Professors

Department of Physics & Astronomy
홍성철
Hohng, SungchulProfessor
Office : 56-422 , +82-2-880-6593
Lab. : +82-2-871-8096/7
http://smb.snu.ac.kr/ (Single Molecule Biophysics Lab.)

RESEARCH

Biophysics

Education

  • · 2000 Ph.D. in Physics, Seoul National University,
  • · 1996 M.S. in Physics, Seoul National University
  • · 1994 B.S. in Physics, Seoul National University

Career

  • · 2006. 09 – present Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor, Seoul National University.
  • · 2002. 01 – 2006. 08 Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
  • · 2000. 03 – 2001. 12 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Seoul National University

Research Interests

My research group develops state-of-the-art single-molecule imaging and manipulation techniques and use them to answer fundamental questions of biology.

Selected Publications in the last 5 years

  1. Heesoo Uhm et al. "Single-molecule FRET studies on the cotranscriptional folding of a thiamine pyrophosphate riboswitch”, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (2017).
  2. Myung Hyun Jo & Soochul Shin et al. "Human Argonaute 2 has diverse reaction pathways on target RNAs", Molecular Cell (2015).