Tae Hoon Kim

From Genome@Yale

Assistant Professor Department of Genetics Yale University School of Medicine New Haven, Connecticut, USA

office: SHM I-142B
phone: 203-785-7501
fax: 206-984-2338
email

Tae's schedule.
Tae's short scientific bio.
All listings below are in chronological order.

Education

• B. A., Biology, Reed College, Portland, OR (1994)
  
• M. A., Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (2000)
• Ph. D., Biochemistry, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (2002)

Positions

• Research Trainee, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC (1992-1993)
• Research Intern, Washington University, St. Louis, MO (1993)
• Ph. D. Candidate, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (1996-2002)
• Teaching Fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (1998-2002)
• Manager, Sequencing Facility, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (2000-2002)
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, San Diego, CA (2002-2006)
• Member, Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, CT (2007-present)
• Assistant Professor, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT (2006-present)

Honors

• Westinghouse Scholar, Science Talent Search Finalist (1990)
• Korea Times Scholarship (1991)
• Presidential Commendation for Academic Excellence, Reed College, Portland, OR (1992, 1994)
• Distinction in Teaching Award, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (2001)
• Honorable Mention, Harvard Biotechnology Club Business Plan Competition, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (2002)
• Selected Participant of International Workshop on Encoding Information in DNA Sequences, Government of Japan, Okinawa, Japan (2005)
• Selected Participant of Frontiers of Embryonic Stem Cells: Advanced Training Course, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA (2005)
• Scholarship, Stem Cells, Senescence and Cancer Keystone Symposia, Singapore (2005)
• James R. Kerr Award, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, San Diego, CA (2005)
• Scholarship, Regulation of Eukaryotic Transcription Keystone Symposia, Taos, NM (2006)
• Associate Member, American Association for Cancer Research (2006)
• Scholarship, Pathobiology of Cancer: Edward A. Smuckler Memorial Workshop, Snowmass, CO (2006)
• Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award, NIH/NCI (2004-2006)
• Young Investigator Award, KSEA - San Diego (2006)
• Rita Allen Foundation Scholar (2007-2010)
• Sidney Kimmel Scholar (2008-2010)

Professional Activities

• MCGD Graduate Admissions Committee, Yale University, New Haven, CT (2006-present)
• Co-organizer, Genetics Annual Department Retreat, Yale University, New Haven, CT (2007-present)
• ad hoc reviewer, NSF, Cell, Cell Stem Cell, Nature Genetics, Genome Research, PLoS, EMBO, MCB, Genome Biology, BMC

Teaching Experience

• Teaching Fellow, Introduction to Biochemistry, Harvard University (Spring 1997, 1998)
• Teaching Fellow, Bioinformatics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (Spring 2001)
• Senior Teaching Fellow, Mechanisms of Gene Control, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (Fall 1999, 2000, 2001)
• Graduate Student Seminar (GENE675), Yale University, New Haven, CT (Spring 2007, 2008)
• Guest Lecturer, Chromatin and Gene Expression, Yale University, New Haven, CT (Spring 2007)
• Instructor, Basic Concepts of Genetic Analysis (GENE625a), Yale University, New Haven, CT (Fall 2007)

Presentations

• A high-resolution map of active promoters in the human genome. Presentation at International Workshop on Encoding Information in DNA Sequences, Government of Japan, Okinawa, Japan (2005).
• A high-resolution map of active promoters in the human genome. Presentation at FASEB Research Conference on Transcription and Chromatin, Snowmass, Colorado (July 2005).
• Decoding the WNT Signaling Pathway. Presentation at Keystone Symposia on Stem Cells, Senescence and Cancer, Singapore (October 2005).
• Transcription Initiation and Boundaries. Harvard Partners Center for Genetics and Genomics, Cambridge, MA (February 2006).
• Transcription Initiation and Boundaries. Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT (March 2006).
• Transcription Initiation and Boundaries. POSTECH, Pohang, Korea (April 2006).
• Transcription Initiation and Boundaries. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejon, Korea (April 2006).
• Identification and Analysis of Boundary Elements in the Human Genome. Presentation at Keystone Symposia on Regulation of Eukaryotic Transcription, Taos, New Mexico (April 2006).
• Genome-wide Analysis of Protein-DNA Interactions, Invited presentation at The San Diego Consortium for Systems Biology Workshop on Gene Expression Profiling (July 2006).
• Locating genetic switches in the genome. Invited presentation at Montreal Microarray Symposium, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (October 2006).
• Analysis of the vertebrate insulator protein CTCF binding sites in the human genome. A keynote presentation at Science Park Symposium, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA (November 2006).
• Genome-wide distribution and sequence determinant of CTCF binding. Genetics Department Seminar, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT (January 2007).
• Genome-wide distribution and sequence determinant of CTCF binding. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meeting on Systems Biology, Cold Spring Harbor, NY (March 2007).
• Genome-wide distribution, sequence determinant and evolution of CTCF binding. Presentation at EMBO Conference on Chromatin and Epigenetics, Heidelberg, Germany (May 2007).
• Genome-wide function of CTCF. Invited presentation at 7th Annual ORFeome Meeting: ORFeomes and Systems, Boston, MA (October 2007).
• Locating and analyzing genetic switches in the human genome. Invited seminar at Princeton CS Department, Princeton, NJ (March 2008).

Publications

• Tae Hoon Kim. Expression of Salt Tolerance Genes in Vibrio costicola. BASE: A Journal of Science and Technology 8:6-10 (1990).
• Tae Hoon Kim. Programmed Cell Death in Arabidopsis thaliana. Senior Thesis, Reed College (1994).
• Tae Kook Kim, Tae Hoon Kim, and Tom Maniatis. Efficient recruitment of TFIIB and CBP-RNA polymerase II holoenzyme by an Interferon-beta enhanceosome in vitro. Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, USA 95:12191-96 (1998).
• Tom Maniatis, James Falvo, Tae Hoon Kim, Tae Kook Kim, Charles H. Lin, Bhavin S. Parekh, and Marc G. Wathelet. Structure and function of the interferon-beta enhanceosome. Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Quantitative Biology 63:609-620 (1998).
• Bing Ren, Kerlen J. Chee, Tae Hoon Kim, and Tom Maniatis. PRDI-BF1/Blimp-1 repression is mediated by corepressors of the groucho family of proteins. Genes and Development 13:125-137 (1999).
• Tae Hoon Kim. Structure and Function of Enhanceosome. Ph. D. Thesis, Harvard University (2002).
• The ENCODE Project Consortium. The ENCODE (ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements) Project. Science 306:636-640 (2004).
• Tae Hoon Kim, Hui Xong, Zhuohua Zhang, and Bing Ren. Beta-catenin activates the growth factor endothelin-1 in colon cancer cells. Oncogene 24:597-604 (2005).
• Tae Hoon Kim, Leah O. Barrera, Chunxu Qu, Sara Van Calcar, Nathan Trinklein, Sarah Hartman, Rosa Luna, Christopher K. Glass, Michael G. Rosenfeld, Richard Myers, and Bing Ren. Direct isolation and identification of promoters in the human genome. Genome Research 15:830-839 (2005).
• Tae Hoon Kim, Leah O. Barrera, Ming Zheng, Chunxu Qu, Michael A. Singer, Todd A. Richmond, Yingnian Wu, Roland D. Green and Bing Ren. A high-resolution map of active promoters in the human genome. Nature 436:876-880 (2005).
• Ping Sun, Hui Xiong, Tae Hoon Kim, Bing Ren, and Zhuohua Zhang. Positive Inter-Regulation between Beta-Catenin/T Cell Factor-4 Signaling and Endothelin-1 Signaling Potentiates Proliferation and Survival of Prostate Cancer Cells. Molecular Pharmacology 69:520-31 (2006).
• Tae Hoon Kim and Bing Ren. Genome-wide Analysis of Protein-DNA Interactions. Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics 7:81-102 (2006).
• Tae Hoon Kim and Bing Ren. All-around view of eukaryotic transcription. Genome Biology 7:323 (2006).
• Tae Hoon Kim, Ziedulla K. Abdullaev, Andrew D. Smith, Keith A. Ching, Dmitri I. Loukinov, Roland D. Green, Michael Q. Zhang, Victor V. Lobanenkov and Bing Ren. Analysis of the vertebrate insulator protein CTCF binding sites in the human genome. Cell 128:1231-1245 (2007).
• The ENCODE Project Consortium. Identification and analysis of functional elements in 1% of the human genome by the ENCODE pilot project. Nature 447:799-816 (2007).
• Tae Hoon Kim, Leah O. Barrera and Bing Ren. ChIP-chip for Genome-Wide Analysis of protein binding in mammalian cells. Current Protocols in Molecular Biology 79 Unit 21.13 (2007).