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Open positions at all levels
August, 2014
We have open researcher positions at all levels: tenure-track researcher, postdoctoral researcher, PhD program, MS program, and undergraduate researcher program. See the "Open Positions" page for more details.
Shim's research introduced on the Kyunghyang Shinmun
July, 2014
Paper published on Cell
May, 2014
Among millions of sperm racing for one egg, only a few sperm cells succeed to arrive at the right place and time for fertilization. What is the mechanism behind this extreme selection of one out of million? We unveiled a molecular weapon of winning sperms in an article published in CELL on the issue of May 8th (Cell, 157: 808-822 (2014)).
For the story behind the paper, check out the video featured as PaperFlick.
2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
October, 2014
The 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded for super-resolution fluorescence microscopy. Congratulations to Eric Betzig, Stefan Hell, W.E.Moerner, and many others who contributed to the exponential growth of the field over the past 10 years!!
Cold Spring Harbor Conference on Single Cells
December, 2014
Sang-Hee Shim is invited to the Cold Spring Harbor Meeting on Single Cells in Sozhou, China. She presented her recent work published on Cell about calcium nanodomains on sperm flagella.
Awarded a Grant from Samsung Science & Technology Foundation
April 2015
Prof. Sang-Hee Shim’s research proposal (titled as “Minimal-label Super-reolved potical Imaging”) awarded a grant from Samsung Science & Technology Foundation which is amimed at discovering and supporting promising scientists in four basic fields of science-physics, chemistry, bioscience and mathematics-and prominent leaders in such fields who are deemed Nobel-caliber scientists. Shim is one of the 14 recipients in basic science in 2015.
Please see the news in YTN in the following link.
http://www.yonhapnews.co.kr/bulletin/2015/04/09/0200000000AKR20150409089200003.HTML