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  • 刘向东先生追思礼拜11月13日举行 Memorial Service for Xiangdong Liu

    刘向东先生(1972-2021)追思礼拜邀请

    我们亲爱的朋友刘向东因急症抢救无效于2021年11月4日病逝, 离开了深爱的妻子于涛和两个上高中的儿子,享年49岁。刘向东于1972年2月29日生在中国济南,毕业于中国海洋大学,1995年获全额奖学金赴美麻州大学Amherst 分校硕博连读,后一直从事计算机行业。他热爱生活,对家庭有很强的责任感。刘向东于涛一家平时热心公益,时常为社区服务奉献他们的智慧和心血。


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  • Mayor-Elect Michelle Wu Announces Transition Co-Chairs and Advisors

    Boston, November 9, 2021 — Mayor-elect Michelle Wu today announced her official transition Co-Chairs, along with an initial list of transition advisors.


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  • Columbia University Honors 100th Anniversary of Dr. Mabel Ping-hua Lee’s Phd in Economics

    New York, Nov 5, 2021, — Columbia University will hold a webinar on Nov. 8 to honor Dr. Mabel Ping-hua Lee receiving Phd in Economics from Columbia 100 years ago. Mabel Ping-Hua Lee (李彬华, October 7, 1896 – 1966) was a Chinese-American women’s rights activist and minister who campaigned for women’s suffrage in the United States. Later in life, Lee became a Baptist minister, working with the First Chinese Baptist Church in NYC Chinatown.

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  • 2021 MIT-CHIEF 年度峰会成功举行

    【波士顿双语网2021年11月7日讯】2021年麻省理工学院中国创新与创业论坛(MIT-CHIEF)年度峰会于美东时间2021年11月6日至7日以线下方式在MIT校园中举办。峰会以“万物互联,生生不息”为主题,汇聚业界顶尖的科学家、企业家、投资人等数千名参会者一起,从“碳中和”、 “医疗科技”、“金融科技”、“供应链”、“未来科技公司”五大板块出发,共同探讨关乎人类未来的科技创新。今年是MIT-CHIEF创立十周年,该论坛过去十年来对推动中美两国之间在高科技创新创业等领域的合作、培养青年创新创业人才等方面取得卓越的成绩。

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    西德尼·奥尔特曼|Sidney Altman

    耶鲁大学分子、细胞和发育生物学及化学教授,1989年诺贝尔化学奖得主,美国艺术与科学学院院士、美国国家科学院院士。

    西德尼·奥尔特曼教授是加拿大杰出的生物学教授和化学教授。自从研究生毕业以来,他一直关注核酸的生物化学和tRNA表达的遗传学。奥尔特曼博士曾担任MIT教授、美国科学院院士、美国医学会首任主席,耶鲁大学分子生物学实验室主任,复旦大学首位名誉首席教授,中国科学院“爱因斯坦讲席教授”等多项职务。1989年,他与科罗拉多大学波尔得分校的Thomas Cech共同获得了1989年度诺贝尔化学奖。
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  • MARA to Host Launch Party at Kowloon Restaurant on Nov. 9

    Boston, Nov. 2, 2021, — The Massachusetts Asian Restaurant Association is set to host its official launch party on Tuesday, November 9 from 6:30 PM to 10 PM at the Kowloon Restaurant located at Route 1 North, Saugus, MA. Guest speakers include: Donald Wong and Tackey Chan, Massachusetts House or representatives, and Bob Luz, Massachusetts Restaurant Association President. American restaurateur, Ming Tsai will be on a video call for the event.

    Tickets for the event are $20 per person and include food and drinks from the Kowloon Restaurant with entertainment by the Steve Bankuti Trio. For tickets, go to www.ma-ara.org/registration.html
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  • Why I support Michelle Wu — A Personal Story

    By Leverett Wing

    My mother passed away 10 years ago.

    Mom was our family’s foundation, my emotional compass and, to that point, our eight year-old son Lleyton’s best friend. Her death was devastating to Lleyton, my wife Marian, and me.

    Chinese culture dictates that, at a wake/funeral, grieving families provide visitors candy and a coin (often used to spend on something sweet) wrapped in white paper as a way to help lessen the bitterness & sadness of death – an offering which Chinese-operated funeral homes usually take care of as part of their arrangements with families.
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  • 亚裔历史包容公益音乐会11月11日莱克星顿举行

    【波士顿双语网2021年11月1日讯】由莱克星顿高中(LHS)及周边高中学生组织的“亚裔美国人历史包容”公益音乐会将于11月11日美国退伍军人节当天在莱克星顿高中礼堂举行。

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  • 北大才女张泽意外死亡,上个月刚在《自然》发表论文

    【波士顿双语网2021年10月30日讯】10月15日,家住达拉斯的女留学生张泽突然去世,让她的亲友和同事们朋友们都感到无比悲伤。张泽毕业于北京大学,刚刚在德州大学取得博士学位几个月,却不幸去世。就在上个月23日,她作为第二作者的一篇论文刚刚在国际知名的学术期刊《自然》发表,是一篇融合人工智能(AI)和生物免疫学的重要论文。

    关于张泽意外死亡的原因有多种传闻,目前没有得到官方的证实,张泽的同事和友人们也恳请大家不要胡乱猜测。

    根据领英(Linkedin)的资料显示,张泽(Ze Zhang)2012年至2016年在北京大学就读本科,2016年至2021年在德克萨斯大学西南医学院获得博士学位,专业是生物医学工程,目前居住在达拉斯。

    在众筹网站GoFundMe上,张泽的朋友为她开通了捐款通道,筹款目标2万美元,为她举办葬礼之用,不过两天就获得了将近4万美元的捐款,许多捐款人都是她朋友,最多的一个直接捐了1000美元。

    她的朋友在在简介中写道:您可能已经知道,我们挚爱的朋友张泽于2021年10月15日意外去世。

    张泽出生并成长在中国东北,她的学术非常有成就,几个月前获得了博士学位,在达拉斯的5年里,她帮助过很多人,教新生如何开车,帮助别人上下班,她做了美味佳肴招待朋友。对于她的许多朋友来说,她一直是生命中宝贵而重要的一部分。

    朋友印象:开朗,爱做饭的女孩

    在简介后面,帖子晒出了许多张泽的日常照片,有工作场景的,也有生活场景的。

    “我不知道该说些什么,你和我的孩子一样大。我无法想象你的父母如何伤心。安息吧,我们思念和祈祷你的家人。”

    “泽,你的离去让我们所有人都陷入了最深的悲痛和难以置信中。所有人都怀念你,希望你在那边一切都好。”

    “说好等你打完加强针去吃你做的饭,你怎么说话不算数呢? 不敢相信真的是你。”

    “上次见你还是你来纽约我们一起笑笑打风打卡还说一定想找你过冬想到那是最后一次相见你是一定要去高维空间一个更自由的自己了”

    “带着东北姑娘的热情好客,以后要学会照顾自己,即使天堂里没有疾病和痛苦。”

    “时至今日还是难以相信。想起那时候的Game of throne watch party,无法相信那个乐观爱笑神经大条的party host就这样离我们远去了。rest in peace my friend, you will be forever missed.希望那边的第七季能好一点…”

    “只相识半年的我甚至觉得自己没有怀念的资格,还没来得及告诉你我对你的一见如故。你活的那么精彩灿烂,那么恣意洒脱,我真心实意地羡慕你的一切。我想,你这样的女孩,在彼岸也一定是潇洒快乐的,我不为你担心;不过,这次一定要好好照顾自己吖”

    “还等着你的大馕炕烤包子烤肉淹没我们的冰箱呢。We miss you.”

    下面是张泽等人在《自然》发表的论文的摘要。

    Deep learning-based prediction of the T cell receptor–antigen binding specificity (基于深度学习的 T 细胞受体-抗原结合特异性预测)

    Abstract

    Neoantigens play a key role in the recognition of tumour cells by T cells; however, only a small proportion of neoantigens truly elicit T-cell responses, and few clues exist as to which neoantigens are recognized by which T-cell receptors (TCRs). We built a transfer learning-based model named the pMHC–TCR binding prediction network (pMTnet) to predict TCR binding specificities of the neoantigens—and T cell antigens in general—presented by class I major histocompatibility complexes. pMTnet was comprehensively validated by a series of analyses and exhibited great advances over previous works. By applying pMTnet to human tumour genomics data, we discovered that neoantigens were generally more immunogenic than self-antigens, but human endogenous retrovirus E (a special type of self-antigen that is reactivated in kidney cancer) is more immunogenic than neoantigens. We further discovered that patients with more clonally expanded T cells that exhibit better affinity against truncal rather than subclonal neoantigens had more favourable prognosis and treatment response to immunotherapy in melanoma and lung cancer but not in kidney cancer. Predicting TCR–neoantigen/antigen pairing is one of the most daunting challenges in modern immunology; however, we achieved an accurate prediction of the pairing using only the TCR sequence (CDR3β), antigen sequence and class I major histocompatibility complex allele, and our work revealed unique insights into the interactions between TCRs and major histocompatibility complexes in human tumours, using pMTnet as a discovery tool.

  • ‘City As Canvas: Above The Free Walls’ by Director Weiying Huang Wins Best New England Documentary Award

    ‘City As Canvas: Above The Free Walls’ by Director Weiying Huang Wins Best New England Documentary Award


    Boston, Oct 27, 2021, — Chinese filmmaker Weiying Olivia Huang(pictured above) won the Best New England Documentary award at the Shawna Shea Film Festival (SSFF) for her documentary film ‘City as Canvas: Above the Free Walls.’ The SSFF is an independent international film festival established in 2012 by the Shawna E. Memorial Foundation Inc. to highlight and support independent films.
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  • 子女税优惠:收入有变化的家庭11月1日需在IRS网站更新

    【波士顿双语网2021年10月29日华府讯】美国国税局(IRS)将于周一(11月1日)推出一项新功能,允许每月收到子女税优惠款项的家庭使用子女税优惠更新门户 (CTC UP) 来更新他们的收入,该门户工具仅在国税局官网IRS.gov上提供。

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