Co-hosted by Overseas Chinese Society of Microbiology (Sino-Micro) and State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), the Sino-Micro 2021 was held on Oct 26-28, 2021 at Shanghai, China. The meeting theme is: Addressing the unprecedented public health challenges: the essence of microbial sciences and global collaboration. See three related documents: Meeting agenda program, Welcome introduction, and Scientific committee report. The meeting website here: http://www.icms-sjtu.org/.

Overall, the Sino-Micro 2021 was a very successful meeting, with 5 welcome talks in the openning ceremony, 64 oral presentations, and 52 posters. About 250 attendees attended the meeting in-person. In addition, hundreds of attendees attended the meeting virtually. For example, on Day 2, there were approximately 350 virtual attendees.

Here we collected a list of selected pictures and videos taken from the Sino-Micro 2021 meeting: 

~ Day 1: Oct 26 (Tuesday), Sino-Micro 2021, Shanghai, China ~            

The front of the meeting venue, located in New Century Grand Hotel Songjiang (上海松江开元名都大酒店), 1799 Renmin North Road, Songjiang District, Shanghai, China.

The presentation setting.

Dr. Zixin Deng presented the first openning welcome talk.

This year is the ten-year anniversity after Sino-Micro was officially registered as a nonprofit organization in the USA in 2011. Presented in the welcome message by Dr. Yi-Wei Tang.

The main theme of the meeting, presented in the scientific committee report by Dr. Oliver He.

Dr. Yan Feng presenting. Dr. Feng was the chair of the first day openning ceremony and plenary session. She also presented a talk titled “Enzyme Evolution in Synthetic Biology: A Key Role from Proof-of-Concept towards Precision Function”.

Natural molecular evolution and protein engineering. Presenter: Dr.Yan Feng (Shanghai Jiao Tong University).

Introduction of Kary Mullis who invented PCR. Presenter: Dr. Russ Higuchi (Cepheid Fellow and qPCR Inventor).

The first paper in the field of "Ancient DNA". Presenter: Dr. Russ Higuchi.

A paper by Gao et al in 2016 that predicted the next emergence of CoV. Presenter: Dr. George F. Gao (CAS Academician).

Meeting room showing Dr. Gao's slide introducing the Event 201, a high-level pandemic exercise on October 18, 2019, in New York, NY, USA.

The first isolation and identifiction in China of the novel coronavirus, which was later named as SARS-CoV-2. Presenter: Dr. George F. Gao.

The sharing of SARS-CoV-2 viral genome sequence to the world on January 10, 2020. Presenter: Dr. George F. Gao.

Development of new SARS-CoV-2 viral diagnosis methods. Presenter: Dr. George F. Gao.

Reported traditional Chinese drugs for COVID-19 treatment. Presenter: Dr. George F. Gao.

Where the SARS-CoV-2 came from? Presenter: Dr. George F. Gao.

Canonical and non-canonical inflammasome pathways and receptors. Presenter: Dr. Feng Shao (CAS Academician).

Genome-wide CRISPR screens identify GSDMD, the novel pore-forming protein, as the pyroptosis executioner protien. Presenter: Dr. Feng Shao.

S. flexneri uses OspC3 to inactivate LPS-CASP11-GSDMD pyroptosis pathway by arginine ADP-riboxanation. Presenter: Dr. Feng Shao.

~ Day 2: Oct 27 (Wednesday), Sino-Micro 2021, Shanghai, China ~            

Feedback responses of grassland soil microbial communities to climate warming. Presenter: Jizhong (Joe) Zhou (University of Oklahoma).

The meeting room.

The advertisement of the mLife, the new journal with Drs. Li Huang and Jizhong Zhou as editors-in-chief. Presenter: Jizhaong (Joe) Zhou.

Mechanistic insights into the Metabolism of Special One Carbon Compounds (DMSP, TMAO) by Marine Bacteria. Presenter: Dr. Yuzhong Zhang (Shandong University).

Day 2: Oct 27, Sino-Micro 2021, Shanghai, China.

What can environmental surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 on a university campus tell us? Presenter: Dr. Chuanwu Xi (University of Michigan).

Pfizer vaccine-elicited neutralization of variants. Presenter: Dr. Pei-Yong Shi (University of Texas).

Neutralization results support booster strategy. Presenter: Dr. Pei-Yong Shi (University of Texas).

Emerging diseases are a growing threat. Presenter: Dr. Zhengli Shi (WIV, CAS).

Video: Emerging diseases are a growing threat. Presenter: Dr. Zhengli Shi (WIV, CAS).

Day 2: approximately 300 attendees online, and 250 attendees in-person. Sino-Micro 2021, Oct 27, 2021, Shanghai, China.

~ Day 3: Oct 28 (Thursday), Sino-Micro 2021, Shanghai, China ~            

Introduction of John Leong's talk: “Microbial Tools to Characterize Age associated Innate Immune Dysfunction”.

John Leong (Tufts University) replying question.

The ADP-Ribosylation Arsenals of Legionella pneumophila. Presenter: Zhaoqing Luo (Purdue University).

Video: “New Microbial Nitrogen Transformation Reactions on the Old Angkor Monuments. Presenter: Jidong Gu (Guangdong Technion Israel Institute of Technology).

Translating Swine Gut Microbiome Research into Animal Production: Challenges, Opportunities and Future Directions. Presenter: Jiangchao Zhao (University of Arkansas).

Mosquito microbiota. Presenter: Sibao Wang (IPPE, CAS).

Summary and take-home message of the talk titled “Mosquito Microbiota and Implications for Disease Control”. Presenter: Sibao Wang (IPPE, CAS).

The second meeting room.

Video: Intelligent Production and Innovative Discovery of Natural Products. Presenter: Tiangang Liu (Wuhan University).

Poster session.

Excellent posters and poster presenters awarded.

Closing Ceremony.

Dr. Ping Xu (chair, conference organization committee) summarized the statistics of the Sino-Micro 2021: 69 oral presentations and 56 poster presentations, in 3 main meeting places and 6 branch meeting places, during three days of events. A total of over 2000 person-times attended online or in-peron.

A photo of Dr. Ping Xu's service team who provided the first class service to the Sino-Micro 2021 symposium. Thank you all, for your great service and organization!!