Department


Life Sciences

Instructor
Focus: Biology/Microbiology
bowen.meng@acphs.edu
 


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Bowen Meng, MS

Education

  • M.S. in Microbiology, University of Georgia
  • B.S. in Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia

Courses Taught at ACPHS

  • General Biology I Lab
  • General Biology II Lab
  • Anatomy and Physiology I Lab

Research Interests

  • Determining how methylation affects gene expression in Helicobacter pylori utilizing a variety of molecular biology approaches including mutagenesis of bacterial strains, genomics, proteomics and phenotypic studies of various H. pylori strains.

Awards

  • 2021-2022 ACPHS Teacher of the Year

Selected Publications

Meng, B., Epp, N., Wijaya. W., Mrázek, J., & Hoover, T. 2021. Methylation motifs in promoter sequences may contribute to maintenance of a conserved m5C methyltransferase in Helicobacter pylori. Microorganisms, 9(12):2474. doi: 10.3390/microorganisms9122474

 Majerciak, V., Ni, T., Yang, W., Meng, B., Zhu, J., & Zheng, Z.-M. 2013. A Viral Genome Landscape of RNA Polyadenylation from KSHV Latent to Lytic Infection. PLoS Pathogens, 9(11), e1003749. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1003749