Feng Gao, Ph. D.
Associated Professor
1997 - 2001 B.S., Nankai University, Tianjin
2001 - 2004 M.S., Nankai University, Tianjin
2004 - 2007 Ph.D., Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou
2012 Postdoctoral fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
2013 - 2015 Hong Kong Scholar Postdoctoral fellow, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
2007 Assistant professor，Department of Chemistry, Sun Yat-Sen University
2015 Associate professor，Department of Chemistry, Yunnan University
Teaching:
Undergraduate Course: "Inorganic Chemistry", "Inorganic Chemistry Experiments"
Postgraduate Course: "Coordination Chemistry", "Biological Inorganic Chemistry"
Research Interests
Biochemistry and medical chemistry, including the antitumor and anti-HIV activity of fluorescent transition metal complexes and the underlying mechanism, by the method of spectroscopy, molecular biology and quantum chemistry calculation based on density function theory.
Representative Publications
[1] Zhu-Xin Zhou, Feng Gao*, Xing Chen, Xiang-Jing Tian, and Liang-Nian Ji, Selective Binding and Reverse Transcription Inhibition of Single-Strand poly(A) RNA by Metal TMPyP Complexes, Inorganic Chemistry, 2014, 53, 10015−10017.
[2] Feng Gao*, Xing Chen, Jin-Quan Wang, Yu Chen, Hui Chao*, Liang-Nian Ji*, In Vitro Transcription Inhibition by Ruthenium(II) Polypyridyl Complexes with Electropositive Ancillary Ligands, Inorganic Chemistry, 2009, 48, 5599−5601.
[3] Du Liu, Yanan Liu, Chuan Wang, Shuo Shi, Dongdong Sun, Feng Gao*, Qianling Zhang, Jie Liu*, Polypyridyl Complexes of Ruthenium(II): Stabilization of G-quadruplex DNA and Inhibition of Telomerase Activity, CHEMPLUSCHEM, 2012, 77, 551−562.
[4] Xing Chen, Feng Gao*, Zhu-Xin Zhou, Wei-Yan Yang, Li-Tian Guo, Liang-Nian Ji*, Effect of ancillary ligands on the topoisomerases II and transcription inhibition activity of polypyridyl ruthenium(II) complexes, Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, 2010, 104, 576−582.
[5] Jiangxi Chen, Ka-Ho Lee, Tingbin Wen, Feng Gao, Herman, H. Y. Sung, Ian D. Williams, Zhenyang Lin, Guochen Jia, Rearrangement of Metallabenzynes to Chlorocyclopentadienyl Complexes, Organometallics, 2015, 34, 890−896.
