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Yun Ha Jeong, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Department of NeuroPathology The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

558 Ross Research Building 720 Rutland Avenue

Baltimore, MD 21205-2196, USA

email yjeong7@jhmi.edu, yunha.jeong@gmail.com

Education and Professional training
Sep. 2008 – Current Post-Doctoral fellow Departments of Pathology, Division of Neuropathology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Advisor: Philip C. Wong

Mar. 2007 – Aug. 2008	Post-Doctoral fellow

Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, & National Creative Research Initiative Centre for Alzheimer’s Dementia, Seoul National University Advisor: Yoo-Hun Suh

Mar. 2004 – Feb. 2007	Ph.D.

Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea Advisor: Yoo-Hun Suh

Mar. 2002 – Feb. 2004	M.S.

Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea Advisor: Yoo-Hun Suh

Mar. 1998 – Feb. 2002	B.S.

Department of Genetic Engineering Faculty of Life Science and Technology, College of Nature Sciences SungKyunKwan University, Seoul, Korea

Research interests
1. The pathological role of TDP-43 in amyotropic lateral sclerosis (ALS) disease.

2. The effects of environmental factors on Alzheimer's disease.

Honors and Awards
Nov. 2007		The 2nd Annual Autumn meeting of the Korean Society for Neurodegenerative disease Poster Presentation Award

Aug. 2007			The 8th Advanced Neurochemistry ISN School Award

July 2004			The 9th International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders Travel Award

May 2004			The 1st ISN Special Neurochemistry Conference Travel Award

May 2004			The 6th Advanced Neurochemistry ISN School Award

Mar. 2008 – Aug. 2008		Postdoctoral Fellowship Brain Korea 21 Human Life Science, KOREA

Mar. 2006 – Feb. 2007		Outstanding Research Award National Creative Research Initiative Program Ministry of Science & Technology, KOREA

Sep. 2005 – Feb. 2006		Outstanding Research Award Seoul National University, KOREA

Sep. 2004 – Aug. 2005		Outstanding Research Award Brain Korea 21 Human Life Science, KOREA

Jan. 2002 – Aug. 2004		Outstanding Research Award National Creative Research Initiative Program Ministry of Science & Technology, KOREA

Publications
Chiang PM, Ling J, Jeong YH, Price DL, Aja SM, Wong PC Deletion of TDP-43 down-regulates Tbc1d1, a gene linked to obesity, and alters body fat metabolism. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Jul 26. [Epub ahead of print]

Jeong YH, Kim JM, Yoo J, Lee SH, Kim HS and Suh YH Environmental enrichment compensates for the effects of stress on disease progression in Tg2576 mice, an Alzheimer’s disease model. in prep.

Jeong YH, Park CH, Yoo J, Shin KY, Ahn SM, Kim HS, Lee SH, Emson PC, Suh YH (2006) Chronic stress accelerates learning and memory impairments and increases amyloid deposition in APPV717I-CT100 transgenic mice, an Alzheimer's disease model. FASEB J 20(6), 729-731

Chang KA, Kim HS, Ha TY, Ha JW, Shin KY, Jeong YH, Lee JP, Park CH, Kim S, Baik TK, Suh YH (2006) Phosphorylation of amyloid precursor protein (APP) at Thr668 regulates the nuclear translocation of the APP intracellular domain and induces neurodegeneration. Mol Cell Biol. 26(11), 4327-4338

Choi Y, Kim HS, Kim EM, Kim HS , Park CH , Shin KY, Jeong YH, Yoo J, Lee JP , Chang KA, Kim SH , Kim M, Suh YH (2007) Minocycline attenuates neuronal cell death and improves cognitive impairment in Alzheimer's Disease Models. Neuropsychopharmacology 32(11), 2393-404