Pre-Clinical Research

Go Woon Kim

**** ******-**-*********, ***. **, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H1V 1A9

Cell: 514-***-****

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EDUCATION

McGill University, M.Sc – Anatomy and Cell Biology (2010 Fall – 2012 Fall)

McGill University, B.Sc – Microbiology and Immunology (2005 Fall – 2008 Summer)

Dawson College, D.E.C. – Pure and Applied Science (2003 Fall – 2005 Summer)

Dr. Charles Best Secondary School in Coquitlam, B.C. (2002 Spring - 2003 Summer)

LANGUAGES

English, Korean, and French

WORK EXPERIENCE

Laboratory Assistant and Graduate Student (2009 August – 2012 December)

Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Research Center, McGill University, Montreal,

Canada

Conducted various molecular biological experiments including cloning, PCR,

luciferase assay, DNA/RNA extraction from cultured cells and mouse tissues, RT -

PCR, in-situ hybridization (both whole-mount and section), immunofluorescence,

Western blotting, co-immunoprecipitation, acetylation assay,

immunohistochemistry, stable cell line generation, and β-gal assay

Routine tissue culture and transient transfection

Managed, handled, manipulated, and dissected transgenic mice

MEF isolation from mouse embryos

General lab management and ordering stocks

Taught and trained undergraduate assistants and new graduate stud ents

Laboratory Assistant (2009 April – 2009 July)

Department of Plastic Surgery in Montreal General Hospital, Montreal, Canada

Routine tissue culture

H3-thymidine incorporation assay, cell migration assay, and Western blotting

Laboratory Assistant (September 2007 – May 2008)

Go Woon Kim 514-***-****

Segal Cancer Center at Lady Davis Institute of Medical Research in Jewish General

Hospital, Montreal, Canada

Tissue culture

Cloning and Western blotting

Laboratory Assistant (July 2007 – August 2007)

Cancer Metastasis Research Center of Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

DNA/protein extraction from cultured cells, PCR, RT -PCR, and Western blotting

Nude mice dissection

Fractionation human serum samples

Familiarized with measuring and calculating concentration of solutions.

PUBLICATIONS

Kim, G.W., Li, L., Ghorbani, M., You, L., and Yang, X.J. (2013 May 28th) Mice lacking α-

tubulin acetyltransferase 1 are viable but display α-tubulin acetylation deficiency and

dentate gyrus distortation, Journal of Biological Chemistry.

Kim G.W. and Yang, X.J. (2011) Comprehensive lysine acetylomes emerging from bacteria

to humans, Trends in Biochemical Sciences.

Selected as a high impact journal paper in Biological Research Information

Center

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Kim G.W., Gocevski, G., Wu, C.J., and Yang, X.J. (2010) Dietary, metabolic and potentially

environmental modulation of the lysine acetylation machinery, International Journal of

Cell Biology.

Walkinshaw, D.R., Weist, R., Xiao, L., Yan, K., Kim, G.W., and Yang, X.J. (2013)

Dephosphorylation at a conserved SP motif governs cAMP sensitivity and nuclear

localization of class IIa histone deacetylases, Journal of Biological Chemistry.

Walkinshaw, D.R., Weist, R., Xiao, L., Kim, G.W., Zhao, S., Yang, X.J. (2013) The tumor

suppressor kinase LKB1 activates SIK2 and SIK3 to stimulate nuclear export of class IIa

histone deacetylases, Journal of Biological Chemistry.

Aka, J.A., Kim, G.W., and Yang, X.J. (2011) Lysine acetylation and its enzymes: overview

and new developments. Biology and Pharmacology of Histone Deacetylases.

Go Woon Kim 514-***-****

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE

Korean Language Teacher (2005 – 2007) at Montreal Korean Community Church,

Montreal, Canada

COMPUTER SKILLS

Operating System: Windows 98/XP

Software Packages: MS Office Word, Excel, Power Point

INTEREST

Swimming, running, boxing, music (choir, piano, and guitar), cross -stitching, and cooking

References available upon request

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