Woo Jae Kim

San Francisco Bay Area United States

Associate Specialist at UCSF

Education

I'm working and also playing with the most beautiful creature in nature, namely fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. I trained as a molecular virologist at POSTECH in Korea working on the relationship between inflammatory response and eukartyotic translational initiation mechanism. During that period, I firstly identified TRAF2 which is very important adapter protein for TNF-alpha signaling interacts with eIF4GI which is key scaffold protein bridging the most of translational initiation factors. Important aspect of this interaction is their context-dependecy. By this interaction, cells can be prepared to be healed from the heat shock stress. I also identified 15d-PGJ2 which had been known t...