Byung Wook Yun
Kyungpook National University, South Korea
Biography
Byung-Wook Yun has completed his PhD jointly at Kyungpook National University (KNU) and Korea Research Institute of Bioscience & Biotechnology (KRIBB) in 1998, investigating the function of plant peroxidases. He completed his Post-doctoral and senior research fellowship at the University of Edinburgh (UK), studying Nitric Oxide (NO) signaling in plant immune system, mentored by Professor Gary Loake. Currently he is working as an Associate Professor of the School of Applied Biosciences at KNU. His Plant Functional Genomics Lab is focusing on NO-mediated plant defense system toward both biotic and abiotic stresses using transcriptomics approaches.