- Research Interests
• Plasma application in plant science, plant convergence
• Leaf and reproductive organ development in crops such as Maize and Sorghum
• Comparative genomics using system biological approaches: transcriptome sequencing analysis, miRNA profiling, Chip seq analysis

- Education & Experience
KFE (Korea institute of fusion energy) and UST (University of Science and Technology)
Invited scientist: Wonkwang University Funded by Brain Pool program: National Research Foundation
Post-doc. : KAIST & Cold Spring Harbor Lab. (Supervisor: Prof. Won-Il Chung & Doreen Ware)
Ph.D. : KAIST, Biological science (Supervisor: Dr. Won-Il Chung)
M.S. : Kyungpook National Univ., Agronomy
B.S. : Kyungpook National Univ., Agronomy

- Publications in 5 years (* : Equal contribution or corresponding author)
1. Kim K, Ko K, Kang YJ, Yang T, Oh S, Lee SW, Kim MS, Lee YK, Kim MY. Fermentation of Oak Tree Sawdust affects Peanut Sprout Growth and Fungal Microbiomes (2023). Horticultural science and technology 59-68
2. Priatama RA, Pervitasari AN, Park S, Park SJ, and Lee YK* Current Advancements in the Molecular Mechanism of Plasma Treatment for Seed Germination and Plant Growth (2022). International Journal of Molecular science 21:23(9)
3. Lee YK*, Kumari S, Olson A, Hauser F, Ware D. Role of a ZF-HD Transcription Factor in miR157-Mediated Feed-Forward Regulatory Module That Determines Plant Architecture in Arabidopsis (2022) International Journal of molecular sciences 423(15):8665
4. Priatama RA, Heo J, Kim SH, Rajendran S, Seoa Yoon S, Jeong DH, Choo YK, Bae JH, Kim CM, Lee YH, Demura T, Lee YK, Choi EY, Han CD and Park SJ. Narrow lpa1 Metaxylems Enhance Drought Tolerance and Optimize Water Use for Grain Filling in Dwarf Rice (2022) Frontier in plant sciences 13:894545
5. Heo J, Bang WY, Jeong JC, Park SC, Lee JM, Choi S, Lee B, Lee YK, Kim K, Park SJ. The comparisons of expression pattern reveal molecular regulation of fruit metabolites in S. nigrum and S. lycopersicum (2022) Scientific Reports, 12:5001
6. Shin C, Kim K, Kang YJ, Kim D, Seo YJ, Se Ra Park SR, Kim MK, Lee YK, Kim DS & Ko K. Effect of IgG Fc-fusion and KDEL-ER retention signal on prostate-specific antigen expression in plant and its immune in mice (2022) Plant Biotechnology Reports 16,729–740
7. Rajendran S,, Bae JH, Park MW, Oh JH, Hwang WJ, Lee YK*, and Park SJ* Tomato Yield Effects of Reciprocal Hybridization of Solanum lycopersicum Cultivars M82 and Micro-Tom (2022) Plant Breed. Biotech. 10(1):37~48
8. Park Y, Ten LN, Lee YK, Jung HY, Kim MK (2022) Larkinella humicola sp. nov., a gamma radiation resistant bacterium isolated from soil. Archives of Microbiology 204(3):182.
9. Damdintogtokh T, Park Y, Maeng S, Oh HJ, Bang M, Lee YK Hymenobacter telluris sp. nov., isolated from soil in South Korea (2022) Archives of Microbiology 204:111
10. Rajendran S, Heo J, Kim YJ, Kim DH, Ko K, Lee YK, Oh SK, Kim CM, Bae JH and Park SJ Optimization of Tomato Productivity Using Flowering Time Variants (2021) Agronomy 11, 285.
11. Song I*, Lee YK*, Kim JW, Lee SW, Park SR, Lee HK, Oh S, Ko K, Kim MK, Park SJ, Kim DH, Kim MS, Kim DS, Ko K. Effect of an Endoplasmic Reticulum Retention Signal Tagged to Human Anti-Rabies mAb SO57 on Its Expression in Arabidopsis and Plant Growth (2021) Molecules and cells 44(10):770-779
12. Ka DH, Priatama RA, Park JY, Park SJ, Kim SB, Lee IA and Lee YK. Plasma-Activated Water Modulates Root Hair Cell Density via Root Developmental Genes in Arabidopsis thaliana L. (2021) Applied sciences 11(5). 2240
13. Ahn J, Oh S, Kang YJ, Kim K, Moon SK, Moon BK, Myung SC, Kim MS, Lee YK* and Ko K* (2021) Effect of Oak Tree Sawdust Fermentation Period on Peanut Seed Germination, Seedling Biomass, and Morphology. Horticulturae, 7, 182.
14. Lee YK*, Lim JH, Hong EJ, Kim SB. Plasma-activated water regulates root hairs and cotyledon size dependent on cell elongation in Nicotiana tabacum L. (2020) Plant biotechnology reports 14, 667-672
15. Park S, Lee E, Heo J, Kim DH, Chun HJ, Kim MC, Bang WY, Lee YK*, Park SJ* Rapid generation of transgenic and gene edited Solanum nigrum plants using Agrobacterium-mediated transformation (2020) Plant biotechnology reports 14,497-504
16. Park Y, Maeng S, Lee SE, Han JH, Lee YK, Oh J, Jigden B, Kang JH, Kim MK (2020) Noviherbaspirillum galbum sp. nov., a bacterium isolated from soil. Archives of Microbiology. 203(2):823-828.
17. Gladman N, Jiao Y, Lee YK, Zhang L, Chopra R, Regulski M, Burow G, Hayes C, Christensen SA, Dampanaboina L, Chen J, Burke B, Ware D & Xin Z. Fertility of Pedicellate Spikelets in Sorghum Is Controlled by a Jasmonic Acid Regulatory Module (2019) International Journal of Molecular Science 20, 4951
18. Yeo-Jin Kang, Lee YK, and In-Jung Kim. Identification of Differentially Up-regulated Genes in Apple with White Rot Disease (2019). Plant Pathol. J. 35(5): 530-537
19. Yinping J*, Lee YK*, Burow G, Chopra R, Gladman N, Xin Z and Ware D. MSD1 regulates pedicellate spikelet fertility in sorghum through the jasmonic acid pathway (2018) Nature communication 9:822
20. Song IC, Kang YJ, Lee YK, Myung SC, Ko K. Endoplasmic reticulum retention motif fused to recombinant anti-cancer monoclonal antibody (mAb) CO17-1A affects mAb expression and plant stress response (2018) PLOS one 24:13(9)
21. Lee YK*, Rhee JY, Chung GC, Park SJ, Segami S, Maeshima M, Choi G. Functionally redundant LNG3 and LNG4 genes regulate turgor-driven polar cell elongation mediated by activation of XTH gene family (2018) Plant molecular biology 97:23-36
22. Lee YK and Kim IJ Overexpression of Arabidopsis LNG1 in tobacco alters leaf shape by increasing longitudinal cell elongation (2018). Gene and genomics 40:1053-1062