News Updates

2025

• 02 | Seoyoon has received an outstanding paper award for her recent work on "hidden pathway of oxidative protein damage" at the 2025 Graduate Symposium and Excellent Research Awards. Congrats!

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• 01 | Our collaborative work on the rational design of photosensitizers for cancer treatment has been published in Advanced Science (Link). Congratulations!

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2024

• 12 | A recent study by Seoyoon, Eojin, Victor, and Bhashini has been published in Nature Communications (Link). In their research, they uncovered a hidden pathway of protein damage via a novel oxygen-confined photooxidation mechanism. Congratulations on this remarkable achievement!

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• 05 | Bhashini's recent work as co-first author has been published in Nature Communications (Link). In this study, she was able to observe the effect of oxidative photocatalysis on membrane protein folding at single-molecule resolution. Congratulations!

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• 03 | Welcome, Shi Ho! We are excited to have you as our lab's Postdoc.

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• 02 | Duyoung's invited review paper has been published in Biochemical Society Transactions (Link), titled "Folding speeds of helical membrane proteins". Congratulations!

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• 02 | Seoyoon has received the best paper award for her outstanding work on "the speed limit of membrane protein folding" at the 2024 Graduate Symposium and Excellent Research Awards. Congrats!

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• 01 | Eojin has received an outstanding poster award for his work on "protein oxidative damage" at the 4th Biological Physics Symposium of the Korean Physical Society. Congrats!

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• 01 | Our invited book chapters have been published in a volume of Methods in Enzymology (Link Link), titled "Magnetic Tweezers for the Study of Protein Structure and Function". The book chapters are authored by Seoyoon, Daehyo, and Duyoung, providing step-by-step procedures for our single-molecule tweezer approach to membrane protein structural dynamics . Congratulations!

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2023

• 11 | Eojin has received an outstanding presentation award for his work on "protein aging" at the fall meeting of the Korean Physical Society. Congrats!

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• 11 | Our invited preview paper has been published in Structure (Link) as a part of the 30th anniversary special issue. Eojin and Duyoung wrote this preview, putting recent single-molecule findings on a protein folding chaperone in perspective.

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• 06 | Our invited review paper has been published in Journal of Molecular Biology (Link) as a part of a special issue titled "Changing Shape of Molecules and Changing Landscape of Molecular Biology". Bhashini and Duyoung wrote an extensive review on single-molecule force spectroscopy of membrane protein folding. Congratulations!

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• 05 | Our work on a new single-molecule method and membrane protein folding has been published in eLife (Link). In this work, Seoyoon, Daehyo, and Bhashini developed a robust magnetic tweezer method and characterized the "speed limit" of membrane protein folding. Congratulations!

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• 02 | Welcome Jeonghyun, another new color to the lab.

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2019~2022

• 2022.09 | Eojin continues his undergraduate works as a PhD student.

• 2022.02 | Welcome Poornima, our new addition to the group as a PhD student.​

• 2021.04 | Welcome, Bhashini! We are excited to have you as a PhD student.

• 2021.03 | Daehyo has just started a PhD program to further advance his undergraduate research.

• 2021.02 | Victor has joined our group as a PhD student. Welcome!​​

• 2020.01 | Razzak and Seoyoon have joined as the lab's first Postdoc and PhD student. Welcome!​

• 2019.10 | Duyoung's work on membrane protein folding as co-first author has been published in Science (Link). Congratulations!

• 2019.10 | Our lab has officially opened at UNIST!

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