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Temporally Distinct 3D Multi-Omic Dynamics in the Developing Human Brain

Temporally Distinct 3D Multi-Omic Dynamics in the Developing Human Brain

Prof. Dong-Sung Lee

Professor Dongsung Lee from the College of Medicine at SNU, in collaboration with researchers at UCLA and UCSF, has published a paper in Nature, being the first in the world to study epigenomic changes, including the three-dimensional genome structure and DNA methylation, during human brain development from the fetal stage to adulthood at the single-cell level, using the single-nucleus methyl-3C technology they developed.

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Professor LEE Sin-Doo Received Korea National Academy of Sciences Award for his LCD Research

Professor Lee Sin-Doo Professor Lee Sin-Doo (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) received the 59th Korea National Academy of Sciences Award on September 17, 2014. Professor Lee worked for Bell Communications Research from 1988 to 1992 where he first researched early versions of the OLEDs (organic-light-e...

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Hangeul Orthography for the Aymara Language

SNU Department of Linguistics and the Department of Hispanic Language and Literature are currently working on creating Hangeul orthography for the Aymara language which the Aymara, an indigenous people of the Andes, use. The Aymaran language has no script of its own, and borrows the Roman alphabet. Most Aymaran vowels ...

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SNU College of Medicine Starts Uruguay Genome Project

The SNU Genomic Medicine Institute (College of Medicine), the Macrogen (Chairperson: Professor SEO Jeongsun), and the Institut Pasteur de Montevideo are cooperating in the Uruguay Genome Project. The first genome project to take place in Latin America, this project aims to disclose hereditary features in Uruguay diseas...

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Professor Finchum-Sung's Korean Music Studies

Professor Hilary Finchum-Sung Professor Hilary V. Finchum-Sung joined SNU as the first non-Korean faculty member of the SNU Department of Korean Music in 2009. She encountered Korean traditional music seventeen years ago through sinawi, a form of Korean shamanic music, and received her doctorate degree in ethnomusicolo...

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Anti-aging Cluster to Open at SNU Pyeongchang Campus

SNU Institute of Green Bio Science and Technology announced its plan to open the ‘Winter Olympics Legacy Related Anti-aging Business Cluster’ at the SNU Pyeongchang Campus. The anti-aging business is a complex business which deals with the development and supply of medical and non-medical products and services to delay...

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SNU Ranks First in Industry-University Cooperation Revenues

SNU's industry-university cooperation revenues from March 2013 to February 2014 were recorded as amounting to 622.2 billion Korean won, the largest amount among all Korean universities. Yonsei University and Korea University earned 372.6 billion KRW and 226.8 KRW, respectively. Industry-university cooperation revenue c...

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Professor LEE Changhee Receives Merck Award

Professor LEE Changhee is receiving the Merck Award Professor Lee Changhee (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) was awarded the Merck Award on August 28 at the International Meeting on Information Display 2014. The Merck Award was established in 2004 -- which marked the 100th year of Merck's liquid cryst...

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Professor HAN Mooyoung's Water-Saving Toilets

Professor HAN Mooyoung SNU changed 24 of its toilets in Building No.35 on August 15 in an attempt to lessen water usage on campus. Professor HAN Mooyoung (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering), who is famous for his rooftop garden projects, took charge. Previously installed toilets used 13 liters of water ...

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Converting Used-cigarette Butts into Energy Storage Solution

It is estimated that as many as 5.6 trillion of toxic used-cigarettes are deposited into the environment worldwide every year. SNU Professor YI Jonghyeop (Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering) developed a simple way to convert the used-cigarette butts into an energy storage material. Scientists around the world...

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Professor YOUN Kwangchul Performed at the Bayreuth Wagner Festival

Professor YOUN Kwangchul is performing at the Bayreuth Wagner Festival Professor YOUN Kwangchul (Department of Vocal Music) performed the roles of Daland in The Flying Dutchman and Hermann in Tannhäuser at the Bayreuth Festival on 25 and 26 July, 2014. The Bayreuth Festival is the most well-known festival of the German...

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Professor CHUN Byung-Gon Received Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship for 2014

Recipients of the Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship for 2014 Professor CHUN Byung-Gon (Department of Computer Science and Engineering) received the Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship for 2014 on July 14. The Fellowship is a prestigious award given to young professors who have shown outstanding research results i...

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Professor AHN Kwangseog's Team Discovers Breakdown Enzyme for HIV

Researcher RYOO Jeongmin Professor AHN Kwangseog and researcher RYOO Jeongmin (Dept. of Biological Sciences) have discovered an enzyme which breaks down HIV, the virus which causes AIDS, and presented a possibility for a new type of AIDS vaccine. This team found that ‘SAMHD-1’ protein, which consists of 626 amino acids...