Members

Principal Investigator


 

Professor

Myung Chul Choi
mcchoi@kaist.ac.kr

  • 2018 – Present, Associate Professor, Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST
  • 2010 – 2018, Assistant Professor, Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST
  • 2005 – 2010, Post-Doc in Safinya group at MRL, Physics, Materials, Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology, UCSB
  • 2005 Ph.D. in Physics, KAIST
  • 2000 M.S. in Physics, KAIST
  • 1998 B.S. in Physics, KAIST


Post-Doctoral Fellows


Juncheol_Lee

Juncheol Lee
ljc0626@kaist.ac.kr

Research Interest:
Hierarchical Assembly Structures of Protein Nanotubes

  • 2022 Ph.D. in Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST
  • 2015 M.S. in Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST
  • 2013 B.S. in Bio and Brain Engineering & Mathematical Sciences (Double Major), KAIST

Ph.D. Candidates


Hasaeam

Hasaeam Cho
skyspring@kaist.ac.kr

Research Interest:
Interaction of Tau Protein and Microtubule

  • 2015 B.S. in Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST

jaehee

Jaehee Lee
operon93@kaist.ac.kr

Research Interest:
Physical Properties of Protein-associated Lipid Structures

  • 2016 B.S. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering & Bio and Brain Engineering (Double Major), KAIST


Seunghyun Ryu
turliusprime@kaist.ac.kr

Research Interest:
Microtubules, Axonemes and Microtubule-Associated Proteins

  • 2019 M.S. in Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST
  • 2017 B.S. in Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST

KeunMin Ken Lee
thermsals@kaist.ac.kr

Research Interest:
Lipid, Polymer Physics, Soft Matter Physics, LLPS

  • 2017 B.S. in Physics, KAIST


Hanjoon Nho
hjnho@kaist.ac.kr

Research Interest:
Microtubules Rheology, Tubulin Nanostructures Metallization

  • 2020 M.S. in Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST
  • 2017 B.S. in Physics, UNIST

Byungsoo Kim
byabyakim@kaist.ac.kr

Research Interest:
Tau Localization, Optical Trapping

  • 2021 M.S. in Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST
  • 2019 B.S. in Biological Sciences, KAIST

Qudan A. Park
qapark+lab@kaist.ac.kr

Research Interest:
Microtubule-Stabilizing Agents, Biophotonics, Post-Translational Modifications

  • 2022 M.S. in Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST
  • 2020 B.S. in Physics, Minor in Chemistry & Nano Science, Ewha Womans University

Jaehyeok Lee
eprince1015@kaist.ac.kr

Research Interest:
Drug delivery system, Cancer therapy, Neurodegeneration (AD and PD)

  • 2021 B.S. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, KAIST


Undergraduate Students



Seonghyeon Kim
timothyshk@kaist.ac.kr

  • (2023.05 ~) B.S. (Candidate) in Physics, KAIST



Yeonwoo Ha
ynwha@snu.ac.kr

  • (2024.01 ~) B.S. (Candidate) in Chemical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National University



Hyungjong Cho
treefrog0530@naver.com

Research Interest:
Mechanisms of Alzheimer’s Disease

  • (2024.01 ~) B.S. (Candidate) in Global Biomedical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University


Research Assistant



Gyuheon Lee
leerbgjs@kaist.ac.kr

  • 2015 B.S. in Mathematics Education, Hannam University


Alumni


Ph.D. Alumni

Dae-Woong Jeong (LG AI Research)
Suho Lee (New York University)

M.S. Alumni

Yumi Kim (LG H&H)
Sujin Park
Jimin Lee (Ilias Biologics)
Hyunwoo Jang (University of Michigan)

Researchers / Visiting / Intern students

Bopil “Grace” Gim (Shanghai Tech University)
Chaeyeon Song (Amore-Pacific R&D Center)
Sanghyun Kim (Cha University)
Siyoung Choi (KAIST)
Seongmin Park (LG Chem)
Kyuhan Kim (Seoul Tech)
Eunsun Song (Stanford University)
Shina Min (Columbia University)
Chae Yeon Kang