Ph.D. (1993-1998): Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

MS (1991-1993): Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

BS (1984-1988): Korea University

Professional activities

2016-present: Member of the scientific committee of the International Society of Microbiota (https://www.microbiota-site.com/)

2019-present : Professor, School of Biosystems & Biomedical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Korea University

2006-2018 : Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Korea University

2000-2006: Staff Scientist, The Institute for Genomic Research (now called J. Craig Venter Institute)

1998-2000: Postdoctoral fellow, Stanford University

Selected recent publications

Hyojeong Yi and Heenam Stanley Kim. 2018. Scars left on the gut microbiota from the stringent response. Trends in Microbiology. 26(9): 735-737.

Hyojeong Yi, Hyeri Lee, Kwang-Hwi Cho, and Heenam Stanley Kim. 2018. Mutations in MetG (methionyl-tRNA synthetase) and TrmD (tRNA (guanine-N1)-methyltransferase) conferring the meropenem tolerance in Burkholderia thailandensis. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 73: 332-338.

Hyojeong Yi, Jin Myung Choi, Junghyun Hwang, Fabio Prati, Thinh-Phat Cao, Sung Haeng Lee, and Heenam Stanley Kim. 2016. High adaptability of the omega loop underlies the substrate-spectrum-extension evolution of a class A β-lactamase, PenL. Scientific Reports. 6:36527.

Han Song, Young Yoo, Junghyun Hwang, Yun-Cheol Na, and Heenam Stanley Kim. 2016. Faecalibacterium prausnitzii subspecies-level dysbiosis in the human gut microbiome underlying atopic dermatitis. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 137(3): 852–860.

Junghyun Hwang and Heenam Stanley Kim. 2015. Cell wall recycling-linked co-regulation of AmpC and PenB β-lactamases through ampD mutations in Burkholderia cenocepacia. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 59(12): 7602-10

Hyojeong Yi, Song Han, Junghyun Hwang, Karan Kim, William C. Nierman, and Heenam Stanley Kim. 2014. The tandem repeats enabling reversible switching between the two phases of β-lactamase substrate spectrum. PLoS Genetics 10(9): e1004640.

Junghyun Hwang, Kwang-Hwi Cho, Han Song, Jae Hwan Chun, and Heenam Stanley Kim. 2014. Deletion mutations conferring substrate spectrum extension in the class A β-lactamase. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 58(10): 6265-6269

Hyojeong Yi, Kwang-Hwi Cho, Yun Sung Cho, Karan Kim, William C. Nierman, and Heenam Stanley Kim. 2012. Twelve positions in a β-lactamase that can expand its substrate spectrum with a single amino acid substitution. PLoS ONE. 7(5): e37585.

Hyojeong Yi, Karan Kim, Kwang-Hwi Cho, Oksung Jung, and Heenam Stanley Kim. 2012. Substrate spectrum extension of PenA in Burkholderia thailandensis with a single amino acid deletion, Glu168del. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 56(7): 4005-4008.

Han Song, Junghyun Hwang, Hyojeong Yi, Ricky L. Ulrich, Yan Yu, William C. Nierman, and Heenam Stanley Kim. 2010. The early stage of bacterial genome-reductive evolution in the host. PLoS Pathogens. 6(5): e1000922.