Crop Biotechnology Major

Crop Biotechnology

Choonkyun Jung Associate Professor

Crop Biotechnology

Laboratory of Crop Molecular Biology

033-339-5832

https://sites.google.com/site/cropmolbiol/

Research Paper

  Presentation

Research Project

Patent

Technology Transfer

Education

  • B.S., Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Seoul National University, 1999
  • M.S., School of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University, 2001
  • Ph.D., School of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University, 2008

Professional Experiences

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Agricultural Biomaterials, Seoul National University 2008.03. ~ 2008.08
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Plant Molecular Biology, The Rockefeller University, 2008.09. ~ 2013.08.
  • Research Associate, Laboratory of Plant Molecular Biology, The Rockefeller University, 2013.09. ~ 2016.02.
  • Assistant Professor, Graduate School of International Agricultural Technology, Seoul National University, 2016.03. ~ 2020.02.
  • Associate Professor, Graduate School of International Agricultural Technology, Seoul National University, 2020.03. ~ present.

Society Memberships

  • The Korean Society of Plant Biologists (한국식물학회)
  • The Korean Society of Plant Biotechnology (한국식물생명공학회)
  • The Korean Society of of Breeding Science (한국육종학회)
  • The Korean Society of Applied Biological Chemistry (한국응용생명화학회)

Research Interests

  • Gene regulatory mechanisms by stress tolerance-related long noncoding RNAs
    ○ Identification of lncRNA target genes and lncRNA binding proteins
    ○ Correlation between lncRNA secondary structures and their functions
    ○ Epigenetic gene regulation by lncRNAs
    ○ LncRNA-mediated novel stress tolerance mechanisms
    ○ Next-generation biotech crop development using lncRNAs
  • Protein stability of stress tolerance-related regulatory factors
    ○ Identification of stress-related E3 ubiquitin ligases and ubiquitin proteases
    ○ Correlation between ligases/proteases and their target proteins
    ○ Stress tolerance mechanisms mediated by protein stability
    ○ Development of stress-tolerant biotech crops using genome editing

Lectures

  • Topics in Crop Molecular Biology (작물분자생물학특강)
  • Topics in Crop Biochemistry (작물생화학특강)
  • Topics in Crop Genetics (작물유전학특강)
  • Topics in RNA Biology of Crops (작물RNA생물학특강)
  • Topics in Crop Epigenetics (작물후성유전학특강)
  • Topics in Protein Biochemistry of Crops (작물단백질생화학특강)
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