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)