Mei Hong Professor of Chemistr

Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University

Mei Hong

Professor of Chemistry
Gilman 1605
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 - present        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

Research interests
           Elucidation of the structure, dynamics, orientation of membrane peptides and proteins. Antimicrobial peptide structure and function. Influenza M2 proton channel structure and dynamics. Structure of carbohydrates in plant cell walls and biomimetic materials. Development of high-resolution solid-state NMR techniques for structure determination of biological macromolecules.
　

(updated 03/2010)

Professor Mei Hong
Department of Chemistry
0108 Gilman Hall, Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa 50011-3111
Tel: 515-294-3521
Fax: 515-294-0105
Email: mhong@iastate.edu

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