Yong-Su Jin
Assistant Professor, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition
Affiliated faculty, Institute for Genomic Biology and Department of Bioengineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
3402 Institute for Genomic Biology, MC-195
1206 West Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61801
Tel: 217-333-7981, Fax: 217-333-0508
E-mail: ysjin AT illinois DOT edu
Education
2002-2005, Postdoctoral training, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA
2002, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI
1998, MS, Seoul National Univeristy, Korea
1996, BS, Seoul National University, Korea
Major research interests (experienced)
Microbial metabolic mngineering
Systems and synthetic biotechnology for strain improvment
Quantitative microbial physiology and genetics
Minor reserach interests (unexperienced)
Elucidation of potential benefit and hazard of nano-materials for food science
Exploitation of the networks of metabolites, reactions, and genes for strain improvement
Antimicrobials and prebiotics for food and animal feed
