2026.01.01.
Welcome!! Jaehyun joined our team 🙂 He will work as an intern student until starting his Master’s course in APBL.
2025.12.31.
Kyungshik has left APBL. Wish him a better future.
2025.12.04.
Yong Hwan has left APBL to serve in the military for a two-year term. See you again in 2027!
2025.11.07.
Minjae attended the workshop for the ‘Development of high-speed photosynthetic cell factories and smart process technology for replacing petroleum’ (Daegu, Korea). Minjae gave a presentation about the results for two years.
2025.10.16. – 2025.10.17.
Minjae attended the annual conference of ‘the Korean Society of Phycology’ (Siheung, Korea). Minjae has been recommended as a regular member of the society and plans to engage in various activities to contribute to the society’s development in the future.
2025.09.23. – 2025.09.27.
Minjae and Yong Hwan attended the international conference KSBB-AFOB 2025 (Incheon, Korea). The main topic of the conference was ‘Synthetic biology in the AI era’. The world of synthetic biology using bacteria and yeast looks interesting, but many things have already been done. Since our team aims for ‘achieving synthetic biology in microalgae’, Yong Hwan and I tried to learn many advanced knowledge reported in bacterial and yeast systems. Also, Yong Hwan did a 3-min flash talk (entitled: Two-step cultivation strategies to enhance lipid accumulation in a Chlamydomonas mutant knocked out of a negative regulator of fatty acid synthesis) in front of audiences and referees. Yong Hwan, good job!
2025.09.01.
Yong Hwan and Kyungshik started their first semester as master’s course students. I wish they could achieve many things in two years.
2025.08.11.
Congratulations! Our manuscript ‘Increasing lipid accumulation in Chlamydomonas by serial knocking out of DYRKP1 kinase and ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase’ was published in the Microbial Cell Factories (IF 4.9 (2025); JCR top 15.5% in Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology).
2025.07.01.
Congratulations! Our lab will get a 1.5 years funding from the Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology. We will conduct research for the next 1.5 years to understand high-temperature responses of microalgae and develop thermotolerant strains which can be used for aquatic feeds.
2025.06.23. – 2025.06.27.
Minjae and Ji Won attended the international conference ICOP/ISOP 2025 (Seoul, Korea). We learned many things during the conference.
2025.06.18.
APBL team (Minjae, Ji Won, Yong Hwan, and Kyungshik) visited the National Institute of Fisheries Science, Breeding Research Center in Namhae, and held a meeting on future collaborations. This experience motivated APBL team members.
2025.05.23.
Jiyeon has left our team for personal reasons. We appreciate her efforts and contributions, and wish her the best of luck in the future!
2025.05.15.
Welcome!! Kyungshik joined our team 🙂 He will work as an intern student until starting his Master’s course in APBL.
2025.04.03.
APBL team (Minjae, Ji Yeon, Ji Won, and Yong Hwan) visited the National Institute of Fisheries Science, Breeding Research Center in Nambu-myeon, Geoje, and held a meeting on future joint research. Afterwards, we had a tour of the facility with Dr. Minhwan Jeong. We expect that this experience will further enrich the content and depth of our research.
2025.04.01.
Welcome!! Yong Hwan joined our team 🙂 He will work as an intern student for 5 months until starting his Master’s course from next semester.
2025.04.01.
Congratulations! Our lab will get a 5 years funding from the Korea Institute of Marine Science & Technology Promotion. As part of a large research group, we will conduct research for the next five years to elucidate the toxin metabolism process, one of the carbon metabolism processes of dinoflagellates.
2025.03.01.
Minjae will be working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Marine Technology & Convergence Engineering (Marine Biotechnology) at KIOST School, University of Science and Technology (UST, https://www.ust.ac.kr/kor/) for three years (March 1, 2025 – February 29, 2028).
2025.01.29.
Congratulations! Our manuscript ‘Knocking out the carboxyltransferase interactor 1 (CTI1) in Chlamydomonas boosted oil content by fivefold without affecting cell growth’ was published in the Plant Biotechnology Journal (IF 11.2 (2024); JCR top 1.7% in Plant Sciences). Our work was introduced by BRIC 한빛사.
2025.01.02.
Congratulations! Our manuscript ‘Partial decrease of xanthophyll contents by β-carotene hydroxylase knockout enables high-density cultivation of Chlamydomonas’ was published in the Journal of Applied Phycology (IF 2.8 (2024); JCR top 11.3% in Marine & Freshwater Biology). Ji Yeon helped to finish this work 🙂
2024.12.19.
Minjae was introduced to Plantae, a community of the American Society of Plant Biologists, as the first author of a paper published in The Plant Cell.
2024.11.26.
Minjae attended OCEAN INNO WEEK (Seoul, Korea) as one of the Young Scientists of KIOST to provide career counseling to students.
2024.11.13.
Minjae gave a seminar to junior in his home ground, Hanyang University (Seoul, Korea). Minjae had lunch with professors and received advice on how to run a Lab.
2024.11.07. – 2024.11.08.
Minjae and Kyongha attended the 20th Annual Conference of the Korean Society for Marine Biotechnology (Yeosu, Korea). Kyongha and Minjae gave presentations on the morning of the 7th and 8th, respectively. It was short but was a great opportunity to learn about the latest trends in the field of marine biotechnology through interesting talks.
2024.11.05.
The APBL invited Dr. Kenneth Neil Mertens (IFREMER, France) and Dr. Gu Haifeng (Third Institute of Oceanography, China) to hold a seminar. Dr. Mertens and Dr. Gu presented ‘Harmful algal blooms in French waters’ and ‘Early warning of Noctiluca scintillans (Dinophyceae) blooms in the northern Taiwan Strait’ respectively. After their presentations, we discussed ideas for future collaborative research. We had a wonderful time, eating duck dishes.
2024.11.01.
Minjae gave a lecture to students at Hacheong Middle School (Geoje, Korea). He gave advice to the younger generation based on his own experience. We are trying to bring science closer to the public.
2024.10.24.
Minjae gave a seminar to Professor Taeho Lee and LEME members at Pusan National University (Busan, Korea). The topic was ‘Research on industrial applications of microalgae through the combination of OMICs and metabolic engineering’. After the seminar, we had a meal together and built a common ground for collaboration.
2024.10.18.
Minjae was invited as a presenter by the Southeast Sea Fisheries Research Institute of the National Institute of Fisheries Science (Namhae, Korea). Minjae gave a talk on the topic of ‘Improvement of metabolite contents in microalgae through strain development and culture condition optimization’.
2024.10.14.
Congratulations! Our manuscript ‘The DYRKP1 kinase regulates cell wall degradation in Chlamydomonas by inducing matrix metalloproteinase expression’ was published in The Plant Cell (IF 10.0 (2024); JCR top 2.6% in Plant Science). Our work was introduced by BRIC 한빛사 & BIAM News.
2024.10.11.
Algal Physiology and Biotechnology Lab made a logo showing our identity. Since we are working on microalgae (especially green algae), we designed the logo based on the shape of microalgae. The logo was designed by BioMedical Illustrator Seol Eui Lee (SuriD, https://seoleui.myportfolio.com/).
2024.09.01.
Congratulations! Our lab will get a 2+3 years funding from STEAM research project supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea. We are going to work together with Hanyang University, Korea University, Seoul National University, and Korea District Heating Corporation.
2024.09.01.
Kim Lab started to sail!!
Kim Lab 