NEWS
2024
April 26-28, 2024
Dr. Kim attends the 5th AKN Annual Research Symposium in Houston, TX.
March 26, 2024
Dr. Kim is invited as a speaker at Rutgers Newark Biology Colloquium. Title “Aging, a major risk factor for Parkinson’s Disease: Single-Cell Multiomic Approach of Human Midbrain”
March 15, 2024
Dr. Woo-Hyun Cho joins the Yoon Kim Lab as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. Welcome aboard Dr. Cho!
March 15, 2024
Our study “Single-nuclei paired multiomic analysis of young, aged, and Parkinson’s disease human midbrain reveals age- and disease-associated glial changes and their contribution to Parkinson’s disease” is finally published in Nature Aging! Congratulations and Cheers to all!
March 11, 2024
Dr. Yoon Kim submits a new R01 proposal titled “Transcriptional mutagenesis by oxidative DNA damage, 8-oxodG, in Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis”
This is an innovative study investigating the role of 8-oxodG-derived transcriptional mutant mRNAs of numerous Alzheimer’s disease-associated genes and its roles in pathogenesis. The study is based upon our recent publication “Transcriptional mutagenesis of alpha-synuclein caused by DNA oxidation in Parkinson’s disease pathogenesis” in Acta Neuropathologica, 2023.
March 1-10, 2024
Dr. Yoon Kim visits Portugal to discuss collaboration with Dr. Ana Cristovao and attends the ADPD meeting in Lisbon.
March 2, 2024
Inhye got married! Splendid wedding ceremony was held in Korea. Congratulation Inhye and Sanghoon!
March 1, 2024
Dr. Huh has left the lab after a year of dedicated work on advancing our imaging technologies. Cheer for his future endeavor!
2023
November 29, 2023
The manuscript titled “Single-nuclei paired multiomic analysis of young, aged, and Parkinson’s disease human midbrain reveals age- and disease-associated glial changes and their contribution to Parkinson’s disease” is accepted by Nature Aging! Congratulations!
November 11-15, 2023
Dr. Yoon Kim, Inhye, and Woomyee attend the SFN in Washington DC. Inhye gave a poster presentation “Oxidative DNA damage-mediated transcriptional mutagenesis of APP and its contribution to Alzheimer’s disease.”
September 25, 2023
Our study titled “Transcriptional mutagenesis of α-synuclein caused by DNA oxidation in Parkinson’s disease pathogenesis” is accepted by Acta Neuropathologica! Congratulations!
September 1-19, 2023
Dr. Yoon Kim visits Korea to attend the KSBNS 2023 meeting as a chair for AKN-KSBNS joint session.
July 28-30, 2023
Dr. Yoon Kim attends the AKN Annual Research Symposium at the Salk Institute in San Diego.
July 18, 2023
“An optimized Nurr1 agonist provides disease-modifying effects in Parkinson’s disease models” is published in Nature Communications. Congratulations!
July 1, 2023
Dr. Yoon Kim is promoted to a full Professor with Tenure. Congratulation!
June 7, 2023
CDMRP grant titled “The Role of NADPH Oxidase1 (NOX1) in the Colon in Rotenone-Induced a-Synuclein Pathology Propagation Along the Gut-Brain Axis” is highlighted on the CDMRP News. 2023 Parkinson’s Highlight – Investigator-Initiated Research Award Highlights, Parkinson’s Medical Research Program, Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (health.mil)
June 1, 2023
Dr. Jihong Min, a Clinical Associate Professor in Rehabilitation Medicine, Pusan National University, joins as a visiting scholar.
Welcome aboard, Dr. Min. Congratulations!
March 8, 2023
Our study on the “Rotenone-based Microbiome-Gut-Brain Parkinson’s disease model” is highlighted in the DDN (Drug Discovery News) “The path to treating Parkinson’s disease begins in the gut”. Congratulations! Link
February 15, 2023
Minkyung leaves the lab after 4-year of postdoc and joins Kyunghee University School of Nursing in South Korea as an Assistant Professor. Good Luck Minkyung!
2022
November 21, 2022
Dr. Woomyee Bae joins as a postdoc from UPENN.
Welcome aboard, Dr. Bae. Congratulations!
November 12-16, 2022
Dr. Yoon Kim, Heh-In Im, and Minkyung attend the SFN 2022 in Dan Diego.
Minkyung gives a poster presentation “A new Parkinson’s disease model-intracolonic rotenone causes alterations on gut microbiota and induces a-synuclein aggregation in the brain.” Dr. Yoon Kim also presents “Single-nuclei paired multiomic analysis of young, aged, and Parkinson’s disease human midbrain reveals age- and disease-associated glial changes and their contribution to Parkinson’s disease“.
November 15, 2022
Our study on the “Rotenone-based Microbiome-Gut-Brain Parkinson’s disease model” is invited to the Press Conference Neuroscience 2022: Gut-Brain Interactions.
November 14, 2022
Dr. Minkyung Song receives an AKN Outstanding Research Award-Postdoc for “A new Parkinson’s disease model-intracolonic rotenone causes alterations on gut microbiota and induces a-synuclein aggregation in the brain“. Congratulations!
November 1, 2022
“Regulation of Αlpha-Synuclein Gene (SNCA) by Epigenetic Modifier TET1 in Parkinson’s Disease” is published in the International Neurology Journal. Congratulations!
July 21, 2022
“Precise epigenomic editing with a SunTag-based modular epigenetic toolkit” is accepted by Epigenetics. Congratulations!
July 15, 2022
“NXP031 prevents dopaminergic neuronal loss and oxidative damage in the AAV-WT-α-synuclein mouse model of Parkinson’s disease” is published in PLoS One. Congratulations!
July 1, 2022
Dr. Yoon Kim receives a new R01 grant “Single-nuclei multiomic analysis of DLB progression” (RF1NS128607). Congratulation!
June 1, 2022
Dr. Yoon Kim receives a new CDMRP-NETP grant “The role of NOX1 in the colon in rotenone-induced α-synuclein pathology propagation along the gut-brain axis”. Congratulation!
May 1, 2022
Dr. Inhye Jeong joins as a postdoc from Korea. Welcome aboard, Dr. Jeong. Congratulations!
March 15-20, 2022
Levi and Minkyung attend the AD/PD 2022 in Barcelona, Spain.
Feb 1, 2022
Dr. Heh-In Im, a Professor at the Division of Bio-Med Science $ Technology joins as a visiting scholar from KIST, Korea.
2021
January 22, 2021
“Targeted attenuation of elevated histone marks at SNCA alleviates a-synuclein in Parkinson’s disease” published in EMBO Molecular Medicine is highlighted in RWJMS News. Congratulations!
2020
December 22, 2020
Dr. Tong H. Joh, Professor Emeritus at Weill Cornell Medicine has passed away. He was an innovator and a great mentor all the time.
December 2, 2020
The study on “Targeted attenuation of elevated histone marks at SNCA alleviates a-synuclein in Parkinson’s disease” is accepted by EMBO Molecular Medicine. Congratulations!
August 1, 2020
“Characterization of a Parkinson’s disease rat model using an upgraded paraquat exposure paradigm” is published in the European Journal of Neuroscience. Congratulations!
June 1, 2020
Levi and Minkyung join Rutgers as postdocs from UCF, Orlando. Welcome aboard. Congratulation!
May 1, 2020
Dr. Yoon Kim opens a New Lab at RWJMS-Institute for Neurological Therapeutics. He moved from the Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, UCF as an Associate Professor with Tenure. Welcome to Rutgers!
