Gmail's bug!

I've been so busy recently, preparing for my visa appointment... Anyway, I'm still alive.

Here's a tiny *bug* I have discovered in our lovely Gmail:

I have been using the "planet & universe" theme for my Gmail, and it's really cool! ...except when there's no email in inbox where a weird Google Reader link is there:


But actually the words are there, and the font color is same as dark sky background!

I'm single again

We departed, shortly after we've known each other for 20+ days. We used to be so close and dreaming the future, but now everything gets back to the original track... and I broke someone's heart, again.

Don't ask why, see my memoir 50 years later.

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!