Hong Seok Moon

Graduate student 

hmoon@utk.edu 

Education:
B.S., Crop Science, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
M.S., Plant Sciences, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville 

Currently pursuing a PhD degree in the department of Plant Sciences:            
            My project involves transgene biocontainment of transgenic plants. Integrated transgenes in transgenic plants could be excised by site-specific recombinase and/or zinc-finger nuclease system with corresponding binding sites to suppress unwanted transgene dispersal through pollen. 
            My hobbies include biking, hiking, and sometimes hibernating during the weekend. I was a party animal, but not anymore. My wife is watching me!!! 

Articles:
Moon, H.S., M.D. Halfhill, L. L. Good, P. L. Raymer and C. N. Stewart, Jr. (2007)          Characterization of directly transformed weedy Brassica rapa and introgressed B.        rapa with Bt crylAc and gfp genes. Plant Cell Reports. 26:1001-1010.

Moon, H.S, M.D. Halfhill, L.C. Hudson, R.J. Millwood, and C.N. Stewart, Jr. (2006)       Expression of green fluorescent protein in pollen of oilseed rape (Brassica napus            L.) and its utility for assessing pollen movement in the field. Biotechnology     Journal 1:1147-1152.