博士学位论文答辩 PhD Thesis Defense

Here are several photos taken from my defense.

The defender, fearless and hardened :)

Ms. Yi Ling was giving a kind introduction on me to the committee members and audiences. In the very front of the picture are three female scholars in my committee: Dr. Hongya Gu (Peking Univ.), Dr. Shuhua Yang (CAU), and Dr. Xiujie Wang (CAS). They are all brillient scientists and good tutors!

I was doing the viva.

The concentrated audiences. In the center is my mentor, Dr. Zhen Su.
I was explaining some serious stuff to Dr. De Ye who are very interested in my work.

Acknowledgments:

Professor Zhen Su and his wife Ms. Wenying Xu for bringing me to this step;
Professor Ziding Zhang for his continuous encouragement;
Ms. Yi Ling for her kindness in everything!
Dr. Junjie Fu, Dr. Haiyan Wu (became PhD one day later than I am!), and Yunyan Liu who were previous lab members and my close friends;
Zhiyu Peng and Linchuan Li for productive collaboration and friendship;
All the lab members and my friends;
And finally my dear parents!

Vitamin C to beat cancer

I read the letter in PNAS that points out possibility of using Vitamin C to cure cancer, just after I have eaten a large, juicy orange. Though Dr. Piet Borst is conservative about the prosperity and seriously doubted some experimental evidences, I would like to accept them all, fairly!

See http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/0809328105v1?etoc

Some recent news about me

Dear all, sorry for not writing these days. Actually I have been quite busy, so buuuusy that I am twirling like a top!
亲爱的朋友们，很抱歉最近什么都灭有写，不是没得可写，实在是咱太忙了...

Here I shall announce something which are strong enough to change my life:
这么吧：宣布两件大事，任何一件都足以改变我的一生！

1. I have accepted an offer by Dr. Joshua Yuan at Institute of Plant Genomics & Biotechnology, Texas A&M, US, where I shall work as a bioinformatician. It is a permanent position.
1。我将要供职于Texas A&M的植物基因组学与生物技术研究所，PI是Joshua Yuan教授。Yuan教授是个非常nice的大好人，但直到现在我也不知道他的中文名怎么写～～

2. I got a girl friend... ;-)
2。我有女朋友了...吼～吼～

As a conclusion, my life got changed twice in one month!
综上所述，本人的一生在过去的一个月里改变了两次！

And one more big news: I shall defend my PhD dissertation in November 27th, 2008!

Science this time, not politics!

Wen Jiabao, our sincere Premier has had an short editorial article published on Science Magazine. See http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/322/5902/649

Premier Wen announced his ideas and encouraging remarks to all Chinese fellows working in the science and technology fields, and to all their peers world wide, through Science Magazine. I think Wen holds in his mind that science and technology advancements, not any social and state formalisms, will save human from trouble. I believe he is right, at least under condition of current state of human race. Sci & Tech helps solve problems, though in the process new problems might emerge, Sci & Tech must be the only hope of solution.

Mysterious tomb in the valley

This mysterious tomb resides in the valley of Baiwang hill. It has been known to me for some years. During a tour to the hill on Oct 12, we visited the tomb again. First image showed this tomb has a curious "front gate", built with piled stones, stands firm. A white object can be seen on the left, which is the gravestone been pushed down from its original place. Second image is about it. First part of it is in a language I didn't recognize, but I guess it said the person buried there was born on September 1877, and died 1947. Second part is in Chinese, but most contents had been removed with great strength, obviously intentionally, as though someone didn't wish to let the contents been read by others.

A lot of local residents were strolling there all the time, but seemed no one cared about it.