Junyoung Park

Graduate Student

Catching ERH as it helps the Microprocessor make microRNAs

PubMed

Junyoung Park is a graduate student studying how microRNAs are made. In the nucleus, the Microprocessor, DROSHA and DGCR8 together, crops each primary microRNA, and helper proteins tune how well it does so. Junyoung is an author of a 2025 Nature Communications study showing that the protein ERH promotes primary microRNA processing well beyond its known role of assisting microRNAs in clusters.

Education

2024–present M.S./Ph.D. Student, School of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University
2020–2024 B.S. in Biological Sciences, Seoul National University

Publications with our lab

ERH promotes primary microRNA processing beyond cluster assistance
H. Jang, J. Park, and V. N. Kim^{✉︎ (corresponding author)}
Nature Communications (2025), 16(1):7913