Senior Research Biologist
US Army Engineer Research and Development Center
Vicksburg, Mississippi
Dr. Ping Gong is a Principal Investigator with the Environmental Laboratory of U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center in Vicksburg, Mississippi. He specializes in bioengineering, synthetic biology, environmental genomics, bioinformatics, mechanistic and predictive toxicology. As a senior research biologist, he has initiated and led to completion more than 25 multi-year, multidisciplinary R&D projects. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed publications, book chapters and technical reports. Currently he is Associate Editor for Frontiers in Genetics and Editorial Board member for Experimental Biology and Medicine. He also served on the Board of Directors of the MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society (MCBIOS, 2015-19) and the Editorial Board for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (2013-15). His research interests include development of novel biotechnologies for invasive species control, insect-mediated transmission and expression of transgenic plant virus vectors with trait-conferring payloads, RNA toehold switch-based biosensors, and epigenetics-driven transgenerational inheritance of phenotypic traits.