Curriculum vitae

Research Experience

Feb 2021 - Present

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Paul Pascal Research Center

University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

Sep 2020 - Jan 2021

School of Chemical Engineering

Sungkwunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea

Postdoctoral Research Associate

May 2015 - Feb 2016

Visiting Graduate Student

Center for Soft Matter Research

New York University, New York, US

Education

Mar 2014 - Aug 2020

Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering

(Thesis title : DNA-Functionalized Colloids for Self-Assembled Superstructures)

School of Chemical Engineering

Sungkwunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea

Mar 2006 - Feb 2014

B.S. in Engineering

School of Polymer Science and Engineering

Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea

Publications

DNA-Coated Microspheres with Base Mismatches for Stepwise Programmed AssemblyIn-Seong Jo, Joon Suk Oh, Matthieu Soula, Manhee Lee, David J. Pine, Etienne Ducrot, Gi-Ra Yi, Chemistry of Materials, 36 (8), 3820 (2024)

Effect of Polystyrene Nanoplastics and Their Chemically Loosened Models on Stem Cell Fate, GwangBum Im, Young Geon Kim, In-Seong Jo, Tae Yong Yoo, Sung-Won Kim, Hyun Su Park, Taeghwan Hyeon, Gi-Ra Yi, Suk Ho Bhang, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 430, 128411 (2022)

Self-assembled Colloidal Clusters and Breaking Symmetry, You-Jin Kim, Jaehyun Kim, In-Seong Jo, David J. Pine, Stefano Sacanna, Gi-Ra Yi, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 143 (33), 13175-13183 (2021)

DNA Functionalization of Colloidal Particles via Physisorption of Azide-functionalized Amphiphilic Block Copolymers, Jeongbin Moon, In-Seong Jo, Jeong Hoon Yoon, Yeongha Kim, Joon Suk Oh, David J. Pine, Gi-Ra Yi, Soft Matter, 15, 6930-6933 (2019)

DNA-Coated Microspheres and Their Colloidal Superstructures, Jeongbin Moon, In-Seong Jo, Etienne Ducrot, Joon Suk Oh, David J. Pine, Gi-Ra Yi, Macromolecular Research, 26 (12), 1085-1094 (2018)

DNA-Functionalized 100 nm Polymer Nanoparticles from Block Copolymer Micelles, Saerom Lee, Jeong Hoon Yoon, In-Seong Jo, Joon Suk Oh, David J. Pine, Tae Soup Shim, Gi-Ra Yi, Langmuir, 34 (37), 11042-11048 (2018)

Compressible Colloidal Clusters from Pickering Emulsions and their DNA Functionalization, In-Seong Jo, Joon Suk Oh, Shin-Hyun Kim, David J. Pine, Gi-Ra Yi, Chemical Communications, 54 (60), 8328-8331 (2018)

Soft Patchy Micelles, In-Seong Jo, Saerom Lee, Jintao Zhu, Tae Soup Shim, Gi-Ra Yi, Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science, 30, 97-105 (2017)

International Conferences

Non-orthogonal DNA Coatings for Stepwise Programmed Colloidal Assembly, 96th ACS Colloids and Surface Science Symposium, Denver, United States (07.2022)

High-density DNA-coated Spherical and Snowman-like Janus Colloids, 48th World Polymer Congress IUPAC-MACRO 2020+, Jeju, South Korea (05.2021)

Compressible Colloidal Clusters from Pickering Emulsions and Their DNA Functionalization, APS March Meeting 2019, Boston, United States (03.2019)

DNA-coated Colloidal Clusters from Particle Laden Emulsions, 7th International Colloids Conference, Sitges, Barcelona, Spain (06.2017)

Raspberry-like Particles by Depletion-assisted Parking of Polymer Beads on Reactive Emulsions, 89th ACS Colloids and Surface Science Symposium, Pittsburgh, United Sates (06.2015)

Patent

In-Seong Jo, Seung-Hyun Kim, Gi-Ra Yi, Method of Forming Raspberry-like Particle using Depletion Forces and the Properties of Raspberry-like Particles. Korea Intellectual Property Office, KR101824775B1, Granted patent (2018).

Lab Skills

Synthesis of nano and micro scaled colloidal particles

Chemical or physical DNA functionalization on colloids

Self-assembly and crystallization using DNA-mediated interaction colloidal particles

Molecular dynamic simulations in Python

Scanning electron microscope (SEM), Transmission electron microscope (TEM), Confocal/Optical microscope,

Dynamic light scattering (DLS), Zeta-potential, Fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS)

Computing

Blender 3D animation editing

Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator

Adobe Audition sound editing

Microsoft Office (Words, PowerPoint, Excel)

Apple Keynotes, Numbers, Pages

Apple Final Cut Pro X video editing