TOPIC：A novel electron-transfer mechanism in DNA repair by photolyases

SPEAKER：Prof. Dongping Zhong (仲冬平教授) , Department of Physics, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University ,Columbus,USA

TIME：September 29 (Thursday) PM16:00 
VENUE：Room 518, Chemistry Building A (化学A楼518会议室)

INVITER：陈接胜 教授
 

Biography

Dongping Zhong received his B.S. in laser physics from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China and his Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from California Institute of Technology under Ahmed Zewail (1999 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry). For his Ph.D. work, Dr. Zhong received the Herbert Newby McCoy Award and the Milton and Francis Clauser Doctoral Prize from Caltech. He continued his postdoctoral research at Caltech with focus on protein dynamics. In 2002, he joined The Ohio State University as an Assistant Professor and currently he is Robert Smith Professor of Physics and Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry. He is a Packard Fellow, Sloan Fellow, Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, Guggenheim Fellow, APS Fellow, AAAS Fellow, as well as the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and the OCPA Outstanding Young Researcher Award. He is the committee member in the International July of Physical Science, The L’Oreal-UNESCO awards for Women in Science. His research interests integrate laser spectroscopy and molecular biology to study biomolecular interactions and dynamics, especially DAN-damage repair through long collaboration with Aziz Sancar (2015 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry).