Ju-Kon Kim
Seoul National University, South Korea
Biography
Ju-Kon Kim, Professor in Graduate School of International Agricultural Technology, Seoul National University, is the Director of Crop Biotechnology Institute, where he worked since 2013. He obtained his PhD on Plant Molecular Biology in 1992 at Cornell University of USA. Current research is concentrated on discovering novel genes for drought tolerance of rice with special attention to crop biotechnology by integrating genomics and phenomics approaches, characterizing key regulators in stress tolerance.