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| Myoung-Goo Kang, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Dept. of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, The University of Texas Medical Branch,
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Study of molecular mechanism of learning and memory through functional characterization of neuronal ion channel complexes in the post-synapse through biochemical, electrophysiological, and immunocytochemical analysis. (For detail, visit http://www.utmb.edu/ncb/faculty/Kang.asp) |
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| Publications: |
Myoung-Goo Kang, Yurong Guo, and Richard L. Huganir, (200?) AMPA receptor and GEF-H1/Lfc complex regulates dendritic spine development through RhoA signaling cascade. (Submitted) Jianxiong Jiang, Kodeeswaran Parameshwaran, M. Lamar Seibenhener, Myoung-Goo Kang, Vishnu Suppiramaniam, Richard L. Huganir, Maria T. Diaz-Meco, and Marie W. Wooten, (2008) AMPA Receptor Trafficking and Synaptic Plasticity Require SQSTM1/p62. Hippocampus (In Press) Hailan Hu, Eleonore Real, Kogo Takamiya, Myoung-Goo Kang, Joeph Ledoux, Richard L. Huganir, and Roberto Malinow (2007) Emotion Enhances Learning via Norepinephrine Regulation of AMPA Receptor Trafficking. Cell 131(1): 160-173. Jean-Claude Béïque, Da-Ting Lin, Myoung-Goo Kang, Hiro Aizawa, Kogo Takamiya, and Richard L. Huganir. (2006)Synapse-specific regulation of AMPA receptor function by PSD-95. PNAS 103(51): 19535-19540. Jannic Boehm*, Myoung-Goo Kang*, Richard C. Johnson,Jose Esteban, Richard L. Huganir and Roberto Malinow. (2006) Synaptic Incorporation of AMPA Receptors During LTP is Controlled by a Novel PKC Phosphorylation Site on GluR1. Neuron. 51(2):213-25 (*These authors contributed equally to this paper). Myoung-Goo Kang, Chien-Chang Chen, Minoru Wakamori, Yuji Hara, Yasuo Mori, and Kevin P. Campbell. (2006) A functional AMPA receptor-calcium channel complex in postsynaptic membrane. PNAS 103(14): 5561-5566. Yarden Opatowsky, Orna Chomsky-Hecht, Myoung-Goo Kang, Kevin P. Campbell, and Joel A. Hirsch (2003) The Voltage-Dependent Calcium Channel b Subunit contains Two Stable Interacting Domains. J. Biol. Chem. 278(52):52323-32. Manabu Murakami, Hisao Yamamura, Takashi Suzuki, Myoung-Goo Kang, Susumu Ohya, Agnieszka Murakami, Ichiro Miyoshi, Hironobu Sasano, Katsuhiko Muraki, Takuzou Hano, Noriyuki Kasai, Shinnsuke Nakayama, Kevin P. Campbell, Veit Flockerzi, Yuji Imaizumi, Teruyuki Yanagisawa, and Toshihiko Iijima. (2003) Modified cardiovascular L-type channels in the mice lacking the voltage-dependent Ca2+ channel b3 subunit. J. Biol. Chem 278(44):43261-7. Verity A. Letts, Myoung-Goo Kang, Connie L. Mahaffey, Barbara Beyer, Heather Tenbrink, Kevin P. Campbell, Wayne N. Frankel (2003) Phenotypic heterogeneity in the stargazin allelic series. Mammalian Genome. 14(8):506-13. Myoung-Goo Kang and Kevin P. (2003) Gamma subunit of voltage-activated calcium channels J. Biol. Chem. 278(24):21315-8. Myoung-Goo Kang, Ricardo Felix, and Kevin P. Campbell. (2002) Long-term regulation of neuronal P/Q-type Ca2+ channels expressed in Xenopus oocytes by gabapentin. FEBS Let 528:177-182. Myoung-Goo Kang, Chien-Chang Chen, Ricard Felix, Verity A. Letts, Wayne N. Frankel, Yasuo Mori, and Kevin P. Campbell. (2001) Biochemical and biophysical evidence for g 2 subunit association with neuronal voltage-activated Ca2+ channels. J. Biol. Chem.276 (35):32917-32924. Myoung-Goo Kang, Andrei Kulisz, and William J. Wasserman (1998) Raf-1 kinase, a potential regulator of intracellular pH in Xenopus oocytes. Biol Cell. 90(6-7):477-85. |
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| Education: |
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (2003-2008) Supervisor: Richard L. Huganir, Ph.D. (http://www.bs.jhmi.edu/neuroscience/huganir/index.htm) Ph.D. in Physiology & Biophysics, University of Iowa, Iowa city (2003) Supervisor: Kevin P. Campbell, Ph.D. (http://www.physiology.uiowa.edu/campbell/) M.S. in Biology, Loyola University of Chicago (1997) Supervisor: William J. Wasserman, Ph.D. B.S., Biology (minor: Chemistry), Sogang University (Seoul, Korea) (1994) |
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| Research and Teaching Experiences: |
Postdoctoral Fellow (2003 to 2008) Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore Mentor of undergraduate and graduate research students (2004 to Present) Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore Research Assistant (1997 -2003) Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Iowa, Iowa City Iowa |
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Honors: |
AKN Outstanding Research Award (2007) from Association of Korean Neuroscientists at the 2007 annual meeting of Society for Neuroscience. Post-doctoral fellowship (2004-2005) from Epilepsy Foundation of America Pre-doctoral fellowship (2001-2002) from Epilepsy Foundation of America |