At the invitation of the School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Yang Wei, an internationally renowned biochemist and structural biologist, visited the school and gave a lecture entitled “DNA translesion synthesis and a new paradigm for enzyme catalysis” on April 14, 2017. Afterwards, she visited the university’s Biodynamics Optical Imaging Center (BIOPIC).

Yang is also a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences and senior professor at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) of the US. Her lecture was hosted by Professor Su Xiaodong, executive deputy director of BIOPIC and president of the single molecule special branch of the Biophysical Society of China.