A new book “Typhoon Impact and Crisis Management”, edited by Dr. TANG Danling (South China Sea Institute of oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences) and SUI Guangjun (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies) is recently published by Springer, the world’s largest publisher i...
07 15, 2014Mesoscale eddies, on scales of 50 ~ 500 km, time scale of 10 ~ 100 days and with advection speed of several kilometers per day, are one of the most striking phenomenon in the world oceans. Eddy-induced mass and heat transport or other eddy-related dynamic processes are all sup...
07 08, 2014The 2nd Mini-Symposium on Microbial Natural Products organizied by CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology (LMB) was successfully held on June 25th in Guangzhou. Invited by Prof. ZHANG Si, the director of South China Sea Institute of Oceanology (SCSIO)...
06 30, 2014Chromone derivatives are naturally occurring compounds widely found in plants and fungi, exhibiting potential therapeutic indication. However, few natural dihydrothiophene-condensed chromones were reported. Researchers of South China Sea Institute of Oceanology and Guangzhou I...
06 27, 2014Toxin/antitoxin (TA) systems are widespread in bacteria and archaea, and play prominent roles in cell physiology including altruistic behavior such as phage inhibition, global gene regulation, and tolerance to antibiotics. The cellular targets of these toxins are quite diverse...
06 17, 2014Convened by Professor Zhen Sun, the International Workshop “Dynamics of subduction zone and transform faults: implications on earthquakes and tsunamis” was held in Guangzhou from May 30 to June 1, 2014. More than 80 researchers and graduate students from 15 institutes or ...
06 10, 2014