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Yoosik KIM

Department of Chemical Engineering
Room A217 E-Quad, Olden Street,
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
Phone: 609-258-7196
yoosikk@princeton.edu

EDUCATION

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, Sep. '06 – Oct. '11
Graduate Student in Ph.D. Program, Department of Chemical Engineering

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, June '08
Master of Arts in Chemical Engineering

Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College Hanover, NH, June '06
Bachelor of Engineering with an emphasis in Chemistry

Dartmouth College Hanover, NH, June '06
Bachelor of Art in Engineering Sciences modified with Chemistry

AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

• Wallace Memorial Honorific Fellowship, given to outstanding graduate students in their final year from Princeton University Graduate School (2010)
• William R. Schowalter Travel Award, Princeton University (2008)
• The Donald W. Collier '44 Fellowship in Chemical Engineering (2006-07)
• The Thayer School Faculty Award for Academic Excellence (2006)
• Summa Cum Laude (2006)
• Presidential Scholar Assistantship (2006)
• The Leon Burr Richardson Chemistry Prize (2003)
• Rufus Choate Scholar 2004-2005

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Princeton University, Ph.D. Thesis Project, Princeton, NJ, Jan. '07 - present

• “Dynamics of Signaling Pathways: Imaging, Genetic Experiments, and Modeling”
• Advisor: Dr. Stanislav Y. Shvartsman

Dartmouth College Bachelor of Engineering Project, Hanover, NH, Sep. '05 - Mar. '06

• “Final design & evaluation of anaerobic digestion at McNamara Dairy”
• Advisor: Dr. Lee R. Lynd

Dartmouth College Research Assistant, Hanover, NH, Sep. '04 - Jun. '05

• “Detection of Nitrogen Monoxide with Resin-linked Dithiocarbamate Complex”
• Advisor: Dr. Dean E. Wilcox

PUBLICATIONS

• Kim, Y., Coppey, M., Grossman, R., Ajuria, L., Jiménez, G., Paroush, Z., and Shvartsman, S.Y. “MAPK substrate competition integrates patterning signals in the Drosophila embryo.” Curr. Bio. 20, 446-51 (2010).
• Kanodia, J., Rikhy, R., Kim, Y., Lund, V., deLotto, R., Lippincott-Schwarz, J., and Shvartsman, S.Y. “Dynamics of the Dorsal gradient.” Proc Natl Acad Sci. 106, 21707-21712 (2009)
• Coppey, M., Berezhkovskii, A.M., Kim, Y., Boettiger, A.N., and Shvartsman, S.Y. “Modeling the Bicoid gradient: diffusion and reversible nuclear trapping of a stable protein.” Dev Bio., 312, 623-630 (2007).

MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION

• Kim, Y., Ishihara, K., Jiménez, G., Paroush, Z., and Shvartsman, S.Y. “Retroactivity in a developmental signaling network.”
• Kim, Y., Jiménez, G., Paroush Z., and Shvartsman, S.Y. “Regulation of zerknullt by MAPK substrate competition”
• Chung, K., Kim, Y., Kanodia, J., Shvartsman, S.Y., and Lu, H.
• Kavousanakis, M., Kim, Y., Kanodia, J., Kevrekidis, I., and Shvartsman S.Y. “A compartmental model for the Bicoid gradient.” Dev. Biol., (Submitted)
• Tipping, M., Kim, Y., Kyriakakis, P., Tong, M., Shvartsman S.Y., and Veraksa, A. “β-arrestin Kurtz inhibits MAPK signaling in Drosophila.” EMBO (Under Revision)

SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS

• Kim, Y. and Shvartsman, S.Y. “Regulation of zerknullt by MAPK substrate competition.” 51st Annual Drosophila Research Conference, Washington DC. (April 2010)
• Kim, Y., Coppey, M., Ajuria, L., Jiménez, G., Paroush, Z., and Shvartsman, S.Y. “MAPK substrate competition integrates patterning signals in the Drosophila embryo.” 2009 Chemical Engineering Graduate Student Symposium, Princeton, New Jersey (October 2009).
• Kim, Y., Coppey, M., Ajuria, L., Jiménez, G., Paroush, Z., and Shvartsman, S.Y. “Models of maternal morphogen gradients and their interactions.” 50th Annual Drosophila Research Conference, Chicago, IL (March 2009)
• Kim, Y., Coppey, M., Ajuria, L., Jiménez, G., Paroush, Z., and Shvartsman, S.Y. “Substrate competition in patterning of the Drosophila embryo.” Developmental Colloquium, Princeton, New Jersey (October 2008)
• Kim, Y., Coppey, M., Ajuria, L., Jiménez, G., Paroush, Z., and Shvartsman, S.Y. “Substrate competition in patterning of the Drosophila embryo.” 2008 Chemical Engineering Graduate Student Symposium, Princeton, New Jersey (October 2008).

POSTERS

• Kim, Y. Hirashima, T., Ishihara, K., Jiménez, G., Paroush, Z., and Shvartsman, S.Y. “Retroactivity in a developmental signaling network.” 51st Annual Drosophila Research Conference, Washington DC (April 2010)
• Kim, Y. Coppey, M., Ajuria, L., Jiménez, G., Paroush, Z., and Shvartsman, S.Y. “MAPK substrate competition integrates patterning signals in the Drosophila embryo.” 50th Annual Drosophila Research Conference, Chicago, IL (March 2009)
• Kim, Y. Coppey, M., Ajuria, L., Jiménez, G., Paroush, Z., and Shvartsman, S.Y. “MAPK substrate competition integrates patterning signals in the Drosophila embryo.” Genomics Center Retreat, Princeton, New Jersey (January 2009)
• Kim, Y. Coppey, M., Jiménez, G., and Shvartsman, S.Y. “Spatial control of MAPK activation and signaling in the early embryo.” 49th Annual Drosophila Research Conference, San Diego, California (April 2008)
• Kim, Y. Coppey, M., and Shvartsman, S.Y. “Quantitative study of patterning: imaging and modeling of the terminal system during Drosophila embryogenesis.” 2007 Chemical Engineering Graduate Student Symposium, Princeton, New Jersey (October 2007)

SKILLS AND ACTIVITIES

• Dartmouth Six Sigma Green Belt
• Tau Beta Pi National Engineering Honors Society
• Phi Beta Kappa Academic Honor Society