Professor

Education & Professional Experience

[Mar. 1989 - Feb. 1994] Department of Chemical Technology, Seoul National University, B.S. (Rep. of Korea, Seoul)

[Mar. 1994 - Feb. 2001] School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National University, M.S., Ph.D. (Rep. of Korea, Seoul)

[Mar. 2001 - Feb. 2003] Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics (IMBG), Seoul National University (Rep. of Korea, Seoul)

[Mar. 2003 - Feb. 2005] Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Riverside (USA)

[Mar. 2005 - Feb. 2007] School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National University (Rep. of Korea, Seoul)

[Mar. 2007 - Present] Department of Chemical Engineering, Dong-A University (Rep. of Korea, Busan)

Research Interest

• Development of bacterial surface display system for biotechnological and environmental applications.

• Development of bioconversion process using bacteria.

• Development of biosensor using DNA, RNA based aptamer.

• Development of bacterial host for protein expression.

Representative Achievements

• Display of proteins on Bacillus subtilis endospores Cell, Ce Cell. Mol. Life Sci. 66:3127–3136 (2009).

• Method for expression of Proteins on spore surface, US Patent (US007582426B2), Sep.1, (2009).

• Bacterial surface display of co-factor containing enzyme, w-transaminase from Vibrio fluvialis using Bacillus subtilis spore display system, Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem. 75:1862-1865.(2011).

• Biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles by Bacillus stratosphericus spores and the role of dipicolinic acid in this process, Appl. Biochem. Biotechnol. 174: 270-282 (2014).

• Disulfide bonds of proteins displayed on spores of Bacillus subtilis can occur spontaneously, Curr. Microbiol. 71: 156-161 (2015).