MC Choi group

• 2018 – Present, Associate Professor, Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST
• 2011 – Present, Joint Professor of Future Strategy, 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

Awards

• Technology Innovation Award of College of Engineering 2023
• Bio and Brain Engineering Lecture Award 2022
• Top 100 Research Achievements 2021, KISTEP
• The Korea Neutron Beam Users Association (KNBUA) Distingushed Lecture Award 2016
• Bio and Brain Engineering Lecture Award 2016
• Top 10 Research Achievements of KAIST 2015
• KAIST Lecture Award 2013
• Bio and Brain Engineering Lecture Award 2011

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

Research Interest:
Physical Properties of Protein-associated Lipid Structures

• 2024 Ph.D. in Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST
• 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

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

• 2017 B.S. in Physics, KAIST

Research Interest:
Microtubules Rheology, Tubulin Nanostructures Metallization

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

Research Interest:
Tau LLPS, Microtubule-Tau Localization

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

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

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

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

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

Research Interest:
Application of protein nanotubes

• (2024.05~) B.S. Student in Bio Brain Engineering and Chemistry (Double Major), KAIST

Research Interest:
Neuroimmunology, AD therapy

• 2025 B.S. in Brain and Cognitive Sciences & Life Science (Double Major), Ewha Womans University
• (2025.03~) M.S. in Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST

Research Interest:
Biophysics and immunology

• (2023.03~) B.S Student in Biochemistry, Yonsei University

Research Interest:
Biophysics

• (2022.03~) B.S. Student in School of Health and Environmental Science & Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Double Major), Korea University

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