Core Research Areas < Faculty & Research

Core Research Areas

Molecular and Cellular Brain Science
- Applying the latest technologies of neuroscience to elucidate the core principles of neuronal and synaptic generation, degeneration, function, and plasticity at the molecular and cellular levels.
- Studying the fundamental principles of the central nervous system's development, differentiation, and cell death through molecular and cellular approaches.
- Developing new technologies to control neuropsychiatry, developmental, and neurodegenerative disorders through the discovery of molecular and cellular signaling involved in the diseases.
- Conducting research from single molecules and cells to genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics to elucidate the pathogenesis of neurodevelopmental and degenerative diseases and metabolic disorders and develop early diagnostic techniques.
Systems Brain Science
- Interoception and behavioral plasticity
- Neurobiological understanding and overcoming techniques of mental illness
- Neuron-glia interactions underlying emotional behaviors
- Circadian rhythm and behavior
- Functional evo-devo study of locomotor neural circuits
- Behavioral disorders and psychiatric illnesses by dysregulation of behavioral/cognitive plasticity
- Identification of plastic-degrading bacteria and enzymes
Brain Engineering
- State-of-the-art tools and methods for fundamental understanding of the brain
- Large-scale brain interface and high-resolution neural imaging
- Neural modulation techniques for manipulating brain signals
- Brain signal processing, encoding, and decoding
- Engineering approaches to rehabilitate, repair, and replace neurological deficits and disorders
Cognitive Brain Science
- Understanding the neural correlates of high-level cognition through convergent approaches of brain sciences
- Interrogating brain mechanisms of mental processes embracing memory, attention, problem-solving, decisionmaking, inference, and language
- Exploring the relationship of mind-brain-behavior by imaging, recording, and manipulating neural activity
- Investigating brain maps and brain networks using brain big data
Computational Brain Science
- Deciphering proteomic structures and functions at an atom level through statistical and computational physics and investigation of physicochemical fundamentals of life science in Bio- Neuro-Brain system
- Mechanisms of protein fibrillization and proteomic principle of neurodegenerative diseases
- Supercomputing of dementia-predicting big-data and complex network analysis
- Supercomputing-based modeling of protein structure in the brain and nervous system
- Structure analysis of membrane proteins and receptor proteins in the view of signal transduction mechanisms through the cell membrane

5 Major
Research Areas

Molecular and Cellular Brain Science
Systems Brain Science
Brain Engineering
Cognitive Brain Science
Computational Brain Science