AREAS OF SPECIALTY:
Metabolic Regulation of Longevity
Host-Microbiome in Aging and Longevity
Host-Microbiome in Aging and Longevity
Meng Wang, PhD
Dr. Meng Wang is currently a Senior Group Leader at HHMI Janenia Research Campus. She received a B.S. degree from Peking University, China in 2001 and a Ph.D. degree from University of Rochester in 2005. After being a postdoctoral follow at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Wang joined the faculty of Baylor College of Medicine in 2010. Before moving to Janelia in 2022, she was an HHMI Investigator, a Professor and Robert C. Fyfe Endowed Chair on Aging at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), and a co-director of BCM Genetics and Genomics Graduate Program. Dr. Wang’s research focuses on the molecular mechanisms governing somatic aging, reproductive senescence and lipid metabolism and their sophisticated interrelationship, through harnessing the power of functional genomics, metabolomics, chemical engineering and optical biophysics. Her group uncovered the first lysosome-to-nucleus retrograde lipid messenger pathway, provided new regulatory mechanisms of reproductive longevity, and demonstrated a novel mode of signaling communication between bacteria and mitochondria in regulating host’s lipid metabolism and longevity. Technological developments based on stimulated Raman scattering microscopy in Dr. Wang’s laboratory provided brand new ways to visualize and track lipid molecules as a function of time and space in living cells and organisms. She is the recipient of NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, Peter O’Donnell Award, and Gibco Emerging Leader Prize, HHMI Faculty Scholar Award, ASCB Gibco Emerging Leader Prize, ASCB Early Career Life Scientist Award, and SCBA Kenneth Fong Young Investigator Award. She is an elected fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science.