Professional Service
- Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation.
Role: Chair.
Executive Committee.
06/2024 - 11/2024
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
Canada Research Chair reviewer.
01/2024 - 01/2024
- Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation.
Role: Moderator.
Beckman Symposium.
08/2023 - 08/2023
- Rice University.
Promotion & Tenure Reviewer, Department of Biosciences.
08/2023 - 08/2023
- National Institutes of Health.
Role: Permanent Member.
Enabling Bioanalytical & Imaging Technologies (EBIT) Study Section.
07/01/2023 - 06/30/2029
- Pomona College.
Promotion & Tenure Reviewer, Department of Chemistry.
01/01/2023 - 01/31/2023
- National Science Foundation.
Ad hoc reviewer for CAREER grant.
10/01/2022 - 10/31/2022
- Gordon Research Conference.
Signal Transduction in Microorganisms. Session chair.
09/25/2022 - 09/30/2022
- Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation.
Lead Beckman Scholar Program review panels.
09/01/2022 - 11/30/2022
- Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation.
Executive Committee Member, Beckman Scholar Program.
06/2022 - 11/2023
- American Chemical Society.
Evaluator, ACS Infectious Disease Young Investigator Award.
02/2022 - 02/2022
- Analysis & Sensing Journal.
Guest Co-Editor.
10/2021 - 10/2024
- Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation.
Beckman Scholar Program review panelist.
08/2021 - 11/2021
- National Institutes of Health.
EBIT study section ad hoc member.
06/2021 - 06/2021
- National Science Foundation.
Grant review panelist.
05/2021 - 05/2021
- Analysis & Sensing Journal.
Inaugural Editorial Board Member.
06/2020 - 12/2023
- National Institutes of Health.
EBIT study section. ad hoc reviewer.
06/2020 - 06/2020
- FEMS Microbiology Reviews.
Editorial Board Member.
03/2020 - 02/2023
- American Chemical Society.
Alternate Councillor, Division of Biological Chemistry.
01/2020 - 12/2022
- Canada Council for the Arts.
Killam Fellowship Reviewer.
12/2019 - 12/2019
- National Science Foundation.
CAREER grant reviewer.
09/2019 - 09/2019
- Current Opinion in Chemical Biology.
Editor, Molecular Imaging Section.
07/2019 - 06/2020
- Synthetic Biology: Engineering, Evolution and Design Conference.
Organizing Committee.
07/2019 - 12/2019
- National Institutes of Health.
Role: EBIT study section.
ad hoc reviewer.
06/2019 - 06/2019
- Faculty of 1000.
Role: Faculty Member.
Chemical Biology of the Cell.
05/2019 - 06/30/2022
- MRC.
Grant reviewer.
05/2019 - 05/2019
- ANR.
Grant reviewer.
05/2019 - 05/2019
- National Science Foundation.
Role: Panel reviewer.
Grant reviewer.
04/11/2019 - 04/12/2019
Internal Service
- Review Promotion and Tenure Committee.
Member,
07/2023 - 12/2023.
Department service.
- Biological / inorganic faculty search committee.
Member,
11/01/2022 - 02/28/2023.
Department service.
- Graduate Education Committee.
Member,
07/01/2022 - present.
Department service.
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Promotion & Tenure Reviewer.
10/2021 - 10/2021.
College service.
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Promotion & Tenure Reviewer.
09/2021 - 09/2021.
University service.
- Seminar Committee.
Committee Chair,
09/2020 - present.
Department service.
- College of Science Council.
Council Member (elected),
08/2020 - 08/2022.
College service.
- UoU Beckman Scholar Program.
Co-Director,
01/2020 - 09/2023.
College service.
- Chemistry Graduate Admissions Committee.
12/2019 - 03/2020.
Department service.
- Center for Cell & Genome Science Executive Committee.
09/2019 - present.
College service.
- NSF Chemistry REU Program.
Co-Director,
09/2019 - present.
Department service.
- Faculty Advisory Committee member, DNA/Peptide Synthesis Facility.
09/2019 - present.
University service.
- Graduate Education Committee.
09/2019 - 06/2021.
Department service.
- Junior Faculty Mentoring Committee.
Committee Chair,
08/2019 - 07/2021.
Department service.
- Biological Chemistry Curriculum Committee.
06/2019 - 06/2020.
University service.
Outreach
- Beckman Scholar Symposium - Lead Mentor Panel.
08/04/2023 - 08/05/2023
- SURF Research Mentor - Pat Mutia (Caltech).
06/01/2022 - 08/05/2022
- REU Research Mentor.
05/27/2022 - 08/05/2022
- REU Research Mentor - Hannah Rosenberg (U Pittsburgh).
05/27/2022 - 08/05/2022
- URES Mentor Panelist.
02/2022 - 02/2022
- UROP Application Reviewer.
11/2021 - 11/2021
- McNair Scholar Research Mentor.
06/2021 - 08/2021
- UROP Research Mentor.
06/2021 - 08/2021
- ACCESS Research Mentor.
01/2021 - 05/2021
- ChemWMN mentor.
08/2020 - present
- Beckman Scholar Symposium - Alumni Career Talks.
08/2020 - 08/2020
- Science at Breakfast.
02/2020 - 02/2020
- Science Day at the U.
11/2019 - 11/2019
Honors & Awards
- Kavli Fellow (nominated as participant in US-Korea Kavli Symposium).
National Academy of Sciences,
01/2024
In the Media
- Research paper selected as cover article of ACS Sensors. 12/2023.
https://pubs.acs.org/toc/ascefj/8/12
- Research article highlighted by Viewpoint in PLOS Genetics. 07/21/2022.
https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=...
- Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation News Release, "Two BSP Awardees Appointed to Program’s Executive Committee". 02/2022.
https://www.beckman-foundation.org/latest-news/two...
- College of Science Discover 2021, Chemistry Department Highlight, "Ming Hammond: The Future of Space Travel". 12/2021.
https://science.utah.edu/news/discover-2021/
- Bio Partika interview of first author Dr. Sudeshna Manna. 04/2021.
https://biopatrika.com/2021/04/12/interview-rna-bi...
- Research paper selected as cover article of ACS Synthetic Biology journal. 03/2021.
https://pubs-acs-org.ezproxy.lib.utah.edu/toc/asbc...
- “Beckman Bites Podcast (Episode 2): Interview with Ming Hammond”, Beckman Foundation. 02/2020.
https://www.beckman-foundation.org/latest-news/new...
- “Congratulations 2020 Beckman Scholar Program Awardees”, Beckman Foundation. 01/2020.
https://www.beckman-foundation.org/latest-news/con...
- "Beckman Scholar Program" Department press release. 01/2020.
https://chem.utah.edu/news/beckmanscholaraward.php
- “New twists and turns in bacterial locomotion and signal transduction”, Jan 2019 BLAST Meeting research talk featured in Conference Report. 10/2019.
https://doi.org/10.1128/JB.00439-19
- Research paper highlighted in eLife Science Digest. 04/2019.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.43959.002
- Marriott Library Honors Women Scientists. 02/25/2019.
https://newsletter.lib.utah.edu/marriott-library-h...
- “U professor successfully grows plants on space station”, Science & Tech article, KSL.com. 01/2019.
https://www.ksl.com/article/46490813/u-professor-s...
- “Recent advances and current trends in nucleotide second messenger signaling in bacteria”, Sept 2018 Berlin research talk featured in Conference Report. 01/2019.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmb.2019.01.014
- “U Chemistry in Space”, University of Utah press release. 12/2018.
https://unews.utah.edu/u-chemistry-in-spaaaaaaace/
- "Synthetic biology goes to space", EurekAlert, AAAS. 12/2018.
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-12/uo...
- “U researchers send bioengineered plants into space”, Science & Tech article, KSL.com. 12/2018.
https://www.ksl.com/article/46456408/u-researchers...
- “Humans of the U” profile, University of Utah press release. 10/2018.
https://attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff/humans-of-the...
- “Innovative technology improves our understanding of bacterial signaling”, Joint Genome Institute (JGI) Science Highlight. 06/2018.
https://jgi.doe.gov/innovative-technology-improves...
- “Spotting the signal”, Research Highlight in Nature Chemical Biology. 03/2018.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41589-018-0047-y
- “Hammond’s high risk/high reward research pays off”, UC Berkeley College of Chemistry press release about NIH New Innovator Award. 02/2016.
https://chemistry.berkeley.edu/news/hammond-resear...
- Research paper highlighted as "2015 Signaling Breakthroughs of the Year" by Science Signaling journal. 01/2016.
http://stke.sciencemag.org/content/9/409/eg1.full