We love RNA, and we live for the moment when a strange squiggle in the data turns out to be a rule of biology nobody had noticed before. We chase those moments from both ends at once: at the bench with pipettes and nanopore sequencers, and at the keyboard with code and GPUs. And then there is the moment we love most, when a rule we learned from those squiggles travels all the way into an mRNA vaccine that could one day help someone beat cancer.
If RNA makes your heart beat a little faster, we want to meet you, whether you come from biology, computer science, statistics or engineering. Graduate students, postdocs and undergraduate interns: come and join us!
Our lab is affiliated with the School of Biological Sciences at Seoul National University. Currently, our group’s research is supported by funding from the Center for RNA Research in the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) and the National Research Foundation of Korea’s Excellent Young Researcher program.
News
- Sep 1, 2026 Keewon starts his own lab as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Convergence Pharmaceutical Science at Korea University. Five years of nanopore wizardry here — congratulations, and go build something great.
- Jul 13, 2026 Yoojung and Hanju gave lightning talks at the 1st KSMCB Genomics and Computational Biology Symposium in Gyeongju.
- Jul 7, 2026 Hanju presented his new GARFold software at the 2026 KSMCB RNA Symposium in Busan, where Jayoung also came away with a Best Poster Award. Congratulations to both!
- Jun 8, 2026 Wonderful news — Yoojung won a travel award to ECCB 2026! Congratulations, and have a fantastic trip!
- Apr 13, 2026 After a long journey, Yoojung’s RepeatLab paper — on reading expanded repeats with nanopore sequencing — is finally out in EMM.