We are
Chemists Painting DNA
we design chemical compounds modifying nucleic acids that diversify their functions,
and explore DNA damage and repair systems in biological context.
NEWS
Oct 2025: I’m honored to be selected as a 2026 POSCO Science Fellow!ย
Oct 2025: Dr. Ha has joined the team! Looking forward to his collaboration with team Geneius!
Oct 2025: Dr. Sarkar has been selected as an AI-CRED Fellow. Big congrats!
Oct 2025: Are you interested in personalized mRNA therapeutics? Check out our recent work published in Angewandte Chemie!
Sep 2025:ย Dr. Sourav Sarkar has joined the team to boost our research!
Sep 2025: Gyueunย is now officially on board!
Feb 2025: Tae Ungย and Kwon are ready to inspire our team ๐
Sep 2024: Gyeongeunย and Hojeong welcome to the team!
Aug 2024: Tae Ung won first place at the Undergraduate Research Chemistry Symposium (UR ChemS). Big congrats!!
July 2024: KAI-X Intership, KISS Program, and Pre R&E Program. All interns are here in the lab!
June 2024: Ji Hoon and Min joined the team! Welcome.
February 2024: Cheoljunย finally joined the team, and is looking to fly high!
January 2024: Gyueun and Avishek joined the team!
September 2023: Photsawee, welcome aboard!
August 2023: Jihun and Juhyung joined the lab. Welcome!
June 2023: Tae Ung and Francis joined the lab. Welcome aboard!
June 2023: Check out the article in Stanford News!
June 2023:ย Are we eating clean DNA? Check out our new work published in ACS Central Science!
May 2023: I officially joined the department of chemistry, KAIST! I’m thrilled to be part of it!
March 2023: Incredibly honored to be part of Plant-Based Diet Initiative (PBDI) grant and Stanford Food summit 2023!
November 2022: Our new paper is now out in Nature Communications! Good work, everybody.
November 2022: The Gene-i-us lab website finally has been launched!
Position Available
We looking for talented graduate students!
+ PhD Students
Currently, we have available positions for PhD students. If you’re interested in the future research in our lab. Please reach out to ywjun@kaist.ac.kr. You can meet me in person and see how brilliant chemistry we carry on!
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์ ํฌ ์ฐ๊ตฌ์ค์ ์ ์ ์๋ฅผ ํจ์จ์ ์ผ๋ก ์๋ฆฌํ๋ ์์คํ ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ผ๋ก ํฅ๋ฏธ๋ก์ด ์ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์งํํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.
ย ย i. ์ ์ ์ ์์์์ ๋ฐ์ํ๋ ์ง๋ณ์ ์ง์ฐ/์๋ฐฉํ๋ ์ํํ์ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ๋ก ์ ๊ฐ๋ฐ
ย ย ii. ํจ์จ์ ์ธ ์ ์ ์ ์๋ฆฌ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ ์๋ก์ด DNA/RNA Chemistryย ์ฐ๊ตฌ
ย ย iii. ์์ฒด ๋ด ์ ์ ์ ์์ ๋ฐ ์๋ฆฌ ๊ณผ์ ์ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์ํ ํํฉ๋ฌผ ๊ฐ๋ฐย
์์ฒด ๋ด์์ ์ผ์ด๋๋ ๋ฌด์ธ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ์ต์ด๋ก ๊ด์ธกํ๋๋ฐ ๊ด์ฌ์ด ์๊ณ , ๋ ธํ์ ์ง๋ณ์ ๊ทผ์์ด ๋๋ ์ ์ ์์ ์์ ๋ฐ ์๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ์ ์ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ํตํด ์ธ๋ฅ์ ์ถ์ ์ง ํฅ์์ ๊ด์ฌ ์์ผ์ ๋ถ๋ค์ ์ฐ๋ฝ์ฃผ์ธ์! ์คํผ์ค๋ก ์ฐพ์์ค์๋ฉด ๋ ์์ธํ ์๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค ๐