Professor

Seung-Oh Seo (sos), pH.d.

Assistant Professor

Department of Food Science and Biotechnology

College of Energy and Biotechnology

Research Institute of Food and Biotechnology

Seoul National University of Science and Technology

Education

• 2017-2019, Postdoctoral training, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, USA

• 2012-2017, PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

• 2009-2011, MS, Seoul National University, Korea

• 2003-2009, BS, SungKyunKwan University, Korea

EXPERTISE

1. Metabolic engineering

2. Systems and synthetic biology

3. Value-added biotransformation

4. Precision fermentation

Biographical Sketch

Dr. Seung-Oh Seo (a.k.a SOS) is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Food Science and Biotechnology at the Seoul National University of Science and Technology. Dr. SOS received a B.S. degree (2009) in Food Science and Biotechnology from Sungkyunkwan University and M.S. degree (2011, advisor: Prof. Jin-Ho Seo) majoring in Food Science and Biotechnology from Seoul National University. He moved to the USA and received a Ph.D. degree (2017, advisor: Prof. Hans P. Blaschek, and co-advisor: Prof. Yong-Su Jin) at the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After completing a post-doctoral training (2017-2019, advisor: Prof. Claudia Schmidt-Dannert) at the Biotechnology Institute at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, he started a faculty position at the Catholic University of Korea until January 2023. He is now an assistant professor at the Department of Food Science and Biotechnology at Seoul National University of Science and Technology. His research is focused on precision fermentation with metabolic engineering of food microorganisms to produce functional food ingredients and value-added bioproducts such as natural products, nutraceuticals, biochemicals, and industrial enzymes from renewable biomass. He is also interested in gut microbiome engineering with probiotics and prebiotics from Korean traditional foods.

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Lectures

Advanced Nutritional Chemistry, Food Biotechnology Colloquium, Food Biochemistry, Food Bioengineering, Food Biochemistry Laboratory, Food Capstone Design, Food Fermentation, Advanced Fermentation Technology, Metabolic Engineering and Synthetic Biology, Precision Fermentation and Enzyme, Microbiome and Functional Food 

Previous Lectures

Food Hygiene & Related Law, Food Processing & Lab, Food Material Science, Food Preservation, Current Problems in Food, Advanced Food Microbiology, Food Fermentology, Advanced Food Chemistry, Food Microbiology & Lab, Food Biotechnology