Young Hong
assistant professor

Department(s):
Tropical Medicine

Email:
young@tulane.edu

Research Interests:
Molecular entomology; gene expression in mosquitos; mosquito/parasite interactions

Professional Achievements:
Postdoctoral Fellowship American Heart Association 1997 - 1999
The president's prize Student Competition, Entomological Society of America December 1992
David-Ross Scholarship Purdue University 1991 - 1993
General Scholarship Korea University 1983 - 1984

Educational Background:
Post-doctoral, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Post-doctoral, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
PhD,Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
MS, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
BS, Korea University, Seoul, Korea

Publications:
Ryoo, M.I., Y.S. Hong, and C.K. Yoo. (1991). Relationship between temperature and development of Lariophagus distinguendus (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae), an ectoparasitoid of Sitophilus oryzae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Journal of Economic Entomology. 84 (3): 825-829.

Hong, Y.S. and M.I. Ryoo. (1991). Effect of temperature on the functional and numerical responses of Lariophagus distinguendus (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) to various densities of the host, Sitophilus oryzae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Journal of Economic Entomology. 84 (3): 837-840.

Reuveni, M., Y.S. Hong, P.E. Dunn, and J.J. Neal. (1993). Leucine transport into brush border membrane vesicles from guts of Leptinotarsa decemlineata and Manduca sexta. Comparative Biochemistry & Physiology A-Comparative Physiology. 104: 267-272.

Hong, Y.S., M. Reuveni, and J.J. Neal. (1995). A sodium- and potassium-stimulated tyrosine transporter from Leptinotarsa decemlineata midguts. Journal of Insect Physiology. 41 (6): 527-533.

Neal, J.J., D. Wu, Y.S. Hong, and M. Reuveni. (1996) High affinity transport of histidine and methionine across Leptinotarsa decemlineata midgut brush border membrane. Journal of Insect Physiology. 42 (4): 329-335.

Hong, Y.S. and Neal, J.J. (1997) Tyrosine transporter in larval Leptinotarsa decemlineata midgut brush border membrane. Insect Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. 27 (3): 193-200.

Li, C., C. Geng, H.-T. Leung, Y.S. Hong, L.L.R. Strong, S. Schneuwly, and W.L. Pak. (1999). INAF, a novel protein required for TRP Ca2+ channel function. PNAS, USA. 96 (23): 13474-9.

Yoon, J., H. Cohen-BenAmi, Y.S. Hong, S. Park, L.L.R. Strong, J. Bowman, K. Baek, B. Minke, and W.L. Pak. (2000). Novel mechanism of massive photoreceptor degeneration caused by mutations in the trp gene of Drosophila. J. Neuroscience. 20(2): 649-59.

Hong, Y. S., Yoon, Y., Geng, C., Bowman, J. D., and Pak, W. L. (2002). A single amino acid change in the fifth transmembrane segment of the TRP Ca2+ channel causes massive degeneration of photoreceptors. J. Biol. Chem. 277: 33884-33889.

Thomasova, D., Ton, L.Q., Copley, R., Zdobnov, E., Wang, X., Hong, Y.S., Sim, C., Bork, P., Kafatos, F.C., and Collins, F.H. (2002). Comparative genomic analysis in the region of a major Plasmodium-refractoriness locus of Anopheles gambiae. PNAS, USA. 99: 8179-84.

Holt, R.A., et. al. (2002). The genome sequence of the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae. Science 298: 129.

Hong, Y.S., Hogan, J.R., Wang, X., Sarkar, A., Sim, C., Loftus, B.J., Ren, C., Huff, E.R., Carlile, J.L., Black, K., Zhang, H.-B., Gardner, M.J., and Collins, F.H. (2003). Construction and Characterization of a BAC Library and Generation of BAC End Sequence-tagged Connectors for Genome Sequencing of African Malaria Mosquito Anopheles gambiae. Molecular Genetics and Genomics 268: 720-728.

Sarkar, A., Sim, C, Hong, Y.S., Fraser, M., Robertson, H., and Collins, F.H. (2003). piggyBac element related sequences are present in diverse eukaryotic genomes. Molecular Genetics and Genomics 270: 173-180.

Y. S. Hong, L. Q. Ton, and F. H. Collins. (2003). On Methods of Germ-line Transformation and RNA Interference in African Malaria Mosquito, Anopheles gambiae. J. Asia-Pacific Entomol. 6(2): 111-117.

Ali N. Dana*, Young S. Hong*, Marcia Kern, Maureen E. Hillenmeyer, Brent Harker, Neil F. Lobo, James R. Hogan, Patricia Romans, Frank H. Collins. (2005). Microarray study of hematophagy-associated expression of abdomen-derived genes in adult female Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes. BMC Genomics. 6:5.*: Equal contribution.

Sim C, Hong YS, Vanlandingham DL, Harker BW, Christophides GK, Kafatos FC, Higgs S, Collins FH. (2005). Modulation of Anopheles gambiae gene expression in response to o'nyong-nyong virus infection. Insect Mol Biol. 14:475-81.

Kang S, Hong YS. RNA interference in infectious tropical diseases. Korean J Parasitol. 2008 Mar;46(1):1-15.

Kang S, Sim C, Byrd BD, Collins FH, Hong YS. Ex vivo promoter analysis of antiviral heat shock cognate 70B gene in Anopheles gambiae. Virol J. 2008 Nov 5;5:136.

Choi CW, Hong YS, Kim SI. (2008). Application of free-flow electrophoresis/2-dimentional gel electrophoresis for fractionation and characterization of native proteome of Pseudomonas putida KT2440. J Microbiol. 46:448-55.

Contact Information:
1440 Canal Street
New Orleans, LA 70112
Phone: 504.988.6946
Fax: 504.988.7313
Email: young@tulane.edu

Level of Instruction:
Graduate