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Dr. Hong-Gu Kang

  • Associate Professor - Biology
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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

Research Interests

  • 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.
  • Kang, H. G. (n.d.). A nuclear tRNA-derived fragment triggers immunity in Arabidopsis. Communications Biology.
  • Nam, J. C., Bhatt, P. S., Bonnard, A., Pujara, D. S., & Kang, H. G. (2024). Arabidopsis MORC1 and MED9 interact to regulate defense gene expression and plant fitness. Plant Pathology Journal, 40, 438–450. https://doi.org/10.5423/PPJ.OA.07.2024.0107
  • 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
  • Kim, S., Yogendra, B., Nam, J. C., Mayorga, J., & Kang, H. G. (2021). 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. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1534-8_15
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  • 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
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  1. Chair

    Institutional Biosafety Committee

  2. Editorial Review Board Member

    Plant Biotechnology Reports

  3. Other

    Alamo Regional Science Fair

  4. Technical Support Personnel

  5. Member

    Department Seminar Committee

  6. Other

    Frontiers in Plant Science

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