Sungyun Cho
Favorite movie: Avengers Endgame
Hometown: Seoul / South Korea
Non-science activity: Travel
Dream benchmate:
One item from your bucket list: Winning mega millions
Your scientific interests: RNA biogenesis
Current research interests: I currently investigate how mTOR or cancer cellular signaling regulates RNA biogenesis such as RNA splicing or RNA degradation etc, which promotes cancer cell growth.
Research
I got bachelor and master degree from Korea University in South Korea. During the master, I investigated cholesterol regulatory mechanism to prevent diabetes and obesity. I am currently working on projects to investigate how mTOR signaling regulates RNA biogenesis.
Honors and Awards
2013 Kwanjeong Fellowship, Kwanjeong Educational Foundation
2017 Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association Scholarship
Selected Publications
Cho SY, He L, Ramirez CB, Jeong KG, Song JH, Cheong JG, Li Z, Choi JM, Dephoure NE, Jang CL, Blenis J#, and Lee GL#. (2023). FAM120A couples SREBP-dependent transcription and splicing of lipogenesis enzymes downstream of mTORC1. Molecular Cell. 2023 Aug
Cho SY*, Lee GL*, Pickering. BF*, Jang CJ, Park JH, He L, Mathur L, Kim SS, Jung SH, Tang HW, Monette S, Rabinowitz JD, Perrimon N, Jaffrey SR, Blenis J. (2021). mTORC1 promotes cell growth via m 6 A-dependent mRNA degradation. Molecular Cell. 2021 Mar 19;S1097-2765(21)00178-7.
Lee GL, Zheng Y*, Cho SY*, et al, Blenis J. (2017). Post-transcriptional Regulation of De Novo Lipogenesis by mTORC1-S6K1-SRPK2 Signaling. Cell. 2017 Dec; 14;171(7):1545-1558.