Junhyong Kim
Professor of Biology and
Computer and Information Science (CIS)
Honors and Awards: Guggenheim Fellow - 2010, Ellison Fellow Senior Scholar in Aging - 2010
Junhyong studies the evolution and mechanisms of molecular control in bio-generative processes. In particular, his group is interested in the architecture of the control processes, investigating the kind of control logic used, and how that architecture modulates evolutionary dynamics. Most of Junhyong's work involves mammalian neurons and yeasts as model systems. His group uses both experimental and theoretical approaches to these problems. Current projects include localization of mRNA neurons, cell remodeling, evolution of the transciptome in yeast, evolution of functional RNAs, and reconstructing the Tree of Life.
Education:
PhD 1992 - SUNY at Stoney Brook
Recent Publications 
- Intron retention facilitates splice variant diversity in calcium-activated big potassium channel populations, Bell, T.J. | Miyashiro, K.Y. | Sul, J.-Y. | Buckley, P.T. | Lee, M.T. | McCullough, R. | Jochems, J. | Kim, J. | Cantor, C.R. | Parsons, T.D. | Eberwine, J.H., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2010
- Heterochronic evolution reveals modular timing changes in budding yeast transcriptomes, Simola, D.F. | Francis, C. | Sniegowski, P.D. | Kim, J., Genome Biology, 2010
- 10th IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering 2010, BIBE 2010: Message from the general chairs, Rigoutsos, I. | Floudas, C.A. | Kim, J. | Weinstein, H., 10th IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering 2010, BIBE 2010, 2010
- RNA: State memory and mediator of cellular phenotype, Kim, J. | Eberwine, J., Trends in Cell Biology, 2010
- Dissecting the molecular mechanism of drosophila odorant receptors through activity modeling and comparative analysis, Guo, S. | Kim, J., Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics, 2010