Sung-Yon gave the 21st Robert Whitney Newcomb Memorial Lecture at the National Institutes of Health. He was deeply appreciative of Dr. Mike Krashes and the family of Dr. Newcomb for this invaluable opportunity, as well as the awesome scientists at NIH for their hospitality.

The 25th Annual Meeting of the Korean Society for Brain and Neural Sciences (KSBNS) was held on May 19-21, 2022 at Songdo Convensia in Incheon. Among the many presentations by trainees, Minyoo won the best oral presentation award and Sieun received an excellent poster presentation award. Luckily, Heeji also got a lottery prize 😉 Congratulations to all!

Sung-Yon was selected as the awardee of the 15th Asan Award in Medicine from Asan Foundation (Award for Young Medical Scientists), in recognition of his research achievements in the field of the neurobiology of body-brain communication, homeostasis, and innate behavior.

Since 2017, Asan Award in Medicine seeks to help build a healthy society by recognizing and celebrating the achievements of medical scientists in advancing our knowledge in medicine and for the benefit of our society. Congratulations SY!!!

Read more about this at Asan Medical Center Newsroom
(Also in Korean: Maeil Economy, Hankook Ilbo, Yonhap News, Kyunghyang Sinmun)

Mechanosensory signals from the oral and pharyngeal cavities, esophagus, stomach, and intestines. Wonder how these are generated, relayed to the brain, and regulate the many ingestive and digestive processes? Check out our review published on Jan 4, 2022 in Nature Reviews Neuroscience!

Kim, M., Heo, G., Kim, S. -Y. (2022). Neural signaling of gut mechanosensation for the control of ingestion and digestion. Nature Reviews Neuroscience. DOI: 10.1038/s41583-021-00544-7.

Much thanks and congrats to the first author Minyoo and Gyuryang for their awesome work and contribution to the field!

Our first student Dong-Yoon’s scientific achievement was nationally recognized by 2021 Talent Award of Korea! This is the representative award for selected young talents (100 each year) by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education of Korea). Congratulations!!!

Gilju, Hyeongjun and Junkoo, who graduated from SNU or Korea Univ with (already) a publication, excellent research presentation award, or leadership in a neuroscience community, joined K-Lab as PhD students. We are very excited about their potential as future leaders in neuroscience! Welcome!!!

The members of K-Lab celebrated the end of 2021 over a “group” lunch (in full compliance with the quarantine rules). May the new year bring everyone even better things!!

Sieun won 2021 IMBG Young Investigator Award, and Junkoo won Excellent Presentation Award from the Brain-Mind-Behavior Program. Congrats!!!

Minyoo simultaneously won the Young Investigator Research Award and Genolution Excellent Poster Awards from the 2021 International Conference of the KSMCB held on Jeju island on Nov 3-5. Congratulations!!