Chung Sun An, Ph.D.

Major: Molecular Biology

e-mail: ancs@plaza.snu.ac.kr

Title: Professor

Phone: 82-2-880-6678 (Office)

82-2-880-6678 (Lab.)

82-2-872-6881 (Fax)

Address : School of Biological Sciences

Seoul National University

Seoul, 151-742, Korea

 

 

Education

 - Post-doc.   University of Tennessee 1985

- Ph.D. University of Tennessee 1983

- M.S. Seoul National University 1976

- B.S. Seoul National University 1971

Professional Experience

 - 2000. 2. - present : Professor, School of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

- 1999.1 - present : Member of committee for Academic affairs and Space allocation, College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

- 1997.8 - 1999.8 : Assistant Director for Planning and Management, Inter-University Center for Natural Science Research Facilities, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

- 1997.1 - 1997.2 : Visiting professor, University of California, Los Angeles, U.S.A.

- 1994.3 - 1996.3 - Head, Department of Biology, College of Natural Science, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

- 1985.3 - 2000.2 : Professor, Associate professor, Assistant professor, Department of Biology, College of Natural Science, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

- 1985.12 - 1992.12 : Research Associate, Rockefeller Foundation, U.S.A.

Research Area

 

Selected Publications (since 1997)

 1. Ho Bang Kim and Chung Sun An. 1997. Nucleotide sequence and expression of nifHD from Frankia strain EuIK1, a symbiont of Elaeagnus umbellata. Physio. Plant. 99: 690-695.

2. Bo Sl Oh, Paul G. Twigg, Jeong Soo Hong, Beth C. Mullin and Chung Sun An. 1997. nifV is contiguous to nifHK in Frankia strain FaC1. Physio. Plant. 99: 707-713.

3. Young Kyu Kim, Soon Il Kwon and Chung Sun An. 1997. Isolatioon and characterization of cytosolic copper/zinc superoxide mutase from Capsicum annumm. Mol. Cells 7: 668-673.

4. Sek-Yoon Kwon, Chung Sun An, Jang Ryol and Kyung-Hee Peak. 1997. A ribosome-inactivating protein from Amaranthus viridis. Biosci. Biotec. Biochem. 61: 1613-1614.

5. Sung Chun Kim and Chung Sun An. 1997. A full length cDNA encoding the nodule enhenced aspartate aminotransferase 2 in Canavalia lineata. Plant Gene Register PGR97-067.

6. Seon Hee Kim, Chung Sun An, Hideaki Tahara, Chaehwa Park, Michael T. Lotze, Paul D. Robbbins and Sunoung Kim. 1997. Retrovial-mediated IL-12 gene therapy for advanced murine tumors. Exp. Mol. Med, 29: 53-58.

7. Song, Ji Young, Jae Sun Lee, and Chung Sun An. 1998. Expression of CHS, CHI and DFR genes in response to light in small radish seedlings. J. Plant Biol. 41: 277-282.

8. Seon Hee Kim, Seung Shin Yu, Jong Sang Park, P.D. Robbins, Chung Sun An and Sunyoung Kim. 1998. Construction of retroviral vectors with safety, gene expression and versatility. J. Virology 72: 994-1004.

9. Soon Il Kwon and Chung Sun An. 1999. Isoaltion and characterization of the catalase gene from Rhizobium sp. SNU003, a root nodule symbiont of Canavalia lineata. Mol Cells 9; 49-55

10. Ho Bang Kim, Sang Ho Lee and Chung Sun An. 1999. Isolation and characterization of asparagine synthetase cDNA from root nodules of Elaeagnus umbella

ta. Plant Sci. 149; 85-94.

11. Ho Bang Kim and Chung Sun An. 1999. Isolation and characterization of polybiquitin cDNA from root nodules of Elaeagnus umbellata. Can. J. Bot. 77; 1270-1278.

12. Won Young Yoo, Si Bum Sung and Chung Sun An. 1999. Nucleotide sequences of the 2-oxoacid ferredoxin oxidoreductase and ferredoxin genes from Frankia strain EuIK1, a symbiont of Elaeagnus umbellata rooot nodules. Can. J. Bot. 77; 1279-1286.


13. Soon Il Kwon and Chung Sun An. 1999. Isolation and characterization of mitochondrial manganase superoxide dismutase from Capsicum annuum L. Mol Cells 9; 625-630

Lab. members

 Doctor

- Soon-Il Kwon           kwonsi@yahoo.com

Doctoral course

- Sung-Chae Moon      scmoon@hotmail.com

- Sang-Ho Lee            lsh1004@snu.ac.kr

- Jeong-Soo Hong

- Hyoung-Seok Lee      soulaid@chollian.net

Master

- Yen-Mi Lee               yenmi@hotmail.com

Master course

- Seock Kang              k_seock@hotmail.com

- Hyuk-Joon Kwon      genesis1213@hotmail.com

- Hye-Jin Kim             transgenic@hanmail.net

- Chom-A Kim            littletree77@hotmail.com

- Chang-Jae Oh         ohcj@unitel.co.kr

- Hyung-Souck Wee   smile007_@hanmail.net

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