Chapter 17 Nature
After Chen Yuanguang returned to Jiangnan University from Shudu, he was surrounded by glory. He first found his counselor and showed him the recommendation letter he had received from Mr. Michael Levitt. Then he said that he wanted to collaborate with Levitt to publish an article in Nature and needed to borrow the laboratory of the School of Life Sciences.

With the gold medal of the Science Fiction Rising Star Competition as proof, plus the recommendation letter signed by Levitt himself, the credibility of this matter is very high. Moreover, for Jiangnan University, the laboratory that Chen Yuanguang wants is not a very novel thing. Not to mention publishing in the main journal of Nature, even if it is just a Nature sub-journal, it will be a lucrative business for them.

The counselor quickly went to see the dean and helped Chen Yuanguang coordinate the laboratory.

After the coordination, the counselor surnamed Liu was full of emotion: "Yuan Guang, you are really unexpected.

You were writing novels so well, why do you want to go abroad again? "

With Levitt's recommendation letter, the world is so big and there are many places I can go. I used to only be able to apply to US50 universities, but now I can apply to universities within US20.

If Nature publishes it, you can choose any of the top ten universities.

"Counselor, I still want to go out and have a look." Chen Yuanguang said after taking the key from the counselor.

The instructor surnamed Liu suddenly realized something: "It's because of Lin Jia, I didn't expect you to be such a lovesick person."

Chen Yuanguang didn't explain much: "Instructor, just wait for my good news."

Computer simulation of directed evolution of proteins is not a difficult experiment. For Chen Yuanguang, who has a full knowledge of theoretical knowledge, it took him about two weeks to transform a non-functional short peptide into a peptide segment that can bind to nucleic acids.

This result is enough to prove the feasibility of the simulation method he designed.

After the experimental results were sent to Levitt, Levitt reproduced the experiment faster and replied to him within a week, asking him to combine the two experimental results so that the entire paper could be published.

With Levitt's endorsement, the review was completed in two weeks and it was published in the main journal Nature before November.

For any university in China, publishing in Nature is news worthy of occupying the front page of the official website, especially when it is published by undergraduate students.

Moreover, the first author and corresponding author of this paper are both Chen Yuanguang, and Levitt is just a figurehead.

"For the first time in history! Jiangnan University undergraduate student published a paper in Nature as the first author, completing more than 90% of the work independently"

"Nature published a long article on the research results of Chen Yuanguang from the School of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences of Jiangcheng University on a new method of protein simulation directed evolution.

The first unit of the paper is Jiangcheng University, the first author is Chen Yuanguang, a 2015 undergraduate student of the School of Chemistry and Molecular Biology of Jiangcheng University, and Michael Levitt, a Nobel Prize winner at Stanford University, is the second author of the paper.

After Nature published the article, Jiangnan University’s official website quickly published the news, and also publicized it extensively on its WeChat public account and Weibo.

For Jiangnan University, this is a good opportunity to surpass Jiangcheng University of Science and Technology in this year's enrollment. Our undergraduates have won science fiction awards and published in Nature. They are well-rounded in moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic and labor development. Have you cultivated such good undergraduates?
The struggle between Luojia Mountain and Yujia Mountain has a long history. Their score lines are similar, they are both in Jiangcheng, and they each have their own strengths and weaknesses. Even being collectively called Huawu cannot eliminate the habit of comparison between the two sides.

"For this year's enrollment, the score line for the School of Chemistry must go up by at least five points," joked the director of the teaching management office in charge of enrollment.

Instructor Liu said, "Five points? At least ten points! When we lead a team to high schools to do publicity this year, we can talk about Chen Yuanguang's case over and over again."

The office director said: "The disadvantages of biochemistry and environmental materials have been around for a long time. It is difficult to find a job in chemistry, which has led many parents to be skeptical about it. If Chen Yuanguang was a student from the School of Biology, he would not even get five extra points.

Nowadays, everyone is very realistic, and majors that are difficult to find jobs in just cannot command the price.

If we were majoring in computer science, I believe we could raise the score by ten points. "Counselor Liu: "You are right."

The office director then asked, "I've heard of Chen Yuanguang before, but I didn't expect that he would release such a big satellite for us when he is about to graduate from his senior year.

The dean of the School of Life Sciences and the vice secretary of the university were looking for me. The School of Life Sciences was so mean! They asked me if I could say that Chen Yuanguang was jointly trained by the School of Chemistry and the School of Life Sciences, since the paper was at the intersection of structural biology and computational biology.

We finally came up with something popular, and they want to take half of it.

The school's deputy secretary asked me if it was possible to keep Chen Yuanguang in the school for graduate studies and let Boss Deng's team guide him.

We can guarantee him that he will stay on as an assistant professor after he graduates with a Ph.D. and we will guarantee him a job. You can try to find out if he doesn't want to, forget it. We won't be the bad guys, we just mentioned it."

The office director saw it very clearly. With Chen Yuanguang's Nobel Prize recommendation letter and a first-author article in Nature in hand, it would be easy for him to apply for a direct doctorate at a top overseas university, produce some results, and then come back to become a young talent.

Therefore, the offer from Jiangnan University had no appeal to Chen Yuanguang at all. That was why the college refused to do the job. The office director wanted to maintain this relationship and let Chen Yuanguang return to the School of Chemistry to teach after he graduated with a doctorate.

The counselor named Liu agreed immediately and then forwarded the news of Chen Yuanguang's publication in Nature to the student groups of various chemistry colleges.

"@Everyone, senior student Chen Yuanguang published a paper in Nature as the first author. Everyone should learn from him and strive to achieve scientific research results before graduating from college." This was sent to freshmen, sophomores, and juniors.

“@Everyone, Chen Yuanguang has published in Nature. Anyone who wants to publish in Nature can ask me privately.” This was sent to seniors, graduate students, and doctoral students.

It’s okay for the younger students who saw this news. They are all in their middle school years and have great ambitions in their hearts. They know that it is difficult to publish in Nature, but they can always publish in a local journal.

When students in their senior year and above saw this, they were shocked.

"Director Liu, stop kidding. If I could publish in Nature, even pigs would climb trees."

"The God of Light is starting to make a move, with the Science Fiction Rising Star and Nature."

"The God of Light is awesome"

"The God of Light is awesome"

Chen Yuanguang's former roommate posted an emoticon package made with Chen Yuanguang's photo in the group, with the words "Guangshen is awesome" written on it, and everyone started to reply with the same emoticon package.

Chen Yuanguang glanced at the group and felt secretly happy. He didn't feel much about publishing it in Nature, but he was very happy to see his classmates, who he had been with for four years, complimenting him like this.

When I first came to college, everyone was calling each other gods, and we were all gods. As time went by, everyone began to realize that we were all mortals, and gradually no one called us that anymore.

People generally call him Yuan Guang. After winning the Science Fiction Rising Star Award, his nickname in school became Great Writer, and now it has been directly upgraded to God of Light.

Although Chen Yuanguang won the Science Fiction Rising Star Contest award, people are not deeply touched, because there are too few people taking this path, and no one's goal is to be a writer, let alone a writer in the niche field of science fiction.

　There is still time before twelve o'clock at night
　　
　
(End of this chapter)