■ Member update ■ Paper publication ■ Awards ■ Others
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.
2025/7/3: 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.