astronomy

Myung Kyungjae

Myung Kyungjae is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Myung Kyungjae rather than just read about it. In short: Myung Kyungjae (Korean: 명경재; born May 4, 1968) is a biologist researching DNA repair pathways at the molecular level. He is a distinguished professor at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) and the director of the IBS Center for Genomic Integrity located on the UNIST campus.

Key takeaways

Myung Kyungjae belongs to astronomy; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Myung Kyungjae to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Myung Kyungjae from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Myung Kyungjae (Korean: 명경재; born May 4, 1968) is a biologist researching DNA repair pathways at the molecular level. He is a distinguished professor at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) and the director of the IBS Center for Genomic Integrity located on the UNIST campus. He is on the editorial board of various peer-reviewed journals and is a member of multiple scientific societies.

Education Majoring in zoology, Myung received his bachelor's from Seoul National University (SNU) graduating with honors in 1991. Continuing at SNU, he then majored in molecular biology and graduated with a M.S. in 1993 after studying under Professor Sang Dai Park. He completed a Ph.D. in molecular biology, cell biology and biochemistry from Brown University in 1999 under Professor Eric A. Hendrickson. His thesis was recognized with a Barry Jay Rosen Memorial Award.

Career

Myung did his postdoctoral training at Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in the University of California, San Diego from 1999 to 2002 under Professor Richard Kolodner. He was awarded with a research fellowship from the Damon-Runyon-Winchell Cancer Research Foundation during the post-doc period. His first appointment was as an investigator and section head in the Genetics and Molecular Biology Branch of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) under the National Institutes of Health. He was promoted to a senior investigator and section head in 2009, a position he held until 2014. In addition to his position at the National Human Genome Research Institute, he concurrently held a position at POSTECH in the Division of Molecular and Life Science as an adjunct professor from 2011 until 2014. From 2013, he worked as an adjunct professor at KAIST in the Department of Biological Sciences and at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in the School of Nano-Bioscience and Chemical Engineering. The following year he fully relocated to Ulsan where he became a distinguished professor in the School of Life Sciences at UNIST while also becoming the founding director of the IBS Center for Genomic Integrity, a collaboration with the Institute for Basic Science. Myung has been a guest associate editor for the journal PLoS Genetics, a guest editor for Mutation Research, and been on the Editorial Board for Genome Instability and Disease, Genomics, Genome Integrity, and Molecular and Cellular Biology. He is also a member of the American Association for Cancer Research, Genetics Society of America, Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association, Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society, Korean Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Korean Society for Integrative Biology.

Honors and awards 2017: Scholar of the Year, Genetic Society of Korea 2014: Scientist of the Year Award, Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA) and Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies (KOFST) 2013: Outstanding Service Award, KSEA Washington Metro Chapter 2013: US Government Service Award (10 years), NHGRI, NIH 2012: Director of the Year, KSEA 2008: Bea Singer Young Investigator Award (GRC DNA damage, Mutagenesis and Cancer) 2008: US Government Service Award (5 years), NHGRI, NIH 2006: Society of Biomedical Research/Chong Keun Dang Award for achievements in biomedical research 2002: Sewoohue Award for Research Achievement 2002: Leading Korean-American, Chooang ILBO 2001: James Kerr Award for Research Excellence 1999: Travel Grant Award, American Society for Microbiology 1999: Barry Jay Rosen Memorial Award, Brown University

See also Orlando D. Schärer Anton Gartner

References

External links IBS Center for Genomic Integrity Institute for Basic Science Kyungjae (KJ) Myung - Google Scholar Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA) Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies (KOFST) Damon Runyon Fellowship Award Overview - Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Myung Kyungjae

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Myung Kyungjae claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Myung Kyungjae before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Myung Kyungjae ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Myung Kyungjae

In research: Myung Kyungjae appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Myung Kyungjae in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Myung Kyungjae is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1968 births, Academic staff of KAIST, Brown University alumni, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Myung Kyungjae outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

What is Myung Kyungjae in simple terms?

Why does Myung Kyungjae matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Myung Kyungjae?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Myung Kyungjae.