Faculty Profile for Dr. Hong-Gu Kang

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Dr. Hong-Gu Kang
Associate Professor — Biology
IGRM 5309
phone: (512) 245-7508

Biography Section

Biography and Education

Ph. D. (2000) University of California, Los Angeles; Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology
M.S. (1994) Seoul National University; Agricultural Chemistry
B.S. (1992) Seoul National University: Agricultural Chemistry

Teaching Interests

Cell and Molecular Biology
Genomics and Bioinformatics

Research Interests

Plant genomics and transcriptomics under biotic stress

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Kang, H. G. (2023). Co-immunoprecipitation for assessing protein-protein interactions in Agrobacterium-mediated transient expression system in Nicotiana benthamiana. Methods in Molecular Biology, 2690, 101–110. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-3327-4_9
  • Rahman, M., Haque, A., Pujara, D. S., Mayorga, J., Kang, H. G., & Valles Molina, D. (2022). Automation of Luminescence Quantitation for High-Throughput Plant Phenotyping Using Image Processing and U-Net Segmentation (p. 117). Las Vegas, NV, USA: American Council on Science & Education. Retrieved from https://american-cse.org/static/CSCE22-book-abstracts-printing.pdf
  • Pujara, D. S., Kim, S., Nam, J. C., Mayorga, J., Elmore, I., Kumar, M., … Kang, H. G. (2021). Imaging-based resistance assay using enhanced luminescence-tagged Pseudomonas syringae revealed a complex epigenetic network in plant defense signaling pathways. Molecular Plant Microbe Interaction, 34, 990–1000.
  • Makhijaa, G., Pujara, D. S., Song, I.-H., You, B. H., & Kang, H. G. (2020). Constructing an automation table for an image-based Arabidopsis resistance assay. Engineering, 6, 495–499.
  • Kim, S., Yogendra, B., Nam, J. C., Mayorga, J., & Kang, H. G. (2020). High-throughput targeted transcriptional profiling of defense genes using RNA-mediated oligonucleotide Annealing, Selection, and Ligation with next-generation sequencing in Arabidopsis. Methods in Molecular Biology, 2328, 227–252.

Selected Awards

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Presidential Research Award, Texas State University. September 2020 - August 2021
  • Award / Honor Recipient: College Achievement Awards. August 2017
  • Award / Honor Recipient: NSF CAREER Award. 2016
  • Award / Honor Recipient: ASPB Recognition Travel Award, American Society of Plant Biologist. 2015
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Travel Award, Plant Biology 2013 - American Society of Plant Biologist. 2013

Selected Grants

  • Kang, Hong Gu (Principal). Characterization of epigenetic factors and their regulatory roles in modulating transposable elements, plant immunity and transgenerational inheritance., NSF, Federal, $786023. (Funded: February 2016 - February 2023). Grant.
  • Kang, Hong Gu (Principal). Texas State University Multi-disciplinary Internal Research Grant. (Funded: 2014 - 2015). Grant.

Selected Service Activities

Chair
Institutional Biosafety Committee
2022-Present
Editorial Review Board Member
Plant Biotechnology Reports
2019-Present
Science Fair Judge
Alamo Regional Science Fair
2017-Present
Other
Technical Support Personnel
September 2017-Present
Member
Department Seminar Committee
September 2017-Present