Research Career

• Department Chair (2022. 7 ~ 2023. 6)

Department of Biological Sciences, Kangwon National University

• Assistant Professor (2017. 9 ~ 2022. 8)

Department of Biological Sciences, Kangwon National University

• Research fellow (2014. 9 ~ 2017. 8)

Center for Genome Engineering, Institute for Basic Science(IBS), Korea 

• DFG research fellow (2010. 3 ~ 2014. 6)

Department of Plant-Microbe Interactions, Max-Planck-Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany 

• Post-doctoral fellow (2007. 2 ~ 2010. 3) 

Cellular Systems Biology Lab, Division of Molecular and Life Science, POSTECH

• Researcher (2000. 2 ~ 2000. 8)

Center for Plant Intracellular Trafficking (Creative Research Institute), POSTECH

Selected publications

8. Han S.Y., Park S.Y., Won K.H., Park S., Park J.H., Shim D., Hwang I., Jeong D.H.*, and Kim H.* (2024) Elucidating the callus-to-shoot-forming mechanism in Capsicum annuum 'Dempsey' through comparative transcriptome analyses. BMC Plant Biology 24, 367 

7. Kim H.*, Choi J.#, and Won K.H.# (2020) A stable DNA-free screening system for CRISPR/RNPs-mediated gene editing in hot and sweet cultivars of Capsicum annuum. BMC Plant Biology  20(1): 449 

6. Kim H., Kim S.T., Ryu J., Kang B.C., Kim J.S.* and Kim S.G.* (2017) CRISPR/Cpf1-mediated DNA free plant genome editing. Nature Communications 16(8): 14406 

5. Kim H.#, Kim S.T.#, Ryu J., Choi M.K., Kwon J., Kang B.C., Ahn H., Bae S., Kim J.S.* and Kim S.G.* (2016) A Simple, Flexible and High-Throughput Cloning System for Plant Genome Editing via CRISPR/Cas System. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology 58 (8): 705-712 (# Co-first author)

4. Woo J.W., Kim J., Kwon S.I., Corvalán C., Cho S.W., Kim H., Kim S.G., Kim S.T., Choe S., and Kim J.S. (2015) DNA-free genome editing in plants with preassembled CRISPR-Cas9 ribonucleoproteins. Nature Biotechnology 33(11): 1162-1164

3. Kim H., O’Connell R., Maekawa-Yoshikawa M., Uemura T., Neumann U., Schulze-Lefert P. (2014) The powdery mildew resistance protein RPW8.2 is carried on VAMP721/722 vesicles to the extrahaustorial membrane of haustorial complexes. Plant Journal 79(5): 835-847 

2. Kim H., Jang M., Chang. J.H., Maio Y., Jiang L., Hwang I. (2010) Homomeric interaction of AtVSR1 is essential for its function as a vacuolar sorting receptor. Plant Physiology 154: 134- 148 

1. Kim H., Park M, Kim SJ, Hwang I. (2005) Actin filaments play a critical role in vacuolar trafficking at the Golgi complex in plant cells. Plant Cell 17(3): 888-902