Gil Ju is currently a Postdoctoral scholar in Jae Jung’s lab at the University of Southern California.

Project description:

The role of a viral miRNA and RNAi during viral replication in mammalian cells.

Biography:

Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea , BS

Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea , MS

Ph. D. Microbiology

Honors:

2008 the Lois Sager-Foxhall Memorial Scholarship Travel Award, University of Texas at Austin

2009 the Joseph F. Short Memorial Molecular Biology Endowed Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin

Selected Publications:

McClure LV, Seo GJ and Sullivan CS, 2011, Reporter-based Assays for Analyzing RNA Interference in Mammalian Cells. In Methods in Molecular Biology: “Argonaute Proteins: Methods and Protocols”, T.C. Hobman and T. Duchaine, Editors. Humana Press. (invited book chapter)

Chen CJ, Kincaid RP, Seo GJ, Bennett MD and Sullivan CS, 2011, Insights into Polyomaviridae microRNA function derived from the study of the bandicoot papillomatosis carcinomatosis viruses. J. Virol, Feb, 23 

Seo GJ, Chen CJ, Sullivan CS, 2009, Merkel cell polyomavirus encodes a microRNA with the potential to autoregulate viral gene expression, Virology, 383:183-7.

Seo GJ, Fink L, O’Hara B, Atwood WJ, Sullivan CS, 2008, Evolutionary conserved function of a viral microRNA. J. Virol, 82:9823-28

“When I'm not in the lab you will most-likely find me at the kendo dojo.”

One of my favorite pieces of data.