최명환

부교수

최명환 Choi, Myunghwan

최명환
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
  1. Park GY, Lee G, ..., Choi M*. Glia-like taste cells mediate an intercellular mode of peripheral sweet adaptation. Cell 2025
  2. Kim S, Moon H, ..., Choi M*, Kim SG*. Whole-brain mapping of effective connectivity by fMRI with cortex-wide patterned optogenetics. Neuron 2023
  3. Han J, Choi M*. Comprehensive functional screening of taste sensation in vivo. bioRxiv, 2018.
  4. Jo Y, Kwon J, Kim M, Choi W, Choi M*. Microsphere-based interferometric optical probe. Nature Communications 2018
  5. Kwon J, Kim M, ..., Choi M*. Label-free nanoscale optical metrology on myelinated axons in vivo. Nature Communications 2017