Public Health Research

Public Health Research is an essential peer-reviewed journal that energetically engages with key public health issues that have come to the fore in the global environment — mounting inequalities between rich and poor; the globalization of trade; new patterns of travel and migration; epidemics of newly-emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases; the HIV/AIDS pandemic; the increase in chronic illnesses; escalating pressure on public health infrastructures around the world; and the growing range and scale of conflict situations, terrorist threats, environmental pressures, natural and human-made disasters.

Hyeon Seok Son

Editor-in-Chief of Public Health Research

Associate Professor, Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University, South Korea

Research Areas

Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Public Health Studies

Education

1985-1992B.ScDepartment of Physics & Department of Computer Sci. King's College, University of London
1993-1996Ph.DLaboratory of Molecular Biophysics, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford.

Experience

1991Research Experience as a research assistant on Quasi Laue Neutron Diffractometer Development at EMBL
1991-1993Work experience as a research assistant and VMS systems manager at King's College London
1992-1993Work experience as a scientific programmer in CurlSol Microwave Ltd.
1997-1998Research scientist, Maxplanck Gsellschaft fellowship awarded. Theory Group, Maxplanck Institut fur Polymerforschung, Mainz, Germany
1998-2000Visiting research assistant professor, CSM, Chemistry department, POSTECH, Korea.
2000-2001Team Leader in Bioinformatics, in the Department of Bioinformatics, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information
2002Head of Department, in the Department of Bioinformatics Research & Development, Center for Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information
2002-2005Director, Center for Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information
2003-2007Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health, School of Public Health, Seoul National University
2004-2006Chief Editor, The Korean Journal of Public Health
2005-2007Chairman, Department of Public Health, School of Public Health, Seoul National University
2007-presentAssociate Professor, Department of Bioinformatics, School of Public Health, Seoul National University
2003-presentAdjunct Professor/Committee Member, Interdisciplinary Program in Bioinformatics, College of Natural Science, Seoul National University

Publications: Journals

[1]  Sansom, M.S.P., Son, H.S., Sankararamakrishnan, R., Kerr, I.D. & Breed, J. (1995) Seven-helix bundles:-molecular modelling via restrained molecular dynamics. Biophysical Journal 68, 1295-1310.
[2]  Kerr, I.D., Son, H.S., Sankararamakrishnan, R., & Sansom, M.S.P. (1996) Molecular dynamics simulations of isolated transmembrane helices of potassium channels. Biopolymers 39, 503-515.
[3]  Son, H.S. & Sansom, M.S.P. (1996) Simulation of the packing of transmembrane-helices. Biochemical Society Transactions 24, 140S.
[4]  Biggin, P.C., Breed, J., Son, H.S, & Sansom, M.S.P. (1997) Simulation studies of alamethicin-bilayer interactions. Biophysical Journal 72, 627-636.
[5]  Sansom, M.S.P., Kerr, I.D, Smith, G.R., & Son, H.S. (1997) The influenza A virus M2 channel: A Molecular Modelling and Simulation Study. Virology 233, 163-173.
[6]  Lee, H.M., Son, H.S. & Mhin, B.J. (1999) The importance of thermodynamics quantities for the determination of the unknown conformation: Ab initio Studies of K+(H2O)3. Bull. Korean Chem. Soc. 20, 345-351.
[7]  Son, H.S. & Sansom, M.S.P. (1999) Simulation of the Packing of Idealized transmembrane-helix Bundles. European Biophysics Journal 28, Issue 6 489-498
[8]  Son, H.S., Kerr, I.D & Sansom, M.S.P. (2000) Simulation Studies on Bacteriorhodopsin Bundle of Transmembrane Segments. Eur. Biophys J. 28, Issue 8: 663-673
[9]  Son, H.S. & Sansom, M.S.P. (2000) Simulation Studies on Bacteriorhodopsin (BR)-Helices. Eur. Biophys. J. 28, Issue 8: 674-682.
[10]  Oh, K.S., Cha, S., Kim D., Cho, H., Ha, N., Choi, G., Lee, J.Y., Tarakeshwar, P., Son, H.S., Choi, K.Y., Oh, B. & Kim, K.S. (2000) Role of Catalytic Residues in Enzymatic Mechanisms of Homologous Ketosteroid Isomerases. Biochemistry 39, 13891-13896.
[11]  Son, H.S., Hong, B. H., Lee, C-Wan, Yun, S. & Kim, K.S. (2001) A New Type of Helix Pattern in Poly-Alanine Peptide. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 514-515.
[12]  Han, K-K, Kim, K.H., Mhin, B.J. & Son, H.S. (2001) Application of the multiensemble sampling to the hydration free energy. J. Comp. Chem. 22 (issue 10) 1004-1009.
[13]  Han, K-K & Son, H.S (2001) On the isothermal-isobaric ensemble partition function. J. Comp. Phys. 115, 7793-7794.
[14]  Suh, S.B., Cui, C., Son, H.S., U, J.S., Won, Y. & Kim, K.S. (2002) Novel amphi-ionophone in aquous solution: cyclohexaalaryl . J. Phys. Chem. 106, 2061.
[15]  Sung-Hee Park, Keun Ho Ryu and Hyeon S. Son (2003) Protein Structure Modeling Using a Spatial Model for Structure Comparison. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 2690/2003 490-497.
[16]  Hyejin Lee, Insung Ahn, Byeong-Jin Jeong & Hyeon S. Son (2004) A trend research in bioinformatics. The Korean Journal of Public Health, 41-1, 1-22.
[17]  Yeoun Jin Kim, Young A Kim, Nokyoung Park, Hyeon S. Son, Kwang S. Kim, and Jong Hoon Hahn (2005) Structural Characterization of the Molten Globule State of Apomyoglobin by Limited Proteolysis and HPLC-Mass Spectrometry. Biochemistry 39, 13891-13896.
[18]  Byung-jin Jeong, In Sung Ahn, Se Eun Bae & Hyeon S. Son (2005) Construction of Protein Structure Classification Database Using Protein Secondary Structural Elements. The Korean Journal of Public Health 42-1, 9-15.
[19]  Sul-Ah Ahn, Insung Ahn, Sang Joo Lee & Hyeon S. Son (2005) Progress in Protein Structure Prediction: CASP and CAFASP Experiments. The Korean Journal of Public Health 42-2, 73-82.
[20]  Insung Ahn, Sul-Ah Ahn, Sang Joo Lee, Byeong-Jin Jeong & Hyeon S. Son (2005) A Research Trend on Biological and Structural Analysis of Infectious Prion Proteins. The Korean Journal of Public Health 42-2, 93-98.
[21]  Hyeon S. Son, Seung-Yeon Kim, Jooyoung Lee, and Kyu-Kwang Han (2006) Application of the multiensemble sampling to the equilibrium folding of proteins. Bioinformatics vol 22, 15, 1832-1837.
[22]  Insung Ahn, Byeong-Jin Jeong, Se-Eun Bae, Jin Jung and Hyeon S. Son (2006) Genomic Analysis of Influenza A Viruses, including Avian Flu (H5N1) Strains. European Journal of Epidemiology 21, 511-519 .
[23]  Insung Ahn and Hyeon S. Son (2006) Epidemiological comparisons of codon usage patterns among HIV-1 isolates from Asia, Europe and the Americas. Experimental and Molecular Medicine, 38, 6, 643-651.
[24]  Sun Hee Kwak, Jung Eun Kim, Tae Hun Kim, Jeong Eon Ahn, Myoung Hwa Lee, So Young Lee, Eun Young Ju & Hyeon S. Son (2006) The Analysis of Factors Associated with the Utilization of Public Health Centers in Some Rural Areas. The Korean Journal of Public Health 43-1, 33-41.
[25]  Min Park, Il Suk Shin, Jae Jeong Yang, Jin Hong Lee, Yeol Li Lim, Jin Jung, Won Jun Choi, Ra Hyun Hong & Hyeon S. Son (2006) Relationship between Perception and Actual State of Abdominal Obesity in Rural Residents. The Korean Journal of Public Health 43-1, 43-53.
[26]  Eun Jin Kim, Se-Eun Bae & Hyeon S. Son (2006) Research Trends in Bioinformatics. The Korean Journal of Public Health 43-2, 75-86.
[27]  Insung Ahn and Hyeon S. Son (2007) Comparative study of the hemagglutinin and neuraminidase genes of influenza A virus H3N2, H9N2, and H5N1 subtypes using bioinformatics techniques. Can. J. Microbiol. 53: 830-839 2007.
[28]  Nam Hyun Kim, Kyunghoon Kim, Hyeon S. Son, Weon Seo Park & Youngmee Bae (2007) PBK/Akt inhibits ceramide-induced apoptosis in neuroblastoma cells by blocking apoptosis inducing factor (AIF) translocation. JCB 102(5), 1160-70 2007.
[29]  Insung Ahn and Hyeon S. Son (2007) Comparative bioinformatics analysis of prion proteins isolated from reptile, rodent, ruminant, and human species. Experimental and Molecular Medicine, 39, 6, 769-777 2007.
[30]  Insung Ahn & Hyeon S. Son (2007) The Current Trend of Avian Influenza Viruses in Bioinformatics Research. J Prev Med Public Health 2007; 40(2): 185-190.
[31]  Eun Jin Kim, Se-Eun Bae & Hyeon S. Son (2007) Bioinformatics in Public Health Sciences. Bioinformatics and Biosystems 2, 2, 66-70.
[32]  Se-Eun Bae, Bo Ran Kim, Ka-Young Kim & Hyeon S. Son (2008) Current Research Trends in Bioinformatics. The Korean Journal of Public Health 45-1, 35-44.
[33]  Insung Ahn, Byeong-Jin Jeong and Hyeon Seok Son (2009) Comparative Study of Synonymous Codon Usage Variations between Nucleocapsid and Spike genes of Coronavirus, and C-type Lectin Domain Genes of Human and Mouse. Experimental and Molecular Medicine, Vol 41, No. 10, 746-756.
[34]  Insung Ahn and Hyeon Seok Son (2010) Comparative study of the nucleotide bias between the novel H1N1 and H5N1 subtypes of influenza A viruses using bioinformatics techniques. J. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 20(1), 59-66.
[35]  Se-Eun Bae, Ha-Yeon Kim, Ji-Hae Lee and Hyeon S. Son (2010) Research Trends in Systems Biology. The Korean Journal of Public Health 47-1, 1-15.
[36]  Ha-Yeon Kim, Se-Eun Bae and Hyeon S. Son (2010) Correlation analysis of Health Indicators using distance-based Method. The Korean Journal of Public Health 47-1, 26-34.
[37]  Insung Ahn, Se-Eun Bae, Jeong Hee Kim, Byong Kwan Son, Hyeon S. Son and Sung-Il Cho (2011) Genetic association between eotaxin genes and asthma and its relationship to birth season in Korean children. Genomics & Informatics Vol. 9(1), 12-18.
[38]  Se-Eun Bae and Hyeon Seok Son (2011) Classification of zoonosis through receptor pattern analysis. BMC Bioinformatics 12:96 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-12-96.
[39]  Se-Eun Bae, Ha-Yeon Kim, Hyeon S. Son and Hyun Sill Rhee (2011) Recognition Levels on Personal Health Record in Accordance with Age and Disease. 12(4) 1703-1710.
[40]  Sunghoon Jung and Hyeon Seok Son (2011) Analysis of the globular nature of proteins. Genomics & Informatics 9(2), 74-78.