PI Profile

 

Yun Ju Kim

 
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Professional Experiences

 
 

03/2022-Current

 
 

Associate Professor

Department of Biology, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

08/2014-02/2022

 
 

08/2014-02/2022

 

Research fellow

Institute for Basic 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

 
 

03/1995-02/1999

 
 
 

MS in Biology

Yonsei University
 

BS 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. . (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

 

Contact

 
 
E- mail : yunjukim@yonsei.ac.kr
Website : yonseipdel.bullet.site