Professor
Deasoo Kim
- Neuroscience
- Animal behavior
- Artificial intelligence
- Innate behavior
- Parkinson’s disease
- Dystonia
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Education
Ph.D. in Genetics and Neuroscience, POSTECH, Korea (1998)
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Location
4208, E6-3
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Laboratory
Behavioral Genetics Lab
Biosketch
- Professor Daesoo Kim is a neuroscientist who studies the relationship between the brain and behavior from the perspective of genetics and neuroscience.
- After completing his MS/Ph.D. degree in genetics and neuroscience at POSTECH, he studied neurophysiology as a postdoctoral researcher at SUNY Medical School in the US.
- He was appointed to KAIST as a professor in 2004 and is currently exploring the cause of action with researchers in the behavioral genetics laboratory. He founded Actnova, an artificial intelligence behavioral analysis company, and NeuroTobe, a pharmaceutical company for brain diseases, including Parkinson's disease, as CEO.
- Significant positions include The head of the dept of Biological Sciences (2019-2021), BK21 Director (2019-2021), Biocore Center Director (2019-2022), and KAIST-Wonjin Cell Therapy Center Director (2021-present). He won The Top 10 Research Awards of KAIST (2008, 2015), The KI Convergence Research Awards (2018), the Samil Culture Awards (2017), and the Social DNA Awards (2022).
- He is giving lectures on the popularization of science, including an invited talk on IDEA lab at the 2016 Davos World Economic Forum. His books include "The universe of 1.4kg, the brain" (Science books) and When our life needs brain sciences (Dasan books).
Key Papers
- Kim, D. et. al. (1997). Phospholipase C isozymes selectively couple to specific neurotransmitter receptors. Nature, 389: 290-293. (IF=50)
- Kim, D. et. al. (2001). Lack of the burst firing of thalamocortical relay neurons and resistance to absence seizures in mice lacking alpha(1G) T-type Ca2+ channels. Neuron, 31(1): 35-45. (IF=18.6)
- Kim, D. et. al. (2003). Thalamic control of visceral nociception mediated by T-type Ca2+ channels Science, 302: 117-119. (IF=33.6)
- Park, Y. et al. (2010) CaV3.1 is a tremor rhythm pacemaker in the inferior olive. PNAS, 8;107(23):10731-6 (IF=12.7)
- Kim, J. et. al. (2017). Inhibitory basal ganglia inputs induce excitatory motor signals in the thalamus. Neuron, 95:1181-1196 (IF=18.6)
- Park, S.-G. et. al. (2018) Medial preoptic circuit induces hunting-like actions to target objects and prey. Nature Neuroscience, 26: 364-371 (IF=28.7)
- Kim, E. et al (2021)Cerebellar 5HT-2A receptor mediates stress-induced onset of dystonia Science Advances doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abb5735 (IF=14)