■ Member update ■ Paper publication ■ Awards ■ Others
2026/2/20: Congratulations to Taehee, YuJin, and Yebeen (B.S.), and Minseo, Taeseung, and Ae Ji (M.S.) on their graduation! Taehee, YuJin, Minseo, and Taeseung will continue their studies in our lab for their advanced degrees.
2026/1/30: Ae Ji and Yebeen are leaving the lab as of the end of January to pursue further studies at new institutions. Wish them all the best!
2025/12/3: Our new paper "Supersaturation, Nucleation, and Phase Separation of Mesoscopic Systems" has been published.
2025/11/28: Today is Ho Jun’s last day with us. After a short break, he will begin the next chapter of his journey as a graduate student at another institution. We wish him all the best!
2025/9/1: Yu-Gon has returned from his leave. Welcome back!
2025/8/27: Graduation Day. Ho Jun and Chan-Gyu received their B.S. and M.S. degrees, respectively, and will continue working in the lab. Congratulations!
2025/8/20: Our new paper "Design Principles of Protein–Protein Interfaces" has been published.
2025/8/9: Our new paper "Single-Molecule Tweezers Decode Hidden Dimerization Patterns of Membrane Proteins within Lipid Bilayers" has been published.
2025/7/31: Our new paper "DFT Investigation of Metal Coordination and Reactivity in Minimal Metalloenzyme Models" is now available online.
2025/7/3: Jeong-Mo begins his one-year sabbatical today as a visiting professor at Caltech, hosted by Prof. Zhen-Gang Wang.
2025/7/1: Min Soo, Taehee, Seowon, and Minseop joined the group as undergraduate researchers. Welcome!
2025/6/16: YuJin rejoined our lab after a three-month training in another lab. Welcome back!
2025/5/19: Our new paper "Investigating the Nature of PRM:SH3 Interactions Using Artificial Intelligence and Molecular Dynamics" has been published.
2025/5/12: Our new paper "Fast Product Release Requires Active-Site Water Dynamics in Carbonic Anhydrase" has been published.
2025/3/4: Mingyu joined the group as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome!
2025/2/28: Today, Haneul, Hyun Ah, Hyejin, and Ha-Eun obtained their bachelor's degrees and TaeHwan obtained his master's degree. TaeHwan will continue working in the lab as a PhD student. Congratulations!
2025/2/28: YuJin completed her research in our lab and will begin new journey in the RNA/Nanobiochemistry lab in PNU. Good luck!
2025/2/26: TaeHwan won the Poster Award at the Winter Workshop of Global Science Research Center for Systems Chemistry. Congratulations!
2025/1/26: Our new paper "A Single Amino Acid Model for Hydrophobically Driven Liquid–Liquid Phase Separation" has been published.
2025/1/24: Today is the last day for Ha-Eun and Hyun Ah in the lab. They are graduating and leaving for graduate studies at other institutions. Good luck!
2025/1/2: Bo Hee joined the group as an intern to start her PhD program from March. Welcome!
2024/12/31: Haneul and Hyejin have wrapped up their time in our lab as they prepare for graduation. They will begin their graduate studies at other schools. Good luck!
2024/12/30: Our new paper "Hidden Route of Protein Damage through Oxygen-Confined Photooxidation" has been published.
2024/11/19: Our new paper "Accelerated Amyloid Aggregation Dynamics of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins in Heavy Water" has been published.
2024/11/2: Ha Eun, Hyun Ah, Yebeen, and YuJin participated in the PNU-KNU Science Festival under the name "Team Tetramer," where they gave a presentation and won an Excellence Award. Congratulations!
2024/10/25: TaeHwan received the Presentation Award for a poster presentation at the 2024 Fall Conference of the Korean Physical Society. Congratulations!
2024/9/3: Jeong-Mo won the 7th Korea Toray Fellowship and will receive a three-year grant.
2024/9/1: Jeong-Mo was promoted to Associate Professor.
2024/8/30: Minseo obtained her bachelor's degree. She will continue her studies as a master's student. Congratulations!
2024/8/8: Our new paper "n-Type Doping Effect of Anthracene-Based Cationic Dyes in Organic Electronics" has been published.
2024/6/27: Yebeen and YuJin joined the lab as undergraduate researchers. Welcome!
2024/6/19: Our new paper "Combinatorial Entropy Determines the Early Stages of Nucleation" has been published.
2024/5/23: Our review paper "Biomolecular Phase Separation through Theoretical and Computational Microscope" has been published.
2024/5/21: Our new paper "Intermolecular Interactions between Cysteine and Aromatic Amino Acids with a Phenyl Moiety in the DNA-Binding Domain of Heat Shock Factor 1 Regulate Thermal Stress-Induced Trimerization" has been published.
2024/4/23: Our new paper "Biomolecular Condensates Form Spatially Inhomogeneous Network Fluids" has been published.
2024/3/27: Our new paper "pH Dependence of HSF1 trimerization is shaped by intramolecular interactions" has been published.
2024/3/14: Dahyun and Yu-Gon has been awarded the 1rd place and 3rd place BK21 student mileage awards in the academic year of 2023, respectively. Congratulations!
2024/3/11: Our new paper "Thermodynamic Modulation of Gephyrin Condensation by Inhibitory Synapse Components" has been published.
2024/2/29: Due to his milatary duty, Yong Jun had to leave the lab. Good luck!
2024/2/23: Min, Tae Seung, and Chan-Gyu got their bachelor's degree; Yu-Gon and Dahyun got their master's degree. Congratulations! Yu-Gon, Tae Seung, and Chan-Gyu will continue working in the lab as graduate students.
2024/1/2: Haneul, Minseo, Hyejin, and Ho Jun joined the group as undergraduate researchers. Welcome!
2024/1/2: Ae Ji joined the group. She will start her master program from March. Welcome!
2023/12/27: Today was the last day with Min. She will start her new journey at the Department of Bio and Brain Engineering in KAIST from March. Good luck!
2023/11/17: Our new paper "Mendeleev’s Cards: Educational Game to Learn Mendeleev’s Idea on the Periodic Table of Elements" has been published.
2023/11/16: Min received the Encouragement Award at the 15th Biomaterials Academic Festival. Congratulations!
2023/10/31: Dahyun won the Best Presentation Award and Rajeev won the Poster Award at the 6th Chemistry Fair. Congratulations!
2023/8/25: Da-Eun and Changeun finally got their master's degree. Congratulations!
2023/7/1: Hyun Ah and Ha Eun joined the group as undergraduate researchers. Welcome!
2023/6/12: Da-Eun has been awarded the Academic Award from the College of Natural Sciences of PNU. Congratulations!
2023/5/2: Da-Eun started working at the National Institute of Food and Drug Safety Evaluation. Good luck!
2023/4/28: Yu-Gon received the Poster Award at the 131st General Meeting of the Korean Chemical Society. Congratulations!
2023/4/4: Our new paper "Probabilistic Establishment of Speckle-Associated Inter-Chromosomal Interactions" has been published.
2023/3/7: Chan-Gyu joined the group as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome!
2023/3/2: Our new paper "Decoding the Roles of Amyloid-β (1-42)’s Key Oligomerization Domains Toward Designing Epitope-Specific Aggregation Inhibitors" has been published.
2023/2/21: Our new paper "Conformational Landscapes of Artificial Peptides Predicted by Various Force Fields: Are We Ready to Simulate β-Amino Acids?" has been published.
2023/2/17: Da-Eun has been awarded the 3rd place BK21 student mileage award in the academic year of 2022. Congratulations!
2023/2/3: TaeHwan joined the group. He will start his master program from March. Welcome!
2023/2/1: Yu-Gon won the Poster Award at the 3rd Symposium on Biological Physics. Congratulations!
2023/1/18: Yu-Gon and Da-Eun won Excellence Awards at the 2023 SKKU-PNU BK Four Joint Symposium. Congratulations!
2023/1/2: Yong Jun joined the group as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome!
2022/12/16: Jeong-Mo was selected as one of the 2023 POSCO Science Fellows by the POSCO TJ Park Foundation.
2022/11/24: Tae Seung, Dahyun, and Yu-Gon won the Encouragement Award at 2022 Campus Patent Universiade. Congratulations!
2022/10/20: Jeong-Mo received the KCS-Wiley Young Chemist Award from the Korean Chemistry Society and John Wiley & Sons.
2022/9/1: Dahyun started a journey as a graduate student. Good luck!
2022/8/31: Our review "Recent Trends in Studies of Biomolecular Phase Separation" has been published.
2022/8/29: Our new paper "Thermodynamics of π–π Interactions of Benzene and Phenol in Water" has been published.
2022/6/17: Da-Eun won the Best Poster Award at the K4DN Workshop. Congratulations!
2022/4/14: Dahyun received the Poster Award at the 129th General Meeting of the Korean Chemical Society. Congratulations!
2022/4/4: Changeun was selected as a recipient of the Best Video Award in the Department Lab Safety Video Contest. Congratulations!
2022/3/7: Tae Seung joined the group as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome!
2022/3/3: Da-Eun received the Best Teaching Assistant Award from the Department of Chemistry, PNU. Congratulations!
2022/3/1: Rajeev and Yu-Gon officially started their life as graduate students. Good luck!
2022/2/28: Hyun-Ji completed her research at MMDL and will start a new journey at the Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry Lab in PNU. Good luck!
2022/2/24: Rajeev joined the group. He will start his Ph.D. program from March. Welcome!
2022/1/24: We opened our Instagram account. Please find us at @mmdl_choilab and follow!
2022/1/24: Our new paper "Kinetic Modulation of Amyloid-β (1–42) Aggregation and Toxicity by Structure-Based Rational Design" has been published.
2022/1/3: Yu-Gon joined the group. He will become a master student from March. Welcome!
2021/11/30: Juhwa completed her internship at MMDL and will start a new journey at the Son lab in POSTECH. Good luck!
2021/11/3: Our new paper "Spatiotemporal and Microscopic Analyses of Asymmetric Liesegang Bands: Diffusion-Limited Crystallization of Calcium Phosphate in a Hydrogel" has been published.
2021/10/4: Our review on chromosomal phase separation, "Current Understanding of Molecular Phase Separation in Chromosomes," has been published.
2021/9/1: Da-Eun and Changeun started their journey as master students. Good luck!
2021/8/2: Changeun joined the group. He will start his master's program from September. Welcome!
2021/6/21: We have new undergraduate members: Min, Hyun-Ji, and Dahyun. Welcome!
2021/6/18: Our new paper "Microbially Guided Discovery and Biosynthesis of Biologically Active Natural Products" has been published.
2021/5/10: Juhwa joined the group as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome!
2021/4/1: Da-Eun joined the group. Welcome!
2021/3/26: The English version of the lab homepage has been setup.
2021/2/9: The lab homepage has been launched.