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.
Apr 8, 2026 The VaxLab paper lands in EMM, brought to you by Chae Young, Junsoo, and Yoojung.
Feb 27, 2026 Hats off to Junsoo (now officially Dr. Kim) and Sohyeon (MS) — off into the wider world with our thanks and high expectations.
Oct 24, 2025 Best Poster Awards at BIOINFO 2025 went to Sojeong, Jisu, and Hanju. Three years in a row now — we're starting to suspect a pattern.
Mar 3, 2025 The lab grows by three: Jisu Lim, Hoon Ma, and Dongmin Ryu have joined the lab. Welcome aboard!
Oct 25, 2024 Congratulations to Sojeong and Yoojung on winning Best Poster Awards at the BIOINFO 2024 conference!
Jan 29, 2024 Jayoung has been selected as the latest recipient of the Woosan Scholarship.
Dec 1, 2023 Junsoo has been selected as a new JW Foundation Basic Scientist Scholarship recipient.
Nov 15, 2023 Heeseung won the Best Poster Award at the BIOINFO 2023 conference.
Oct 27, 2023 Junsoo was awarded the Outstanding Oral Presentation Award at the Annual Meeting of the Microbiological Society of Korea.
Aug 11, 2023 Hyeshik illustrates the early days of the Korean Python community and Python 2 in his keynote at PyCon Korea 2023.
Nov 22, 2022 The Youlchon AI for All Fellowship has selected Junsoo as a new scholar to be supported.
Nov 11, 2022 We have published two papers describing the detailed procedure to analyze viral transcriptomes and its application to human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) long noncoding RNAs.
Jul 14, 2022 The 3·1 scholarship has chosen Junsoo as its newest recipient.
Nov 18, 2021 Hyeshik explains why computer scientists should be interested in biology in the Samsung Software Developer Conference 2021.
Feb 17, 2021 Hyeshik tells the human genome sequencing story to middle and high school students on the SNU/KAOS Science Open Lecture.
Sep 23, 2020 The lab introduction is published as a part of the POKAS-on webzine.
Aug 25, 2020 Hyeshik uploaded a YouTube video about the molecular biology of SARS-CoV-2.
Mar 15, 2020 We uploaded a preprint reporting a cluster of RNA modifications in the SARS-CoV-2 RNAs.
Mar 1, 2020 Ari has started grad school as the first student in the lab.
Sep 8, 2019 We updated Poreplex to 0.5 with the new Guppy compatibility.
Mar 1, 2019 We're officially opening the lab. Yay! 🙌
Feb 27, 2019 Poreplex 0.4.1 has been released with ONT Guppy and multi-read fast5 support!
Dec 27, 2018 We released a new software, seamlessf5, that helps transitions to the new data format for nanopore sequencing.