부교수
최명환 Choi, Myunghwan
연구분야
신경생물학
We develop light-based tools to understand how taste information is processed from the tongue to the brain, influencing our feeding behavior.
학력/경력/수상내역
학력
- - 2006 – 2010 KAIST 바이오및뇌공학과 박사
- - 2003 – 2006 KAIST 바이오및뇌공학과 학사
경력
- - 2020 – 현재 서울대학교 생명과학부 부교수
- - 2023 – 2024 Visiting faculty, Monell Chemical Senses Center
- - 2016 – 2023 Associate Editor, Optics Express
- - 2015 – 2020 성균관대학교 바이오메디컬공학과 조교수/부교수
- - 2011 – 2015 Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School
주요논문
- Park GY, Lee G, Yoon J, Han J, Choi P, Kim M, Lee S, Park C, Wu Z, Li Y, Choi M. Glia-like taste cells mediate an intercellular mode of peripheral sweet adaptation. Cell 2025 188, 1-16.
- Kim S, Moon H, ..., Choi M*, Kim SG*. Whole-brain mapping of effective connectivity by fMRI with cortex-wide patterned optogenetics. Neuron 2023
- Han J, Choi M*. Comprehensive functional screening of taste sensation in vivo. bioRxiv, 2018.
- Jo Y, Kwon J, Kim M, Choi W, Choi M*. Microsphere-based interferometric optical probe. Nature Communications 2018
- Kwon J, Kim M, Park H, Kang B, Jo Y, Kim JH, James O, Yun SH, Kim SG, Suh M, Choi M*. Label-free nanoscale optical metrology on myelinated axons in vivo. Nature Communications 2017