November 3 (Wed) - 5 (Fri), 2021
Jeju International Convention Center (Jeju ICC)

Professor Ildoo Hwang received his B.S. and M.S. degrees at Seoul National University and a Ph.D. degree in Plant Biology from the University of Maryland at College Park. After his breakthrough research to lay out the cytokinin signaling cascade during postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School, he joined the Department of Life Sciences at Pohang University of Science and Technology as a professor in 2003. Since then he has carved out a niche, undoubtedly leading the plant signaling research field where his group has been involved in exploring diverse aspects of the signal transmission and networks underlying plant growth and development to achieve sustainable crop production. His research focuses on comprehending how plants integrate developmental and environmental cues and respond to their ambiance, to optimize plant growth and productivity. Recently, his research group discovered JULGI (줄기) proteins involved in the development of phloem and became the world’s first to identify ways to promote the transporting capacity of plants and increase plant productivity. His researches have featured in Nature Plants, Nature Communications, Nature Cell Biology, Developmental Cell, Plant Cell, Molecular Plant, PNAS, Nature and Science to name a few. He is a Seok-Cheon distinguished professor in POSTECH and honored with the best research award from the Korean Society of Plant Biologists, the best research award from the Korean Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, Macrogen scientist award from the Korean Society for Molecular and Cellar Biology, Cargill life science award from the Korean Academy of Science and Technology, and Postechian research award from POSTECH.