li, SJTU).
- Aug. 17, 2012, Dr. Wei received an RMB 800,000 NSFC fund to find and characterize genes containing repeat regions.
- Sept. 25, 2010 , Prof. Gary Stormo , one of the world-renowned pioneers in bioinformatics and genomics, visited Shanghai Jiao Tong University and give a talk "Recognition Models for Protein-DNA Interaction Specificity".
- June 29, 2010 , Prof. Michael Brent from WashU visited us in Shanghai Jiao Tong University and gave a talk "Kinetic Models of Gene Regulatory Networks".
- March 1, 2010 , Dr. Wei was invited by Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) to give a talk in Japan-Korea-China Symposium on Bioinformatics held in Tokyo,Japan. Title of the talk: "Finding diversity of a microbe community: 16S rRNA or metagenome shotgun sequencing method?"
- November 2, 2009, SJTU iGEM team won 2009 iGEM competition Gold Medal Award. Dr. Wei was the founder of SJTU iGEM team and one of the four instructors.
- September 5, 2009, Dr. Wei recieved an RMB300,000 NSFC fund to develope an algorithm to measure the impact of SNPs on gene structure variations.
- August 19, 2009, Dr. Wei organized the Symposium "Analysis of Complex Biological Systems" , in Shanghai, China
- August 16-22, 2009, Dr. Wei organized the EMBO World Practical Course: Computational Biology from (meta)genomes to phenotype and environment , in Shanghai, China
- June 1, 2009, Dr. Wei recieved an RMB1,610,000 fund to develope a system for metagenome data collection and analysis.