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About Me (CV)

JAE-YOON SUNG, Ph.D.


Postdoctoral fellow
Dept. of Biotechnology
College of Life Science and Biotechnology
Yonsei University
Seoul 03722, KOREA.
Tel: (+82)-2-2123-7292
Phone: (+82)-10-3319-6382
E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]
Github: https://github.com/JAEYOONSUNG/

EDUCATION

Post-Doc. 2024-Present

  • Department of Biotechnology, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
    Advisor: Dong-Woo Lee

Ph.D. 2018.09-2024.08

  • Department of Biotechnology, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
    Thesis Advisor: Dong-Woo Lee
    Thesis: “Elucidation of thermophily for Bacillales using a phylogenomic approach and the development of a thermophilic platform host”

B.S. 2012.02-2018.02 (including 2 years of military service)

  • School of Applied Life Science, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Extremophiles

  • Microbial adaptation to extreme environments
  • Physiology

Synthetic biology

  • Setup genetic tools for non-model bacteria
  • Applications of extremophiles for sustainable process

Protein engineering

  • Protein evolution
  • Structural basis functional analysis

DNA modification

  • Epigenomics
  • Precision DNA alteration tools

Data mining

  • Development of a simplified analysis pipeline
  • Big data analysis in multi-omics

PUBLICATIONS (2018-PRESENT)

  1. Ganbat, S., Ganbat, D., Sung, J.Y., Kim, S,B., Lee, D.W., and Lee, S.J.* (2024) Complete genome sequence of polyhydroxyalkaonate accumulating bacterium Schlegelella aquatica HS-12-14 isolated from Korean hot spring. Microbiol. Resour. Announc.
  2. Sung, J.Y.£, Ganbat, D.£, Kim, S,B., Lee, S.J., and Lee, D.W. (2024) Complete genome sequences of Geobacillus stearothermophilus strains EF60045 and SJEF4-2 from Korean hot springs. Microbiol. Resour. Announc. e00573-24.
  3. Joo, Y.H. £, Sung, J.Y.£, Shin, S.M., Park, S.J., Kim, K.S., Park, K.D., Kim, S.B., and Lee, D.W.* (2023) A retroaldol reaction prompted the evolvability of a phosphotransferase system for the utilization of a rare sugar. Microbiol. Spectr. 11(2) e03660-22.
  4. Sung, J.Y. £, Lee, Y.J. £, Cho, Y.J., Lee, S.J., Lee, H.S., Bae, J.W., Shin, J.H., Koh, H., Kim, H.J., and Lee, D.W. (2021) A large scale metagenomic study for enzyme profiles using the focused identification of the NGS-based definitive enzyme research (FINDER) strategy. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 118: 4360-4374. (Editor’s choice articles/Front cover paper)
  5. Jin, H.S. £, Dhanasingh, I. £, Sung, J.Y., La, J.W., Lee, Y., Lee, E.M., Kang, Y.J., Lee, D.Y., Lee, S.H., and Lee, D.W. (2021) The sulfur formation system mediating extracellular cysteine-cystine recycling in Fervidobacterium islandicum AW-1 is associated with keratin degradation. Microb, Biotechnol. 14, 938-952.
  6. Dhanasingh, I.£, Sung, J.Y.£, Ghosh, S., La, J.W., Kang, E.J., Lee, D.W., and Lee, S.H.*. (2021) Structure of oxidized pyrrolidone carboxypeptidase from Fervidobacterium islandicum AW-1 reveals unique structural features for thermostability and keratinolysis. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 540, 101-107.
  7. Kang, E.J., Jin, H.S, La, J.W., Sung, J.Y., Park, S.Y., Kim, W.C., and Lee, D.W.* (2020) Identification of keratinases from Fervidobacterium islandicum AW-1 using dynamic gene expression profiling. Microb. Biotechnol. 13, 442-457.
  8. Kim, K.N., Yang, J.O., Sung, J.Y., Lee, J.Y., Park, J.S., Lee, H.S., Lee, B.H., Ren, Y., Lee, D.W., and Lee, S.E. (2019) Minimization of energy transduction confers resistance to phosphine in crop arthropods. Sci. Rep. 9, 14605.

PAPER IN PREPARATION

  1. Sung, J.Y., Lee, M.H., Kim, H.B., Ganbat, D., Cho, H.W., Lee, S.J., Kim, S.B.,, and Lee, D.W.. Harnessing Geobacillus stearothermophilus for enhanced thermophilic enzyme production and evolution.
  2. Sung, J.Y.,£, Yoo, Y.K.£, Lee, M.H., Yang, S.Y., Cho, H.S.and Lee, D.W.. Structural basis mechanism of novel Type III Restriction-Methylation systems in hyperthermophilic Fervidobacterium islandicum AW-1.
  3. Sung, J.Y.,£, Kim, J.Y.£, Lee, E.M., Baek, J.H., Lee, Y.J., Jin, H.S., Kim, B.C., Lee, D.Y.,, and Lee, D.W.,. Molecular insights into keratin degradation by Fervidobacterium islandicum AW-1: An evolutionary perspective on bacterial resilience to starvation.
  4. Sung, J.Y.,£, Shin.S.M.,£, Hoang, N.K.Q., Dhanasingh, I., Yoo, K.Y., Lim, H.C., Cao, T., Lee, S.J., Kim, S.B., Lee, S.H.,, and Lee, D.W.,. Metal-mediated intermolecular interactions contribute to the thermostabilization of primordial sugar isomerases.
  5. Sung, J.Y., Park, M.K., Park, J.S., Lee, M.H., Lee, Y.J., Kim, K.S., Lee, S.J., and Lee, D.W.,*. Evolutionary genetic traits for thermal adaptation using a pan-genomic approach in the order Bacillales.

CODING (Github)


SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS

  • Best Poster Award, 2017 International Meeting of the Microbiology Society of Korea (MSK)
  • BK21 FOUR Best Research Award, BK21 Yonsei education & Research center for biosystems (2021.01)
  • BK21 FOUR Best Research Award, BK21 Yonsei education & Research center for biosystems (2022.01)
  • BK21 FOUR Best Research Award, BK21 Yonsei education & Research center for biosystems (2024.01)
  • Extremophiles 2024 (2024.09)

CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS

Invited (Talks)

  • A Strategic Blueprint for the Domestication of Geobacillus stearothermophilus as a Thermophilic Platform Cell using the DNMB Suite, MSK 2024, Jeju, Korea
  • Large-Scale Metagenomic Study for Enzyme Profiling Using the Focused Identification of the NGS-Based Definitive Enzyme Research (FINDER) Strategy, 2021 BK21 symposium, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

Poster

  • A Strategic Blueprint for the Domestication of Geobacillus stearothermophilus as a Thermophilic Platform Cell using the DNMB Suite, Extremophiles 2024, Loutraki, Greece
  • Comparative Genomics and Physiological Characterization of Geobacillus species Reveal Unique Traits in G. stearothermophilus for Industrial Applications, Thermophiles 2023, Bangor, Wales
  • Conserved Sequence-Based Recombination of Homologous Sugar Isomerases from Diverse Species Reveals Genetic Traits for Environmental Adaptation, SIMB 2022, San Francisco, United States of America
  • Conserved Sequence-Based Recombination of Homologous Sugar Isomerases from Diverse Species Reveals Genetic Traits for Environmental Adaptation, KMB 2022, Korea
  • Conserved Sequence-Based Recombination of Homologous Sugar Isomerases from Diverse Species Reveals Genetic Traits for Environmental Adaptation, KSBB 2021, Jeju, Korea
  • Intervening variable sequence regions of homologous sugar isomerases define thermal adaptation traits, KMB 2021, Busan, Korea
  • High-resolution crystal structures of homologous alkalophilic and acidophilic L-arabinose isomerases unveil the catalytic mechanism and pH-dependent activity, KoSFoST 2019, Incheon, Korea
  • The Sulfur Formation System Mediating Fe-S Cluster Assembly in Fervidobacterium islandicum AW-1 is Associated with Keratin Degradation, Extremophiles 2018, Ischia, Italy
  • Development of a Cell Growth-Based High-throughput Screening System for Engineering the Substrate Specificity of Sugar Isomerase, Extremophiles 2018, Ischia, Italy
  • Development of a Cell Growth-Based High-throughput Screening System for Engineering of the Substrate Specificity of L-Arabinose Isomerase, MSK 2017, Busan, Korea

PATENTS

(International)

  1. A recombinant strain having modified sugar metabolic pathway and method for screening sugar isomerase using same. US 2020/0087647 A1. Mar. 19, 2020
  2. Composition for epimerization of non-phosphorylated hexose comprising sugar epimerases derived from thermophiles. US 9914984 B2. Mar. 13, 2018 (EP3072403A1/CN105916389A).

(Domestic)

  1. 희귀당 비대사성 균주의 희귀당 자화능 결정 유전자군 제공방법(등록:10-2590888), 2023.10.13.
  2. 변형된 당 대사 경로를 갖는 재조합 균주를 이용한 당이성화 효소의 스크리닝 방법(등록:10-2007890), 2019. 7.31.
  3. 변형된 당 대사 경로를 갖는 재조합 균주 및 이를 이용한 당이성화 효소의 스크리닝 방법(등록:10-1979213), 2019. 5.10.

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS TRAINING

  • 2018 R Workshop, Seoul University, Seoul, Korea
  • 2019 Workshop on Smart Cell Factory Design, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea
  • 2022 Winter Data Science Workshop, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
  • Python Programming and Web Crawling, Data Literacy using R, Machine Learning with Python, Introduction to Deep Learning with Python, Applied Deep Learning with Python

ADDITIONAL SKILLS

Pinned Loading

  1. DNMB DNMB Public

    Comprehensive in silico genomic analysis pipeline for domesticating non-model bacteria

    R

  2. BPGAconverter BPGAconverter Public

    Downstream process of BPGA output file

    R

  3. FINDER FINDER Public

    conserved sequenc-based degenerate primer design tool

    R

  4. GenomeDrawer GenomeDrawer Public

    Circos-based genome map visualization tool

    R