Zhejiang University held the commencement ceremonies for advanced degree graduates and the Senior Class of 2021 respectively on June 29 and 30. The two-day celebration featured the addresses by President WU Zhaohui and the representatives of supervisors, alumni, and the graduating cohort. President WU extended his hearty congratulations and best wishes to the graduating class. Highlighting service to society, he expected them to commit to lifelong learning, innovative practice as well as opennes...

[Messages from the editor: Prof. LIAO Beishui, head of Institute of Logic and Cognition, is the ‘AI Logic’ corner editor of Journal of Logic and Computation, a member of the editorial board of Journal of Argument & Computation and Journal of Applied Logics, a member of the IfCoLog office as representative for Asian affairs, and a steering committee member of DEON, COMMA and AWPL. He has published 3 monographs, and a number of papers in some leading journals and top conferences such as...

The research team led by LIU Jianxiang from the Zhejiang University College of Life Sciences, recently published an article entitled “XBAT31 regulates thermoresponsive hypocotyl growth through mediating degradation of the thermosensor ELF3 in Arabidopsis” in Science Advances, an top-tier open access multidisciplinary journal published by American Association for the Advancement of Science’s (AAAS) This study reveals that XBAT31 functions as a major E3 ligase to mediate ELF3 degradation i...

Zhejiang University (ZJU) and the University of Cape Town (UCT) renewed their Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and inked a new university-wide student exchange agreement during a virtual conference held on June 23, reaffirming their shared commitment to sustainable development.President WU Zhaohui and Vice-Chancellor Mamokgethi Phakeng renewed the MoUVice President HE Lianzhen and Deputy Vice-Chancellor Sue Harrison inked the Student Exchange AgreementHighlighting the relationship bet...

On the afternoon of June 18, President WU Zhaohui met with Prof. Shahbaz Khan, director of the UNESCO Cluster Office in Beijing. President WU Zhaohui extended his cordial welcome to Prof. Shahbaz Khan and gave a brief introduction to the development and strengths of the University as well as the University’s Sustainability Action Plan: A Global ZJU for Social Good. “Zhejiang University has been working in partnership with UNESCO for long. We attach great importance to our cooperation and we ho...

Rapid tumor growth inevitably results in insufficient nutrient supply in tumor microenvironment. To prepare for the challenge arisen from energy stress, tumor cells synthesize and store lipid in a format of lipid droplet as important energy resources when nutrients are sufficient.  Lipid droplets, spherical organelles in the cytosol, are composed of a neutral lipid core consisting mainly of triacylglycerols and sterol esters surrounded by a phospholipid monolayer. Lipid droplets are co...

On June 17, Prof. LIU Fengqiang, a neurosurgeon from the Second Affiliated Hospital Zhejiang University School of Medicine (SAHZU)，remotely manipulated Remebot, a stereotactic neurosurgery robot, through a 5G network to evacuate the intracerebral hematoma of a patient, who was located 200 kilometers away in Songyang Hospital of Li Shui City. This marked the successful establishment of China’s first 5G-based digital neurosurgery operating theater.During the surgery, the scene of the operat...

[Message from the editor: Manufacturing industry in China has grown by leaps and bounds in just 30 years, so its transformation and upgrading need to be supported by a large number of highly-competent talents with operations management knowledge and global perspective. To echo the needs, School of Management at Zhejiang University, in cooperation with McGill University, launched a double-degree program of Global Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management (GMSCM) in 2013. Since its launc...

The research team led by Prof. MA Zhonghua at the Zhejiang University College of Agriculture & Technology recently published an article entitled “Interplay of two transcription factors for recruitment of the chromatin remodeling complex modulates fungal nitrosative stress response” in the journal Nature Communications. This study reveals a new mechanism by which Fusarium graminearum (Fg) regulates nitrosative stress (NS), which facilitates a more insightful understanding of funga...

The research team led by Dr. SONG Shiyong from the Institute of Crop Science, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology in Zhejiang University recently published an article entitled “Nuclear translocation of OsMFT1 that is impeded by OsFTIP1 promotes drought tolerance in rice” in the journal Molecular Plant on May 3. This study reveals that in response to drought, downregulation of OsFTIP1 permits OsMFT1 to be translocated into the nucleus. It is of tremendous significance t...