News Updates

2026

• 09 | Welcome, Bela! We are excited to have you join the lab as a PhD student!

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• 06 | Seoyoon received the Outstanding Poster Award for her recent work at the 2026 Korean Joint Conference on Biomolecular Sciences. Congratulations!

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• 05 | Our invited review article has been published in Chemical Reviews (Link), entitled "Membrane Protein Folding and Biogenesis: Insights from Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy". Congratulations to all the authors!

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• 05 | Congratulations to our new PhDs, Seoyoon and Victor, on successfully defending their doctoral dissertations!

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• 02 | Welcome, Ae Ji! We are excited to have you join the lab as a PhD student!

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• 02 | Victor received the Best Poster Award for his work on membrane protein dimerization at the 6th Biological Physics Symposium of the Korean Physical Society. Congratulations!

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• 01 | Victor received the Outstanding Paper Award for his recent work on "single-molecule interaction tweezers for membrane proteins" at the 2026 Graduate Symposium and Excellent Research Awards. Congratulations!

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• 01 | Our invited review article has been published in Experimental & Molecular Medicine (Link). In this paper, we provide an in-depth review of photooxidative molecular damage induced by blue light. Congratulations to all the authors!

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2025

• 11 | Victor received the Outstanding Presentation Award for his work on developing a new single-molecule approach to studying membrane protein dimerization at the Fall Meeting of the Korean Physical Society. Congratulations!

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• 10 | Congratulations to Duyoung on receiving the CNS CONNECT Award for Outstanding Collaborative Research!

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• 09 | Congratulations to Seoyoon for receiving the one-year Doctoral Student Research Fellowship from the National Research Foundation of Korea!

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• 08 | A recent study by Victor, Eojin, Seoyoon, and Bhashini, published in Nature Communications (Link), reveals previously hidden dimerization patterns of membrane proteins within lipid bilayers. Congratulations on this outstanding achievement!

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• 06 | Eojin's recent work as a co-first author has been published in Nano Today (Link). Using molecular dynamics simulations, he characterized the detailed dynamics of anti-DR5 nanobody complexes that drive apoptotic cancer cell death. Congratulations!

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• 05 | Our invited review article has been published in Annual Review of Biophysics (Link). Bhashini and Duyoung authored an in-depth review on membrane protein folding. Congratulations!

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• 03 | Welcome, Minseung and Arim! We are excited to have you join the lab as a PhD student and an undergraduate intern, respectively!

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• 02 | Seoyoon received the Outstanding Paper Award for her recent work on "a hidden pathway of oxidative protein damage" at the 2025 Graduate Symposium and Excellent Research Awards. Congratulations!

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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 a co-first author has been published in Nature Communications (Link). In this study, she observed the effects 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 join us as our lab's new Postdoc.

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

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• 02 | Seoyoon 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. Congratulations!

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• 01 | Eojin received the Outstanding Poster Award for his work on "protein oxidative damage" at the 4th Biological Physics Symposium of the Korean Physical Society. Congratulations!

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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 chapters, authored by Seoyoon, Daehyo, and Duyoung, provide step-by-step protocols for our single-molecule tweezer approach to membrane protein structural dynamics. Congratulations!

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2023

• 11 | Eojin received the Outstanding Presentation Award for his work on "protein aging" at the Fall Meeting of the Korean Physical Society. Congratulations!

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

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• 06 | Our invited review article has been published in Journal of Molecular Biology (Link) as part of a special issue titled "Changing Shape of Molecules and Changing Landscape of Molecular Biology". Bhashini and Duyoung authored an in-depth 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 study, Seoyoon, Daehyo, and Bhashini developed a robust magnetic tweezer approach and characterized the "speed limit" of membrane protein folding. Congratulations!

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• 02 | Welcome, Jeonghyun! We are excited to add another new color to the lab.

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2019~2022

• 2022.09 | Eojin continues his undergraduate research in our group as a PhD student.

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

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

• 2021.03 | Daehyo has begun his PhD program to further pursue his undergraduate research.

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

• 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 has been published in Science (Link). Congratulations!

• 2019.10 | Our lab has officially opened at UNIST!

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