Department of Chemistry, Chonnam National University

- 1999. 7. – 2002. 9.: Ph.D. in Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Muenchen, Germany.

- 1997. 3. – 1999. 2.: M.S. in Life Science, Department of Life Science, POSTECH, Korea.

- 1990. 3. – 1997. 2.: Bachelor, Food Science and Biotechnology, College of Agricultural Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Korea.

- 1999-2003: Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry at Martinsried, Germany

- 2003-2004: Department of Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley, USA

- 2005-present: Department of Chemistry, Chonnam National University, Korea

1. Jeong YJ, et al. 2023. One-pot Biosynthesis of 2-Keto-4-hydroxybutyrate from Cheap C1 Compounds Using Rationally Designed Pyruvate Aldolase and Methanol Dehydrogenase. J Agr Food Chem 71: 4328. (Corresponding author, IF=5.895)

2. Jo HJ, et al. 2023. Multi-layer engineering of an Escherichia coli-based biotransformation system to exclusively produce glycolic acid from formaldehyde. ACS Sustain Chem Eng 11: 1078. (Corresponding author, IF=9.224)

3. Seo PW, et al. 2022. Structural features of a minimal intact methyltransferase of a type I restriction-modification system. Int J Biol Macromol 208: 381. (Corresponding author, IF=8.025)

4. Jo HJ, et al. 2022. Glyoxylate carboligase-based whole-cell biotransformation of formaldehyde into ethylene glycol via glycolaldehyde. Green Chem. 24: 218. (Corresponding author, IF=11.034)

5. Park SY & Kim JS. 2020. A short guide to histone deacetylases with a recent progress on class II enzymes. Exp Mol Med 52: 204. (Corresponding author, IF=12.172)

6. Seo PW, et al. 2020. Understanding the molecular properties of the E1 subunit (SucA) of α-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase complex from Vibrio vulnificus for the enantioselective ligation of acetaldehydes into (R)-acetoin. Catal Sci Technol 10: 79. (Corresponding author, IF=6.177)

7. Seo EJ, et al. 2019. Cofactor specificity engineering of a long chain secondary alcohol dehydrogenase from Micrococcus luteus for redox-neutral biotransformation of fatty acids. Chem Comm 55: 14462. (Corresponding author, IF=6.065)

8. Park SY, et al. 2018. Structural basis of the specific interaction of SMRT corepressor with histone deacetylase 4. Nucleic Acids Res 46: 11776. (Corresponding author, IF=19.160)

Structural Biology and Enzyme engineering: My major interest is to determine and analyze protein structures. By applying molecular dynamics simulation tools, I am trying to understand the protein function at the atomic level and develop artificial enzymes for biotechnical usage.