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Name:
Hee-Jung Kim, Ph.D.
Education:
1987 B.S. in Agricultural Chemistry, Seoul National University, Korea
1989 M.S. in Agricultural Chemistry, Seoul National University, Korea
1992 M.S. in Chemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, NE, USA
2000 Ph.D. in Biophysics, The Ohio State University, OH, USA
Mentor:
Clay B. Marsh, MD
Research Interests:
1. Molecular mechanisms of caspase regulation in inflammatory diseases and in cell
differentiation
2. Roles of JAK3 signaling in inflammatory disease and in M-CSF/GM-CSF-induced cell
survival/differentiation
3. Link of the innate immune system to the adaptive immune system
Awards and Honors:
1. NHLBI T32 postdoctoral training Fellowship (Aug. 2003-July 2005)
2. Bennett Society Travel Award for best presentation in the 3rd Annual Graduate and
Postgraduate Research day. The Ohio State University Medical Center, April 2004
Publications:
1. Jin Jung and Hee-Jung Kim (1987). Transition temperature of mitochondrial respiratory activity as an index for chilling susceptibility of varieties of rice plant. Korean Journal of Enviromental Agriculture 30: 357-363 (in Korean)
2. Jin Jung, Hee-Jung Kim, and Moonjae Cho (1990). Action spectra for the generation of singlet oxygen from mitochondrial membranes from soybean (Glycine max) hypocotyls. Photochemistry and Photobiology 52: 561-566
3. Anton Tevelev, In-Ja L. Beyon, Thomas Selby, Karen Ericson, Hee-Jung Kim, Vadim Kraynov, and Mind-Daw Tsai (1996). Tumor suppressor p16INK4A: Structural characterization of wild-type and mutant proteins by NMR and Circular Dichroism. Biochemistry 35: 9475-9487
4. In-Ja L. Beyon, Junan Li, Karen Ericson, Thomas Selby, Anton Tevelev, Hee-Jung Kim, Paul O’Maille, and Mind-Daw Tsai (1998). Tumor suppressor p16INK4A: Determination of solution structure and analyses of its interaction with Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 4. Molecular Cell 1: 421-431
5. Hee-Jung Kim and Mark P. Foster (2002). Characterization of Ad5 E3-14.7K, an adenoviral inhibitor of apoptosis: Structure, oligomeric state, and metal binding. Protein Science 11: 1117-1128
6. Hee-Jung Kim, Judy Hart, Nina Knatz, Mark W. Hall, and Mark D. Wewers (2004). JAK3 Down-Regulates Lipopolysaccharide-induced IL-1B Converting Enzyme Activation by Autocrine IL-10. J. Immunol. 172: 4948-4955
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