MC CHOI 생물-연성물리학 / 공학 연구실

Myung Chul Choi received a B.S. in Physics from KAIST in 1998. He received his Ph.D. degree in Physics in 2005 from KAIST for his work on “Confinement Effects on Mesoscopic Structures of Macromoleules” under the supervision of Professor Mahn Won Kim (previous President of KIAS). In 2005, he joined Safinya group at UCSB as post-doc and conducted research on the structure of cytoskeletal protein derived from nerve cells. He joined the faculty of Department of Bio and Brain Engineering at KAIST in 2010. His group’s research is focused on elucidating structures and interactions of supramolecular assemblies of biological molecules. This includes a fundamental understanding of structures and interactions between cell cytoskeletal proteins and their associated molecules which leads to their distinct structures (related to their specific functions in cells) on the nanometer to the many micrometer scales. Structures are solved by combining reciprocal space and real space data resulting from X-ray/Neutron scattering, light-microscopy and electron microscopy experiments. A major project in the group has the goal of (i) understanding structures and interactions of microtubules and microtubule-associated-proteins (MAPs), (ii) engineering tubulin-based molecular machines and implication to drug delivery system, and (iii) understanding interactions of lipid vesicles using optical bottle.