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!!
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