Haipeng GONG Ph.D.
Associate Professor
1993-1997 Department of Biological Science and Biotechnology, Tsinghua University B.S.
1997-2000 Department of Biological Science and Biotechnology, Tsinghua University M.S.
2000-2006 Program of Molecular Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University Ph.D.
2006-2007 Program of Molecular Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University Postdoc.
2007-2009 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chicago Postdoc.
2009-2014 School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University Tenure-track assistant professor
2015-present School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University Tenured associate professor
Research interest
1. Developing computer algorithms for predicting the protein 3D structures from amino acid sequences.
2. Developing methods for quantitatively analyzing the large-scale conformational changes of macromolecules by molecular dynamics simulations.
Selected publications
1. Wenze Ding# and Haipeng Gong*, “Predicting the real-valued inter-residue distances for proteins”, Advanced Science, 7: 2001314, 2020.
2. Juanrong Zhang# and Haipeng Gong*, “Frontier Expansion Sampling: A Method to Accelerate Conformational Search by Identifying Novel Seed Structures for Restart”, Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 16(8): 4813-4821, 2020.
3. Wenzhi Mao#, Wenze Ding, Yaoguang Xing, and Haipeng Gong*, “AmoebaContact and GDFold as a pipeline for rapid de novo protein structure prediction”, Nature Machine Intelligence, 2: 25-33, 2020.
4. Tong Wang#, Yanhua Qiao, Wenze Ding, Wenzhi Mao, Yaoqi Zhou*, and Haipeng Gong*, “Improved fragment sampling for ab initio protein structure prediction using deep neural networks”, Nature Machine Intelligence, 1: 347-355, 2019.
5. Meng Ke#, Yafei Yuan, Xin Jiang, Nieng Yan*, and Haipeng Gong*, “Molecular determinants for the thermodynamic and functional divergence of uniporter GLUT1 and proton symporter XylE”, PLoS Computational Biology, 13(6): e1005603, 2017.
6. Ruining Sun# and Haipeng Gong*, “Simulating the activation of voltage sensing domain for a voltage-gated sodium channel using polarizable force field”, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 8: 901-908, 2017.
Contact information
Email: hgong@tsinghua.edu.cn
Website: http://structpred.life.tsinghua.edu.cn
