■ 학력

2003-2011 한국과학기술원 화학과 이학사 (물리학 복수전공, 지도교수: 이윤섭)

2011-2015 하버드대학교 과학사학과 문학석사 (지도교수: Naomi Oreskes)

2011-2016 하버드대학교 화학및화학생물학과 이학박사 (지도교수: Eugene I. Shakhnovich)

■ 경력

2016-2019, 세인트루이스 워싱턴대학교 의생명공학과 박사후 연구원 (지도교수: Rohit V. Pappu)

2019-2020, 한국과학기술원 자연과학연구소 연구조교수

2020-현재, 부산대학교 화학과 조교수

■ 연구주제

생명 시스템의 물리화학

통계물리학의 생물학적 적용

분자 모델링 및 설계

■ 대표업적 (2020년 9월 현재, *는 공동1저자, ^†는 교신저자를 의미)

1. S Han*, YN Kim*, G Jo, YE Kim, HM Kim, JM Choi,^† Y Jung,^† “Multivalent Interaction-Driven Assembly of Discrete, Flexible, and Asymmetric Supramolecular Protein Nano-Prisms,” Angewandte Chemie International Edition, in press

2. JM Choi, AS Holehouse, RV Pappu^†, “Physical Principles Underlying the Complex Biology of Intracellular Phase Transitions,” Annual Review of Biophysics 49: 107-133 (2020)

3. JM Choi,* F Dar,* RV Pappu^†, “LASSI: A Lattice Model for Simulating Phase Transitions of Multivalent Proteins,” PLOS Computational Biology 15 (10): e1007028 (2019)

4. JM Choi, RV Pappu^†, “Improvements to the ABSINTH Forcefield for Proteins Based on Experimentally Derived Amino-Acid Specific Backbone Conformational Statistics,” Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 15 (2): 1367-1382 (2019)

5. JM Choi, RV Pappu^†, “Experimentally Derived and Computationally Optimized Backbone Conformational Statistics for Blocked Amino Acids,” Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 15 (2): 1355-1366 (2018)

6. J Wang, JM Choi, AS Holehouse, HO Lee, X Zhang, M Jahnel, S Maharana, R Lemaitre, A Pozniakovsky, D Drechsel, I Poser, RV Pappu, S Alberti,^† AA Hyman,^† “A Molecular Grammar Governing the Driving Forces for Phase Separation of Prion-like RNA Binding Proteins,” Cell 174 (3): 688-699 (2018)

7. JM Choi,^† AI Gilson, EI Shakhnovich,^† “Graph's Topology and Free Energy of a Spin Model on the Graph,” Physical Review Letters 118: 088302 (2017)

8. S Bershtein,* JM Choi,* S Bhattacharyya, B Budnik, E Shakhnovich,^† “Systems-Level Response to Point Mutations in a Core Metabolic Enzyme Modulates Genotype-Phenotype Relationship,” Cell Reports 11 (4): 645-656 (2015)