Lab Members 

Seyun Kim, Ph.D.   Principal Investigator 

Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, KAIST (2018 Mar - present) 

Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, KAIST (2012 Jan - 2018 Feb) 

Education:

Postdoctoral fellow, Dept. Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (2007 May - 2011 Dec)

Ph.D. Dept. Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (2007)

M.S. Dept. Molecular Biology, Seoul National University (2000)

B.S. Dept. Molecular Biology, Seoul National University (1998)

Awards:

KAIST Education Innovation Award (KAIST, 2025)

Kang Changwon Education Award (KAIST, 2025)

Grand Prize for The SooYoung Lee Teaching Innovation Award (KAIST, 2023)

Best Paper Award (The Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies, 2022) 

Grand Prize for Excellent Lecture (KAIST, 2021)

Excellent Lecture Award (KAIST, 2018)

Harold M. Weintraub Award (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 2007)

Martin & Carol Macht Young Investigator's Award (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 2007)

Honors:

POSCO TJ Park Science Fellowship for Junior Faculty (POSCO TJ Park Foundation, 2013)

Jane Coffin Childs Fellowship (Jane Coffin Childs Foundation, 2007-2010)

Korean Government Scholarship for Overseas Study (2001) 

Professional Service:

Director - KAIST Laboratory Animal Resource Center (2023 - 2025)

Associate editor - Animal Cells and Systems (Top 3~4 % journal in Zoology) (2018 - present)

Editorial board member - Journal of Biological Chemistry (2026 - present)

Editorial board member - Molecules and Cells (2017 - 2020, 2021 - present)

Topic editor - Molecules (2020)

Ad hoc reviewer - Science, Science Advances, Science Signaling, Nature Cell Biology, Nature Chemical Biology, PNAS, EMBO J, Nature Communications, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, Journal of Advanced Research, Molecules and Cells, Animal Cells & Systems, Molecular Brain, Metabolites, Journal of Biological Chemistry, etc

Chair of Publication Committee (2025), Korean Society for Molecular and Cellular Biology (KSMCB)

Vice chair of International Scientific Affairs (2024), International Conference of the Genetics Society of Korea (Busan, Korea)

Steering member of Academic Awards (2020), Academic Affairs (2021), Pubulication (2025) committee, Education (2014 - 16), Ilchun (2017), Ethics (2021) committee (KSMCB)

Member of Webzine editorial (2015, 2016, 2019) committee, Korean Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (KSBMB)

Organizer - Symposium: Development & Physiology (2025 Oct),  International Conference, KSMCB (Jeju, Korea)

Organizer - Frontiers in Cancer Cell Metabolism & Signaling (2023 Nov), KAI-X International Synposium (Daejeon, Korea)

Organizer - Symposium: Frontiers in Cancer Cell Metabolism & Signaling (2023 Nov),  International Conference, KSMCB (Jeju, Korea)

Co-organizer - 2nd Annual Online Conference for Inositol Phosphates (2022 Jan)