Ji-Hee Min

Email: minjihee15@tamu.edu

Ph.D. in Applied Biology, Chonnam National University, South Korea (2019) M.S. in Applied Biology, Chonnam National University, South Korea (2014) B.S. in Plant Biotechnology, Chonnam National University, South Korea (2012)

Research Interest: Telomeres are higher order nucleoprotein complexes that cap the ends of eukaryotic chromosomes and play important roles in conferring genome stability and cell proliferation capacity. Protection of Telomeres 1 (POT1) is a fundamental component capping and recruiting telomerase to modulate telomerase activity in human. Arabidopsis thaliana encodes three paralogs of the POT1 gene, which is POT1a, b and c. My research goal is to characterize the roles of POT1b under environmental stresses and identify the relationship between POT1b and POT1b-associated telomerase or factors using physiological, molecular genetic and biochemical approaches.