Faculty

Welcome to the Department of Life Science at SOGANG University.

Faculty

  • Name  Seong-Ryong Kim, Ph.D.
  • Laboratory  https://plant.sogang.ac.kr/plant/index.html
  • Office  R1105
  • Phone  +82-2-705-8456
  • E-Mail sungkim@sogang.ac.kr
  • Homepage  https://plant.sogang.ac.kr/plant/index.html
  • Homepage  Plant Molecular Biology Laboratory

Research Interests

Physiology, biochemistry, and genetics of the stress responsive genes in both plant vegetative and reproductive organs


Production of protein biotherapeutics in plants (rice and chlorella)

Selected Publications

Sherry, L., Bahar, M.W., Porta, C. et al. Recombinant expression systems for productionof stabilised virus-like particles as next-generation polio vaccines. Nat Commun 16, 831 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56118-z

 

Shin, J.-H., Oh, S., Jang, M.-H., Lee, S.-Y., Min, C., Eu, Y.-J., Begum, H., Kim, J.-C., Lee, G.R., Oh, H.-B., Paul, M.J., Ma, J.K.-.-C., Gwak, H.-S., Youn, H. and Kim, S.-R. Enhanced efficacy of glycoengineered rice cell-produced trastuzumab. Plant Biotechnol. J, 22: 3068-3081 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1111/pbi.14429

 

Jae-Wan Jung, Pil-Gu Park, Won-Kyung Lee, Jun-Hye Shin, Mi-Hwa Jang, Eun-Hye Seo, Timothy An, Young Beom Kim, Myeong Hee Moon, Seuk-Keun Choi, and et al. "Production of Plant-Derived Japanese Encephalitis Virus Multi-Epitope Peptide in Nicotiana benthamiana and Immunological Response in Mice" International Journal of Molecular Sciences (2023). https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms241411643

 

Jae‑Wan Jung, Jun‑Hye Shin, Won‑Kyung Lee, Hilal Begum, Chan‑Hong Min, Mi‑Hwa Jang, Han‑Bin Oh, Moon‑Sik Yang, Seong‑Ryong Kim. Inactivation of the β (1, 2)‑xylosyltransferase and the α (1, 3)‑fucosyltransferase gene in rice (Oryza sativa) by multiplex CRISPR/ Cas9 strategy. Plant Cell Reports (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00299-021-02667-8

 

Jun-Hye Shin, Juyoung Choi, Jeongmin Jeon, Manu Kumar, Juhyeon Lee, Won-Joong Jeong, Seong-Ryong Kim. The establishment of new protein expression system using N starvation inducible promoters in Chlorella. Scientific Report 10:12713 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-69620-9