On October 20, 2021, Miss Rongrong Qing successfully defended her Master degree thesis held room # 218 located in medical building of USTC middle campus.

Teachers participated:

Chief:             Jianqiang Bao

Committees:  Bofeng Li, Li Zhang, Björn Nashan, Cheng Sun

At the end of thesis presentation title “Influence of immunosuppressive drugs on NK cells in therapeutic drug exposure in liver transplantation”, all of the judges raised question one by one, which were responded by Miss Rongrong Qing satisfactorily.

Miss Rongrong Qing first introduced her project including recent advances in the specific area and exposed gaps in that area followed by the presentation of experimental designs of the study. Subsequently, Miss Rongrong Qing presented her results and elaborated novel findings in her study.

Finally, chairman of the committee announced the results of Miss Rongrong Qing defense evaluation. Respected chairman said, “on behalf of all of the members of evaluation committee and based on my own evaluation, we could like to congratulate Miss Rongrong Qing on per successful defense and qualifying for master degree award. After completion of evaluation, on the recommendation of Chairman of the committee, Miss Rongrong Qing thesis was sent to graduate college with appropriate modification.

“每逢佳节倍思亲”, a verse of Chinese, means “I miss my beloved ones more festival”, is strongly associated with “Mid-Autumn Festival”. Means Chinese will go back to home town on this occasion to have a get together with their family and beloved ones. Mid-Autumn Festival of 2021 was held to have a get together with hybrid family of our lab and had a dinner at Lei street of Hefei City. On this special day, our lab members held a party and enjoyed Sichuan cuisine there. During the party, everyone participated in interesting gams to create a pleasing and free environment. It created environment for everyone to come closer. so that everyone could talk as a big family. Party atmosphere was pretty cool and some international students sang their hometown song to bless everyone.

After the dinner, lab enjoyed beautiful night scenes of Hefei city.

The lab held Plenary meeting for the new academic year September 2, 2021. 

Prof. Nashan welcomed 10 new faces for joining lab. Whereafter, Teacher Wang introduced the Code of conduct, Along with that, Prof. Sun communicated with foreign new colleagues and answered their questions carefully.

Finally, the laboratory commended the excellent workers of the previous year.

On August 17, 2021, Summer’s freshman experimental training evaluation meeting was under the presidency of Professor Sun Cheng. Professor Björn Nashan and Professor Sun Cheng were examiners for the training evaluation of participants. In this meeting, five students presented 30 days’ training report of studied experiments comprehensively. Judges commented professionally in general and specific manner to verify student’s comprehension of fundamental knowledge. According to the presenters’ report, respected judges also pointed out the shortage in each one’s final work and also provided suggestions to improve them.

During the training process, senior lab members guided new comers how to overcome problems in the laboratory carefully and patiently, that is for great help for them. As a result, every student finished requirement of professors successfully at the end of meeting.

On April 17, 2021, in the breezing and fragrance of flowers, a hiking was arranged to visit the ecological forest area and beautiful tourism point “Zipeng mountain” located in suburbs of Hefei. Zipeng mountain has been known as the the first mountain of Luyang since the Qing Dynasty.

After hiking, all of the participant had a wonderful BBQ party at the base camp of Zipeng mountain. With a pleasing and relaxing atmosphere, every one contributed for cooking and made an effective cooperation. Everyone enjoyed self-cooked tasty foods. Meanwhile, discussed their interests and dreams freely. Instead of focusing on scientific and lab work in this picnic, everyone felt a heightened wave of cooperation and communication. This get together, also provided us an opportunity feel like a heart-felt family away from the home town.