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    Yeongho Kim, PhD

    Associate Research Scientist
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    Associate Research Scientist

    Biography

    Scientist researching lipid metabolism and cell biology. Yeongho received his Ph.D. in 2018 in the Genetics, Cellular, and Molecular Biology program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His Ph.D. research was to understand and engineer the biosynthesis of biodiesel precursors (lipids/fats) in a single-cell microalga called Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. As a postdoctoral associate, Yeongho has worked with Dr. Christopher G. Burd in the Department of Cell Biology at Yale School of Medicine since 2018 to bridge lipid metabolism to up-to-date human membrane cell biology. Yeongho is currently researching how cellular cholesterol regulates the inter-organellar trafficking-coupled sphingolipid synthesis and how cholesterol and sphingolipid affect Amyloid Beta production/accumulation that causes Alzheimer's disease, focusing on lipid interactions to gamma-secretase and Amyloid Precursor Protein.


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    Education & Training

    Postdoctoral Associate
    Yale School of Medicine
    PhD
    University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Genetics, Cell, and Molecular Biology (2018)
    BS
    Pohang University of Science and Technology, Life Science (2012)

    Research

    Research at a Glance

    Yale Co-Authors

    Frequent collaborators of Yeongho Kim's published research.

    Publications

    2024

    2023

    2022

    2018

    Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

    Activities

    • activity

      Regulation of Cholesterol-Sphingolipid Metabolic Axis

    • activity

      How Membrane Lipids Impact gamma-Secretase in Alzheimer's Disease

    • activity

      Talk: Regulation of Sphingomyelin Synthesis by Cholesterol

    Honors

    • honor

      Alzheimer's Disease Research Center Research Scholars Award 2023

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      333 Cedar Street

      New Haven, CT 06510