A journey of science and growth at the DANG Lab.
2026
Welcome Welcome ZHANG Kexin, REN Siyi, and ZHANG Bolun, who join the DANG Lab as PG students.
Congrats Congratulations to TANG Bingjie for the completion of her PhD Thesis Defense!
Congrats Congratulations to SU Hang for the completion of her MPhil Thesis Defense!
Funding DANG Lab received funding from RGC GRF.
Congrats Congratulations to QIN Yuqi for the completion of her PhD Thesis Defense!
Funding DANG Lab received funding from HKUST-HKUST(GZ) Cross-campus Research Collaboration "1+1+1" Joint Funding Program.
Award ZHANG Kexin and REN Siyi received the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS).
Greetings Happy Chinese New Year!
2025
Award ZHAO Xiaolong (PhD) won the Best Lightning Talk at the 3rd "The Greater Bay Area Biological EM Symposium", held in Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health (GIBH), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou.
Paper Our paper 'Capturing the native structure of membrane proteins using vesicles' has been published online
View link →Award DANG Shangyu received the Sinovac Fellowship.
Congrats Congratulations to LIU Hang for the completion of his PhD Thesis Defense!
Award LIU Hang (PhD), TANG Bingjie (PhD), and ZHAO Xiaolong (PhD) received HKUST RedBird Academic Excellence Awards for Continuing PhD Students
Funding FENG Jianrong (RAP) received funding from RGC GRF.
Award QIN Yuqi (PhD) won the Best Lightning Talk at the 2nd "The Greater Bay Area Biological EM Symposium", held in HKUST, Hong Kong.
Award TANG Bingjie (PhD) won the Best Short Talk Award, and QIN Yuqi (PhD) won the Best Poster Award, at the 2nd IAS Symposium on Biological Cryo-EM held in HKUST, Hong Kong.
Event We successfully organized the 2nd IAS Symposium on Biological Cryo-EM at HKUST.
View link →Event We successfully hosted the 2nd “The Greater Bay Area Biological EM Symposium" at HKUST.
View link →Award LIU Hang (PhD) won the Best Presentation Award 1st Prize in the LIFS Postgraduate Student Seminar.
Paper Our paper 'DNA bending mediated by ORC is essential for replication licensing in budding yeast' has been published online
View link →Funding DANG Lab received Research Collaboration Initiative funding from LIFS, HKUST.
Welcome Welcome YANG Zikang, who joins the DANG Lab as a Research Assistant.
Greetings Happy Chinese New Year!
2024
Award NG Tin Ying (PhD) received the Shun Hing Education and Charity Fund Biotech PhD Scholarship.
Event LIU Hang (PhD) was invited to give an oral presentation, while QIN Yuqi (PhD) won the Best Lightning Talk at the First "The Greater Bay Area Biological EM Symposium", held in SUSTech, Shenzhen.
Award DENG Siqi (PhD) and QIU Qinling (PhD) received the Best Research Presentation in the LIFS Postgraduate Student Seminar.
Welcome FENG Jianrong has been appointed as the Research Assistant Professor (RAP), with support provided through the VPRD RAP Scheme.
Welcome Welcome LI William Thomas and SU Hang, who join the DANG Lab as PG students.
Congrats Congratulations to NG Tin Ying and ZHAO Xiaolong for the completion of their MPhil Thesis Defense!
Award ZHEGLOV David (UG) won the UROP Support Grant.
Award LIU Hang (PhD) received HKUST RedBird Academic Excellence Award.
Event LIU Hang (PhD) was invited to give an oral presentation at the First GHMUA Greater Bay Symposium on Viruses of Microorganisms, held in Huizhou.
Award QIN Yuqi (PhD) received the Best Research Presentation in the LIFS Postgraduate Student Seminar.
Award LI William Thomas (PhD) received Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS).
Funding DANG Lab received Sponsorship of Conferences from the Croucher Foundation.
Award ZHAO Xiaolong (MPhil) and FENG Jianrong (Postdoc) received Lo Kwee Seong Fellowship.
Event Press release: Joint study by HKUST and HKU on DNA replication initiation selected as one of Top 10 Scientific Advances in China for 2023.
View link →Greetings Happy Chinese New Year!
2023
Award TANG Bingjie received Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS).
Award FENG Jianrong received HKUST Post-Doctoral Fellowship Matching Fund.
Award TEMIRBEKOV Yerassyl received Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Support Grant.
Paper Our paper 'Cryo-EM structure of TMEM63C suggests it functions as a monomer' has been published online.
View link →Paper Our paper 'Cryo-EM structure of cyanophage P-SCSP1u offers insights into DNA gating and evolution of T7-like viruses' has been published online.
View link →Paper Our paper 'Synergism between CMG helicase and leading strand DNA polymerase at replication fork' has been published online.
View link →Congrats Congratulations to TANG Bingjie for the completion of her MPhil Thesis Defense!
Funding DANG Lab received funding from RGC GRF.
Event We successfully organized the 1st IAS Symposium on Biological Cryo-EM at HKUST.
View link →Award TANG Bingjie received HKUST RedBird PhD Award 2023-2024.
Funding DANG Lab received funding from the HKUST VPRDO 30 for 30 Research Initiative Scheme.
Paper Our paper 'The human pre-replication complex is an open complex' has been published online.
View link →Paper Our paper 'Structural insights into broadly neutralizing antibodies elicited by hybrid immunity against SARS-CoV-2' has been published online.
View link →2022
Funding DANG Lab received funding from the Cornell-HKUST Global Strategic Collaboration Awards.
Congrats Congratulations to LI Sirui for the completion of his MPhil Thesis Defense!
Welcome Welcome ZHAO Xiaolong and NG Tin Ying, who join the DANG Lab as PG students.
Event Press Release: HKUST & HKUMed Joint Study Reports Broadly Neutralizing Antibody That Protects Syrian Hamsters against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variants.
View link →Congrats Congratulations to LIU Hang for the completion of his MPhil Thesis Defense!
Paper Our paper 'Recent Technical Advances in Sample Preparation for Single-Particle Cryo-EM' has been published online.
View link →Paper Our paper 'A broadly neutralizing antibody protects Syrian hamsters against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron challenge' has been published online.
View link →Funding DANG Lab received funding from RGC GRF.
Funding DANG Lab received Sponsorship of Conferences from the Croucher Foundation.
Greetings Happy Chinese New Year!
Award FENG Jianrong received HKUST Post-Doctoral Fellowship Matching Fund.
Funding DANG Lab received funding from RGC CRF.
2021
Funding DANG Lab received funding from Shenzhen Special Fund for Local Science and Technology Development Guided by Central Government.
Welcome Welcome QIN Yuqi, TANG Bingjie, QIU Qinling and DENG Siqi, who join the DANG Lab as PG students.
Congrats Congratulations to XU Yixin for the completion of her MPhil Thesis Defense!
Funding DANG Lab received funding from RGC GRF.
Award XU Yixin won the best poster presentation in the Hong Kong Inter-University Postgraduate Symposium in Biochemical Sciences 2021.
Welcome Welcome QIN Yuqi, who joins the DANG Lab as a Research Assistant.
Greetings Happy Chinese New Year!
Funding DANG Lab received funding from Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation.
2020
Welcome Welcome YU Daqi, who joins the DANG Lab as a Postdoctoral researcher.
Welcome Welcome LIU Hang, who joins the DANG Lab as a PG student.
Award DONG Jiangqing and YU Daqi received Lo Kwee Seong Fellowship.
Funding DANG Lab received funding from Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou).
Greetings Happy Chinese New Year!
2019
Welcome Welcome DONG Jiangqing, who joins the DANG Lab as a Postdoctoral researcher.
Welcome Welcome LI Sirui and XU Yixin, who join the DANG Lab as PG students.
Welcome Welcome FENG Jianrong, who joins the DANG Lab as a Postdoctoral researcher.
Funding DANG Lab received funding from RGC ECS.
Welcome Welcome HE Chunlin, who joins the DANG Lab as a Research Assistant.
Welcome Welcome ZHANG Wen, who joins the DANG Lab as a joint Postdoc with Prof. TYE Bik.
Welcome Welcome WANG Juan, who joins the DANG Lab as a Research Assistant.
Greetings Happy Chinese New Year!
Welcome The DANG lab was established when DANG Shangyu joined HKUST as an Assistant Professor.