Laboratory for Molecular Ecology
Department of Biological Sciences
KAIST
Department of Biological Sciences
KAIST
2025.06
Gisuk's manuscript has been accepted in Plant Stress.
Herbivore-induced GABA signaling suppresses host plant growth to stabilize leaf-tie shelters
Congratulation!!
2025.05
Sungjun's manuscript has been accepted in New Phytologist.
"MYC2 and MYC3 orchestrate pith lignification to defend Nicotiana attenuata stems against a stem-boring weevil."
Over ten years, one plant, one insect — endless discoveries
Congratulation!
from this photo
2025.04.19
Congratulation!!
2025.04.04
딸기파티 그리고 제2회 숲속 보물찾기
2025.04
Hangah Lim's manuscript has been accepted in Plant Biology.
"Multimodal floral cues resembling both generalized food sources and oviposition sites in Isotrema manshuriense (Aristolochiaceae) pollinated by flies"
Such a cool study that shows how fun — and how tough — doing research in nature can be!
We're especially grateful to Donghyuk Lee for giving us the idea of this project.
Congratulation!
2025.03.20-21
2025 Annual Conference of the Ecological Society of Korea
Many thanks for your great effort!!
2025.03-
2025.02
Moonyoung Kang's manuscript has been accepted in BMC Plant Biology.
"Loss-of-function variants of CYP706A3 in two natural accessions of Arabidopsis thaliana increase floral sesquiterpene emission"
Congratulation!
2025.02
Sunghee Lee and Gisuk Lee's manuscript has been accepted in Horticulture, Environment, and Biotechnology.
"Assessment of resistance and susceptibility in Chinese cabbage varieties to diamondback moth (Plutella xylostella) using clip-cage method"
Congratulation!
2025.02.19
제4회 MSL 심포지움, 성균관대학교
2025.02.14
Dr. Yuri Choi
2025.02.03
Happy New Year with Coffee
2024.12.13
Kim's Lab
2024.12.09
Choi's PhD Thesis Defense
Congratulation!!
2024.10
Hyeonjin and Yelim's manuscript has been accepted in Planta.
Congratulation!
The study was a collaboration between three laboratories
in KAIST, Seoul National University, and Korea Polar Research Institute.
"Production of antimalarial drug precursor amorphadiene by microbial terpene synthase-like from moss Sanionia uncinata"
2024.10.08-11
KSMCB 2024, JeJu
2024.10
2024.07
Taein and Seul's manuscript has been accepted in New Phytologist.
Congratulation!
The study was a collaboration between three laboratories
in KAIST and Busan National University.
"READRetro: Natural product biosynthesis predicting with retrieval-augmented dual-view retrosynthesis"
2024.05.25
Ecolab in Jeju
for collecting plant volatiles and ...
2024.05
Taein's manuscript was published in G3:Genes|Genomes|Genetics.
Congratulation!
"Genome assembly of Hibiscus sabdariffa L. provides insights into metabolisms of medicinal natural products"
SKEPTIC
29-38
2024.04
Field experiment in Jeungpyeong
2024.03
Top Downloaded Article in Wiley
2023.12
생명과학과의 낭만과학자들
In Ecolab
2023.10
Junyong and Taein's manuscript was published in Animal Cells and Systems.
Congratulation!
"A push-pull strategy for controlling Riptortus pedestris (Hemiptera: Alydidae) using host plant semiochemicals"
2023.10.06
6th Anniversary Party of EcoLab
2023.08.16
Farewell Party for M. Kang
2023.05.30
Kang's PhD Thesis Defense
Congratulation!!
2023.05
강원도 인제 fieldwork
2023.04.07
Coffee time
2023.03.31
2nd MSL seminar in Seoul National University
2023.03.24
Can AI predict the total biosynthetic pathway of natural products?
"READRetro: Natural Product Biosynthesis Planning with Retrieval-Augmented Dual-View Retrosynthesis"
bioRxiv
Seul Lee, Taein Kim, Min-Soo Choi, Yejin Kwak, Jeongbin Park, Sung Ju Hwang, Sang-Gyu Kim
2023.02.20
제3차 성남 필드 트립
(1차 아님)
2023.02.17
최민수 졸업 축하!!
2023.02.09
The 2nd Field Trip in Bulgoksan
2023.01
Hyungjin Kim's manuscript was published in Methods in Molecular Biology
Congratulation!
"Heritable Virus-Induced Genome Editing (VIGE) in Nicotiana attenuata"
2023.01.17
The 1st Field Trip in Bulgoksan
2022.12.08
Song's PhD Thesis Defense
Congratulation!!
2022.10.21
한국생태학회 특별 세션
분자화학생태학
카이스트 + 충북대학교 + 극지연구소 + 서울대학교
송준용, 정성준, 최민수 발표!
(멀리서 후원해주신 오영빈 박사님 감사합니다)
2022.10
Gisuk Lee's manuscript was accepted in Ecology and Evolution.
Congratulation!
"Flavone-associated resistance of two Lemna species to duckweed weevil attack"
2022.08
한국식물생명공학회 우수논문상
Pose of professor II (2022.08)
Ecolab in Tuson (2022.07)
Pose of professor (2014.06)
쥐방울덩굴 (2022.07.08)
2022.06.23
인제신남
2022.06.17.
국립세종수목원 (실험하고 왔어요)
2022.05.23
가평군 화악산 필드 실험
2022.05.13.
2022.04.23
국과대표 (JTBC)
2022.04.29. 8-10 PM
옆방 실험실 사람들과 풋살
2022.04.21_국립생물자원관_곤충표본실
2022.04.18_안면도 필드 실험
2022.04.08_딸기(없는) 딸기 파티 + 제 2회 ECOLAB 보물찾기
2022.3.8
전생 체험... 노안...
2022.2
The result of our awesome collaboration (Mechanical Engineering + Biological Sciences)
Accepted in Frontiers in Plant Science
Gilgu and Junyong, Congratulation!
"Real-time visualization of scent accumulation reveals the frequency of floral scent emissions"
꽃향기가 나오는 것을 볼 수 있을까요? 이 단순한 질문에 응답하신 카이스트 기계과 김형수 교수님 감사합니다!
2022.2.22
오박사 졸업 축하합니다!
2022.2
2022.1
Moonyoung's manuscript was accepted for publication in the New Phytologist.
Congratulation!
Moonyoung Kang, Yuri Choi, Hyeonjin Kim, Sang-Gyu Kim
꽃향기는 꽃잎의 어느 세포에서 합성이 될까요? 어떤 유전자에 의해서 합성이 될까요?
2021.12
Junyong and Gisuk's manuscript was accepted in the Journal of Chemical Ecology.
Congratulation!
"Effect of soybean volatiles on the behavior of the bean bug, Riptortus pedestris"
톱다리개미허리노린재는 기주 식물인 콩을 어떻게 찾아갈까요?
2021.10
2021.10
New instrument arrived!
2021.10
Designed by Lim
2021.9
Youngbin's manuscript was accepted in Molecules and Cells.
Congratulation!
"RPS5A promoter-driven Cas9 produces heritable virus-induced genome editing in Nicotiana attenuata"
Just as the floral dip method enables scientists to explore gene function in Arabidopsis, our VIGE system allows us to evaluate the fitness consequences of altering target gene sequences in non-model plant species.
2021.09
Ecotube 1탄
2021.8
Gisuk Lee and Youngsung Joo's manuscript was accepted in Journal of Ecology and Environment.
Congratulation!
"Tissue-specific systemic responses of the wild tobacco Nicotiana attenuata against stem-boring herbivore attack""
2021.07
Cartoonist, Jongbu Lim
2021.6.23
Youngsung Joo, Moon-Young Kang, Sungjoon Jung, and Gisuk Lee's manuscript was accepted in New Phytologist.
Congratulation!
"Pith-specific lignification in Nicotiana attenuata as a defense against a stem-boring herbivore"
2021.06
2021.6.4
Youngbin Oh and Hyungjin Kim's manuscript was accepted in Biotechnology Journal.
Congratulation!
"Ribozyme-processed guide RNA enhances virus-mediated plant genome editing"
2021.5.20
Working in the rain
2021.5
New publication! CRISPR innovations in plant breeding
Plant Cell Reports (https://doi.org/10.1007/s00299-021-02703-7)
2021.5.14
2021 URP program
2021.4.27
Plant DNA extraction in the field (KAIST)
2020.12.15
Youngbin Oh and Hyunjin Kim's manuscript were accepted in Current Opinion in Plant Biology.
Congratulation!
"Virus-induced plant genome editing"
2020.10.22
우수 포스터 발표상 (정성준, 한국생태학회)
축하합니다~
2020.07.15
Nature Plants, News and Views, Short Review Article
Moonyoung Kang's manuscript were accepted in Plant Biotechnology Reports. Congratulation!
Plant tissue culture is an old technique, but it is an essential technique for genome editing.
2020.05.22
Ecolab T-shirt
2020.04.13
Spring is coming in KAIST
2020.03
https://jooandlee-eco.weebly.com/people.html
2020.03
2020.03
Youngbin Oh's manuscript were accepted in Plant Methods. Congratulation!
Easy way to make a multiplex gRNA expression system and increase genome-editing efficacy.
2019.10
Two genome-editing papers were recently accepted in Plant Biotechnology Reports journal.
2019.09.07
Rainbow at KAIST
2019.09.01
2019.08.26-30
Second field work in Suwon
Be a plant!
2019.08. EcoLab in Jeju
2019.08.13
2019.7.15~2019.7.19
Our summer field work in Suwon
2019.7~2019.12
2019.6~
2019.5
2019.5.19-6.6
2019.4.
2019.2.12
Park's Lab mini symposium
We attended a joint symposium held at Seoul National University.
2018.12
카이스트 생명과학과 소식지
2018.11
"Herbivory elicits changes in green leaf volatile production via jasmonate signaling and the circadian clock"
Plant, Cell & Environment 2018
Congratulations, Dr. Joo!
2018.9.1~10.31
2018.10.1
2018.8
2018.7
2018.5.25.
2018.2
2017.11
2017.10
2017.10.1
2016.8.27
[IF] 식물에도 생체시계가... (조선일보)