Sang-Gu Kim, Ph.D.

Major: Plant Molecular Genetics

e-mail: kimsg@snu.ac.kr

Title: Professor  

Phone: 82-2-880-6677 (Office)

       82-2-880-6677 (Lab.)

       82-2-878-7256 (Fax)

Address : School of Biological Sciences

          Seoul National University

          Seoul, 151-742, Korea

 

 

Education

- Post-doc. Oregon State University  1981

- Ph.D. Oregon State University 1980

- M.S. Seoul National University 1976

- B.S. Seoul National University 1974

Professional Experience

1976-1977 : Instructor,  Han-Yang University

1980-1981 : Research Associate, Oregon State University

1981-1991 : Assistant, and Associate Professor, Department of Botany  Seoul National University            

1991-2000  : Professor, Seoul National University  Department of Biology

1995-1997 : Associate Dean(Academic affaire), College of Natural Science

1998-present: Vice president, The Genetics Society of Korea

1999-2000: Director, Institute for Molecular Biology and Genetics

1999-present:  Director, BK21-Division of life science, Seoul National University

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

 

Research Area

Plant Molecular Genetics more

 

Selected Publications (since 1997)

 1. Yu, H.J., Oh, S.K., Oh, M.-H., Choi, D.-W., Kwon, Y.M. and Kim, S.-G. (1997) Plant regeneration from callus culture of Lithospermum erythrorhizon. Plant Cell Reports 16:261-266.

2. Lee, Y., Lee, C.B., Kim, S.-G., and Kwon, Y.M. (1997) Purification and Characterization of ornithine carbamoyltransferase from the chloroplasts of Canavalia lineata leaves. Plant Science 122: 217-224.

3. Ahn, J.H., Choi, Y., Kim, S.-G., Kwon, Y.M.,  Choi, Y.D., and Lee, J .S. (1998) Expression of a Soybean Hydroxyproline-Rich Glycoprotein Gene Is Correlated with Maturation of Roots. Plant Physiol. 116: 671-679.

4. Lee, Y, Jun, B.O., Kim, S.-G., Kwon Y.M. (1998) Purification of ornithine carbamoyltransferase from kidney bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) leaves and comparison of the properties of the enzyme from canavanine-containing and -deficient plants. Planta, 205(3):375-379

5. Song, J. Y., Choi, D.-W, Lee, J .S, Kwon, Y.M., and Kim, S.-G. (1998) Cortial tissue-specific accumulation of the root-specific ns-LTP transcripts in the bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) seedlings. Plant Mol. Biol. 38: 735-742

6. Lee, H. S., Mun, J. H. and Kim, S.-G., (1999) Characterization of cDNAs encoding cytoplasmic ribosomal protein L15 and L27a in petunia (Petunia hybrida):Primary structures and coordinate expression, Gene, 226: 155-163

7. Yu H. J., Mun J. H. and Kim, S.-G., (1999) Two cDNAs Encoding Pathogenesis-related Proteins of Lithospermum erythrorhizon Display Different Expression Patterns in Suspension Cultures, Journal of plant physiology, 155: 364-370.

8. Yu H .J., Mun M. S., Lee, H. S, Mun J. H., Kwon, Y. M., and Kim, S.G., (1999) Analysis of cDNAs Expressed during First Cell Division of Petunia Petal Protoplasts Cultures Using Expressed Sequence Tags. Molecules and Cells 9: 258-364.

9.  Choi, Y. A., Kim S. G. and Kwon, T. M. The plastidic glutamine synthetase activity is directly modulated by means of redox change at the unique cysteine residues. Plant Science 149: 175-182

 

Lab. members

 Postdoctoral fellow

-Ho yeun, Kim Ph.D.    hykimson@snu.ac.kr

 

Doctoral course

- Jeong-Hwan Mun    munjh@snu.ac.kr

- Young Min Jeong    supelta@snu.ac.kr

- Hyun Ju Hwang      saebool@snu.ac.kr

 

Master course

-So-Young Lee       heder1@.snu.ac.kr

-Shin-Wook Kang   kangshinwook@hanmail.net

-Mi-Young Shin      myshin@yahoo.co.kr

-Jun-Ho Cho         geo648@snu.ac.kr

 

Home page of Lab.

http://plaza.snu.ac.kr/~biology/pgmb