Dr.Byung-Dong Kim
Professor Emeritus /Chair
Seoul National University and a member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology
South Korea
Biography
Byung-Dong Kim is a professor emeritus of the Seoul National University and a member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology. He is the chair of the advisory board of the Plant Genomics and Breeding Institute of Seoul National University. He authored in 2008 a book entitled “Foldback Intercoil DNA†in Seoul. Here he describes so far unknown FBI DNA and explains its utility in explaining the role of short repeat sequences in homologous recombination and transposition. Currently he is pioneering the biological meaning of the FBI DNA in the age of genomics and epigenetics.
Research Interest
Genomics and epigenetics