Dott.ssa Myong Hee Sung

Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Immunology, National
Institute on Aging (NIA) and Transcription Systems
Dynamics and Biology Unit (TSDBU), USA

sungm@mail.nih.gov

Dr. Sung received her Ph.D. in Mathematics from SUNY at Stony Brook and pursued her postdoctoral training in Dr. James Yorke’s nonlinear dynamics group at the University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Sung transitioned to biology when she started in the bioinformatics group of Dr. Richard Simon at NCI, and then worked as a Staff Scientist in the branch of Dr. Gordon Hager, CCR/NCI. She began her independent investigator position at LMBI, NIA, Baltimore, in the fall of 2015. Dr. Sung uses diverse systems biology approaches to study cell signaling dynamics and transcription control. Using mathematical modeling and optical imaging techniques, she revealed sustained asynchronous oscillations of NF-kappaB activity in individual cells exposed to a pro-inflammatory cytokine TNF-α.