희귀유전질환심포지엄조직위원회
Rare Genetic Disease Symposium Organizing Committee
PROFILE
조용철 교수
Engineering epigenetic programs to promote axon regeneration
Neuronal injury creates a striking discordance between transcript abundance and ribosome association, revealing a coordinated regulon of ribosomal protein mRNAs. Our work shows that this pro-regenerative regulon is controlled by CSDE1 and an injury-induced regulatory RNA, uncovering a trans-acting RNA mechanism that links post-transcriptional gene regulation to neural repair.
대구경북과학기술원(DGIST) 뇌과학과
EDUCATION
2003-2009, Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
2001-2003, M.S. in Molecular Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
1996-2001, B.S. in Molecular Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2026-Present, Associate Vice President for Admission and Student Affairs, DGIST, Daegu, Republic of Korea
2022-Present, Associate Professor, Department of Brain Sciences, DGIST, Daegu, Republic of Korea
2018-2022, Associate Professor, Department of Life Sciences, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2015-2018, Assistant Professor, Department of Life Sciences, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2014-2015, Staff Scientist, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, USA
2010-2014, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, USA
2009-2010, Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES & OTHERS
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2026 U.S. Patent No. 12,685,786 B2, Treatment of nerve injury with 5′UTR of Gpr151 or mutant thereof
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2025 The Brain Science Leading Fusion Development Project, Republic of Korea
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2023 Samsung Research Funding & Incubation Center for Future Technology
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2023 NRF Korea, Basic Research Science Program, 2023-00278546
PUBLICATIONS
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2026 Kim MJ et al., Excessive epithelial mechanosensation drives nociceptive innervation and chronic bladder pain via the PIEZO1-SLC7A11-glutamate axis, Cell
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2026 Oh Y et al., KCTD3 deficiency disrupts axon initial segment organization and neurite outgrowth in a neurodevelopmental disorder mouse model, Communications Biology
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2026 Jang DC et al., Asymmetric distribution of mitochondrial Ca2+ regulators specifies compartment-specific mitochondrial function and neuronal development, Experimental & Molecular Medicine
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2024 Oh Y and Cho Y, Dipeptidyl peptidase 4 as an injury-responsive protein in the mouse sciatic nerve, Molecules and Cells
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2023 Yoon DE et al., Precise base editing without unintended indels in human cells and mouse primary myoblasts, Experimental & Molecular Medicine
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2023 Jeon Y et al., βPix Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factor Regulates Regeneration of Injured Peripheral Axons, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
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2022 Lee B et al., FK506-binding protein-like and FK506-binding protein 8 regulate dual leucine zipper kinase degradation and neuronal responses to axon injury, Journal of Biological Chemistry