Systems and Synthetic Biology Laboratory
Kwang-il Lim's Lab
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Sookmyung Women's University
2025. 07.
Yeahn Kim and A-bin Kwon have joined the group! Welcome on board!
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2025. 03.
Our manuscript titled “Rapid and Sensitive Detection of RNA Viruses through Imaging of Marker Molecules Derived from Designed Circular DNA Probes” has been accepted for publication in Small Methods (Around Top 10% jorunal).
2025. 02.
Professor Lim has been appointed as the president of the Korean Society of Gene and Cell Therapy.
2024. 12.
The government has granted our research to develop therapies against autoimmune diseases for the next four years.
2024. 12.
Soyeon has joined the group! Welcome Soyeon!!
2024. 11.
Yeon-ju Kim has just received an award for the best poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Korean Society of Gene and Cell Therapy.
2024. 10.
A paper titled as "Artificial Intelligence Enhanced Analysis of Genomic DNA Visualized with Nanoparticle-Tagged Peptides under Electron Microscopy", where our lab was involved in part, has been just accepted for publication in Small (Top 10% jorunal).
2024. 07.
A paper titled as "Scanning Electron Microscopy Imaging of Large DNA Molecules Using a Metal-Free Electro-Stain Composed of DNA-Binding Proteins and Synthetic Polymers", where our lab was involved in part, has been published in Advanced Science (Top 10% journal).
2024. 08.
Professor Kwang-il Lim was honored with the Minister of Health and Welfare Award for his significant contributions to gene and cell research in the field of regenerative medicine.
2024. 08.
Na-yoon Kim, Jiyoon Kim have just joined the lab. Welcome!
2024. 07.
Our new research project to develop next-generation retroviral and lentiviral vectors with greatly enhanced gene delivery efficiencies based on various genome engineering will be supported by the Korean health industry development institute. July, 2024
2024. 05.
Our new research project to develop gene therapies against multiple sclerosis will be supported by the Korean government research funding agency. May, 2024
2024. 05.
Recent research work, where we were partly involved, has been published in Advanced Science with a title of “SEM Imaging of Large DNA Molecules Using a Metal-Free Electro-Stain Composed of DNA-Binding Proteins and Synthetic Polymers”.
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2024. 04.
Samsung Science & Technology Foundation decides to support the second round of our collaborative research project to construct the Y chromosome sequence maps using SEM.
2023. 08.
Jeongmin Kang has just joined the lab. Welcome!
2022. 11.
The cover image for our manuscript Probe-free identification of RNA virus variants with point mutations by surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (10.1021/acs.analchem.2c02912) has been selected as a supplementary cover for Analytical Chemistry.
2022. 11.
Our new paper, "Probe-free identification of RNA virus variants with point mutations by surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy" has been accepted in ACS Analytical Chemistry.
2022. 10.
Dr. Yoon-ha Jang will be awarded the Best Young Female Scientist Award from the Korean BioChip Society.
2022. 08.
Our new paper, "Counting DNA molecules on a microchannel surface for quantitative analysis" has been published in Talanta".
2022. 04.
Min-jeong Son has just joined a research team of SD Biosensor, a leading molecular diagnostic company.
2022. 01.
Yeon-ju Kim and Su-jin Hong have published an article on COVID-19 in the chemical world of the Korean Chemical Society.
2022. 01.
. Da-young Shin has just joined the lab. Welcome!
2021. 09.
. Sun-jin Kim, Yu-jeong Ha, and Jung-mi Park have just joined the lab. Welcome on board!
2021. 08.
. Yoon-ha Jang has just received her PhD degree in Chemical and Biological Engineering.She will start to work at KIST as a postdoctoral fellow. Her new research will include high-throughput diagnosis and single cell analysis.
Many congratulations Dr. Jang!
2021. 08.
. Our paper, "Graphene oxide supported microwell grids for preparing cryo-EM samples with controlled ice thickness", has been accepted by Advanced Materials. Ji-yeon Shim and Prof. Lim have been involved in the relevant collaborations with other research teams.
Congrats Ji-yeon!!
2021. 04.
. We will newly start a project to complete the DNA sequence of human Y chromosome in collaboration with research teams of Sogang U, SKKU, and Korea U.
This new ambitious attempt will be supported by the Samsung Science & Technology Foundation.
2020. 08.
. The new boss has arrived in Yoon-ha's family.
Many congratulations on Yoon-ha Jang :)
2020. 08.
..Professor Lim has joined the reviewer board of Pharmaceutics.
2020. 08.
..Biotechnology and Bioengineering accepted our paper, "Alteration of gammaretroviral vector integration patterns by insertion of histone and leucine zipper into integrase."
Many congratulations on Yeji Yang, Ji-eun Lee, Hye-young Jeong, Ji-yeon Shim, Min-jeong Son, and Yeon-ju Kim!
2020. 04.
..Professor Lim has joined the reviewer board of International Journal of Molecular Sciences.
2020. 03.
..Hye-young Jeong will join the Cellatoz Therapeutics Incorporation in April, 2020.
2019. 12.
..Ji-eun Lee will join the Health & Environment Research Institute of Gwangju in December, 2019.
2019. 11.
. Yoon-ha Jang won a prize at Annual meeting of Korean Society of Gene and Cell Therapy.
2019. 09.
. Analytical chemistry selected our paper, "Identification of newly emerging influenza viruses by detecting the virally infected cells based on surface enhanced raman spectroscopy and principal component analysis." as a cover of the journal Vol. 91, Issue 9.
Many congratulations on Jung-soo Nam and Hye-in Song!
2019. 05.
. Ye-ji Yang will join the Korea Basic Science Institute (KBSI) in May, 2019.
2019. 04.
. Our project, "Development of synthetic promoters for Mitochondrial gene expression", has been selected by the WISET.
2019. 03.
. Nanoscale accepted our paper, "Nanotopography-based engineering of retroviral DNA integration patterns."
Many congratulations on Yoon-ha Jang, Jung-soo Nam, Ye-ji Yang and Ji-eun Lee!
2019. 03.
. Analytical chemistry accepted our paper, "Identification of newly emerging influenza viruses by detecting the virally infected cells based on surface enhanced raman spectroscopy and principal component analysis."
Many congratulations on Jung-soo Nam and Hye-in Song!