Byung-Kook (Brian) Ham BSc, MSc, PhD
Assistant Professor; GIFS Research Chair- (306) 966-4439 (BIOLOGY)
- (306) 966-3721 (GIFS)
- byungkook-brian.ham@usask.ca
- byungkook-brian.ham@gifs.ca
- Address
- 112 Science Place, University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, SK S7N 5E2 Canada (BIOLOGY)
- Suite 101, 421 Downey Rd., Saskatoon, SK S7N 4L8 Canada (GIFS)
Research Area(s)
- Root-Shoot Communication
- Nutrient-stress Signaling
- Plant Vascular System
- Phloem
- Plasmodesmata
- Plant Physiology
- Protein Biochemistry
- RNA Signaling
- Root System Architecture
- Xylem
- Cell Imaging
About Me
Dr. Byung-Kook (Brian) Ham came to the University of Saskatchewan from University of California-Davis (UC-Davis) in January 2018, as a research chair in the Global Institute for Food Security (GIFS). He is also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology.
He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Agriculture from Korea University, South Korea, in 1997, and his Masters and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Molecular Biology from Korea University in 1999 and 2003, respectively. In 2005, he joined Professor William Lucas’s laboratory in the Department of Plant Biology, UC-Davis, as a postdoctoral fellow. In 2010 he was promoted to Assistant Project Scientist and then was promoted to Associate Project Scientist in 2017 Associate Project Scientist, both in the Department of Plant Biology at UC-Davis.
Current Teaching:
- BIOL 222.3 (The Living Plants)
- BIOL 331.3 (Plant Physiology)