Associate 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
- Kevin D. Hyde et al. (2017). Fungal diversity notes 603–708: taxonomic and phylogenetic notes on genera and species. Fungal Diversity, 87(1), 1-235.
- Lee WD, Fong JJ, Eimes JA, Lim YW. (2017). Diversity and abundance of human-pathogenic fungi associated with pigeon faeces in urban environments.. Molecular Ecology, 26(17), 4574–4585.
- Hyun Lee, Myung Soo Park, Paul Eunil Jung, John A. Eimes, Soon Ja Seok, Young Woon Lim (2017). Re-evaluation of the taxonomy and diversity of Russula section Foetentinae (Russulales, Basidiomycota) in Korea. Mycoscience, 58(5), 351-360.
- Jargalmaa S, Eimes JA, Park MS, Park JY, Oh SY, Lim YW. (2017). Taxonomic evaluation of selected Ganoderma species and database sequence validation.. PeerJ.
- Oh SY, Fong JJ, Park MS, Lim YW. (2016). Distinctive feature of microbial communities and bacterial functional profiles in Tricholoma matsutake dominant soil. PLoS ONE.