Dr Mei Peng

Dr Mei Peng

Research assistant (2005-2008)

Mei completed her undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering at ECUST, Shanghai, China (1978-1982), before working for ten years as a Research Engineer at the Environmental Research Institute in the Ministry of Light Industry, Beijing. She moved to the UK to study for a PhD in Paper Science at UMIST, Manchester (1992-1996). Mei worked as a Senior Research Scientist at Raisio Chemicals Ltd, Blackburn (1997-2005) before joining the Brown group, where she worked on DNA triplexes (2005-2008). Mei now works for the AeroThermal Group in Poole, UK.

4 Papers

Triplex staples: DNA double-strand cross-linking at internal and terminal sites using psoralen-containing triplex-forming oligonucleotides

H. Li, V. J. Broughton-Head, G. M. Peng, V. E. C. Powers, M. J. Ovens, K. R. Fox and T. Brown. Bioconjugate Chem. 17 (6), 1561-1567, 2006.

2'-O-dimethylaminoethoxyuridine and 5-dimethylaminopropargyl deoxyuridine for at base pair recognition in triple helices

L. Brennan, G. M. Peng, N. Srinivasan, K. R. Fox and T. Brown. Nucleosides Nucleotides Nucl. Acids 26 (10-12), 1283-1286, 2007.

Synthesis of anthraquinone oligonucleotides for triplex stabilization

Z. Y. Zhao, G. M. Peng, J. Michels, K. R. Fox and T. Brown. Nucleosides Nucleotides Nucl. Acids 26 (8-9), 921-925, 2007.

DNA triplex formation with 5-dimethylaminopropargyl deoxyuridine

D. A. Rusling, G. M. Peng, N. Srinivasan, K. R. Fox and T. Brown. Nucleic Acids Res. 37 (4), 1288-1296, 2009.