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, 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.
  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, 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