EUNSOO KIM ASSISTANT CURATOR AND ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY
HIGHEST DEGREE EARNED Ph.D.
AREA OF SPECIALIZATION Origin of photosynthetic eukaryotes, microbial symbioses, diversity and evolutionary relationships of microbial eukaryotes
EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE Ph.D. in Botany, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Madison, WI, 2006 B.S. in Biology, Seoul National University; Seoul, South Korea, 2000
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE IN DOCTORAL EDUCATION COURSES TAUGHT Diversity and Evolution of Plastid and Their Genomes, Chloroplast Workshop, University of Gothenburg, 2009
RESEARCH GRANT SUPPORT Kimble Chase Lab Startup Grant, 06/2012
RECENT ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS (2006-2011) Kim E, Archibald JM. Ultrastructure and molecular phylogeny of the cryptomonad Goniomonas avonlea sp. nov. Protist (under revision) Takishita K, Chikaraishi Y, Leger MM, Kim E, Yabuki A, Ohkouchi N, Roger AJ. 2012. Lateral transfer of tetrahymanol-synthesizing genes has allowed multiple diverse eukaryote lineages to independently adapt to environments without oxygen. Biology Direct 7: 5. Tanifuji G*, Kim E*, Onodera NT*, Gibeault R, Dlutek M, Cawthorn RJ, Fiala I, Lukeš J, Greenwood SJ, Archibald JM. 2011. Genomic characterization of Neoparamoeba pemaquidensis (Amoebozoa) and its kinetoplastid endosymbiont. Eukaryotic Cell 10: 1143–1146. (*co-first authors) Kerney R, Kim E, Hangarter R, Heiss A, Bishop C, Hall B. 2011. Intracellular invasion of green algae in a salamander host. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 108: 6497–6502. Kim E*, Harrison JW*, Sudek S*, Jones MDM, Wilcox HM, Richards TA, Worden AZ, Archibald JM. 2011. Newly identified and diverse plastid-bearing branch on the eukaryotic tree of life. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 108: 1496–1500. (*co-first authors) Graham LE, Kim E, Arancibia-Avila P, Graham JM, Wilcox LE. 2010. Evolutionary and ecophysiological significance of sugar utilization by the peatmoss Sphagnum compactum (Sphagnaceae) and the common charophycean associates Cylindrocystis brebissonii and Mougeotia sp. (Zygnemataceae). American Journal of Botany 97: 1–7. Kim E, Archibald JM. 2010. Plastid evolution: Gene transfer and the maintenance of ‘stolen’ organelles. BMC Biology 8: 73. Kim E, Park JS, Simpson AGB, Matsunaga S, Watanabe M, Murakami A, Sommerfeld K, Onodera NT, Archibald JM. 2010. Complex array of endobionts in Petalomonas sphagnophila, a large heterotrophic euglenid protist from Sphagnum-dominated peatlands. The ISME Journal 4: 1108–1120. Kim E*, Yubuki N*, Leander BS, Graham LE. 2010. Ultrastructure and 18S rDNA phylogeny of Apoikia lindahlii comb. nov. (Chrysophyceae) and its epibiontic protists, Filos agilis gen. et sp. nov. (Bicosoecida) and Nanos amicus gen. et sp. nov. (Bicosoecida). Protist 161: 177–196. (*co-first authors) Bae Y, Kim E, L’Hernault SW, Barr MM. 2009. The CIL-1 PI 5-phosphatase localizes TRP polycystins to cilia and activates sperm in C. elegans. Current Biology 19: 1599–1607. Kim E, Archibald JM. 2009. Diversity and evolution of plastids and their genomes. In: The Chloroplast: Interactions with the Environment. Sandelius AS and Aronsson H (eds) Springer-Verlag: Berlin, pp 1–39. Kim E, Graham LE. 2008 EEF2 analysis challenges the monophyly of Archaeplastida and Chromalveolata. PLoS ONE 3: e2621. Cuvelier ML, Ortiz A, Kim E, Moehlig H, Richardson DE, Heidelberg JF, Archibald JM, Worden AZ. 2008. Widespread distribution of a unique marine protistan lineage. Environmental Microbiology 10: 1621–1634. Kim E, Lane CE, Curtis BA, Kozera C, Bowman S, Archibald JM. 2008. Complete sequence and analysis of the mitochondrial genome of Hemiselmis andersenii CCMP644 (Cryptophyceae). BMC Genomics 9: 215. Kim E, Simpson AGB, Graham LE. 2006. Evolutionary relationships of apusomonads inferred from taxon-rich analyses of 6 nuclear encoded genes. Molecular Biology and Evolution 23: 2455–2466. Kim E, Wilcox LW, Fawley MW, Graham LE. 2006. Phylogenetic position of the green flagellate Mesostigma viride based on a-tubulin and b-tubulin gene sequences. International Journal of Plant Sciences 167: 873–883. Kim E, Wilcox LW, Graham LE, Graham JM. 2004. Genetically distinct populations of the dinoflagellate Peridinium limbatum in neighboring Northern Wisconsin lakes. Microbial Ecology 48: 521–527.
SPECIAL RECOGNITION/AWARDS Eukaryote Transcriptome Project, two nominations accepted, 03/2011