Youngjoon Pyo

Youngjoon Pyo is a graduate student interested in how changes in pH reshape the interactions between RNA and proteins. He contributed to the lab’s study of exogenous RNA surveillance by TRIM25, a proton-sensing protein that helps cells tell foreign RNA, such as that of viruses, from their own (Science, 2025).

He is now asking which other proteins change how they bind RNA as pH shifts, and what this means for the cell.

Education

• 2024–present M.S./Ph.D. Student, School of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University
• 2017–2023 B.S. in Biological Sciences, Seoul National University

Publications with our lab

• Exogenous RNA surveillance by proton-sensing TRIM25
  M. Kim, Y. Pyo, S.-I. Hyun, M. Jeong, Y. Choi, and V. N. Kim^{✉︎ (corresponding author)}
  Science (2025), 388(6742):eads4539