KONG Lingbing

Researcher Information

Degree

• DPhil（University of Oxford）

Research funding number

• 20798384

J-Global ID

• 201701001637527387

Research Interests

• rare sugar   

Research Areas

• Nanotechnology/Materials / Biochemistry / Biological chemistry

Academic & Professional Experience

• 2022/01 - Today  Kagawa UniversityInternational Instutute of Rare Sugar Research and EducationAssociate Professor
• 2023/08 - 2023/09  Visiting Associate Professor of ImmunologyHarvard Medical SchoolVisiting Associate Professor
• 2022/08 - 2022/09  Visiting Associate Professor of ImmunologyHarvard Medical School
• 2017/01 - 2021/12  Kagawa UniversityInternational Institute of Rare Sugar Research and EducationAssistant Professor
• 2017/02 - 2019/01  University of OxfordChemistryAcademic Visitor
• 2016/08 - 2016/12  University of SussexSussex Drug Discovery CentreResearch Fellow
• 2016/05 - 2016/07  University of OxfordChemistryPostdoctoral research associate (Senior)
• 2013/02 - 2016/04  University of OxfordChemistryPostdoctoral research associate
• 2011/10 - 2013/01  University of OxfordChemistryPostdoctoral research assistant
• 2010/11 - 2011/09  University of OxfordChemistryWellcome Trust VIP Postdoctoral research assistant

Education

• 2007/01 - 2011/01  University of Oxford  Department of Chemistry

Association Memberships

• Royal Society of Chemistry   

Published Papers

• Revelation of Function and Inhibition of Wza Through Single-Channel Studies

  Lingbing Kong

  2186 63 - 76 2021
• A monodisperse transmembrane alpha-helical peptide barrel

  Kozhinjampara R. Mahendran; Ai Niitsu; Lingbing Kong; Andrew R. Thomson; Richard B. Sessions; Derek N. Woolfson; Hagan Bayley

  NATURE CHEMISTRY 9 (5) 411 - 419 1755-4330 2017/05 [Refereed]
  
• Chemical polyglycosylation and nanolitre detection enables single-molecule recapitulation of bacterial sugar export

  Lingbing Kong; Andrew Almond; Hagan Bayley; Benjamin G. Davis

  NATURE CHEMISTRY 8 (5) 461 - 469 1755-4330 2016/05 [Refereed]
  
• An antibacterial vaccination strategy based on a glycoconjugate containing the core lipopolysaccharide tetrasaccharide Hep(2)Kdo(2)

  Lingbing Kong; Balakumar Vijayakrishnan; Michael Kowarik; Jin Park; Alexandra N. Zakharova; Larissa Neiwert; Amirreza Faridmoayer; Benjamin G. Davis

  NATURE CHEMISTRY 8 (3) 242 - 249 1755-4330 2016/03 [Refereed]
  
• Quantitative hopanoid analysis enables robust pattern detection and comparison between laboratories

  C. -H. Wu; L. Kong; M. Bialecka-Fornal; S. Park; A. L. Thompson; G. Kulkarni; S. J. Conway; D. K. Newman

  GEOBIOLOGY 13 (4) 391 - 407 1472-4677 2015/07 [Refereed]
  
• Single-molecule interrogation of a bacterial sugar transporter allows the discovery of an extracellular inhibitor

  Lingbing Kong; Leon Harrington; Qiuhong Li; Stephen Cheley; Benjamin G. Davis; Hagan Bayley

  NATURE CHEMISTRY 5 (8) 651 - 659 1755-4330 2013/08 [Refereed]
  
• Direct ether formation of semibenzopinacol moieties in a photopolymerization system featured constant intensity of absorbed light

  Lingbing Kong; Hanping Deng; Xin Liu; Wantai Yang

  EUROPEAN POLYMER JOURNAL 44 (1) 244 - 255 0014-3057 2008/01 [Refereed]
  
• Photografting of unable-to-be-irradiated surfaces. II. Batch liquid-phase process by one-step method

  Zhengdong Zhang; Lingbing Kong; Jianping Deng; Huiyue Luo; Wantai Yang

  JOURNAL OF APPLIED POLYMER SCIENCE 103 (1) 118 - 124 0021-8995 2007/01 [Refereed]
  
• Detailed 1D/2D NMR analyses of benzophenone-related reaction products from a photopolymerization system of vinyl acetate and benzophenone

  Lingbing Kong; Jianping Deng; Wantai Yang

  MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS 207 (24) 2311 - 2320 1022-1352 2006/12 [Refereed]
  
• Photografting of unable-to-be-irradiated surfaces. I. Batch vapor-phase process by one-step method

  ZD Zhang; LB Kong; JP Deng; P Yang; WT Yang

  JOURNAL OF APPLIED POLYMER SCIENCE 101 (4) 2269 - 2276 0021-8995 2006/08 [Refereed]
  
• Facile surface superhydrophilic modification: NVP/MBA inverse microemulsion surface-grafting polymerization initiated by UV light

  YX Wang; JP Deng; WB Zhong; LB Kong; WT Yang

  MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS 26 (22) 1788 - 1793 1022-1336 2005/11 [Refereed]
  

Industrial Property Rights

• 特許9963518:Cyclic oligosaccharides for use in the treatment and prevention of bacterial infection  2018/05/08

  KONG Lingbing, Davis, Benjamin G, Bayley Hagan

Research Grants & Projects

• A Novel Strategy to Discover Rare Sugar Oligosaccharides' Potentials in Immunological Applications

  科学技術振興機構：

  Date (from‐to) : 2022 -2024 

  Author : KONG LINGBING

   

  生体分子複合体は、様々な病原体に対する免疫誘導因子として医療現場への適用が検討され始めています。オックスフォード大学・香川大学での抗菌誘導に関する研究成果を基に、本研究では免疫学的応用に向けた様々な病原菌標識に用いる希少糖オリゴ糖を含む多機能生体分子を作成します。これらの生体分子は、病原体のみが持つ酵素による活性化で標的細胞の膜に沈着され、このタグ付けされた細胞を除去する手法の確立を目指します。
• A multidisciplinary research program to enable the discovery of inhibitors of colanic acid excretion in bacteria

  JSPS：Basic Research (B)

  Date (from‐to) : 2018/04 -2021/03 

  Author : KONG Lingbing
• Computer-aided development of stronger channel blockers against polysaccharide transporter Wza

  JSPS：Startup

  Date (from‐to) : 2017/04 -2018/03 

  Author : KONG Lingbing

Committee Membership

• 2016/06 - Today   Royal Society of Chemistry

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