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 ๐Ÿ™‚

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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์ƒํ™”ํ•™/์ƒ์œ ๊ธฐํ™”ํ•™/์œ ๊ธฐํ•ฉ์„ฑ์— ๊ด€์‹ฌ์žˆ๋Š” ๋Œ€ํ•™์›์ƒ, ํ•™๋ถ€์—ฐ๊ตฌ์ฐธ์—ฌ์ƒ์„ ๋ชจ์ง‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ €ํฌ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์‹ค์€ ์œ ์ „์ž๋ฅผ ํšจ์œจ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ˆ˜๋ฆฌํ•˜๋Š” ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์„ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กœ์šด ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ย  ย  i. ์œ ์ „์ž ์†์ƒ์—์„œ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•˜๋Š” ์งˆ๋ณ‘์„ ์ง€์—ฐ/์˜ˆ๋ฐฉํ•˜๋Š” ์ƒํ™”ํ•™์  ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•๋ก ์˜ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ

ย  ย  ii. ํšจ์œจ์ ์ธ ์œ ์ „์ž ์ˆ˜๋ฆฌ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์˜ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด DNA/RNA Chemistryย  ์—ฐ๊ตฌ

ย  ย  iii. ์ƒ์ฒด ๋‚ด ์œ ์ „์ž ์†์ƒ ๋ฐ ์ˆ˜๋ฆฌ ๊ณผ์ • ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ํ™”ํ•ฉ๋ฌผ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœย 

์ƒ์ฒด ๋‚ด์—์„œ ์ผ์–ด๋‚˜๋Š” ๋ฌด์–ธ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ์ตœ์ดˆ๋กœ ๊ด€์ธกํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์ด ์žˆ๊ณ , ๋…ธํ™”์™€ ์งˆ๋ณ‘์˜ ๊ทผ์›์ด ๋˜๋Š” ์œ ์ „์ž์˜ ์†์ƒ ๋ฐ ์ˆ˜๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ์ž‘ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ธ๋ฅ˜์˜ ์‚ถ์˜ ์งˆ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์— ๊ด€์‹ฌ ์žˆ์œผ์‹  ๋ถ„๋“ค์€ ์—ฐ๋ฝ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”! ์˜คํ”ผ์Šค๋กœ ์ฐพ์•„์˜ค์‹œ๋ฉด ๋” ์ƒ์„ธํ•œ ์–˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆŒ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๐Ÿ™‚