Home Department: Biology (Neuroscience)
Supported by: Pitch Johnson
Mentor: Karl Deisseroth, Professor of Bioengineering, and of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Minsuk Hyun is a rising senior from Seoul, Korea. He is majoring in biology with a focus in neurobiology. In the Deisseroth Lab, Minsuk is currently developing new optogenetic targeting tools that will allow a more specific manipulation of neural circuits. He is interested in questions about how the brain and mind work and plans to apply to neuroscience graduate programs this fall.
Poster presented at the Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Symposium on August 27, 2012:
New In Vivo Optogenetic Targeting Strategy
Minsuk Hyun1,2, Joanna Mattis1,5, Lief Fenno1,5, Charu Ramakrishnan1, Karl Deisseroth1,3,4
[Departments of Bioengineering1, Biology2, and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences3, Howard Hughes Medical Institute4, Neuroscience Program5, Stanford University]
Home Department: Biology
Supported by: Pitch Johnson
Mentor: Karl Deisseroth, Professor of Bioengineering, Psychiatry, and of Behavioral Sciences
Minsuk Hyun is a freshman at Stanford from South Korea. He is majoring in Biology and is particularly interested in the field of neural engineering. Minsuk works in Karl Deisseroth's lab, where he studies optogenetics, an emerging field combining optical and genetic techniques to probe neural circuits. In the Deisseroth Lab, Minsuk researches the delivery method and different characteristics of opsins. He personally thinks that optogenetics is a very interesting way to study neuroscience, and he is excited to think about how it can be expanded to other disciplines of medicine. Currently, he truly enjoys his time in the lab studying it.
Poster presented at the Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Symposium on August 25, 2010:
Improving visualization of opsin-transduced neuronal cell bodies with a 2A self-cleaving peptide
Minsuk Hyun, Joanna Mattis, Charu Ramakrishnan, Karl Deisseroth
[Biology, Neurosciences ; Stanford University]
