Curriculum Vitae
Juryung was born in California, USA, and raised in Korea. After having earned her B.Sc in Animal Science at UC Davis, California, USA, in 2011, she did her masters in behavioral ecology at Seoul National University, Korea, assessing and studying various effects of a pesticide on toad tadpoles.
Juryung worked in the molecular ecology group at Yeungnam University, Korea, until she joined the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology for her PhD in 2017. Her research was supervised by Prof. Dr. John Baines of the Evolutionary Genomics group where she focused on host-microbiome interaction and variation in mouse lung, establishing the concept of lung microbiota by examining the role of host genetic variation. Juryung defended her thesis in June 2021.