Professor
Lim, Young Woon
Research
Ecology
Evolutionary Biology
Systematics
1. Fungal evolution based on morphology and multi-gene sequences
- Phylogenetic study of the fungi
- Fungal Tree of Life in Korea
- Fungal Barcode of Life in Korea
2. Fungal ecophylogeny
- Fungal diversity using Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technique
- Phylogeogrphical study through the world networking
3. Fungal interaction with bacteria, insects and plants
Bacteria
- Bacterial diversity in forest and their roles of wood degradation.
- Examining synergy effect with Fungi for wood degradation
Insects
- Fungal diversity vectored by insects
- What is their relationship?
Plants
- Fungal diversity from valuable wood species and their roles
- Define pathogenic fungi and their mechanism to penetrate to wood.
- Application of decay fungi to industry
- Phylogenetic study of the fungi
- Fungal Tree of Life in Korea
- Fungal Barcode of Life in Korea
2. Fungal ecophylogeny
- Fungal diversity using Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technique
- Phylogeogrphical study through the world networking
3. Fungal interaction with bacteria, insects and plants
Bacteria
- Bacterial diversity in forest and their roles of wood degradation.
- Examining synergy effect with Fungi for wood degradation
Insects
- Fungal diversity vectored by insects
- What is their relationship?
Plants
- Fungal diversity from valuable wood species and their roles
- Define pathogenic fungi and their mechanism to penetrate to wood.
- Application of decay fungi to industry
Education/Career
Education
- - 1997-2001 Ph.D. Seoul National University, Korea
- - 1995-1997 M.S. Seoul National University, Korea
- - 1988-1994 B.A. Korea University, Korea
Career
- - 2019-Current Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- - 2016-2019 Associate professor, School of Biological Sciences
- - 2011-2016 Assistant professor, School of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University
- - 2007-2011 Director of Non-vascular (Fungi/Alage) division at NIBR, Ministry of Environment
- - 2006-2007 Research professor, Seoul National University
- - 2003-2006 Postdoctoral fellow and Research associate, University of British Columbia
- - 2002-2002 Visiting scholar, Clark University, USA
- - 2001-2003 Postdoctoral fellow, Korean Collection for Type Culture (KCTC), Korea
Publications
- Y Cho, D Kim, YW Lim (2024). Phylogenetic Assessment of Understudied Families in Hymenochaetales (Basidiomycota, Fungi)—Reporting Uncovered Species and Reflecting the Recent Taxonomic Updates in the Republic of Korea. Journal of Microbiology, 1-19.
- H Suh, Y Cho, CW Seo, D Kim, H-S Lee, YW Lim (2024). A taxonomic study of Fulvifomes (Hymenochaetales, Basidiomycota) in the Federated States of Micronesia and identification of two new species. Mycological Progress, 23(15).
- Y Cho, CW Seo, PE Jung, YW Lim (2023). Global phylogeographical distribution of Gloeoporus dichrous. PLoS ONE, 18(7), 1-15.
- Y Cho, D Kim, Y Lee, J Jeong, S Hussain, YW Lim (2023). Validation of Fuscoporia (Hymenochaetales, Basidiomycota) ITS sequences and five new species based on multi-marker phylogenetic and morphological analyses. IMA Fungus, 14(12), 1-26.
- W Lee, JS Kim, CW Seo, JW Lee, SH Kim, Y Cho, YW Lim (2023). Diversity of Cladosporium (Cladosporiales, Cladosporiaceae) species in marine environments and report on five new species. Mycokeys, 98, 87-111.