Zhicheng won the Best Weekly Report, Best Paper Reading, and Best Notebook awards for 2024, becoming the first member of the Chen Lab to achieve all three titles in a single year.

Intensive lab training can be incredibly demanding, often creating significant pressure. At times, it’s important to find ways to relieve that stress. The lab head serves as a unique role model—part mentor, part parental figure—much like Li Jing and Taiyi Zhenren were to Nezha. Although most of the time he is the serious, hard-faced Li Jing, in this video, Teacher Chen takes on the role of the silly Taiyi Zhenren.

 

Rong is an active participant in academic conferences and has received multiple awards for her exceptional presentations. Most recently, she won the Presentation Awards for Women Scientists (PAWS) at the XXVII International Congress of Entomology (ICE2024 Kyoto).

On November 2nd, 2024, Chen Lab celebrated its fourth anniversary with a fun outing!

Shan was awarded the CSC scholarship to support her joint Ph.D. training at the John Innes Centre. She is the second student from the Chen Lab to receive this prestigious scholarship.

Siying, a former graduate student in the Chen Lab, conducted her graduation project with support from the Hubei Students’ Platform for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program (湖北省大学生创新创业训练计划). Her project was recognized as outstanding.

In 2022, Rong won the Best Notebook award, while Tingfen received the Best Paper Reading award.

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