Dr Gang Zheng

• Qualifications
• Biography
• Research
• Selected Publications
• Grants/Current Projects 
• Teaching Interests
• Awards/Honours  

Qualifications

BEng, MEng, PhD

Biography

Dr Gang Zheng is a Research Lecturer in NMR/MRI in the School of Biomedical and Health Sciences.

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Research

Gang's research interests include development and application of new Pulse Gradient Solid Echo (PGSE) Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) diffusion experiments, solvent signal suppression in NMR experiments, protein aggregation, peptide-lipid interactions, environmental monitoring, quantitative structure and activity/property relationship (QSAR/QSPR) studies of persistent organic pollutants, and the application of pattern recognition to environmental science. 

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Selected Publications

Zheng, G., Krause-Heuer, A., & Price, W.S. (in press). PGSE-NMR. In Metallointercalators-Synthesis, Techniques to Probe Their Interactions with Biomolecules.(J. R. Aldrich-Wright Eds) 

Zheng, G., Torres, A.M., Ali, M., Manolios, N., & Price, W.S. (in press). NMR study of secondary structure and self-association of core peptide in solution. Biopolymers.

Price, W.S., Stait-Gardner, T., Torres, A.M., & Zheng, G. (2010) Developments in NMR diffusion measurements and q-space imaging. Chinese Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 27, 267-.

Willis, S.A., Dennis, G.R., Zheng, G., & Price, W.S. (2010). Averaging effects in PGSE NMR attenuations observed in bimodal molecular weight PMMA solutions. Macromolecules, 43, 7351-7356.

Willis, S.A., Dennis, G.R., Zheng, G., & Price, W.S. (2010). Hydrodynamic size and scaling relations for linear and 4 arm star PVAc studied using PGSE NMR. Journal of Molecular Liquids, 156, 45-51.

Zheng, G., & Price, W.S. (2010). Solvent signal suppression in NMR. Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, 56, 267-288. Impact factor: 6.2

Torres, A.M., Zheng, G., & Price, W.S. (2010). J-compensated PGSE: An improved NMR diffusion experiment with fewer phase-distortions. Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry, 48, 129-133.

Stait-Gardner, T., Willis, S.A., Yadav, N., Zheng, G., & Price, W.S. (2009). NMR Diffusion Measurements of Complex Systems. In: Diffusion Fundamentals III, (C. Chmelik, N. Kanellopoulos, J. Kärger, and D. Theodorou, Eds.), Leipzig University Press. pp. 183-204. ISBN: 978-3-86583-387-7. (Invited chapter).

Zheng, G., & Price, W.S. (2009). Simultaneous convection compensation and solvent suppression in biomolecular NMR diffusion experiments. Journal of Biomolecular NMR, 45, 295-299.

Zheng, G., Torres, A.M.,  & Price, W.S. (2009). MQ-PGSTE: A new multi-quantum STE-based PGSE NMR sequence. Journal of Magnetic Resonance 198, 271-274.

Zheng, G., & Price, W.S. (2008). MAG-PGSTE: A new STE-based PGSE NMR sequence for the determination of diffusion in magnetically inhomogeneous samples. Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 195(1), 40-44.

Zheng, G., Torres, A.M., & Price, W.S. (2008). Solvent suppression using phase-modulated binomial-like sequences and applications to diffusion experiments. Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 194(1), 108-114.

Zheng, G., Stait-Gardner, T., Anil Kumar, P.G., Torres, A.M., & Price, W.S. (2008). PGSTE-WATERGATE: An STE-based PGSE NMR sequence with excellent solvent suppression. Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 191(1), 159-163.

Zheng, G., & Price, W.S. (2007). Suppression of background gradients in (B0 gradient-based) NMR diffusion experiments. Concepts in Magnetic Resonance, Part A, 30A, 261-277.

Zheng, G., Xiao, M., & Lu, X. (2007). Quantitative structure - activity relationships study on the Ah receptor binding affinities of polybrominated diphenyl ethers using a support vector machine. QSAR & Combinatorial Science, 26(4), 536-541.

Xiao, M., Zheng, G., Yu, T., & Lu, X. (2007). Structure and activity relationship studies on toxicity of polychlorinated naphthalene using support vector machines. Fenxi Kexue Xuebao, 23(2), 143-147.

Ai, Z., Zheng, G., Yang, P., & Lu, X. (2006). QSPR study on microwave-assisted photocatalytic degradation of chlorophenols. Fenxi Kexue Xuebao, 22(5), 570-572.

Yuan, S., Xiao, M., Zheng, G., Tian, M., & Lu, X. (2006). Quantitative structure-property relationship studies on electrochemical degradation of substituted phenols using a support vector machine. SAR and QSAR in Environmental Research, 17(5), 473-481.

Zheng, G., Yu, T., & Lu, X. (2006). Molecular polarizability as a tool for understanding the congener-specific toxicities of polychlorinated naphthalenes. Abstracts of Papers, 232nd ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, United States, Sept. 10-14.

Zheng, G., Xiao, M., & Lu, X. (2005). QSAR study on the Ah receptor-binding affinities of polyhalogenated dibenzo-p-dioxins using net atomic-charge descriptors and a radial basis neural network. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 383(5), 810-816

Ai, Z., Zheng, G., & Lu, X. (2005). Quantitative structure-property relationship studies on microwave assisted photodegradation rate constants of selected chlorophenols. Abstracts of Papers, 229th ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, United States, March 13-17.

Zheng, G., Huang, W.H., & Lu, X.H. (2005). Prediction of Ah receptor binding affinity of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins using radial basis function neural networks. Abstracts of Papers, 229th ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, United States, March 13-17.

Zheng, G., Huang, W.H., & Lu, X.H. (2004). Radial Basis Function Neural Networks in the Analysis of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons by Synchronous Fluorescence. Environmental Informatics Archives, 2, 711.

Zheng, G., Huang, W.H., & Lu, X.H. (2003). Prediction of n-octanol/water partition coefficients for polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins using a general regression neural network. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 376(5), 680-685.

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Grants/Current Projects

• Development of Advanced MRI Techniques for Clinical Imaging
• UWS Research Lectureship Grant (2010)
• NMR Diffusion and q-Space Imaging of Macroscopic Pores using Singlet Spin States(2010)
• NMR Diffusography (2010)
• Development of new PGSE NMR methods for studying protein aggregation and diffusion in complex systems (2009)
• Development of high performance NM diffusion experiments for physiologically relevant applications (2009)

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Teaching Interests

Since finishing his Master's degree in 2004, Gang has taught and supervised many Higher Degree Research (HDR) students, as well as honours students, third year science projects and one Summary Scholarship project. He has also supervised applied instrumentation and bio-device labs at UWS.

Gang also coordinates the Biomolecular Science Project unit and the supervision medicinal chemistry labs.

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Awards/Honours

EIPRS Scholarship (2005-2008).

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