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윤대진 (경상대학교 생화학과) Professor Dae-Jin Yun obtained his Ph. D from Kyoto University in 1994. Following his postdoctoral fellowship at Purdue University, he went onto Gyeongsang National University to hold a position as a professor in the Department of Biochemistry. Professor Yun is a world leading researcher in his field, namely in plant abiotic stress signal transduction. He has published his work in internationally leading journals including Nature Genetics, Nature Communications, Molecular Cell, PNAS and Plant Cell as a corresponding author. His total publication number is over 170. He has also been a member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology since 2013. In the past few years, Prof. Yun has made several important contributions towards understanding the molecular basis of the plant stress response. Specific highlights and exceptional contributions to his field include the identification of a key signalling protein, nucleotide diphosphate kinase, which interacts with two stress-activated MAPKs to regulate multiple stress pathways. He has also recently discovered a role for SUMOylation in phosphate deficiency in plants, establishing a landmark paper in this area. Furthermore, he has recently uncovered a missing link between flowering and stress adaptation, yet another important discovery in this research area. Within the area of apoptosis and cell death control, Prof. Yun has identified proteins on the yeast cell surface that determine resistance to osmotin, a key plant antifungal protein. Building on this finding, he went on to show that osmotin subverts normal signalling transduction process and enhances target susceptibility, another seminal finding. Also in the aforementioned area, he identified a plant defence effector that cued microbial apoptosis. Even more so from these highlights, Prof. Yun has made other numerous important contributions to the field of plant stress research. Prof. Yun has organized a global research consortium and reported in Nature Genetics the genome sequence of Thellungiella pavula, a close relative of Arabidopsis that shows extreme stress tolerance. Establishing the sequence of T. pavula opened up a whole new research area. Prof. Yun will continue to be a leading scientist in the plant stress biology field that will contribute substantially to enhancing food production in the world during the next decades. Representative papers |