Members

Principal Investigator

  • Hajin Kim (CV)

    Assosicate Professor
    Department of Biomedical Engineering
    Office: 052-217-2557
    hajinkim(at)unist.ac.kr

Research Scientist

  • Nadin Memar

    Postdoctoral research, LMU Munich and University College London (Conradt lab)
    Ph.D. in Biology from TU Braunschweig, Germany (2012)
    Research Scientist, Center for Genomic Integrity at the Institute for Basic Science
    Development and programmed cell death in the C. elegans embryo and other nematode species, using 4D microscopy and embryonic/comparative cell-lineage analysis

Postdoctoral Researchers

  • Chanwoo Kim

    Microhomology-mediated end joining, genome organization, DNA mechanical code
    Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, UNIST (2026)
    B.Sc., Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland

  • Si-Hyeong Nho

    Single molecule mechanobiology, regulation of chromatin dynamics
    Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, UNIST (2026)
    B.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, UNIST

  • Jae-Kyeong Im

    Fluorescence-based identification of microbes and antiobiotic resistance, live-cell chromatin imaging
    Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, UNIST (2026)
    B.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, UNIST

Graduate Students

  • Dong Eon Jeong

    DNA mechanical code, gene regulation mechanism using functional genomics
    M.S./Ph.D. Program, Graduate School of Health Science and Technology
    B.Sc. Life Sciences, GIST

  • Nimitha C. Rajesh

    Interstrand crosslink repair, ultrafine chromatin bridge
    M.S./Ph.D. Program, Biomedical Engineering
    B.Sc., Zoology, SNGS College of Pattambi

  • Nathan Campbell

    Chromatin phase separation, DNA replication dynamics
    M.S./Ph.D. Program, Biomedical Engineering
    B.Sc., North Carolina State University

  • Seungjae Ko

    Chromatin topology, DNA mechanical code
    BME, UNIST
    B.Sc. Program, UNIST, Biomedical Engineering

Alumni

  • Ha Khuong Duy

    AFM study of DNA topology and mechanical code
    2026, summer internship
    Undergraduate program, UNIST

  • Seung-Won Lee

    DNA replication (PCNA) dynamics, mitochondrial transcription, DNA interstrand crosslink repair
    M.S./Ph.D. Program, Biomedical Engineering
    Ph.D., UNIST, Biomedical Engineering (Feb 2025) B.Sc., UNIST
    https://scholar.google.co.kr/citations?user=mVlQJIgAAAAJ&hl=en

  • Hyunseung Yang

    Chromatin dynamics, Inter-nucleosome interaction
    2025, UIRP internship
    B.Sc. Program, UNIST, Biomedical Engineering

  • Minsu Kim

    DNA interstrand crosslink repair
    2025, UIRP internship
    B.Sc. Program, UNIST, Biomedical Engineering

  • Sung-Ho Kim

    Imaging-based identification of microbiome
    2018-2022, Ph.D. program
    Current: Staff Scientist at Clinomics

  • Narendra Chaudhary

    Live chromatin dynamics, genome visualization
    2015-2021, Ph.D. program
    Current: Postdoc at Stanford University (Sanulli group)

  • Byeong-Kwon Sohn

    Histone epigenetics, transcription initiation dynamics
    2016-2019, M.S. program
    B.Sc., Biomedical Engineering, UNIST
    Current: GPCR Therapeutics

  • Haeyeon Won

    Transcription dynamics
    B.Sc. Program, Biomedical Engineering

  • Anel Zhunussova

    DNA looping dynamics
    2021, Undergraduate Internship

  • Kihyeon Nam

    Live genome imaging, telomere maintenance
    2019-2022, M.S program

  • Jooyoung Lee

    Cancer-specific chromatin reorganization
    M.S./Ph.D. Program, Biomedical Engineering
    B.Sc., UNIST

  • Eui-Jin Park

    Super-resolved chromatin imaging
    M.S./Ph.D. Program, Biomedical Engineering
    B.Sc., UNIST

  • Narangerel Gantumur

    Live genome imaging methodology
    2015-2017, Researcher
    Current: University of Wollongong, M.S. program

  • Hyewon Cho

    Single molecule measurement of IDR dynamics
    2015-2017 M.S. Program, Biomedical Engineering
    B.Sc., UNIST
    Current: IQVIA

  • Hong Soo Lee

    Force-fluorescence microscopy development
    2014-2017 M.S. Program, Biomedical Engineering
    Current: Bioneer, Co.

  • Chan-Ho Park

    Single molecule measurement of chromatin dynamics
    2016-2017 Undergraduate Internship

  • Hyunju Kang

    Nucleic acids biophysics, DNA repair mechanism
    Ph.D. in Chemistry from KAIST (Yongwon Jung's lab)
    2015-2017, M.S. Program, Biomedical Engineering
    Current: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at KRISS

  • Ha-Yoon Cho

    Transcription initiation dynamics, molecular motors
    2015-2017, M.S. Program, Biomedical Engineering
    Current: Samsung Biologics

  • Zhassulan Shaikhygali

    Chromosome structure mapping
    2015-2016, Undergraduate Internship

  • Allyson Roberts

    mRNA live tracking using CRISPR
    2015.7-8, SPIKE Program (Johns Hopkins University)

  • Songyi Lee

    In vivo RNA tracking
    2015-2017, M.S. Program, Biomedical Engineering

  • Yerassyl Zeinolla

    Development of magnetic tweezers setup
    2015-2016, Undergraduate Internship

  • Zhassulan Shaikhygali

    Bioinformatics-based study of chromatin structure
    B.Sc., UNIST
    2015-2016, M.S. Program, Biomedical Engineering

  • Doyeon Kwak

    Genome visualization
    2015-2016, Undergraduate Internship

  • Chase Barlow

    B.Sc., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    2016, research internship

  • Ah-Reum Jung

    Lamina-DNA interaction, helicase translocation
    B.Sc., Biomedical Engineering, UNIST
    2014-2016, research internship

  • Hanan Jamal Mohamed

    Chromatin dynamics
    B.Sc. Candidate, Biomedical Engineering
    2015, research internship

  • Allyson Roberts

    B.Sc., Johns Hopkins University
    2015, research internship

  • Min-Jong Kim

    B.Sc., Biomedical Engineering, UNIST
    2015, research internship

  • So-Yeon Tak

    B.Sc., Biomedical Engineering, UNIST
    2014, research internship