Education
1987.2 Kyunggi High School of Science
1987.3 - 1991.2 B. S., Department of Biology, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
1991.3 - 1993.2 M. S., Department of Biological Sciences. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
1993.3 - 1997.2 Ph. D., Department of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Experiences
1997.3 - 1997.8 Post Doc. Department of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
1997.9 - 1999.2 Post Doc. Department of Microbiology, State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook. U.S.A.
1999.3 - 2001.2 Post Doc. Samsung Biomedical Research Institute
2001.3 - 2002.3 Post Doc. Department of Microbiology, State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook. U.S.A.
2002.4 - 2004.6 Post Doc. Unit PMM. Institut Pasteur, France
2004.7 - 2011.8 Research Scientist, International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, Korea
2011.9 - present Associate Professor, College of Pharmacy, Hanyang University, Ansan, Korea
Research Field and Interest
Genome analysis of pathogenic bacteria Shigella spp. And Vibrio cholerae
Interaction between pathogens and host
Development of molecular diagnostic methods by using LAMP technique
Publications
Seon Young Choi, Je Hee Lee, Eun Jin Kim, Hye Ri Lee, Yoon-Seong Jeon, Lorenz von Seidlein, Jaqueline Deen, M. Ansaruzzaman, G. Marcelino E.S. Lucas, Avertino Barreto, Francisco F. Songane, Catarina Mondlane, G. Balakrish Nair, Cecil Czerkinsky, John D. Clemens, Jongsik Chun, and Dong Wook Kim (2010) Classical RS1 and environmental RS1 elements in Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor strains harboring a tandem repeat of CTX prophage: Revisiting Mozambique in 2005. J. Med. Microbiol. 59, 302-308.
Seon Young Choi, Je Hee Lee, Yoon-Seong Jeon, Hye Ri Lee, Eun Jin Kim, M. Ansaruzzaman, Nurul A. Bhuiyan, Hubert P. Endtz, S.K. Niyogi, B.L. Sarkar, G. Balakrish Nair, Binh Minh Nguyen, Nguyen Tran Hien, Cecil Czerkinsky, John D. Clemens, Jongsik Chun, and Dong Wook Kim (2010) Multilocus Variable Number Tandem Repeats Analysis (MLVA) of Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor Strains Harboring Classical Toxin B. J. Med. Microbiol. 59, 763-769.
Sahyun Hong, Yeon-Hwa Choi, Yun-Ae Choo, Youngwoon Choi, Seon Young Choi, Dong Wook Kim, Bok-Kwon Lee, and Mi-Sun Park (2010) Genetic Characterization of Atypical Shigella flexneri Isolated in South Korea. J. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 20, 1457-1462.
Yong-Joon Cho, Hana Yi, Je Hee Lee, Dong Wook Kim, and Jongsik Chun (2010) Genomic evolution of Vibrio cholerae. Curr. Opin. Microbiol. 13, 646-651.
Byoung-Shik Shim, Sung-Moo Park, Ji-Shan Quan, Dhananjay Jere, Hyuk Chu, Man Ki Song, Dong Wook Kim, Yong-Suk Jang, Moon-Sik Yang, Seung Hyun Han, Yong-Ho Park, Chong-Su Cho, Cheol-Heui Yun (2010) Intranasal immunization with plasmid DNA encoding spike protein of SARS-coronavirus/polyethylenimine nanoparticles elicits antigenspecific humoral and cellular immune responses. BMC Immunol. 11, 65.
Ankur Mutreja, Dong Wook Kim, Nicholas Thomson, Thomas R. Connor, Je Hee Lee, Samuel Kariuki, Nicholas J. Croucher, Seon Young Choi, Simon R. Harris, Michael Lebens, Swapan Kumar Niyogi, Eun Jin Kim, T. Ramamurthy, Jongsik Chun,?ames L. N. Wood, John D. Clemens, Cecil Czerkinsky, G. Balakrish Nair, Jan Holmgren, Julian Parkhill and Gordon Dougan. (2011) Evidence for multiple waves of global transmission within the seventh cholera pandemic. Co-first author. Nature 477, 462-465.
Dong Wook Kim, Paul Evan Kilgore, Eun Jin Kim, Soon Ae Kim, Dang Duc Anh and Mitsuko Seki (2011) Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification assay to detect Haemophilus influenzae type b in cerebrospinal fluid. J. Clin. Microbiol. 49, 3621-3626.
Byoung-Shik Shim, Young Ki Choi, Cheol-Heui Yun, Eu-Gene Lee, Yoon Seong Jeon, Sung-Moo Park, In Su Cheon, Dong-Hyun Joo, Chung Hwan Cho, Min-Suk Song, Sang-Uk Seo, Young-Ho Byun, Hae-Jung Park, Haryoung Poo, Baik Lin Seong, Jae Ouk Kim, Huan Huu Nguyen, Konrad Stadler, Dong Wook Kim, Kee-Jong Hong, Cecil Czerkinsky, and Man Ki Song (2011) Sublingual Immunization with M2-Based Vaccine Induces Broad Protective Immunity against Influenza. PLoS One 6: e27953
Geeta Shakya, Dong Wook Kim, John D. Clemens, Sarala Malla, Bishnu Prasad Upadhyaya, Shyam Prakash Dumre, Sirjana Devi Shrestha, Shailaja Adhikari, Supriya Sharma, Nisha Rijal, Sanjaya K. Shrestha, Carl Mason, Palpasa Kansakar (2012) Phenotypic and genetic characterization of Vibrio cholerae O1 clinical isolates collected through national antimicrobial resistance surveillance network in Nepal. World J. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 28, 2671-2678.
Dong Wook Kim, Paul E. Kilgore, Eun Jin Kim, Soon Ae Kim, Dang Duc Anh, Bai Qing Dong, Jung Soo Kim, Mitsuko Seki (2012) The enhanced pneumococcal LAMP assay: A clinical tool for the diagnosis of meningitis due to Streptococcus pneumoniae. PLoS One 7, e42954.
Kathryn E. Holt, Stephen Baker, Fran?is-Xavier Weill, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Kitchen, Jun Yu, Vartul Sangal, Derek J. Brown, John E. Coia, Dong Wook Kim, Seon Young Choi, Su Hee Kim, Wanderley D. da Silveira, Derek J Pickard, Jeremy J. Farrar, Julian Parkhill, Gordon Dougan and Nicholas R. Thomson. (2012) Shigella sonnei genome sequencing and phylogenetic analysis indicate recent global dissemination from Europe. Nat. Genet. 44, 1056-1059.