Jee-Yeon Hwang, PhD

Associate Professor

Pharmacology & Neuroscience

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Pharmacology and Neuroscience
Graduate School
Neuroscience
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Jee-Yeon Hwang, PhD

Associate Professor

Pharmacology & Neuroscience

The studies in Dr. Hwang’s laboratory focus on the role of neuroinflammation, epigenetic regulation, microRNAs and protein regulation and degradation such as ubiquitination and autophagy underlying the pathophysiology of neurological disorders and diseases such as stroke, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Huntington’s disease. Her lab uses cell culture models and animal models of these diseases. The ultimate goal of her research is to identify potential therapeutic targets for these diseases.
 
In addition, in collaboration with Dr. Melinda Burnett, MD (Neurology, Creighton University School of Medicine), translational research on biomarkers in human patients with Parkinson’s disease is being pursued.
 

Department

Pharmacology and Neuroscience

Position

Associate Professor

Articles

  • Stroke
    Zhang Haiyue, Zukin R. Suzanne, Ofengeim Dimitry, Shi Yejie, Chen Jun, Zhang Feng, Hwang Jee-Yeon, Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Ischemia-Induced Neuronal Death [Book Chapter] 2016

Publications

  • Frontiers in immunology
    Bai Isaac, Zhang Ziyan, Keyser Cameron, Rosolia Breandan, Yan Jingqi, Hwang Jee-Yeon, Zukin R Suzanne, Epigenetic regulation of autophagy in neuroinflammation and synaptic plasticity
    15, p. 1322842 2024
  • STAR protocols
    Kim Hyunha, Hwang Jee-Yeon, Urquhart Rachael, Pontarelli Fabrizio, Ofengeim Dimitry, Jover-Mengual Teresa, Protocol for establishing a global ischemia model using a 4-vessel occlusion in rats
    4:4, p. 102630 2023
  • Cell reports (Cambridge)
    Chung Kyung Min, Kim Hyunha, Roque Cláudio Gouveia, Hengst Ulrich, McCurdy Ethan P., Nguyen Trang T.T., Siegelin Markus D., Hwang Jee-Yeon, A systemic cell stress signal confers neuronal resilience toward oxidative stress in a Hedgehog-dependent manner
    41:3, p. 111488 - 111488 2022
  • Cell reports (Cambridge)
    Hwang Jee Yeon, Zukin R. Suzanne, Singer Robert H., Castillo Pablo E., Monday Hannah R., Yan Jingqi, Gompers Andrea, Buxbaum Adina R., Sawicka Kirsty J., CPEB3-dependent increase in GluA2 subunits impairs excitatory transmission onto inhibitory interneurons in a mouse model of fragile X
    39:10, p. 110853 - 110853 2022
  • Frontiers in cellular neuroscience
    Jover-Mengual Teresa, Centeno José M., Hwang Jee-Yeon, Byun Hyae-Ran, Court-Vazquez Brenda L., Zukin R. Suzanne, Burguete María C., The Role of NF-κB Triggered Inflammation in Cerebral Ischemia
    15, p. 633610 2021
  • Stroke (1970)
    Byun Hyae-Ran, Zukin R.Suzanne, Hwang Jee-Yeon, Court Vazquez Brenda L, Porch Morgan, Pontarelli Fabrizio, Abstract WP329: The Role of miR-34b/c in Global Ischemic Stroke
    51:Suppl_1 2020
  • Current opinion in neurobiology
    Hwang Jee-Yeon, Yan Jingqi, Zukin Ruth Suzanne, Autophagy and synaptic plasticity: epigenetic regulation
    59, p. 207 - 212 2019
  • IBRO reports
    Hwang Jee-Yeon, Byun Hyae-Ran, Porch Morgan, Pontarelli Fabrizio, Court-Vazquez Brenda, Zukin Suzanne R., miR-34b/c inhibition attenuates ischemia-induced death of hippocampal neurons and rescues aberrant synaptic plasticity and cognitive deficits
    6, p. S374 - S375 2019
  • International neurourology journal
    Cho Chang Hoon, Zukin R. Suzanne, Hwang Jee-Yeon, Dejesus Christopher, Byun Hyae-Ran, Jover-Mengual Teresa, Pontarelli Fabrizio, Cho Ah-Rhang, Gadd45b Acts as Neuroprotective Effector in Global Ischemia-Induced Neuronal Death
    23:Suppl 1, p. S11 - S21 2019
  • Current opinion in neurobiology
    Hwang Jee-Yeon, Zukin R Suzanne, REST, a master transcriptional regulator in neurodegenerative disease
    48, p. 193 - 200 2018
  • Science signaling
    Pyronneau Alexander, Porch Morgan, He Qionger, Hwang Jee-Yeon, Contractor Anis, Zukin R. Suzanne, Aberrant Rac1-cofilin signaling mediates defects in dendritic spines, synaptic function, and sensory perception in fragile X syndrome
    10:504 2017
  • Nature reviews. Neuroscience
    Hwang Jee-Yeon, Aromolaran Kelly A., Zukin R. Suzanne, The emerging field of epigenetics in neurodegeneration and neuroprotection
    18:6, p. 347 - 361 2017
  • Cell death and differentiation
    Hwang Jee-Yeon, Ofengeim Dimitry, Gertner Michael, Pontarelli Fabrizio, Court-Vazquez Brenda, Bennett Michael Vander Laan, Zukin Ruth Suzanne, Global ischemia induces lysosomal-mediated degradation of mTOR and activation of autophagy in hippocampal neurons destined to die
    24:2, p. 317 - 329 2017
  • Brain research
    Takeuchi Koichi, Bennett Michael V L, Zukin R Suzanne, Aromolaran Kelly, Yang Yupeng, Takayasu Yukihiro, Gertner Michael, Hwang Jee-Yeon, Estradiol pretreatment ameliorates impaired synaptic plasticity at synapses of insulted CA1 neurons after transient global ischemia
    1621, p. 222 - 230 2015
  • Journal of molecular biology
    Hwang Jee Yeon, Noh Kyung Min, Pontarelli Fabrizio, Zukin R. Suzanne, Kaneko Naoki, The gene silencing transcription factor rest represses miR-132 expression in hippocampal neurons destined to die
    426:20, p. 3454 - 3466 2014
  • The Journal of neuroscience
    Kaneko Naoki, Hwang Jee-Yeon, Gertner Michael, Pontarelli Fabrizio, Zukin R Suzanne, Casein kinase 1 suppresses activation of REST in insulted hippocampal neurons and halts ischemia-induced neuronal death
    34:17, p. 6030 - 6039 2014
  • The Journal of neuroscience
    Sehara Yoshihide, Zukin R. Suzanne, Etgen Anne M., Sawicka Kirsty, Hwang Jee-Yeon, Latuszek-Barrantes Adrianna, Survivin Is a Transcriptional Target of STAT3 Critical to Estradiol Neuroprotection in Global Ischemia
    33:30, p. 12364 - 12374 2013
  • Neuropsychopharmacology (New York, N.Y.)
    Hwang Jee-Yeon, Aromolaran Kelly A, Zukin R Suzanne, Epigenetic Mechanisms in Stroke and Epilepsy
    38:1, p. 167 - 182 2013

Presentations

  • Oral presentation entitled Molecular Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration" at the Research Rounds and Seminars in the Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience." 2021
  • Oral presentation entitled PI3K/Akt pathway stabilizes the DNA methyltransferase (DNMT) proteins: Implication in Alzheimer's disease." at the Omaha Area Ubiquitin and Aging Research Group Meeting." 2021
  • Poster presentation entitled "The Role of miR-34b/c in Global Ischemic Stroke" at the Internation Stroke Conference 2020 in Los Angeles, CA, USA. 2020
  • Oral presentation entitled CK1 regulates REST abundance by -TrCP dependant ubiquitin/proteasomal degradation" at the Omaha Area Ubiquitin and Aging Research Group Meeting." 2019
  • Poster presentation entitled "miR-34b/c inhibition attenuates ischemia-induced death of hippocampal neurons and rescues aberrant synaptic plasticity and cognitive deficits" at the 10th IBRO World Congress of Neuroscience in Daegu, Korea. 2019
  • Invited talk entitled "Epigenetic regulation of microRNAs in global ischemic stroke" at the University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea. 2019
  • Oral presentation entitled "The role of microRNAs in global ischemic stroke" at the Research Rounds and Seminars in the Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience. 2019
  • Poster presentation entitled "Inhibition of miR-34b/c rescues hippocampal CA1 neurons and memory deficits in global ischemia" at the annual meeting of Society of Neuroscience in San Diego, CA, USA. 2018