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Kim, Young-Joon

Professor 
E-mail: yjkim108@gmail.com

 

Education
 

• 1991-1994 Seoul National University (B.S.- Agricultural Biology)
• 1995-1997 Seoul National University (M.S.- Applied Entomology)
• 2000-2004 Univ. of California Riverside (Ph.D- Entomology)
    - Advisor : Michael E. Adams
    - Thesis : Molecular Physiology of Ecdysis in Moths and Flies

Work experience
 

• 1995-1997 Seoul National University, Graduate Assistant (Advisor: Young-Joon Ahn)
• 1999 Sogang University, Intern Researcher
• 2000-2004 Univ. of California Riverside, Graduate Assistant
• 2005-2007 Univ. of California Riverside, Postdoctoral Fellow
• 2007-2008 Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Postdoctoral Fellow

  (Advisor: Dr. Barry J. Dickson)

 

• Kim Y-J., Dickson BJ. (2007) Peptidergic Signaling in Drosophila Reproductive Behavior. 15 min oral presentation in V-Th International Conference on Arthropods, Chemical, Physiological and Environmental Aspects, Stefan Kopeæ Memorial Conference. Zakopane, Poland.  
• Kim Y-J. Adams ME. (2007) Neural Ensembles Governing Natural and Synthetic Ecdysis Behaviors: Toward a New Pupal Bellydance in Flies. 50 min oral presentation in Department of Entomology (Department Seminar Series),  University of California, Riverside, CA  
• Kim Y-J., Zitnan D., Galizia CG., Cho K-H., Adams ME. (2006) A Command Chemical Triggers an Innate Behavior by Sequential Activation of Multiple Peptidergic Ensembles in the CNS. 15 min oral presentation in 47th Annual Drosophila Research Conference, Huston, TX.  
• Kim Y-J., Adams ME. (2005) Molecular Physiology of an Innate Behavior: The Ecdysis Behavioral Sequence in Moths and Flies. 50 min oral presentation in Department of Entomology, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea  
• Kim Y-J., Zitnan D., Galizia CG., Cho K-H., Adams ME. (2005) A Command Chemical Triggers an Innate Behavior by Sequential Activation of Multiple Peptidergic Ensembles. 15 min oral presentation in The 5th Asia-Pacific Congress of Entomology. October 18-21, 2005. Jeju, Korea.  
• Kim Y-J., Zitnan D., Galizia CG., Cho K-H., Adams ME. (2005) Endocrine Programming of a Centrally Patterned Innate Behavior in Insects. 15 min oral presentation in IV-Th International Conference on Arthropods, Chemical, Physiological and Environmental Aspects, Stefan Kopeæ Memorial Conference. Zakopane, Poland.  
• Kim Y-J., Adams ME. (2005) Molecular Physiology of Ecdysis. 50 min oral presentation in Department of Entomology, Kansas State University, Kansas.
• Kim Y-J., Zitnan D., Galizia CG., Adams ME. (2004) Neural Substrates for Ecdysis Triggering Hormone Signaling in the CNS. 15 min oral presentation in 22nd Conference of European Comparative Endocrinologists, Uppsala, Sweden. 

 

Invited Talks
 

Honors and Awards
 

• EMBO Long-term Fellowship, European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), 2008-2009
• Lise Meitner Postdoctoral Fellowship, FWF (Austrian Science Foundation), 2007
• Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship, 2000-2001

 

2010 - present

2010 - present

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