CURRICULUM VITAE TUAN ANH NGUYEN, Ph.D.

CURRICULUM VITAE TUAN ANH NGUYEN, Ph.D.

CURRICULUM VITAE
(Last Updated : 2016-01-05)
EDUCATION and TRAINING
TUAN ANH NGUYEN, Ph.D.
2002-2006
B.S. Hanoi University of Science (HUS)
In Molecular Biology, Jun 2006
Advisor: Prof. Tuan Nghia Phan
Hanoi
2006-2012
Ph.D. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
(KAIST)
In Biochemistry, Feb 2012
Advisor: Prof. Yeon-Soo Seo
Daejeon
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
2012
Postdoctoral Fellow, KAIST
Advisor: Prof. Yeon-Soo Seo
Daejeon
2012-present
Postdoctoral Fellow, Seoul National University (SNU)
and Institute for Basic Science (IBS)
Advisor: Prof. V.Narry Kim
Seoul
AWARDS
The Bronze Medal of “The 13th International Biology Olympiad”, Latvia 2002
The First Prize of “The annual scientific research competition for HUS students”, HUS 2005
Korea Research Foundation Scholarship (2007-2010)
Best Presentation Award (Poster) - Brain Korea 21 Department Symposium, KAIST (2010)
Brain Korea 21 Fellowship (2012)
Young Scientist Award- Korea Society for Structural Biology, KSSB (2015)
PUBLICATIONS
1. Kwon SC*, Nguyen TA*, Choi YG*, Jo MH, Hohng S, Kim VN and Woo JS. Structure of human
DROSHA. Cell, in press. *Co-first authors.
~ Invited for Video abstract by Cell journal
2. Nguyen TA, Jo MH, Choi YG, Park J, Kwon SC, Hohng S, Kim VN and Woo JS. (2015)
Functional anatomy of the human Microprocessor. Cell 161, 1374-1387.
~ Recommended in F1000Prime
~ Selected as Top 10 Science News of the Year by the Korean Federation of Science and
Technology Societies (KOFST)
~ Selected as Top 5 Basic Academy by Biological Research Information Center (BRIC)
3. Nguyen TA*, Kwon SC*, and Woo JS. How Human Microprocessor Recognizes Primary
MicroRNAs and Finds the Correct Cleavage Sites. Bio Design, 2, 77-86. 2015. *Co-first authors.
4. Thu HP*, Nguyen TA*, Munashingha P, Kwon BK, Dao Van Q and Seo YS. (2015)
A physiological significance of the functional interaction between Mus81 and Rad27 in
homologous recombination repair. Nucleic Acids Res 43:1684-1699. *Co-first authors.
5. Lee M, Choi Y, Kim K, Jin H, Lim J, Nguyen TA, Yang J, Jeong M, Giraldez AJ, Yang H,
Patel DJ and Kim VN. (2014) Adenylation of maternally inherited microRNAs by Wispy.
Molecular Cell 56:696-707.
6. Kang JH, Lee CH, Munashingha P, Nguyen TA and Seo YS. (2012) Biochemical studies of
the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Mph1 helicase on junction-containing DNA structures.
Nucleic Acids Res 40:2089-2106.
7. Shin YK, Amangyeld T, Nguyen TA, Munashingha PR, Seo YS. (2012) Human MUS81
complexes stimulate flap endonuclease 1. FEBS J 279:2412-2430.
8. Munashingha PR, Lee CH, Kang H, Shin YK, Nguyen TA, Seo YS. (2012) The transautostimulatory activity of Rad27 suppresses dna2 defects in Okazaki fragment processing.
J Biol Chem. 16, 8675-8687. 2012.
9. Nguyen TA, Tak YS, Lee CH, Kang YH, Cho IT and Seo YS. (2011) Analysis of subunit
assembly and function of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae RNase H2 complex.
FEBS J 287:4927-4942.
10. Nguyen TA, Lee CH and Seo YS. (2011) Lagging Strand Synthesis and Genomic Stability,
DNA Repair - On the Pathways to Fixing DNA Damage and Errors, Francesca Storici (Ed.).
DNA repair-On the Pathways to Fixing DNA Damage and Errors, InTech, Croatia, 1:1-24.
11. Kang MJ, Lee CH, Kang YH, Cho IT, Nguyen TA and Seo YS. (2010) Genetic and functional
interactions between Mus81/Mms4 and Rad27. Nucleic Acids Res 38:7611-7625.
12. Lee CH, Shin YK, Phung TT, Bae JS, Kang YH, Nguyen TA, Kim JH, Kim DH, Kang MJ,
Bae SH and Seo YS. (2010) Involvement of Vts1, a structure-specific RNA-binding protein,
in Okazaki fragment processing in yeast. Nucleic Acids Res 38:1583-1595.
13. Cho IT, Kim DH, Kang YH, Lee CH, Amangyelid T, Nguyen TA, Hurwitz J and Seo YS. (2009)
Human replication factor C stimulates flap endonuclease 1. J Biol Chem 284:10387-10399.