Professor

Woo-Jong Hong

Assistant Professor

Department of Smart Farm Science, Kyung Hee University

Office: Room 419, College of Life Science

Tel: +82 031-201-2692

Email: hwj0602@khu.ac.kr

Publication: Google Scholar / ResearchGate

 Information

Education

2017.03 - 2021.08 Ph.D. in Plant Biotechnology (Supervisor: Prof. Ki-Hong Jung) Kyung Hee University, Korea

Dissertation: The study of rice pollen tube growth utilizing omics data and genome editing 

2011.03 - 2017.02 B.S. in Genetic Engineering (Minor in Computer Engineering) Kyung Hee University, Korea


Research Experience

2023.03 - Present Assistant Professor Department of Smart Farm Science, Kyung Hee University, Korea

2021.09 - 2023.02. Postdoctoral Researcher Crop Biotech Institute, Kyung Hee University, Korea


Honors

2021.09 - Present Sejong Science Fellowship National Research Foundation of Korea

2018.03 - 2021.08 Global Ph.D. Fellowship National Research Foundation of Korea


Awards

2022.09 Lee Se Young Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award Korean Society for Molecular and Cellular Biology

2021.08 Young Scientist Award The Korean Society for Plant Biotechnology

2021.03 Outstanding Paper Award in The Plant Journal Society for Experimental Biology

2020.11 Future Scientist Award Korean Society of Plant Biologists