The Kim Lab is Looking for Graduate Students

The Kim lab (https://sjkimlab.github.io/) in the Department of Physics is looking for graduate students interested in research in biological physics. Our lab studies how biomolecules work together in cellular environments using imaging- or sequencing-based approaches in combination with computational modeling. Potential projects include probing motor traffic phenomena in the genome by single-molecule imaging techniques, single particle tracking in live bacterial cells using super-resolution microscopy, and building an instrument measuring biomolecules’ mechanics and dynamics at the same time. Skills learned will include instrumentation (for fluorescence microscopy and force spectroscopy), data analysis in Matlab/python, computational modeling and molecular biology/genetics.

For more information, email Sangjin at sangjin@illinois.edu.

Relevant publications are below:

• Kim, S., Beltran, B., Irnov, I., Jacobs-Wagner, C. (2018) "RNA polymerases display collaborative and antagonistic group behaviors over long distances through DNA supercoiling." bioRxiv, 433698.
• Kim, S., Jacobs-Wagner, C. (2018) "Effects of mRNA degradation and site-specific transcriptional pausing on protein expression noise." Biophys. J. 114: 1718-1729.
• Kim, S., Brostromer, E., Xing, D., Jin, J., Chong, S., Ge, H., Wang, S., Gu, C., Yang, L., Gao, Y., Su, X., Sun, Y., Xie, X.S. (2013) "Probing allostery through DNA." Science 339: 816-819.
• Kim, S., Blainey, P.C., Schroeder, C.M., Xie, X.S. (2007) "Multiplexed single-molecule assay for enzymatic activity on ow-stretched DNA." Nat. Methods 4: 397-399.