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Mei Hong
Professor of Chemistry
0219 Hach Hall
Department of Chemistry
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
Tel: 515-294-3521
E-mail: mhong@iastate.edu
Education
90 - 92
B. A. Chemistry, summa cum laude, Mount Holyoke College, MA
92 - 96 Ph.D. Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley (Advisor:
Alexander Pines).
Positions
96 - 97 NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT (Advisor: Robert G. Griffin).
97 - 99 Research Assistant Professor, Department of Polymer Science and
Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
99 - 03 Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Iowa State University
03 - 05
Associate Professor of Chemistry, Iowa State University
05 - now Professor of Chemistry, Iowa State University
07 - 10
John D. Corbett Professor of Chemistry, Iowa State University
Awards and
Honors
1998 National Science Foundation POWRE Award
1999 Beckman Young Investigator Award, Beckman Foundation
2000
Research Innovation Award, Research Corporation
2001 National Science Foundation CAREER Award
2002 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, Sloan Foundation
2003 American Chemical Society Pure Chemistry Award
2003 Early Achievement in Research/Artistic Creativity Award,
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Iowa State University
2004
Mary Lyon Award, Alumnae Association, Mount Holyoke College
2006
Agnes Fay Morgan Research Award, Iota Sigma Pi
2007
Iowa State University Mid-Career Research Award
2007 John D. Corbett Professorship
2010 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Fellow
2010
Founders Medal, International Council on Magnetic Resonance in
Biological Systems (ICMRBS)
2012
Protein Society Irving Sigal Young Investigator Award
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Research
interests
We are interested in
understanding the structural basis for the function of membrane peptides
and proteins and other insoluble biological macromolecules. Our primary
tool is magic-angle-spinning solid-state NMR spectroscopy. We are
currently investigating the conformation, dynamics, orientation,
oligomeric assembly, and intermolecular interactions of the influenza M2
proton channel, viral fusion peptides, cationic membrane peptides, and
polysaccharides and glycoproteins of plant cell walls. To answer
important biomedical and biophysical questions, we continue to design
new and improve existing high-resolution solid-state NMR techniques.
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