Kwon Young-Soo

Kwon Young-Soo is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Integrative Bioscience and Biotechnology, Sejong University, with a focus on post-transcriptional gene regulation mechanisms. He earned his B.S. in Genetic Engineering from Korea University, M.S. and Ph.D. in Biochemistry from KAIST, and completed postdoctoral training in Genomics at the University of California, San Diego.

• Research Interests: Post-transcriptional gene regulation, protein-RNA interactions, transcriptome-scale analysis, microRNA function, and developmental biology.
• Key Contributions: Determined cleavage sites of pre-microRNAs via DGCR8 target site analysis; mapped AGO2 binding sites to delineate microRNA target networks; developed experimental tools like SLEC technology for RNA sequencing.

Publications (15 most recent) span RNA splicing, stem cell proteomics, and regulatory RNA networks, with recent work on L1TD1's role in ribonucleoprotein condensates and U2AF1/ZRSR2 splicing dynamics. His lab, the Genomics Lab, employs next-generation sequencing and bioinformatics to study human embryonic stem cells and differentiation processes.