Professor KANG Byung Ho
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(Office): Room E109, Science Center East Block
(Lab): Room LG106 & 108, Run Run Shaw Science Building

Phone
(Office): (852) 3943 6101
(Lab): (852) 3943 8039

Fax (852) 2603 7246

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Education2003 Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison
1998 M.Sc. Seoul National University
1994 B.Sc. Seoul National University
Position2015 - Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2013 - 2015 Associate Professor, Microbiology and Cell Sciences, University of Florida
2007 - 2013 Assistant Professor, Microbiology and Cell Sciences, University of Florida
Research InterestsPlant Cell Biology – We examine biogenesis and functions of secretory organelles and plastids in plant cells using molecular biological tools and multiple microscopy methods.
3D electron microscopy – We utilize electron tomography to investigate membranous organelles of eukaryotic cells. This advanced electron microscopy technique visualizes organelle structures at nanometer level resolutions in 3D.
Representative Publications
Wang, P., Chen, X., Goldbeck, C., Chung, E., & Kang, B.-H. (2017). A distinct class of vesicles derived from the trans-Golgi mediates secretion of xylogalacturonan in the root border cell. The Plant Journal, 92 (4), 596–610. http://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.13704
Kim, E.-D., Xiong, Y., Pyo, Y., Kim, D.-H., Kang, B.-H., & Sung, S. (2017). Spatio-temporal analysis of coding and long noncoding transcripts during maize endosperm development. Scientific Reports, 7(1), 1383–14. http://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-03878-4
Mai, K. K. K., Kang, M. J., & Kang, B.-H. (2017). 3D Printing of Plant Golgi Stacks from Their Electron Tomographic Models. In Plant Cell Morphogenesis (Vol. 1662, pp. 105–113). New York, NY: Springer New York. http://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7262-3_9
Gu, Y., Zebell, S. G., Liang, Z., Wang, S., Kang, B.-H., & Dong, X. (2016). Nuclear Pore Permeabilization Is a Convergent Signaling Event in Effector-Triggered Immunity. Cell, 166(6), 1526–1538.e11. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2016.07.042
Wang, Y., Zhang, Y., Chen, L., Liang, Q., Yin, X.-M., Miao, L., et al. (2016). Kinetics and specificity of paternal mitochondrial elimination in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature Communications, 7, 12569. http://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12569
Zhou, Q., Li, H., Li, H., Nakagawa, A., Lin, J. L. J., Lee, E. S., et al. (2016). Mitochondrial endonuclease G mediates breakdown of paternal mitochondria upon fertilization. Science, 353(6297), 394–399. http://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaf4777
Park, J., Cui, Y., & Kang, B.-H. (2015). AtPGL3 is an Arabidopsis BURP domain protein that is localized to the cell wall and promotes cell enlargement. Frontiers in Plant Science, 6, 412. http://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2015.00412
Xiong, Y., Mei, W., Kim, E.-D., Mukherjee, K., Hassanein, H., Barbazuk, W. B., et al. (2014). Adaptive expansion of the maize maternally expressed gene (Meg) family involves changes in expression patterns and protein secondary structures of its members. BMC Plant Biology, 14(1), 197–14. http://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-014-0204-8
Lee, K.-H., Park, J., Williams, D. S., Xiong, Y., Hwang, I., & Kang, B.-H. (2013). Defective chloroplast development inhibits maintenance of normal levels of abscisic acid in a mutant of the Arabidopsis RH3 DEAD-box protein during early post-germination growth. The Plant Journal, 73(5), 720–732. http://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.12055
Donohoe, B. S., Kang, B.-H., Gerl, M. J., Gergely, Z. R., McMichael, C. M., Bednarek, S. Y., & Staehelin, L. A. (2013). Cis-Golgi cisternal assembly and biosynthetic activation occur sequentially in plants and algae. Traffic 14(5), 551–567. http://doi.org/10.1111/tra.12052
Research Grants2016-2019, Research Grants Council (Hong Kong), Electron Tomography Analysis of Chloroplast Biogenesis in the C3 Plant Arabidopsis and the C4 Plant Maize
2015-2019, Rural Development Administration (South Korea), Structural analyses of chloroplast differentiation in a single cell C4 plant
2011-2015, United States Department of Agriculture, Cell type-specific epigenetic gene regulation in developing maize endosperm
AwardsInvited Foreign Scholar, Microscopy and Cell Science, Global COE program, Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (2010)
Panel member, National Science Foundation, Major Research Instrument program (2010)
Invited speaker, International Microscopy Congress 17 (2010)
Finalist, Science in Art | Art in Science exhibition, University of Colorado Health Science Center and Denver Museum of Nature and Science (2006)
B.S. Summa cum laude, Seoul National University (1994)
Professional Activities2014 - Editorial Board, Journal of Plant Research
2011 - Review editor, Frontiers in Plant Science (Plant Cell Biology)
2007 - Member, Microscopy Society of America
2003 - Member, American Society of Cell Biology
2003 - Member, American Society of Plant Biology