Sunyoung Kim

				Sunyoung Kim, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology 1901 Perdido St., Box P7-2 New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504.568.2019 Phone: Lab Phone: 504.568.5571 skim3i@lsuhsc.edu Click here for a link to ongoing research in this laboratory.



	Biography:			Dr. Kim obtained her Bachelor of Science in Molecular and Cellular Biology and Doctorate in Biology from the University of Michigan in 1991 and 1994, respectively. Awarded a NSF postdoctoral fellowship, she conducted her postdoctoral studies at the University of Minnesota from 1995-1999. Her prior work characterizing the mechanisms of electron and proton transfer in photosynthesis, recognized by the Paul D. Boyer Award for junior investigators in 1999, set the stage for the current, principal interest in how quite similar proteins are tuned to diverse biological functions. By studying dynamic chemical and structural changes in enzymes with innovative spectroscopic tools, her laboratory continues to gain insight into the mechanisms how distinct protein families involved in DNA repair, cell cycle, and signal transduction, exhibit similar structures, yet perform different, cellular roles. A former faculty member in the Department of Biochemistry at Virginia Tech, she is currently serving in the same capacity in the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at LSUHSC New Orleans and as a alternate councilor for the Biological Sciences Division of the National American Chemical Society.

	Research Interests:			Protein biochemistry


	Selected Publications			Learman SS, Kim CD, Stevens NS, Kim S, Wojcik EJ, Walker RA., NSC 622124 Inhibits Human Eg5 and Other Kinesins via Interaction with the Conserved Microtubule-Binding Site (dagger)., Biochemistry. Mar 3;48(8):1754-1762., (2009). Wojcik, E.J., Dalrymple, N.A., Alford, S.R., Walker, R.A., and Kim, S., Disparity in allosteric interactions of monastrol with Eg5 in the presence of ADP and ATP: a difference FT-IR investigation, Biochemistry, 43, (2004). Kim, S., Sacksteder, C., Bixby, K., and Barry, B.A., A reaction-induced FT-IR study of cyanobacterial photosystem I, Biochemistry, 50, (2001). Kim, S., and Barry, B.A., Reaction-induced FT-IR spectroscopic studies of biological energy conversion in oxygenic photosynthesis and transport, Journal of Physical Chemistry (invited feature article with cover), B 105, (2001). Kim, S., Patzlaff, J.P., Krick, T., Ayala, I., Sachs, R., and Barry, B.A., Isotope-based discrimination between the infrared modes of plastosemiquinone anion radicals and neutral tyrosyl radicals in photosystem II, Journal of Physical Chemistry B., 104, (2000). Kim, S., and Barry, B.A., Identification of carbonyl modes of P700 and P700+ by in situ chlorophyll labeling in photosystem I, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 122, (2000). To do a search for all of Dr.Kim's publications click here.

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