GONG Pengtao

Title: Professor

Specialties: Parasites (Giardia duodenalis, Neospora caninum, Toxoplasma gondii,, etc.)

Email：gongpt@jlu.edu.cn;

EDUCATION AND ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2020-present: Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine, Jilin University, China.

2019-2020: Visiting Scholar, University of Southern California, USA.

2013-2019: Associate Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine, Jilin University, China.

2009-2016: Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Jilin University, China.

2004-2007: Master of Veterinary Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Jilin University, China.

1999-2004: Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Jilin University, China.

RESEARCH INTEREST

1. The interaction mechanisms between parasites and hosts, especially in cell pyroptosis, extracellular trap, inflammasome, and so on.

2. Development of vaccines against protozoa such as coccidia, toxoplasma and neospora.

3. Establishment of rapid detection methods of animal parasites and zoonotic parasites.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Panpan Zhao^#, Nan Zhang^#, Jingquan Dong^#, Jianhua Li, Xiaocen Wang, Xin Li, Xiangrui Li, Ju Yang, Pengtao Gong^* and Xichen Zhang^*. Effects of Dense Granular Protein 6(GRA6) Disruption on Neospora caninum Virulence. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2020.

2. Pengtao Gong, Xianhe Li, Wei Wu, Lili Cao, Panpan Zhao, Xin Li, Baoyan Ren, Jianhua Li^*, Xichen Zhang^*. A novel microRNA from the translated region of the Giardiavirus rdrp gene governs virus copy number in Giardia duodenalis. Frontiers in microbiology 2020

3. Fei Li^#, Zhengkai Wei^#, Weina Jiang^#, Lili Cao, Yuhang Gao, Zhengtao Yang, Jianhua Li, Biao Yu, Xichen Zhang^*, Pengtao Gong^*. Trichomonas vaginalis triggers the release of THP-1 extracellular traps. Parasitology research 2019, 118(1):267-274.

4. Xianhe Li^#, Jianhua Li ^#, Xichen Zhang, Zhengtao Yang, Ju Yang, Pengtao Gong^*. Prevalence of Pentatrichomonas hominis infections in six farmed wildlife species in Jilin, China.V et Parasitol. 2017, 244: 160-163.

5. Xiaocen Wang^#, Pengtao Gong ^#, Xu Zhang, Jielin Wang, Lixin Tai, Xu Wang, Zhengkai Wei, Yongjun Yang, Zhengtao Yang, Jianhua Li^*, Xichen Zhang^*. NLRP3 inflammasome activation in murine macrophages caused by Neospora caninum infection. Parasit Vectors. 2017, 10(1): 266.

6. Jingquan Dong^#, Jianhua Li^#, Jinpeng Wang, Fei Li, Ju Yang, Pengtao Gong^*, He Li, Xichen Zhang^*. Identification and characterization of GRA6/GRA7 of Neospora caninum in MDBK cells. Acta Biochim Biophys Sin. 2017, 49(4):361-366.

7. Pengtao Gong^#, Lili Cao^#, Yanbing Guo, Hang Dong, Shuxian Yuan, Xinhua Yao^*, Wenzhi Ren, Lin Yao, Zhilin Xu, Qiang Sun, Xichen Zhang^*. Toxoplasma gondii: Protective immunity induced by a DNA vaccine expressing GRA1 and MIC3 against toxoplasmosis in BALB/c mice. Exp Parasitol. 2016, 166: 131-136.

8. Wei Wu^#, Pengtao Gong^#, Jianhua Li^*, Ju Yang, Guocai Zhang, He Li, Zhengtao Yang, Xichen Zhang^*. Simple and nonradioactive detection of microRNAs using digoxigenin (DIG)-labeled probes with high sensitivity. RNA. 2014, 20(4): 580-584.

9. Qinlei Yu^#, Xiangsheng Huang^#, Pengtao Gong^*, Qian Zhang, Jianhua Li, Guocai Zhang, Ju Yang, He Li, Nan Wang, Xichen Zhang^*. Protective immunity induced by a recombinant BCG vaccine encoding the cyclophilin gene of Toxoplasma gondii. Vaccine. 2013, 31(51): 6065-6071.

10. P Gong^#, X Huang^#, Q Yu, Y Li, J Huang, J Li^*, J Yang, H Li, G Zhang, W Ren, X Zhang^*. The protective effect of a DNA vaccine encoding the Toxoplasma gondii cyclophilin gene in BALB/c mice. Parasite Immunology, 2013, 35: 140–146.