Necessity is the mother of invention
Invention is the mother of necessity
Curiosity is the mother of discovery
Genetics solves a century-old mystery in meiosis
Heejin and Jaeil's HCR3 paper has been published in Nature Plants (Feb 2024)
Photo of Choi lab members in Feb, 2024
2023 Choi lab members with Prof. Yumi Kim (Johns Hopkins University). Merry Christmas!
(Aster spathulifolius, Maxim) flowers in November 2023
Orchid (Cymbidium kanran) flowers in September 2023
Feb 27, 2023
Plum blossoms symbolize the noble mind, grace, perseverance, and perfection.
As the flower symbolizes, the plum blossom endures the winter cold and blooms.
Feb 10, 2022
Jihye and Youngkyung, congratulations on your doctoral and master's graduations, respectively. Graduation means another beginning. Let's keep growing and fighting!
Nov 1, 2022
Lab get-together to celebrate for selection of SS&T foundation
June 7, 2022
We visited the Amore-pacific Botanical Garden on April 29, 2022.
Heejin and Jihye won the Excellent Poster Award at KSMCB 2021.
Pachytene is the stage at which homologouse chromosomes have synapsed. Crossover recombination is completed through the repair of DSBs formed in leptotene
Photo Credit to Heejin Kim (2021.08.25)
Happy New Year 2021!
Group photo, one day in the autumn of 2020
Nanopore seq allows us to map the positions of T-DNAs in many Arabidopsis T-DNA mutants. 2020-05-20
2020 May 5th, Teacher's Day
Thank Choi lab members for being with me
April 2020 at POSTECH
Arabidopsis thalina pollen grains of the qrt1 mutant
Mutation of QUARTET1 (QRT1) gene results in the four-pollen products of male meiosis remaining attached to one another, which allows classical tetrad analysis.
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Here is the Life cycle of Arabidopsis thaliana.
Easy to grow and growing fast
6-7 weeks to see flowers
8-9 weeks to collect sufficient pollen grains
12 weeks to harvest whole seeds from individual plants
Perfect genome sequence
Easy genetic engineering using Agrobacterium-mediated transformation
Powerful genetic screening
Genomic/Epigenomic data are available
Seed or pollen Fluorescence-Tagged Lines (FTLs) are available
FTLs enable to measure crossover frequency and interference
Seeds expressing YFP and an RFP histogram_Photos taken by Dohwan 2020_02_16
Arabidopsis thaliana 2020_02_14
Arabidopsis male meiocytes_Photo taken by Heejin Kim 2020_02_13
Nanopore seq has been activated in Choi's lab since 2019!
2020!
Happy new year to all lab members and colleagues!
DeepTetrad paper, the first research article of Choi's lab as PI was published in The Plant Journal on 19th, September 2019
The crossing day in lab, 19th, July 2019
Cucumber, Oriental melon, Tomato, Arabidopsis, June 2019
May 2019
In the spring of 2018
