Postdoctoral Researchers
Advisor
Pil Joon Seo
2002 - 2005 Department of Plant Science, Seoul National University, Korea (B.S.)
2005 - 2010 Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Korea (Ph.D.)
2010 - 2011 Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Korea (Postdoctoral Researcher)
2011 - 2012 Department of Molecular Ecology, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Germany (Postdoctoral Researcher)
2012 - 2016 Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Chonbuk National University, Korea
2016 - 2018 Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
2018 - Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Korea
2005 - 2010 Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Korea (Ph.D.)
2010 - 2011 Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Korea (Postdoctoral Researcher)
2011 - 2012 Department of Molecular Ecology, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Germany (Postdoctoral Researcher)
2012 - 2016 Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Chonbuk National University, Korea
2016 - 2018 Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
2018 - Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Korea
2023 - 2024 Visiting Scholar, Carnegie Institution for Science/Stanford University, USA
Editorial Board Member, Current Opinion in Plant Biology (2025.04 ~ Present)
Advisory Board Member, Plant Communications (2025.03 ~ Present)
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Integrative Plant Biology (2025.02 ~ Present)
Guest Editor, Genome Biology (2024.12. ~ 2025.08)
Editorial Board Member, Scientific Reports (2022.07. ~ Present)
Editorial Board Member, Molecules and Cells (2021.01. ~ Present)
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Genome Editing and Regulation (2021.01. ~ Present)
Reviewing Editor, eLife (2020.01. ~ Present)
Associate Editor & Review Editor, Frontiers in Plant Science (2020.01 ~ Present)
Coordinating Editor, Journal of Plant Biology (2019.09. ~ Present)
Associate Editor, International Journal of Molecular Science (2018.09. ~ Present)
Associate Editor, Genes and Genomics (2018.09. ~ Present)
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Genome Editing and Regulation (2021.01. ~ Present)
Reviewing Editor, eLife (2020.01. ~ Present)
Associate Editor & Review Editor, Frontiers in Plant Science (2020.01 ~ Present)
Coordinating Editor, Journal of Plant Biology (2019.09. ~ Present)
Associate Editor, International Journal of Molecular Science (2018.09. ~ Present)
Associate Editor, Genes and Genomics (2018.09. ~ Present)
2025 Outstanding Research Award (Seoul National University CNS)
2025 Cargill-KAST Life Science Award/카길한림생명과학상 (KAST/한국과학기술한림원)
2022 JPB Outstanding Paper Award/JPB 논문상 (KSPB/한국식물학회)
2022 Samsung Science & Technology Foundation Investigator
2021 Innovative Teaching Award (Seoul National University CNS)
2020 Y-KAST
2020 Creative-leading Young Researcher (Seoul National University)
2017 Young Researcher Award (NRF-Elsevier)
2016 현장명예연구관 (농촌진흥청 국립농업과학원)
2013 Excellence in Teaching Award (Chonbuk National University)
2012 Excellence in Teaching Award (Chonbuk National University)
E-mail: pjseo1@snu.ac.kr / Office: +82-2-880-7763 / Lab: +82-2-880-4366
Hong Gil Lee
E-mail: hglee1@snu.ac.krResearch field: Circadian clock,Stress response, Temperature sensing
Supported by NRF(Project: Identification of long-distance mobile proteomes between plant organs)
Hanim Kim
E-mail: qkfkvkvk93@gmail.comResearch field: Phytochrome signaling, Circadian clock, Wound response
Hongwoo Lee
E-mail: miso5103@snu.ac.kr
Research field: 3D genomics, epigenomics, bioinformatics
Graduate Students
Ph.D. course
Yeong Yeop Jeong
E-mail: idcyansky@gmail.com
Research field: Protoplast genome editing & regeneration, metabolic engineering
Cheljong Hong
E-mail: hcj0227@snu.ac.kr
Research field: Peptide hormone, CRISPR
Soon Hyung Bae
E-mail: tnsgud996@snu.ac.krResearch field: Plant regeneration,single cell transcriptomics
Supported by a scholarship from Chung Mong-Koo foundation.
Jiwoo Kim
E-mail: jw0817z@snu.ac.kr
Research field: Plant regeneration, epitranscriptome
Jaewoong Hwang
E-mail: peter96@snu.ac.krResearch field: Histone PTMs
Hobin Yoon
E-mail: yoonhobin@snu.ac.kr Research field: Plant regeneration
Jiwon Han
E-mail: juliehan0411@korea.krResearch field: Cryopreservation, plant regeneration
Jaewoo Hong
E-mail: hongshrimp@naver.comResearch field: Metabolic engineering
DongHyeon Kang
E-mail: kangtime99@naver.comResearch field: Epigenomics, bioinformatics
Sooah Yun
E-mail: sayun225@snu.ac.krResearch field: Hormone signaling, stress response, metabolic engineering
Minyoung Lee
E-mail: mylee1998@snu.ac.krResearch field: Genome editing, gene delivery, protein interaction
Nguyen Thi Kim Hang
E-mail: ntkh38689@snu.ac.krResearch field: Plant regeneration, signaling pathway
Masters course
Soonyoung Kwon
E-mail: syk0299@snu.ac.krResearch field: CRISPR
Researchers
Ok Sun Park
E-mail: pos0719@naver.com
Administrative Staffs
Hye Young Choi
E-mail: saltstar@snu.ac.kr
We are currently hiring highly motivated students and postdocs.
If interested, please send an email to Pil (pjseo1@snu.ac.kr)
If interested, please send an email to Pil (pjseo1@snu.ac.kr)