College of Science - College of Science

  • Assistant Professor bioinformatics, computational genomics
  • KIM, JUNHO

Research Interest

Computational genomics, Bioinformatics, NGS analysis and method development, Somatic mutation analysis, Single cell genomics

Education

  • 2009-2014: Ph.D., Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST, Korea
  • 2008-2009: M.S., Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST, Korea
  • 2004-2008: B.S., Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST, Korea

Experience

  • 2021-present: Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
  • 2017-2021: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
  • 2014-2018: Postdoctoral Researcher, Yonsei Biomedical Science Institute, Yonsei University College of Medicine, South Korea

Journal Articles

  • (2023)  CanISO: a database of genomic and transcriptomic variations in domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris).  BMC GENOMICS.  24,  1
  • (2022)  Prevalence and mechanisms of somatic deletions in single human neurons during normal aging and in DNA repair disorders.  NATURE COMMUNICATIONS.  13,  1
  • (2022)  Single-cell genome sequencing of human neurons identifies somatic point mutation and indel enrichment in regulatory elements.  NATURE GENETICS.  54,  10
  • (2022)  Somatic genomic changes in single Alzheimer’s disease neurons.  NATURE.  604,  7907
  • (2022)  Rates and Patterns of Clonal Oncogenic Mutations in the Normal Human Brain.  CANCER DISCOVERY.  12,  1
  • (2022)  Somatic mutations in single human cardiomyocytes reveal age-associated DNA damage and widespread oxidative genotoxicity.  Nature Aging.  2,  8
  • (2020)  APP gene copy number changes reflect exogenous contamination.  NATURE.  584,  7821
  • (2019)  The use of technical replication for detection of low-level somatic mutations in next-generation sequencing.  NATURE COMMUNICATIONS.  10,  1
  • (2017)  Somatic Mutations in TSC1 and TSC2 Cause Focal Cortical Dysplasia.  AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS.  100,  3
  • (2016)  Vecuum: identification and filtration of false somatic variants caused by recombinant vector contamination.  BIOINFORMATICS.  32,  20
  • (2015)  Brain somatic mutations in MTOR cause focal cortical dysplasia type II leading to intractable epilepsy.  NATURE MEDICINE.  21,  1
  • (2015)  SoloDel: a probabilistic model for detecting low-frequent somatic deletions from unmatched sequencing data.  BIOINFORMATICS.  31,  19

Honors / Awards

  • Top 5 Bio-convergence Research of Korea, 2019
  • CDMRP PRMRP Discovery Award, Department of Defense (DoD) (Co-investigator), 2019