Welcome to Ren Lab!

Key events of Ren Lab:

[ Publications ] We published a research paper entitled 'Structural distinctions between NAD⁺  riboswitch domains 1 and 2 determine differential folding and ligand binding' in the journal Nucleic Acids Research. (11th November, 2020) .pdf Link

[ Scholarship ] Ph. D candidate Hao Chen was awarded the 2020 Grant for Doctoral Postgraduates of Zhejiang University. (November, 2020) 

[ Publications ] We published a research paper entitled 'SAM-VI riboswitch structure and signature for ligand discrimination' in the journal Nature Communications. (16th December, 2019) .pdf Link

[ Publications ] We published a research paper entitled 'On crucial roles of two hydrated Mg²⁺ ions in reaction catalysis of the pistol ribozyme' in the journal Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (5th December, 2019) .pdf Link

[ Scholarship ] Ph. D candidate Luqian Zheng was awarded the 2019 Grant for Doctoral Postgraduates of Zhejiang University. (November, 2019)

[ Scholarship ] Ph. D candidate Kaiyi Huang was awarded the 2019 Grant for Doctoral Postgraduates of Zhejiang University. (November, 2019)

[ Scholarship ] Ph. D candidate Luqian Zheng was awarded the 2019 National Doctoral Postgraduates Scholarship of Zhejiang University. (November, 2019)

[ Publications ] We published a research paper entitled 'Strategies for understanding RNA recognition by X-ray and NMR methods' in the journal Methods in Enzymology. (26th June, 2019) Link

[ Publications ] We published a research paper entitled 'Hachet ribozyme structure and implications for cleavage mechanism' in the journal PNAS. (14th May, 2019) .pdf Link

[ Publications ] We published a review paper entitled 'Structure-based mechanistic insights into catalysis by small self-cleaving ribozymes' in the journal Current Opinion in Chemical Biology. (December, 2017) .pdf Link

[ Publications ] We published a research paper entitled 'Structure-based Insights into Self-Cleavage by a  Four-way Junctional Twister-Sister Ribozyme' in the journal Nature Communications. (30th, Octomber, 2017) .pdf Link

[ Prize ] Ph. D candidate Luqian Zheng gave a lecture entitled 'Structure-based Insights  into Self-Cleavage by  the Twister-Sister Ribozyme' in the 1st East China Structural Biology Academic Conference & the 19th Shanghai Structural Biology Cooperative Network Conference, and awarded 'Outstanding Student Reporting'. (23th April, 2017)

[ Publications ] We published a research paper entitled 'Pistol ribozyme adopts a pseudoknot fold facilitating site-specific in-line cleavage' in the journal Nature Chemical Biology. (11th, July, 2016) .pdf Link