Professor
Lim, Young Woon
Research
Ecology
Evolutionary Biology
Genomics
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
- CW Seo, S Yoo, Y Cho, JS Kim, M Steinegger & YW Lim (2025). FunVIP: Fungal Validation and Identification Pipeline based on phylogenetic analysis. Journal of Microbiology, 63(4), e2411017.
- Y Cho, CW Seo, H Cho, Y Jin, AS Lupala, SH Shim & YW Lim (2025). A conserved terpene cyclase gene in Sanghuangporus for abscisic acid-related sesquiterpenoid biosynthesis. BMC Genomics, 26(378).
- JS Kim, E Romero, Y Cho, R Ahumada-Rudolph, C Núñez, J Gómez-Espinoza, E Moya-Elizondo, S Garnica, YW Lim, J R. Cabrera-Pardo (2025). Fungal diversity from Fildes Peninsula (Antarctica) and their antibiosis bioactivity against two plant pathogens. Journal of Microbiology.
- W Lee, JS Kim, S Jo, CW Seo, YW Lim (2025). Taxonomic Study of Sixteen Unrecorded and Five New Species of Hypocreales from the Korean Marine Environment. Mycobiology, 53(2), 144-167.
- KH Park, SY Oh, Y Cho, CW Seo, JS Kim, S Yoo, J Lim, CS Kim, YW Lim (2023). Mycorrhizal Fungal Diversity Associated with Six Understudied Ectomycorrhizal Trees in the Republic of Korea. Journal of Microbiology, 61(8), 729-739.
- H Lee, K Wissitrassameewong, MS Park, A Verbeken, J Eimes, YW Lim (2019). Taxonomic revision of the genus Lactarius (Russulales, Basidiomycota) in Korea. Fungal Diversity, 95(1), 275-335.