09. 2025 - School of Medicine, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea (Assistant Professor)
07. 2025 Boston Children’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School, MA, USA (Postdoctoral Research Fellow)
02. 2023 Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT), Daejeon, Korea (Postdoctoral Researcher)
Academic Qualification
02. 2020 Ph.D., Department of Life Sciences, Korea University, Seoul, Korea (Advisor: Dr. Byung-Yoon Ahn)
08. 2014 B.S., Department of Life Sciences, Gachon University, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
주요관심연구
Lab of Virology focuses on virus-host interaction, viral pathogenesis, vaccine development, and B cell engineering.
We are interested in respiratory viruses including RSV and SARS-CoV-2 and Flaviviruses.
대표연구업적
1. Gi Uk Jeong*, Insu Hwang*, Wooseong Lee*, Ji Hyun Choi*, Yoon Gun Young, Hae Soo Kim, Jeong-Sun Yang, Kyung-Chang Kim, Joo-Yeon Lee, Seong-Jun Kim, Young-Chan Kwon, Kyun Do Kim. Generation of a lethal mouse model expressing human ACE2 and TMPRSS2 for SARS-CoV-2 infection and pathogenesis. Experimental & Molecular Medicine 2024 May 56(5):1221-1229.
2. Gi Uk Jeong*, Sumin Lee*, Do Yeon Kim, Jaemyun Lyu, Gun Young Yoon, Kyun-Do Kim, Keun Bon Ku, Junsu Ko, Young-Chan Kwon. Zika Virus Infection Induces Interleukin-1β-Mediated Inflammatory Responses by Macrophages in the Brain of an Adult Mouse Model. Journal of Virology 2023 Jun 97(6):e0055623.
3. Gi Uk Jeong*, Hyung-Jun Kwon*, Wern Hann Ng, Xiang Liu, Hyun Woo Moon, Gun Young Yoon, Hye Jin Shin, In-Chul Lee, Zheng Lung Ling, Alanna G. Spiteri, Nicholas J.C. King, Adam Taylor, Ji Soo Chae, Chonsaeng Kim, Dae-Gyun Ahn, Kyun-Do Kim, Young Bae Ryu, Seong-Jun Kim, Suresh Mahalingam, and Young-Chan Kwon. Ocular tropism of SARS-CoV- 2 in animal models with retinal inflammation via neuronal invasion following intranasal inoculation. Nature Communications 2022 Dec 13(1):7675.
4. Gi Uk Jeong, Jaemyun Lyu, Kyun-Do Kim, Young Cheul Chung, Gun Young Yoon, Sumin Lee, Insu Hwang, Won-Ho Shin, Junsu Ko, June-Yong Lee, and Young-Chan Kwon. SARS- CoV-2 Infection of Microglia Elicits Pro-inflammatory Activation and Apoptotic Cell Death. Microbiology Spectrum 2022 Jun 10(3):e01091-22.
5. Gi Uk Jeong, Gun Young Yoon, Hyun Woo Moon, Wooseong Lee, Insu Hwang, Haesoo Kim, Kyun-Do Kim, Chonsaeng Kim, Dae-Gyun Ahn, Bum-Tae Kim, Seong-Jun Kim, and Young- Chan Kwon. Comparison of Plaque Size, Thermal Stability, and Replication Rate among SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern. Viruses 2022 Jan 14(1):55.
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