Prof. Hong Gil Nam received his Ph.D. degree from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA in 1985. From 1986 to 1988, He worked at the Harvard Medical School as a research fellow. He is a pioneer in the field of life history, aging, senescence and death in plants. His further research interests cover comparative aging in diverse kingdoms including plant and animals to reveal the aging mechanisms among species, cross-kingdom interaction between plants and animals, and biochemistry at nano-and micro levels. Besides his academic achievements, his major contribution to the advance in life sciences in South Korea includes founding the Korean Biological Research Information Center (BRIC) in 1996 and establishing the Korean Society for Bioinformatics and Systems Biology in 1999. He has served as an editorial board in Molecular Plant since 2013. He is a founding member of the Department of Life Sciences and the School of Interdisciplinary Bioscience and Bioengineering (I-Bio), POSTECH where he served until 2012. Recognition of his achievements has led him to be selected as one of the National Scientists of Korea in 2010, and had received The 2014 HO-AM Prize in Science from the HO-AM Foundation. Currently he is the director of Center for Plant Aging Research, Institute for Basic Science (IBS) and a founding member & Fellow Professor of the Department of New Biology, DGIST.
BS in Chemistry, Seoul National University
Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of North Carolina
2012–Present Director, Center for Plant Aging Research, Institute of Basic Science
2012–Present Fellow Professor, Department of New Biology, DGIST (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology)
2010 Korean National Scientist
2010 Hong Deok Distinguished Professor, POSTECH, Korea
2002–Present Member, The Korean Academy of Science and Technology
1996-2005 Founder, Biological Research Information Center(BRIC)
1989-2012 Professor, Pohang University of Science and Technology
2014: The 2014 HO-AM Prize in Science, The HO-AM Foundation, Korea
2011: Best Broadcast Award in Life Science (BRIC), Korean Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
2010: The National Scientist, Ministry of Education, Science & Technology and National Research Foundation of Korea
2009: The 54th National Academy of Science Award in the field of Basic Science, National Academy of Sciences, Korea
2009: POSCO TJ Park Prize in the field of Science, POSCO TJ Park Foundation, Korea
2006: The 10th Presidential Science Award, Korea
2005: Academic Research Award for Life Science, Korean Society for Molecular and Cellular Biology
2004: Korea Science Contents Award 2004 for Mass Media Operation (BRIC), Korea Science Foundation
2002: Award for Agricultural Technology from the Minister of Science and Technology, Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
2000: Award for the Scientist of the Month, Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies
Danka Mohammed CP, Rhee HS, Phee BK, Kim KH, Kim HJ, Lee HH, Park JH, Jung JH, Kim JY, Kim HC, Park SK, Nam HG*, Kim KT* (2016) miR-204 downregulates EphB2 in aging mouse hippocampal neurons. Aging Cell 15(2):380-388 (2016)
Hahm JH, Kim SH, DiLoreto R, Shi C, Lee SJ , Murphy CT*, Nam HG* (2015) C. elegans maximum velocity correlates with healthspan and is maintained in worms with an insulin receptor mutation. Nature Communications 6:8919
Seo MH, Seo KH, Hwang WS, Koo HJ, Hahm JH, Yang JS, Han SK Hwang DH, Kim SU, Jang SK, Lee YT, Nam HG*, Lee SJ* (2015) RNA helicase HEL-1 promotes longevity by specifically activating DAF-16/FOXO transcription factor signaling in Caenorhabditis elegans. PNAS 112(31): 4246-4255
Lee JK, Kin S, Nam HG*, Zare R N.* (2015) Microdroplet Fusion Mass Spectromerty for Fast Reaction Kinetics. PNAS 112(13): 3898-3903
Almaça J, Molina J, Drigo RA, Abdulreda, Jeon WB, Berggren PO*, Caicedo A*, Nam HG* (2014) Young capillary vessels rejuvenate aged pancreatic islets. PNAS 111(49): 17612-17617
Kim Y#, Han S#, Yeom M, Kim H, Lim J, Cha JY, Kim WY, Somers D, Putterill J, Nam HG*, Hwang D* (2013) Balanced Nucleo-cytosolic Partitioning Defines a Spatial Network for Coordination of Circadian Physiology in Plants. Developmental Cell 26(1): 73-85
Kim JH#, Woo HR#, Kim J, Lim PO, Lee IC, Choi SH, Hwang D, Nam HG*. (2009) Trifurcate feed-forward regulation of age-dependent cell death involving miR164 in Arabidopsis. Science 323(5917): 1053-1057.
Kim HJ, Oh SA, Brownfield L, Hong SH, Ryu H, Hwang I, Twell D*, Nam HG*. (2008) Control of plant germline proliferation by SCF(FBL17) degradation of cell cycle inhibitors. Nature 455(7216): 1134-1137.
Ryu JS, Kim JI, Kunkel T, Kim BC, Cho DS, Hong SH, Kim SH, Fernandez AP, Kim Y, Alonso JM, Ecker JR, Nagy F, Lim PO, Song PS, Schafer E, Nam HG* (2005) Phytochrome-specific type 5 phosphatase controls light signal flux by enhancing phytochrome stability and affinity for a signal transducer. Cell 120(3): 395-406.
Park DH#, Somers DE#, Kim YS, Choy YH, Lim HK, Soh MS, Kim HJ, Kay SA, Nam HG* (1999) Control of circadian rhythms and photoperiodic flowering by the Arabidopsis GIGANTEA gene. Science 285(5433): 1579-1582.
