Dr Hong Li

Dr Hong Li

Post-doctoral researcher (2005-2007)

Hong completed his BSc, MSc and PhD in China before moving to the University of Osnabrück (Germany) in 2003, for his first post-doctoral position in Frank Seela’s group. He joined the Brown group in 2005, working on triplex-mediated methods of gene inhibition. He moved to the National Institute on Aging, NIH, in 2007, and to the University of Maryland in 2009. He now works as a Staff Scientist at LaserGen, Inc. in Houston, Texas.

4 Papers

Triplex staples: DNA double-strand cross-linking at internal and terminal sites using psoralen-containing triplex-forming oligonucleotides

H. Li, V. J. Broughton-Head, G. M. Peng, V. E. C. Powers, M. J. Ovens, K. R. Fox and T. Brown. Bioconjugate Chem. 17 (6), 1561-1567, 2006.

Photoinduced crosslinking of double-helical DNA by psoralen covalently linked to a triple helix-forming oligonucleotide under near-physiological conditions

H. Li, V. J. Broughton-Head, K. R. Fox and T. Brown. Nucleosides Nucleotides Nucl. Acids 26 (8-9), 1005-1009, 2007.

Deuterated water as super solvent for short carbon nanotubes wrapped by DNA

Q. H. Yang, N. Gale, C. J. Oton, H. Li, I. S. Nandhakumar, Z. Y. Tang, T. Brown and W. H. Loh. Carbon 45 (13), 2701-2703, 2007.

Characterization and use of an unprecedentedly bright and structurally non-perturbing fluorescent DNA base analogue

P. Sandin, K. Borjesson, H. Li, J. Martensson, T. Brown, L. M. Wilhelmsson and B. Albinsson. Nucleic Acids Res. 36 (1), 157-167, 2008.