yunhacorn[at]gmail[dot]com
I am a computational biologist researching microbial genome evolution.
I am building artificial intelligence models and tools for interpreting genomic information at Tatta Bio.
Research Interests: ML+Bio, metagenomics, protein-protein interactions, microbial evolution and ecology, host-virus interactions, microbial physiology and engineering, environmental microbiomes
Education
Ph.D. in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 2020–2024
Dissertation thesis: “Evolution of genomic diversity in natural microbial populations”
M.Sc. in Earth Systems, Stanford University, 2017–2018
B.Sc. in Computer Science, Stanford University, 2014–2018
Publications
For the most up to date list, please see my Google Scholar.
Yunha Hwang, Andre Cornman, Elizabeth Kellogg, Sergey Ovchinnikov, Peter Girguis “Genomic language model predicts protein co-regulation and function” Nature Communications, (2024)
Yunha Hwang, Simon Roux, Clement Coclet, Sebastian Krause, Peter Girguis “Host-virus interactions cross-cutting microbial phyla and domains in a dense syntrophic microbial mat.” Nature Microbiology, (2023)
Yunha Hwang, Peter Girguis “Differentiated evolutionary strategies of atlantic and pacific thaumarchaeal populations” mSystems, (2022)
Yunha Hwang, Dirk schulze-Makuch, Felix Arens, Johan Saenz, Panagiotis Adam, Christof Sager, Till Bornemann, Weishu Zhao, Ying Zhang, Alessandro Airo, Michael Schloter, Alexander Probst “Leave no stone unturned: Individually adapted xerotolerant Thaumarchaeota sheltered below the boulders of the Atacama Desert hyperarid core” Microbiome, (2021)
Yunha Hwang, Janina Rahlff, Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Michael Schloter, Alexander Probst “Diverse viruses carrying genes for microbial extremotolerance in the Atacama Desert hyperarid soil” mSystems, (2021)
Life and work away from my laptop