Hyun Min Jung
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
- The Jung lab is at UIC Department of Pharmacology and Regenerative Medicine!
- A research-focused (~10 hours/week) is available. This position is ideal for students who are willing to participate in research projects in preparation for graduate school or medical school. Long-term commitment (2+ years) is preferred.
- We are interested in understanding how lymphatic vessels develop and function. The lymphatic system is essential for maintaining fluid homeostasis and immune surveillance and plays unique organ-specific functions. Defects in this system can lead to many diseases such as lymphedema, cardiovascular diseases, cancer metastasis, organ transplant failure, inflammatory diseases, and obesity. However, there are not many options to treat these disorders due to our limited knowledge about this system.
- We use the zebrafish to explore many scientific questions in vascular biology. The zebrafish is a superb model organism for in vivo analysis with several advantages: 1) Rapid external development, 2) Optical clarity, 3) High Fecundity, 4) Genetic malleability, 5) High-throughput screening. These advantages permit rapid, visible, and quantifiable analysis in the context of normal or genetically or experimentally manipulated animals. High-resolution live imaging on fluorescence-labeled transgenic animals is a powerful technique that provides unique information underlying vascular development and cellular behavior in living organisms in real-time.
- We are currently studying these interesting topics in lymphatic biology and are open to exciting ideas that will let us understand the basics underlying lymphatic biology.
- • Development of the lymphatic system.
- • MicroRNA function in lymphatic biology.
- • Crosstalk between lymphatic vessels and immune cells.
At a Glance
- Title Assistant Professor
- College College of Medicine at Chicago - Basic Sciences
- Department Department of Pharmacology and Regenerative Medicine
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