Jungseog Kang

Jungseog Kang is an assistant professor of biology at NYU Shanghai and a global network assistant professor in the biology department at NYU. He received his PhD in molecular genetics and microbiology at UT Austin, where he studied regulatory mechanism of an essential mitotic kinase, Aurora B, in yeast. During his postdoc training, he continued to study chromosome segregation process in human cells and discover differential regulation mechanism of mitotic kinases to control mitosis. After joining NYU Shanghai, he published several inspiring papers in the field of chromosome segregation and cancer drug screening, acquired NSFC grants, and presented the works in the international conferences. He is also an enthusiastic teacher for undergraduate education in the classroom as well as in the lab. 

Select Publications

• Role of noncanonical histone H2A variant, H2A. Z, to maintain proper centromeric transcription and chromosome segregation. Akter M et. al. Journal of Biol. Chem. (2025) 301: 108464
• High-content analysis identified synergistic drug interactions between INK128, an mTOR inhibitor, and HDAC inhibitors in a non-small cell lung cancer cell line. Wang S et. al. BMC Cancer. (2024) 24:335
• The genomic stability regulator PTIP is required for proper chromosome segregation in mitosis. Zhang F et. al. Cell Division (2022) 17: 1-5
• Mps1 regulates spindle morphology through MCRS1 to promote chromosome alignment. Yang H et. al. Mol. Biol. Cell (2019) 30:1060-1068.
• Improving drug discovery with high-content phenotypic screens by systematic selection of reporter cell lines. Kang J et. al. Nature Biotechnology (2016) 34:70-77.

Education

• PhD, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
  University of Texas at Austin
• MS, Molecular Biology
  Seoul National University
• BS, Biological Science
  Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology