In November 2022, EMBO Reports published a paper entitled “Rassf7a Promotes Spinal Cord Regeneration and Controls Spindle Orientation in Neural Progenitor Cells” by Prof. Zhao Chengtian’s team from OUC’s Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, and Dr. Cao Muqing’s team from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. The paper reveals that Rassf7a in the RASSF regulates neuronal regeneration and repair after injury by controlling the orientation of the spindle of neural precursor cells and influencin

Recently, Prof. Jiang Wensheng's team from OUC’s Key Laboratory of Marine Environment and Ecology (Ministry of Education), published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment under the title of “Accumulation, Transformation and Transport of Microplastics in Estuarine Fronts”, in cooperation with scholars from Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) and other institutes.

Recently, the research team led by Prof. Ru Shaoguo at the Key Lab of Marine Environment and Ecology Engineering at Ocean University of China (OUC) published in Water Research under the title of “Unraveling the key driving factors involved in cometabolism enhanced aerobic degradation of tetracycline in wastewater”.

The leading international academic journal GEOLOGY published online an article entitled “Calcitic shells in the aragonite sea of the earliest Cambrian”, by Prof. Li Luoyang from the OUC College of Marine Geosciences as the first author and corresponding author. The study reports the crucial progress in the correlation between the origin of mineralized skeletons and the evolution of ancient oceans, including the initial acquisition of low-Mg calcitic shells in the aragonite sea of the earliest Ca

On November 11, Prof. Dong Bo's team and Prof. Wang Shi's team from the Sars-Fang Centre for Marine Molecular Biology (Ocean University of China) jointly published “EDomics: a comprehensive and comparative multi-omics database for animal evo-devo” in Nuclear Acids Research, a top international journal in molecular biology, marking the successful establishment and official launch of the world’s first multi-omics database for animal evo-devo.

Recently, the Key Laboratory of Marine Genetics and Breeding (College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China) has made a series of significant achievements in the construction of a genome editing system for Gracilariopsis lemaneiformis.

Prof. Gao Huiwang’s team of OUC’s Key Laboratory of Marine Environment and Ecology (Chinese Ministry of Education) published a paper entitled “Aerosol Iron Solubility Specification in the Global Marine Atmosphere with Machine Learning” in Environmental Science Technology, a leading academic journal in environmental science. The paper integrates data of the global marine atmosphere and develops a deep learning neural network (DLNN) model for predicting aerosol iron solubility, which is a crucial

Recently, Intelligent Information Sensing and Processing at Ocean University of China (OUC) has made a series of original achievements in artificial intelligence research, which have been published by top international AI conferences (CVPR; ICCV; ECCV; ACM MM) and journals (IJCV, International Journal of Computer Vision; IEEE; TPAMI, and Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence). This indicates OUC’s growing impact in the field of AI.

On September 5, Geoscientific Model Development published the research outcome of Prof. Zhang Shaoqing’s team under the title of “Characterizing Uncertainties of Earth System Modeling with Heterogeneous Many-core Architecture Computing”.Over the years, the team has been devoted to the research and development of high-resolution earth system models. To reveal the influence of many-core isomeric computational perturbations on the simulation results of the earth system, the team designed an atmosph

Recently, Prof. Lin Xiaopei’s team (Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, OUC) has made new progress in its study of the impact of global warming on the Atlantic Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) and related climate effects. On August 19, Nature Climate Change published the research outcome online.The relationship between global warming and extreme weather events has drawn increasing attention from climate researchers. ITCZ, a narrow zone located above the eq

On May 26, 2022, Prof. Zhang Yuzhong’s team from the College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China (OUC) published online a paper entitled “Insights into methionine S-methylation in diverse organisms” in Nature Communications.Dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) is one of the most abundant organosulfur compounds on earth. As an important source of carbon and sulfur for marine microorganisms, DMSP has many important physiological and ecological functions. Studies on the synthesis and me

Prof. Zhu Weiming’s team from the School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ocean University of China, published online a paper entitled “Methylene-bridged dimeric natural products involving one-carbon unit in biosynthesis” in Natural Product Reports. This research was conducted in collaboration with Qingdao Agricultural University.An increasing number of dimeric compounds has been discovered in studies of natural products, many of which exhibit significantly better biological activity than monomeric com

China’s Top 10 Geological Science and Technology Advances and Top 10 Achievements of Geological Prospecting in 2021 were announced.

On January 21, 2022, China’s Top 10 Oceanology and Limnology Advances in 2021 were announced, three of which are research findings of Ocean University of China (OUC). This is the eighth consecutive year that OUC has seen its research findings in this important list, fully demonstrating the university’s influence in this field.The three listed findings are as follows: “Unique life characteristics of microorganisms in extreme marine environments and mechanisms of environmental and ecological effec