PI Profile

PI profile

 

Yun Ju Kim

 
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Contact

 
 

Phone
Phone
02-2123-2658
E-mail
E-mail
yunjukim@yonsei.ac.kr
 
 

Professional Experiences

 
 

03/2022-Current

 
 
 

Associate Professor

 
Department of Biology, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

08/2014-02/2022

 
 
 
 

03/2010-12/2013

 
 
 

Research Fellow

 
Institute for Base Science
 
 

Postdoctoral Fellow

 
University of California, Riverside
 

Education

 
 

09/2005-03/2010

 
 

Ph.D. in Plant Biology

 
University of California, Riverside
 

03/1999-02/2001

 
 
 
 

03/1999-02/2001

 

MS in Biology

 
Yonsei university
 
 

MS in Biology

 
Yonsei university
 
 
 

Selected Publications

 
 

Park, S.Y., Chang, H.S., Lim, S.H. et al. (2024). Functional Characterization of PRP43a, a Component for Splicing Disassembly in ArabidopsisJ. Plant Biol. 67, 427–435

Lee, S., Kim, M.-H., Lee, J.H., Jeon, J., Kwak J.M.† and Kim, Y.J. (2020). Glycosyltransferase-like RSE1 negatively regulates leaf senescence through salicylic acid signaling in Arabidopsis. Front. Plant Sci. 11, 551
 

Zhu, J., Park, J.-H., Lee, S., Lee, J.H., Hwang D., Kwak, J.M.† and Kim, Y.J. (2020). Regulation of Stomatal Development by Stomatal Lineage miRNAs. Proc. Nat’l. Acad. Sci. USA 117, 6237-6245
 

Kim, M., Jeon, J., Lee, S., Lee, J.H., Gao, L., Lee, B.-H., Park, J.M., Kim, Y.J. and Kwak, J.M. (2019). Proteasome subunit RPT2a promotes PTGS through repressing RNA quality control in Arabidopsis. Nature Plants 5, 1273-1282 (highlighted in ‘News and Views’, Nature Plants 5, 1203-1204 (2019)).
 

Kim, Y.J.*, Wang, R*., Gao, L., Li, D., Xu, C., Mang, H., Jeon, J., Chen, X., Zhong, X., Kwak, J.M., Mo, B., Xia, L., and Chen, X.† (2016). POWERDRESS and HDA9 interact and promote histone H3 deacetylation at specific genomic sites in Arabidopsis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A. 113, 14858-14863
 

Yun Ju Kim, Alexis Maizel and Xuemei Chen (2014). Traffic into silence: endomembranes and post‐transcriptional RNA silencing. EMBO J. 33, 968-980
 

Rae Eden Yumul*, Yun Ju Kim, Xigang Liu, Ruozhong Wang, Junhui Ding, Langtao Xiao and Xuemei Chen (2013). POWERDRESS and diversified expression of the MIR172 gene family bolster the floral stem cell network. PLOS Genetics 9, e1003218
 

Xigang Liu*, Yun Ju Kim, Ralf Müller, Rae Eden Yumul, Chunyan Liu, Yanyun Pan, Xiaofeng Cao, Justin Goodrich and Xuemei Chen (2011). AGAMOUS terminates floral stem cell maintenance in Arabidopsis by directly repressing WUSCHEL through recruitment of Polycomb Group proteins. Plant Cell 23, 3654-3670
 

Yun Ju Kim , Binglian Zheng, Yu Yu, So Youn Won, Beixin Mo and Xuemei Chen (2011). The role of Mediator in small and long noncoding RNA production in Arabidopsis thaliana. EMBO J. 30, 814-822