时间：2025年12月8日（周一）下午15:00-16:30
Time：15:00-16:30, Monday, December 8th, 2025
主持人: 西湖大学生命科学学院、交叉科学中心兼聘助理教授，万奕含博士
Host: Dr. Yihan Wan, Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences & Center for Interdisciplinary Studies (CIS) Associates
地址：西湖大学云谷校区E10-222
Venue: E10-222, Yungu Campus, Westlake University
讲座语言：英文
Lecture Language: English
Prof. Hong Qian
Center for Interdisciplinary Studies (CIS)
Westlake University
主讲人/Speaker：
Dr. Hong Qian earned his bachelor's degree in Astrophysics from Peking University, followed by a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Washington University in St. Louis. During his doctoral studies, he combined theoretical, experimental, and data analytic approaches to investigate single molecule biophysics, specifically focusing on Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (FCS) and Single-Particle Tracking (SPT). As a postdoctoral researcher, he conducted studies on the thermodynamics and kinetics of protein folding at the University of Oregon and the California Institute of Technology.
After a three-year stint in the Department of Biomathematics at the UCLA School of Medicine, Dr. Qian joined the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Washington in Seattle in 1997, with an adjunct appointment in the Department of Bioengineering at the university’s School of Medicine. He progressed through the academic ranks as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor, and was appointed as the Olga Jung Wan Endowed Professor. In 2010, he was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Additionally, Dr. Qian has served associate editor of several journals published by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and has been members of the editorial committees of multiple journals in the fields of biophysical chemistry, systems biology, and quantitative biology. In 2011, he co-founded the Gordon Research Conference on Stochastic Physics in Biology with Professor Ken A. Dill. He Joined Westlake University in October, 2025, and is currently Chair Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies.
讲座摘要/Abstract:
Proteins are complex objects by the standard of physics and chemistry. Ideas and quantitative methodology for studying proteins, known as Protein Science, offer us a paradigm for studying more complex systems like living cells. One learns from protein a "dynamical system reasoning" that is combined with a "probabilistic reasoning". I use two examples to illustrate the paradigmatic utility of the former in cell biology: (i) a quantitative distinction between two models in allosteric cooperativity and possible experimental verification; (ii) how to represent a "forever cell" and the consequences of this non-orthodox thinking.
讲座联系人/Contact:
西湖大学生命科学学院，陈天扬，邮箱：chentianyang@westlake.edu.cn
School of Life Sciences, Westlake University, Mr. Tianyang Chen, Email: chentianyang@westlake.edu.cn
