Zeng Rong facts for kids

Zeng Rong is a Chinese scientist who studies biochemistry. She works on understanding proteins and how they behave. Proteins are super important molecules in our bodies that do almost everything! Zeng Rong is a professor at the Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology in Shanghai, China.

Education

Zeng Rong finished her first degree in Biology in 1995 at Hunan Normal University in China. Later, in 2000, she earned her PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology. She did this at the Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, which is part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. A famous protein expert named Xia Qichang was her mentor.

Career

After getting her PhD in 2000, Zeng Rong started working at the same institute. She helps guide students who are getting their own PhDs. She also leads her own research team.

Her work is well-known in the science world. In 2005, she was asked to be an editor for a science magazine called Proteomics. The next year, she became an editor for another magazine, Molecular and Cell Proteomics. In 2009, she joined a special committee for the Human Proteome Organization (HUPO), which is a big group of scientists studying proteins.

Zeng Rong has also received important awards. These include the National Science Fund in 2004 and the Chinese Young Women in Science Fellowship Award in 2005.

Researching Proteins

Zeng Rong's main work focuses on proteomics. This is the study of all the proteins in a living thing, and how they change and move. She leads a team that tries to find new ways to study proteins. They also use these methods to understand how proteins work in our bodies.

Her team has created new tools for proteomics research. One tool is called multi-dimensional LC-MS/MS. This helps them find and measure many proteins at once. They use these tools to study things like cell signaling (how cells talk to each other) and to find signs of diseases like diabetes. They have also studied proteins in and around liver cancer cells, which helps us understand liver cancer better.

To learn how proteins change and move, Zeng Rong's team looks at different types of biological information. They combine data about epigenetics (how genes are turned on or off), transcriptomics (all the RNA in a cell), and MiRNA (tiny RNA molecules). By putting all this information together with protein data, they can see how different molecules in our bodies work together.

Contributions to Science

Zeng Rong has written many important scientific papers. These papers have been published in well-known journals like Nature, Science, and Proteomics. Her research has helped science in several ways:

• Some of her experimental results have been used to help develop new vaccines.
• Her studies on large-scale protein profiling have led to new ideas for medical uses.
• Her team's discoveries have shown that some basic ways cells work are similar in bacteria and humans.
• Figures from her papers have been used by other scientists to confirm their own research findings.