Rate My Professor Seo-Kyung Chung

Prior to her current appointment, she was a Lecturer at Swansea University College of Medicine from May 2011 to April 2019 and a Researcher at the University of Auckland Centre for Brain Research from December 2012 to March 2013. In 2021, Associate Professor Chung received a $586,000 NHMRC Ideas Grant for her project "Characterisation of novel genetic variants in Hyperekplexia and Dravet Syndrome: Identifying the Unknown Knowns." Her key publications include "Mutations in the gene encoding GlyT2 (SLC6A5) define a presynaptic component of human startle disease" (Nature Genetics, 2006), "De novo mutations in SLC1A2 and CACNA1A are important causes of epileptic encephalopathies" (The American Journal of Human Genetics, 2016), "Pathophysiological mechanisms of dominant and recessive GLRA1 mutations in hyperekplexia" (Journal of Neuroscience, 2010), "A cross-disorder dosage sensitivity map of the human genome" (Cell, 2022), and "GWAS meta-analysis of over 29,000 people with epilepsy identifies 26 risk loci and subtype-specific genetic architecture" (Nature Genetics, 2023).