Sung-Yon Kim

#Gastronauts #Biosphere2 in the middle of the Sonoran Desert 🌵 Morning yoga, sunrise run to the old campus (w/ Elena Gracheva), incredible Southwestern food, wild turkey chase, and the Milky Way every night! Truly beyond a conference. science, nature, and people made it sacred.

Some pics from Avi, Alex, and Scott's visit to Seoul. Learned so much at both SNU Symposium on Neural Circuits for Thermoregulation (and feeding behavior ;) + #icomes2025. Thanks for inspiring science, great conversations, and fun times! Many thanks as well to my amazing students and staff as well.

The legendary mouse-brain cake with “optic fiber” candles and a “laser stimulation” demo at our lab’s 10th anniversary 🤣🧠🔥
From a tiny seedling to a fruitful tree — all thanks to you. Deeply grateful!

Missing the brilliant colleagues and dear friends from our symposium — @karalmarshall.bsky.social, @denizatasoy.bsky.social, @chuchuzhang.bsky.social, @hjchoimd.bsky.social, and also Arnab, Hojoon, Peng, Cheng, Ling, and Myunghwan (not yet on Bluesky!).

A fantastic day at the SNU Neuro-Chemical-Metabolism Symposium! 🧠
Brilliant talks on body–brain communication, metabolism & circuits—thanks to our speakers, students & colleagues for making it a success!
#Neuroscience #Metabolism #BrainBody

Love this study! Congrats Lex and the team!

Let's push the boundaries of neuroscience together!
Interested? Reach out via email or direct message for more details.
sungyonkim@snu.ac.kr

PhD holders currently residing overseas (anywhere outside S. Korea!)
Strong background in neuroscience, physiology, molecular biology, or related fields.
Learn more about the fellowship here:
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Generous funding package (300–900 million KRW/year) covering competitive salary (5-25 million KRW/month), airfare, relocation expenses, child education support, and insurance.
Long-term professional growth with potential for continued employment and international collaboration!

🔬Our lab focuses on neural circuits underlying ingestion, thermoregulation, and social behavior. Techniques: opto/chemogenetics, two-photon imaging, CLARITY, MERFISH, etc.

🧠Neural Circuit lab at Seoul National U invites exceptional postdoc researchers from abroad under the prestigious Brain Pool Fellowship (300-900 million KRW/yr covering salary, airfare, relocation, child education, and insurance support. Please RT🔁!
sungyonkimlab.org

A landmark achievement in the field. Impressive work!

A drop of milkshake takes a wild ride as it passes through the body. Rachel and Kiersten and the team came up with cool strategies for visualizing food passing through the mouse GI tract and mapping the activity of the same 100s of brainstem neurons across weeks during feeding and other behaviors.

Unforgettable moments honoring @deisseroth.bsky.social, recipient of the Asan Award in Medicine! Watch this great video highlighting his groundbreaking contributions:
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Proud to celebrate this historic achievement in Seoul. Cheers, Karl! 🎉 #AsanAward #Neuroscience

Welcome to Bluesky! and thank you @sykneuro.bsky.social‬! Of course, I was the lucky one, honored to have you in my lab... Looking forward to seeing you again in March!

And I’m thrilled that this exciting news marks my very first Bluesky post!

Recognized for "the discovery of light-gated ion channel mechanisms and the development of optogenetics."
Honored to have had him as my PhD advisor (2009–2013)—was a true privilege to witness his groundbreaking work transform neuroscience.
Can’t wait for the ceremony on Mar 18!

Excited to share that @deisseroth.bsky.social has been announced as a laureate of the 2025 Asan Medical Award in Basic Medicine, one of Korea's top science honors!🎉
Congratulations, Karl!!

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