Lee Hong Kum

Lee Hong Kum
Korean spelling
Hangeul	이홍금
Revised Romanization	I Hong-geum
McCune- Reischauer	I Hongkŭm
See also : Korean name

Lee Hong Kum ( Korean 이홍금 ; * 1955 ) is a South Korean microbiologist . From 2007 to 2013 she was President of the Korean Polar Research Institute .

Life

Lee attended Ewha Womans University in Seoul and studied microbiology at Seoul National University from 1973 . In 1980 she completed her master's degree . After 9 years at the Technical University of Braunschweig , she received her doctorate in 1989. She then took up a postdoctoral position at the Center for Molecular Microbiology at Seoul National University. In 1991 she became a research associate at the Korean Institute for Marine Research and Technology (KORDI). From 2002 to 2003 she headed the Department of Marine Resource Research there. In 2004, she joined the newly established Korean Polar Research Institute (KOPRI) as Head of the Polar Biosciences Department , and was its President from May 1, 2007 to April 30, 2013. Today she is director of the Polar and Alpine Microbial Collection (PAMC).

Lee Hong Kum was honored with the 2007 South Korean UNESCO L'Oréal Prize for Women in Science. In 2015 she was named Scientist of the Year by the Ministry of Science, Information and Communication Technology and Future Planning.

power

Lee is a scientist researching marine and polar microorganisms. She is the author or co-author of over 100 scientific publications and numerous patents .

As President of the Korean Polar Research Institute, she has made a decisive contribution to its successful development. Her term of office includes the planning and construction of the ice-breaking research ship Araon , the planning and completion of the modern institute building in Incheon , which opened in 2013, and the planning of the Jang Bogo Station , the second South Korean research station in Antarctica .

The Polar and Alpine Microbial Collection , a collection of cultures and data on polar and alpine microorganisms , has been set up under Lee's direction since 2012 . The PAMC today contains around 6500 tribes from the Arctic , Antarctic and Alpine regions. It offers both biological material and information on taxonomy , local origin, habitat and the physiological properties of the microorganisms.

Publications (selection)

• Hong Kum Lee, Deuk-Soo Lee, Junghyun Lim, Jung Sun Kim, Kwang Sik Im, Jee H. Jung: Topoisomerase I inhibitors from the Streptomyces sp. strain KM86-9B isolated from a marine sponge . In: Archives of pharmacal research . tape 21 , no. 6 , 1999, p. 729-733 , doi : 10.1007 / BF02976766 (English).
• Hong Kum Lee, Jongsik Chun, Eun Young Moon, Sung-Hwan Ko, Deuk-Soo Lee, Hyun Sang Lee, Kyung Sook Bae: Hahella chejuensis gen. Nov., Sp. nov., an extracellular-polysaccharide-producing marine bacterium . In: International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology . tape 51 , 2001, p. 661-666 , doi : 10.1099 / 00207713-51-2-661 (English).
• Dockyu Kim, Jihyun F. Kim, Joung Han Yim, Soon-Kyeong Kwon, Choong Hwan Lee, Hong Kum Lee: Red to Red - the Marine Bacterium Hahella chejuensis and its Product Prodigiosin for Mitigation of Harmful Algal Blooms . In: Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology . tape 18 , no. 10 , 2008, p. 1621–1629 (English, researchgate.net [PDF; 577 kB ]).
• Yung Mi Lee, GoHeung Kim, You-Jung Jung, Cheng-Dae Choe, Joung Han Yim, Hong Kum Lee, Soon Gyu Hong: Polar and Alpine Microbial Collection (PAMC): a culture collection dedicated to polar and alpine microorganisms . In: Polar Biology . tape 35 , no. 9 , 2012, p. 1433-1438 , doi : 10.1007 / s00300-012-1182-7 (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} 극지 연구소 이 흥금 소장 연임 [Lee Hong Kum, Director of the Polar Research Institute ] on the website www.monthlymaritimekorea.com , April 30, 2010, accessed November 14, 2019 (Korean).
2. ↑ Scientific career in an article on the Scienceon website , September 29, 2011, accessed on November 14, 2019 (Korean).
3. ^ Former Presidents on the Korean Polar Research Institute website, accessed November 14, 2019.
4. ↑ ^{a b} PAMC (Polar and Alpine Microbial Collection) on the website of the Korean Polar Research Institute , accessed on November 14, 2019 (English).
5. ↑ 극지 연구소 이홍금 소장 연임 [Lee Hong Kum, Director of the Polar Research Institute ] from www.haesanews.com , May 4, 2010, accessed November 14, 2019 (Korean).
6. ↑ 2015 년 의 여성 과학 기술 자상 '이홍금 김성연 박문정 씨 [ Female Scientist Award 2015] on the website www.donga.com , December 22, 2015, accessed on November 14, 2019 (Korean).

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Lee is the family name here, Hong Kum is the first name.