Dr Yaoqin Hong
Faculty of Health,
School of Biomedical Sciences
Biography
Yaoqin Hong received his PhD in 2014 from the University of Sydney, Australia. He then spent two years working with John Cronan as a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, to elucidate the biosynthesis and metabolism of bacterial fatty acids and fatty acid-derived enzyme co-factors before temporarily leaving research due to severe illness. Hong’s highlighted works include defining the substrate preference of Wzx flippase and Wzy polymerase and their respective roles in bacterial polysaccharide biogenesis, raising the current working model of how WaaL ligase adjusts polysaccharide repeat-unit supply to demand in Salmonella enterica and discovering the evolutionary moonlighting events of the ancient lipoic acid biosynthetic pathways. He returned to research in 2018 as a postdoctoral fellow at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia, working with Associate Professor Makrina Totsika and developing his research topics in the Gram-negative cell surface and membrane biogenesis.
Personal details
Positions
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Faculty of Health,
School of Biomedical Sciences
Research field
Medical Biochemistry and Metabolomics, Medical Microbiology
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- Ph.D (Molecular Microbiology) (University of Sydney)
Professional memberships and associations
Professional member, Australian Society for Microbiology Member, American Society for Microbiology Member, Australian Society for Medical Research
Teaching
Dr Hong had been a teaching associate at the University of Sydney from 2009 to 2013. He also supervised or mentored a number of Honours students, MPhil, PhD students during his times at the University of Sydney, the University of Illinois and the Queensland University of Technology. Hong also gave guest lectures and seasonal lectures at the School of Biomedical Sciences.
Publications
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Yaoqin, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).