Sehoon Keum, PhD
2018 – Principal investigator,IBS
2020 – Associate professor, UST
2013 – 2018 Research fellow, IBS
2012 – 2013 Postdoctoral researcher, UCSF Neurology
2010 – 2012 Postdoctoral researcher, Duke Univ. Medical Center
2005 – 2010 PhD in Genetics, Duke University, USA
2000 – 2005 Researcher, Yuhan pharmaceutical research institute
1998 – 2000 MS in Life Science, POSTECH, South Korea
1994 – 1998 BS in Biology, Hanyang University, South Korea
Sehoon Keum, PhD
Principal Investigator/ Senior research fellow
Associate professor, University of Science & Technology-IBS Campus
Center for Cognition and Sociality
Institute for Basic Science (IBS)
Office:+82-42-878-9115
Email: sdukeum(at)ibs.re.kr
Education and Professional experiences
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2018 - Tenure-track research fellow, IBS
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2013 - 2018 Research fellow (Non-tenure), IBS
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2011 - 2012 Postdoctoral researcher, UCSF
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2010 - 2011 Postdoctoral researcher, Duke University
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2010 PhD in Genetics & Genomics, Duke University
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2000 - 2005 Researcher, Yuhan Pharmaceutical Research Center
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2000 MS in Life Science, POSTECH
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1998 BS in Biology, Hanyang University
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2019.09 - present
Cortical neural ensembles for affective empathy
Jiye Choi, PhD
Postdoctoral researcher
Hyoin Lee, PhD
Postdoctoral researcher
2022.03 - present
Developing novel optogenetics tools for social behaviors
Dahm So, BS
Graduate student
2024.03 - present
Social trauma behaviors
Sungjoon Choi, BS
Researcher
2022.03 - present
Mouse genetics and transgenic techniques
Sua Lee
Undergraduate student
2023.09 - present
The effects of early life stress on affective behavior
Alumni
Seungmoon Jung, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher (2019. 9 ~ 2025. 3)
Sowon Kim, BS
Researcher (2023. 3 ~ 2024. 2)
Eunsoo Yoo, MS
Researcher (2021. 5 ~ 2023. 4)
Hye Lim Cha, MS
Researcher (2019. 4 ~ 2022. 4)
Jeeyeon Kim
Undergraduate research assistant
(2020. 1 ~ 2020.7)
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Cornell University, class of 2021
Undergraduate Interns
Lee Sua/ IBS-CCS internship (2024.07 - 08)
Choi Yoon/ IBS-CCS internship (2024.07 - 08)
Minseo Kim/ IBS-CCS internship (2023.07 - 08)
Jane Lee/ IBS-CCS internship (2023.07 - 08)
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Vicarious social trauma model in rodents
Dam So/ UST internship (2022.07 - 08)
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Adolescence stress affecting socio-affective behavior
Juhui An/ UST internship (2022.07 - 08)
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Social cues influencing observational fear memory
Jihyo Yun/ IBS-CCS internship (2022.07 - 08)
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Role of opioid receptors and early life stress in affective empathy
Sowon Kim/ IBS-CCS internship (2022.01 - 02, 07 - 08)
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Social isolation in empathic ability
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Genetic and environmental factors for emotion recognition
Minji Kwon/ UST internship (2022.01 - 02)
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Genetic factors regulating empathy-related behaviors
Gilju Han/ UST internship (2020.07 - 08)
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Behavioral studies with pain killer drugs in observational fear learning
Jeeyeon Kim/ UST internship (2019.07-08) IBS-CCS internship (2020.01 - 07)
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OptoSTIM1- mediated optogenetic modulation for observational fear learning
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Behavioral genetic screen for observational fear learning
Gil Ju Han
IBS-CCS Summer internship
(2020. 7 ~ 2020. 8)
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Korea University, class of 2021