E-mail: sgkim1 (at) kaist.ac.kr
Office: E6-3, 2206
Lab: E6-3, 2217Â
BS (2004) & PhD (2009) Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University (Advisor: Prof. Chung-Mo Park)
Project Group Leader (-2014) Department of Molecular Ecology, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Germany (Advisor: Ian T. Baldwin)
Plant Team Leader (-2017) Center for Genome Engineering (Director Jin-Soo Kim), Institute for Basic Science
Associate Professor (2017-Present) Department of Biological Sciences, KAIST
    (2024-Present) Graduate School of Engineering Biology, KAIST
Section editor in Journal of Ecology and Environment (2019-Present)
Reviewing editor in eLife (2020-Present)
Research Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, KAIST
Flower opening project
Tissue-specific plant-herbivore interactions
I'm interested in how plants synthesize and regulate various secondary metabolites, especially floral volatiles.
I am studying the biosynthesis of metabolites from rose flowers and Antarctic moss.
Plant-Insect Interaction
Plant-Pollinator Interaction
Genomics in non-model plants (Hibiscus sabdariffa, Flueggea suffruticosa, Rosa hybrida)
Deep learning-based bio-retrosynthesis
Biosynthetic pathways of natural products
Plant genome editing
Natural product biosynthesis
Metabolites in trichome
Genome editing
Plant-insect interactions
Natural product biosynthesis