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Kyung-Tae Park, Ph.D.

Portrait of Kyung-Tae Park
Research Assistant Professor, Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Immunology
kpark@kumc.edu

Professional Background

I earned a bachelor's degree in science from Seoul National University with the intent to become a science teacher and scientist. During my master's degree program, I studied the interface between cell biology and pharmacology at the University of Texas Medical Branch. My Ph.D. studies and postdoctoral training under the mentorship of Dr. Joe Lutkenhaus were to understand the spatial regulatory mechanisms of division site selection using E.coli as a model bacterium.

Education and Training
  • BS, Biology Education, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
  • MS, Neurobiology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX
  • PhD, Microbiology, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
  • Post Doctoral Fellowship, Cancer Biology, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN
  • Post Doctoral Fellowship, Microbiology, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
Professional Affiliations
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science, Member, 2016 - Present
  • American Society for Microbiology, Member, 2016 - Present

Research

Overview

My current research focuses on elucidating the molecular mechanisms involved in bacterial cell division and wall synthesis in Joe Lutkenhaus' laboratory and is being expanded to investigate the connection between bacterial cell division, wall synthesis and other physiological processes such as metabolism and stress responses.