Lab Members 

Seyun Kim, Ph.D.   Principle Investigator 

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

Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, KAIST (2012-2017) 

Education:

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

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 (2018-present)

Editorial board member - Molecules and Cells (2017-20, 2021-present)

Topic editor - Molecules (2020)

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

Steering member of Academic Awards (2020), Academic Affairs (2021), Pubulication (2025) committee, Korean Society for Molecular and Cellular Biology

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

Member of Education (2014-16), Ilchun (2017), Ethics (2021) committee, Korean Society for Molecular and Cellular Biology

Member of Webzine editorial (2015, 16, 19) committee, Korean Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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

Organizer - Symposium: Frontiers in Cancer Cell Metabolism & Signaling (Nov 2023),  International Conference, Korean Society for Molecular and Cellular Biology (Jeju, Korea)

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