Dr Hee-Jeon Hong

Senior Lecturer
Biological and Medical Sciences
Oxford Brookes University
United Kingdom

Academician Microbiology
Biography

1999 - 2002 Doctor of Philosophy, Biological Science, John Innes Centre/University of East Anglia, UK 1996 - 1998 PhD course completion, Biochemical Engineering, Seoul National University, South Korea 1994 - 1996 Master of Engineering, Biotechnology, Inha University, South Korea 1990 - 1994 Bachelor of Engineering, Biotechnology, Inha University, South Korea 2016 - present Senior Lecturer, Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, UK 2006 - 2015 Research Group Head, Royal Society University Fellow, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, UK 2002 - 2006 Postdoctoral research fellow, John Innes Centre, UK

Research Intrest

The development of resistance to existing antibiotics, coupled with a sustained decline in the success rate of the discovery of new ones, is currently leading to a point in the future where many infections could essentially be untreatable by the compounds that are available

List of Publications
Zarkan, A., Macklyne, H.-R., Truman, A.W., Hesketh, A.R., and Hong, H.-J. (2016) The frontline antibiotic vancomycin induces a zinc starvation response in bacteria by binding to zinc(II). Sci. Rep. 6:19602.
Hesketh, A., and Hong, H.-J. (2016) Microarray analysis to monitor bacterial cell wall homeostasis. Methods Mol Biol. 1440:31-46.
Hong, H.-J. (2016) Construction of a bioassay system to identify extracellular agents targeting bacterial cell envelope. Methods Mol Biol. 1440:125-137.
Lee, D.-R., Cheng, J., Lee, S.-K., Hong, H.-J., Song, J., Yang, S.H., and Suh, J.-W. (2016) Anti-multi drug resistant pathogen activity of siderochelin A, produced by a novel Amycolatopsis sp. KCTC 29142. Korean J. Microbiol. 52:327-345.
Zarkan, A., Macklyne, H.-R., Chirgadze, D.Y., Bond, A.D., Hesketh, A.R., and Hong, H.-J. (2017) Zn(II) mediates vancomycin polymerization and potentiates its antibiotic activity against resistant bacteria. Sci. Rep. Accepted.