School of Life Sciences, Peking University

Amazing discovery! 🎉 Undergraduates in School of Life Sciences, Peking University discovered a new species Allium stoloniferum during a field study！🌿 #PKUResearch #PlantDiscovery #UndergraduateResearch #FieldStudy #PekingUniversity #LifeSciences doi.org/10.11646/phyto…

New from Wei Wang's lab: Postharvest strawberries maintain rhythmic homeostasis during cold storage, a phenomenon counterintuitively sustained by a non-canonical, quasi-circadian regulatory network. #PKUResearch #SLSPKU #PKU #Cell doi.org/10.1016/j.cell…

Lab mode: OFF. Sports mode: ON! 🔋⚡️ Stepping out of their labs and onto the sports field, professors and students from seven teams shared a good dose of fun and games. Spring is for moving! 🌿💪 #SportsDay #CampusLife #SLSPKU

New from Hongkui Deng’s lab: The tumor suppressor p53—long viewed as a cellular reprogramming barrier—surprisingly serves as an essential guardian of chemical reprogramming. A paradigm shift for safe and controllable cell fate engineering. #PKUResearch #SLSPKU #PKU #Cell cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

🎉Congratulations to the honorees of the 2025 Boehringer Ingelheim-PKU Research Awards for their breakthrough work in life sciences! Awardees🏆: • Senior Investigator: Prof. Xiao Junyu (School of Life Sciences) • Young Investigator: Dr. Chang Hao • Postdoctoral: Dr. Tang Fei (SLS) & Dr. Yang Zhenlin #PKU #BoehringerIngelheim #PKUResearch

Recruitment of Principal Investigators. Welcome to join School of Life Sciences, Peking University! #PKU #SLSPKU To know more about us, please click bio.pku.edu.cn/en/

Dr. Wensheng Wei's lab reviewed how base and prime editors drive high-throughput screens to decode disease-relevant variants at scale. #PKU #PKUResearch cell.com/trends/biochem…

New insights into complement activation! Cryo-EM structures from Prof. Junyu Xiao’s lab reveal how C4b2a and C3bBb engage C3 in classical/lectin & alternative pathways, respectively (2.6-3.1 Å). Key to disease & drug development!science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… #ComplementSystem #CryoEM #Immunology #PKUResearch

New study from Junyu Xiao’s lab: Human FcRL5 is a unique IgG receptor! Cryo-EM reveals it grabs TWO Fcγ molecules to bind immune complexes & internalize them. Time to rethink IgG receptors beyond the canonical FcγRs! #PKU #PKUResearch #SLSPKU science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Xiong Ji's group revealed that FeaSion decodes the regulatory landscape and functional diversity of RNA polymerase II CTD phosphorylation. #PKUResearch science.org/doi/full/10.11…

Congratulations to Prof. Deng Hongkui and Prof. Qu Lijia from the School of Life Sciences at Peking University on their election as academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)!

Zhe Zhang’s group presents cryo-EM structures of the glucose-6-phosphate transporter SLC37A4—whose defect causes glycogen storage disease type Ib—in multiple functional states, revealing its mechanisms of substrate transport, inhibition, and pathology. doi.org/10.1038/s41594…

Breakthrough in biologics engineering! Research from Junyu Xiao's lab decoded the hexameric structure of frog IgX via cryo-EM & hacked human IgM/IgG to form super-efficient hexamers. #PKUResearch doi.org/10.1126/sciadv…

Peking University Life Sciences -- A Century in the Vanguard. Welcome to watch the documentary of Peking University Life Sciences.📺 @PKU1898 @SLSPKU

Ph.D. Programs at Peking University School of Life Sciences Admissions for 2026 Are Now OPEN💗 Welcome to the School of Life Sciences at Peking University. Let’s embark on a journey together to unravel the mysteries of life! @PKU1898 bio.pku.edu.cn/en/index/index…

He Yu's group and their collaborators revealed the geographic and temporal origins and subsequent dispersal and admixture of pigs in East Asia, mirroring human migration and agricultural development history. @PKUResearch doi.org/10.1093/molbev…

Xiong Ji's group reveals that INO80/SWR remodelers regulate gene expression by reshaping chromatin landscapes and modulating BRD2 binding, rather than through H2A.Z dynamics. #PKUResearch academic.oup.com/nar/article/53…

Hsiang-Ying Sherry Lee’s group and collaborators uncover how composite transposons (SVAs) with dual histone marks act as RNA-dependent regulators to drive erythropoiesis, steer blood lineage commitment, and shape hematopoietic aging. #PKUResearch cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

RNA circularization is key for circRNA therapeutics. Wensheng Wei' s lab unveils PIET & CIRC. Using intact self-splicing introns, CIRC generates circRNAs efficiently — even large RNAs encoding full-length dystrophin. #PKUResearch nature.com/articles/s4146…