Yun, Dae-Jin (尹大珍)Professor, Department of Biomedical Science & Engineering, Konkuk
University; E-mail, djyun@konkuk.ac.kr; https://blog.naver.com/djyunlab
EDUCATION
1981-1988
1989-1991
1991-1994
1994-1998

Konkuk University, BS
Kyoto University, MS
Kyoto University, Ph.D.
Purdue University, Postdoc.

EXPERIENCE AND CAREER
2017-present Professor, Konkuk University
1998-2017
Professor, Gyeongsang National University
2003-2015
Adjunct Professor, Purdue University (USA)
2008-2012
Director, Plant Molecular & Biotechnology Research Center (GNU)2008-2013
Director, World Class University Program
2013-2017
Director, Brain Korea (BK21) plus program
2017-2022
Director, Global Research Lab (Plant Stress Research for Climate Change)
2019-2020
President, Korean Society of Plant Biologist
2021- present Distinguished Professor, Northeast Normal University (China)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Abiotic Stress Signaling in Plant
AWARDS2005 Distinguished Professor Award, Gyeongsang National University
2009 Best Research Award, Korean Society of Plant Biologists
2012 Best Academic Award, Korean Society of Plant Biotechnology
2013 Special Contribution Award, Gyeongsang National University
2014 Best Research Paper Award, Korean Federation of Science &Technology
2015 Macrogen Scientist Award, Korean Society for Molecular and Cellar Biology
2020 Cargill Life Science Award, Korean Academy of Science and Technology
2020 KSMCB Life Science Award, Korean Society for Molecular and Cellar Biology
2021 Hahn Kwang Ho Agriculture Research Award
2021 Academic Contribution Award, Korean Society of Plant Biologists
2022 Best Research Award, Konkuk University
2023 Research.com Molecular Biology in South Korea Leader Award
HONOR- Member, Korean Academy of Science and Technology (Since 2012)- Ranking #1 of the best scholar of Molecular Biology in South Korea(https://research.com/scientists-rankings/molecular-biology/kr)
INVITED TALK at INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS
2002 Gordon Research Conference, Oxford, UK2003 Keystone Symposia, Snowbird, Utah, USA2014 1st National Symposium of Plant Stress Biology, Xian, China
2014 International conference on Arabidopsis Research, Vancouver, Canada
2015 International conference on plant stress response, Beijing, China
2016 International conference on Arabidopsis Research, Gyeongju, Korea
2017 International Symposium of Plant Stress Biology, Guangzhou, China
2017 XIX International Botanical Congress, Shenzen, China
2018 World Life Science Conference, Beijing, China
2019 International Conference on Arabidopsis Research, Wuhan, China
2020 The 1st International Conference on Plant Stress and Multi-Omics, Kaifeng, China
2022 International Symposium of Plant Stress Biology, Beijing, China
2022 The 4 th International Symposium on Biological Signal Transduction, Wuhan, China
2023 International conference on Arabidopsis Research, Chiba, Japan
2023 The 15th International Association for Plant Biotechnology Congress, Daejeon, Korea
2023 The 24th International Conference on Plant Growth Substances, Gyeongju, Korea
2023 International Symposium of Plant Stress Biology, Beijing, China
2023 Youth Symposium on Ornamental Horticulture of China, Changbaisan, China
INVITED TALK at FOREIGN INSTITUTIONSUniversity of Tokyo (2000), RIKEN (2000), Institute of Basic Biology, Japan (2000); NAIST (2001),Edinburgh University (2002); University of California, Berkeley (2003);Texas A&M University (2004); Ohio
State University (2004); Kyoto University (2004); Hokkaido University (2006); Missouri-Columbia
University (2007); Max Planck Institute at Köln (2008); University of Maryland (2012); NAIST (2013);
Kyoto University (2013); Missouri-Columbia University (2013); University of Malaga (2013); Institute for
Natural Resources & Agrobiology, Spain (2013); University of Chicago (2013); Chinse Academy ofSciences (2013); University of Arizona (2014); China Agriculture University (2014); University of Tokyo(2014);University of California, Riverside (2014); University of Copenhagen, Denmark (2014); AS-BCST,Taiwan (2014); Louisiana State University (2015);Texas A&M University (2015); Purdue University (2015);
NAIST (2015);National Center for Biotechnology, Spain (2015);National Changhua University of
Education, Taiwan (2015); Osaka Prefecture University (2015); Kyoto University (2016);University ofBritish Colombia (2016); Sichuan Agriculture University (2016); RIKEN (2017); NAIST (2017);Universityof Washington (2017); Texas A&M University (2018); University of Arizona (2018); CAS, Beijing (2018);
China Agriculture University (2018);Texas A&M University (2019); Oklahoma State University (2019);
Huazhong Agriculture University (2019); New England Biolab. (2019); North East Normal University(2019); Kyoto University (2019); Osaka University (2019); University of Tokyo (2019); University ofArizona (2020); University of Texas, Austin (2020); China Agriculture University (2021); University ofCalifornia-Riverside(2022); Purdue University (2022); Stanford University (2022), NAIST(2022), Osaka
Metropolitan University (2022), Kyoto University (2022), National University of Singapore (2022) ,California Polytechnic State University (2023), University of Arizona (2023), University of Arizona(2023),IB-CAS (2023), Peking University (2023), Tsinghua University (2023), China Agriculture University(2023), CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Science (2023), Sanghai Jiaotong University (2023),Zhejiang University (2023), Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University (2023), China National Rice
Research Institute (2023), Jinlin University (2023), Yanbian University (2023), Shenyang Agriculture
University (2023)
PUBLICATIONS (H-index, 76; Total citation, 18,642)
Total 258 peer reviewed articles including Cell, Nature Genetics, Molecular Cell, NatureCommunications, Nature Plant, PNAS, Molecular Plant, Plant Cell etc.