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June 19–23, 2025: Jaeyun will attend the American Society of Microbiology annual meeting in Los Angeles, CA.
June 17–18, 2025: Jaeyun will attend the 3rd Microbiome Center Consortium (MCC) meeting (University of California, Irvine, CA) as an invited guest.
April 10–11, 2025: Jaeyun will give an invited talk at the 10th Annual Translational Microbiome Conference in Boston.

Oct. 29–Nov. 2, 2024: Jaeyun attended the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Microbiome Meeting at Cold Spring Harbor, NY and presented a poster on our recent GMWI2 work.
Oct. 28: Jaeyun gave an invited talk at Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ).
Oct. 16, 2024: Jaeyun gave a guest lecture on the application of machine learning for computational biomarker discovery in the BME487: AI in BME class at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor.
Oct. 7: Jaeyun gave a virtual talk at the Microbiome Virtual International Forum (MVIF.32)….and won the Best Selected Talk Award voted by the audience!
Sep. 4, 2024: Our Gut Microbiome Wellness Index work is on the local news! (video below) Thanks to KTTC TV for covering this story!

Aug. 2024: GMWI2 is published in Nature Communications! A magnificent win for human poop!
Aug. 2024: sung_lab_members += 1 # We welcome Adam Koller to the group as a post-baccalaureate researcher! Adam is a recent graduate of Luther College (Decorah, Iowa) in Math and Data Science.
June 18, 2024: Jaeyun gave an invited webinar on the group’s latest work on serum autoantibodies in rheumatoid arthritis subgroups. This webinar was hosted by Sengenics, Inc.
June 2024: sung_lab_members += 1 # We welcome Cara Chang to the group as a summer intern! Cara is currently a rising senior at Northwestern University majoring in Data Science, Economics, and International Studies.
May 2024: Conan passed his USMLE Step 1 exam! Hearty congratulations, Conan!
Apr. 26–27, 2024: Jaeyun presented a poster on our gut microbiome and dementia with Lewy bodies work at the 5th Association of Korean Neuroscientists Annual Research Symposium 2024, which was held at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX.
Apr. 7–10, 2024: Jaeyun presented a poster on our plasma proteomics work in giant cell arteritis at the 21st International Vasculitis Workshop in Barcelona, Spain. His poster was selected for the conference poster tour!
Mar. 2024: Passing a ~13% acceptance rate, Thomas is awarded a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) through the Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences! We look forward to having Thomas work with us as a SURF student this summer. Congratulations, Thomas!
Feb. 22, 2024: Jaeyun gave an invited talk at the Lunch & Learn session hosted by the Department of Artificial Intelligence and Informatics, Mayo Clinic.
Feb. 20, 2024: Vinod’s paper on the impact of providing kefir to patients in the ICU is now out in BMC Medicine. Congratulations, Vinod!
Jan. 18–19, 2024: Jaeyun presented at the Centrally-linked Longitudinal pEripheral biomARkers of AD (CLEAR-AD) U19 Program Annual Meeting at the Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, FL Campus.
Jan. 2024: sung_lab_members += 1 # We welcome Thomas Pelowitz to the group as an undergraduate researcher! Thomas is currently a Junior at Winona State University majoring in Applied Computer Science.

Dec. 6, 2023: Jaeyun gave a guest lecture on pharmaco-microbiomics to Mayo Clinic graduate students in MPET6813: Tutorial in Systems Pharmacology.
Nov. 15, 2023: Jaeyun gave a talk at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA on the group’s proteomics-based, biomarker discovery research in Giant Cell Arteritis.
Oct. 2023: sung_lab_members += 1 # We welcome Heather Pump to the group as a medical student researcher! Heather is currently a 2nd-year medical student at Mayo Clinic.
Oct. 26, 2023: Jaeyun gave an invited talk at the Department of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Minnesota, Twin-Cities in the St. Paul campus.
Oct. 11–14, 2023: Jaeyun attended the Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting (Seattle, WA) and chaired the “Systems Analysis of Spatial and Microbial Cell Signaling” session.
Oct. 4–5, 2023: Jaeyun gave an invited talk at the The Festival of Genomics & BioData in Boston, MA.
Sep. 29, 2023: Jaeyun gave an invited talk at Indiana University School of Medicine.
Sep. 26, 2023: Jaeyun’s review paper on the relevance of gut microbiome to the critically ill (i.e., patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU)) is now published in the Journal of Critical Care.
Sep. 21, 2023: Jaeyun gave a talk at the Mayo Clinic and Karolinska Institutet Annual Meeting in Rochester, MN.
Aug. 2023: sung_lab_members += 1 # We welcome Dr. Conan Zhao to the group as a medical student researcher! Conan has a PhD in Quantitative Biosciences from Georgia Tech, and is currently a 2nd-year medical student at Mayo Clinic.
Aug. 2023: sung_lab_members += 1 # We welcome Xiaowei Zhao to the group as an M.S. student (thesis track) in the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program at University of Minnesota!
June 21, 2023: Jaeyun gave an invited (virtual) talk at the Annual Meeting & International Symposium of the Korean Society for Microbiology and Biotechnology (KMB).
June 2023: Jaeyun has been selected as the Diversity Scholar for Mayo Clinic by the NIH National Institute of Aging (NIA)-funded Centrally-linked Longitudinal pEripheral biomARkers of AD (CLEAR-AD) U19 Program. The award will provide funds to broaden the expertise of the research group in the field of Alzheimer’s Disease and related disorders.
May 9, 2023: Our paper on the in vitro prebiotic effect of different prebiotic oligosaccharides is now published in npj Science of Food. Congrats, Daniel and Vinod!
May 4–6, 2023: Jaeyun presented a talk on the group’s rheumatoid arthritis biomarker discovery work at the Center for Individualized Medicine’s 12th Annual Individualizing Medicine Conference (Jacksonville, FL).
May 1, 2023: Daniel passed his undergraduate thesis presentation with flying colors! His thesis work was on translating gut microbiome data for actional tests. Congrats, Daniel!
April 20–23, 2023: Jaeyun attended Scialog: MND (Microbiome, Neurobiology, and Disease), hosted by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement, in Tucson, AZ as an invited participant.
April 1, 2023: Kevin’s first lead-author paper, in which he identified differences in serum autoantibodies between two subgroups of rheumatoid arthritis patients, is out in Scientific Reports. Congrats, Kevin!
Mar. 10, 2023: Jaeyun gave an invited talk at Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea).
Mar. 3, 2023: Jaeyun gave an invited talk at Chungbuk National University (Cheongju, South Korea).

Jan. 27, 2023: Our GMWI-webtool is published as an Application Notes paper in Bioinformatics. Congrats on your first paper, Daniel!
Jan. 12, 2023: Jaeyun gave an invited (keynote) talk at the 15th Annual Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BICB) Research Symposium at the University of Minnesota, Rochester Campus.
Jan. 3, 2023: PIs and trainees (students, postdoctoral fellows) of the Microbiome Program convened for a full-day retreat. There were lots of scientific discussions, cross-pollination of ideas from different fields, followed by a banquet dinner to celebrate our great camaraderie.

Nov. 12, 2022: Vinod’s paper on our new computational tool (TaxiBGC) for identifying experimentally characterized biosynthetic gene clusters in shotgun metagenomes is now published in mSystems. Congrats, Vinod!
Nov. 10–14, 2022: Ben (talk) and Kevin (poster) presented on their latest work in rheumatoid arthritis at the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) Annual meeting in Philadelphia, PA.
Nov. 2–3, 2022: All student and post-doc lab members presented on their research projects at the Individualizing Medicine Conference at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN.
Oct. 31, 2022: Jaeyun gave an invited talk at Yale University.
Oct. 25–29, 2022: Part of the lab attended the microbiome meeting at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Jaeyun gave a talk, and Vinod and Daniel presented posters on their latest work. The list of presentations throughout the meeting can be found here.
Oct. 21, 2022: Jaeyun gave a talk at the Division of Rheumatology (Mayo Clinic) Friday seminar series.
Oct. 12–15, 2022: Part of the lab attended the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) annual meeting in San Antonio, TX. Ben (talk) and Kevin (poster) presented their latest work.
Aug. 25, 2022: Kevin gave a talk on the contents of his first manuscript (submitted) as a faculty-nominated student speaker for the Annual BICB Industry Symposium at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
July 2022: Ben’s abstract has been selected for an oral presentation at this years’s BMES annual meeting. Congrats, Ben!
June 10–13, 2022: Jaeyun presented the group’s work on novel autoantibodies in rheumatoid arthritis at the 13th International Congress on Autoimmunity in Athens, Greece.
June 2022: Vinod gave an oral presentation on his TaxiBGC work at ASM Microbe in Washington D.C.
June 2022: Vinod received a travel award from the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) to attend ASM Microbe 2022. Congratulations, Vinod!
May 23, 2022: Sergio’s paper on the nested structure of human gut microbiomes, and how this can be used to designate microbiome ‘generalists’ and ‘specialists’ (and varying degrees in between), is now published in PNAS Nexus. Congrats, Sergio!
May 18, 2022: Jaeyun will give an invited talk at Microbiome First - Pathway to Sustainable Healthcare Summit, sponsored by the World Asthma Foundation.
May 11-13, 2022: Vinod attended the 5th Ohio State University Viromics Workshop in Columbus, OH.
May 11, 2022: Jaeyun gave an invited talk at the Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies, University of Texas Health San Antonio.
Apr. 11, 2022: Ben’s manuscript on finding gene expression signatures of ascending aortic inflammatory aneurysms is now published online in Arthritis & Rheumatology, the best clinical journal in rheumatology. Many congrats, Ben!
Apr. 8–9, 2022: Jaeyun attended (virtually) Scialog: Microbiome, Neurobiology and Disease as an invited participant.
Apr. 3–6, 2022: Jaeyun and Ben attended the 20th International Vasculitis and ANCA Workshop in Dublin, Ireland. Both presented the lab’s most recent work on aortitis (RNA-seq) transcriptomics and potential off-label drug targets.
Mar. 28, 2022: Jaeyun gave an invited talk at the Mayo Clinic Kogod Center on Aging.
Mar. 23–25, 2022: Jaeyun attended the Microbiome Center Consortium Meeting at the University of Chicago as an invited participant.
Mar 18, 2022: Jaeyun gave a guest lecture to University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) students in BME 499.060: AI in BME.
Mar. 3, 2022: Jaeyun gave a talk to biomedical engineering undergraduate and graduate students at an ‘Applications of Engineering in Healthcare’ workshop at the University of Warwick, Coventry, England.
Feb. 19, 2022: Our paper on multi-omic bioinformatics to find associations amongst the microbiome, host gene expression, and immune cell signatures in gastric cancer is now published in iScience! This was a great collaborative effort with colleagues at Mayo Clinic Florida campus and Hanyang University Hospital (Guri, South Korea).
Jan. 3, 2022: Minsuk’s paper on constraint-based metabolic modeling of microbial communities is now published in Metabolic Engineering. Hearty congrats, Minsuk!

Dec. 17, 2021: Jaeyun gave an invited talk at the US-KOREA Conference on Science, Technology, and Entrepreneurship (UKC) (Los Angeles, CA) hosted by the Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association.
Dec. 8, 2021: Jaeyun gave a guest lecture to Mayo Clinic graduate students in MPET6813: Tutorial in Systems Pharmacology on the lab’s ongoing work in pharmaco-microbiomics.
Dec. 7, 2021: Jaeyun gave an invited talk at Aimble, an AI-driven drug discovery start-up based in Seoul, South Korea.
Dec. 7, 2021: Jaeyun gave an invited talk at Seoul National University (Seoul, South Korea).
Dec. 2021: Ben’s abstract was selected for a presentation at the International Vasculitis and ANCA Workshop in Dublin, Ireland (Apr. 2022). Congrats, Ben!
Dec. 6, 2021: Jaeyun gave an invited talk (virtual) at the MIT Microbiome Club Seminar Series.
Dec. 3, 2021: Jaeyun gave an invited talk at Pusan National University (Busan, South Korea).
Nov. 16, 2021: Jaeyun’s talk at Targeting Microbiota 2021 (Oct. 22) won the Best Short Oral Presentation Award!
Nov. 6, 2021: Ben gave an oral presentation on his giant cell arteritis (GCA) transcriptomics work at the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) Annual Meeting. Congrats on getting your abstract accepted, Ben!
Nov. 5, 2021: Kevin gave a talk on his current research project at the University of Minnesota Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BICB) Program Undergrad Open House.
Oct. 22, 2021: Jaeyun gave a (virtual) talk at the 8th World Congress on Targeting Microbiota.
Oct. 21–22, 2021: Jaeyun served as an Early Career Reviewer on the Modeling and Analysis of Biological Systems (MABS) study section at NIH.
Oct. 20, 2021: Our lab is awarded the Translational Product Development Fund (TPDF) from the Minnesota Partnership for Biotechnology and Medical Genomics. We will receive $60k to develop our Gut Microbiome Health Index platform into a commercial product. We are on our way to translation!
Oct. 6–9, 2021: Jaeyun, Vinod, and Ben attended the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting in Orlando, FL. Vinod and Ben gave oral presentations on their latest works. Jaeyun chaired the ‘Omics Data: Methods, Modeling and Analysis’ sub-track.
Sep. 14, 2021: Vinod’s paper on linking the gut microbiome with clinical improvement in rheumatoid arthritis is now out in Genome Medicine. Congrats, Vinod!
June 27–29, 2021: Utpal and Vinod presented posters, and Jaeyun gave a talk at the (virtual) International Human Microbiome Consortium Congress.
June 2021: We wholeheartedly congratulate Dr. Utpal Bakshi on landing his next role: Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Institute of Advanced Research in Gandhinagar, India. Utpal will be departing the lab in August. We wish you all the best, Utpal!
June 10–11, 2021: Utpal presented a flash talk on his latest work on identifying biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) from metagenomes at the 27th Annual Boston Bacterial Meeting.
June 8, 2021: Ben’s paper on RA plasma metabolomics, wherein he found that blood biochemical fingerprints are predictive of RA disease activity scores, is now out in Arthritis Research & Therapy. Congrats, Ben!
May 27, 2021: Our WIPO patent on “Assessing Gut Health Using Metagenome Data” has now been issued!
Apr. 20–23, 2021: Ben and Jaeyun attended the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Systems Immunology meeting.
Apr. 15, 2021: Vinod presented a poster on his recent RA gut microbiome work at the (virtual) MIT Microbiome Symposium.
Apr. 2021: Jaeyun has been awarded the Mayo Clinic Career Development Award for Rheumatoid Arthritis Research. This award comes with $300k to partially cover research expenses and personnel salary. We look forward to discovering novel breakthroughs and developing transformative solutions for all patients with RA.
Mar. 26, 2021: Jaeyun gave a (virtual) talk at the Division of Rheumatology (Mayo Clinic) monthly seminar series.
Mar. 19, 2021: Jaeyun gave an invited (virtual) talk at the 29th Annual Meeting of the Korean College of Helicobacter and Upper Gastrointestinal Research (Seoul, South Korea).
Mar. 2021: We are pleased to learn that our Gut Microbiome Health Index paper (Gupta et al.), published in September of 2020, is ranked #17 of the Top 50 most downloaded 2020 articles in the Life and Biological Sciences section of Nature Communications.
Feb. 18, 2021: Jaeyun gave an invited (virtual) talk at Front Line Genomics as part of their microbiome ONLINE webinar series.
Feb. 5, 2021: We have been awarded a $240k grant, titled “Diagnostic Biomarker Discovery in Autoantibody-Negative Inflammatory Arthritis”, by Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine! We are excited to be working towards discovering novel immune biomarkers that will help seronegative RA patients get the right diagnosis sooner.
Jan. 18–20, 2021: Vinod, Utpal, and Jaeyun attended the Keystone Microbiome eSymposia. Vinod and Utpal presented posters on their latest research.
Jan. 2021: Jaeyun is one of 50 early-career faculty selected as a Scialog Fellow to participate in the 2021 Scialog: Microbiome, Neurobiology and Disease, jointly sponsored by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA), the Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group, and the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation.
Jan. 2021: We are excited to work with Professor Isobel Scarisbrick on her recently awarded NIH (NINDS) R01 grant on targeting Protease Activated Receptor 1 (PAR1) for spinal cord injury repair. Jaeyun will serve as a co-Investigator on this research.

Dec. 23, 2020: Jaeyun was interviewed by Truth (a global strategic consultancy based in London) on branding of consumer products for gut health.
Dec. 4, 2020: Jaeyun gave an invited (virtual) talk at the 8th Annual Mayo Clinic Korean-American Staff Conference.
Nov. 20, 2020: Jaeyun and Vinod filed a patent, titled “Assessing Gut Health using Metagenome Data” (app. no. PCT/US2020/061557), through Mayo Clinic Ventures. One (of many) step towards realizing our vision of integrating gut microbiome into preventive health screening services!
Nov. 20, 2020: Jaeyun gave an invited (virtual) talk at the International Life Sciences Institute. See the talk on Youtube!
Nov. 11, 2020: Jaeyun gave an invited (virtual) talk at Viome, Inc.
Nov. 7, 2020: Vinod presented a digital poster on his rheumatoid arthritis gut microbiome work at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting (held virtually). Abstract acceptance was a competitive process. Congrats, Vinod!
Nov. 4–5, 2020: Jaeyun gave an invited talk at the 5th Probiotics & Prebiotics Congress (held virtually).
Oct. 28, 2020: Jaeyun gave an invited (virtual) talk at Metagenics, Inc.
Oct. 27, 2020: Jaeyun gave an invited (virtual) talk at BIO-CAT Microbials.
Oct. 20–23, 2020: Vinod, Utpal, and Jae attended the Cold Spring Harbor Microbiome Meeting (held virtually) and presented their digital posters.
Oct. 20, 2020: Jaeyun gave an invited (virtual) talk at Clinical Microbiomics A/S.
Oct. 16, 2020: Invited by current graduate students at his alma mater (Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois), Jaeyun served as an oral presentation judge for the annual department graduate research symposium (held virtually).
Oct. 16, 2020: Jin Sung’s CyTOF paper showing the association between maternal obesity and fetal cord immunity is now out in American Journal of Reproductive Immunology. Congrats, Jin Sung!
Oct. 14, 2020: Jaeyun gave an invited (virtual) talk to the Gastroenterology Research Unit, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Mayo Clinic.
Oct. 14, 2020: As an annual tradition, the lab will attend the Center for Individualized Medicine Annual Conference (held virtually). Vinod, Utpal, Ben, and Jaeyun presented their digital posters.
Oct. 8, 2020: Our group, along with labs of Drs. Nicholas Chia, Purna Kashyap, Marina Walther-Antonio, John Kalantari, and Yuguang Liu, participated in a scientific retreat hosted by the Mayo Clinic Microbiome Program (held virtually).
Sep. 15, 2020: Vinod’s Gut Microbiome Health Index paper, a computational tool for assessing gut health, is now out in Nature Communications. Congrats, Vinod!
July 28, 2020: Jin Sung’s immunophenotyping paper in Primary Biliary Cholangitis is now out in Scientific Reports. Great work, Jin Sung!
Mar. 2020: Hearty congratulations to Kevin Cunningham for getting accepted into the Bioinformatics & Computational Biology PhD program at the University of Minnesota!
Feb. 25, 2020: Preprints of Jin Sung’s and Vinod’s papers are up on bioRxiv! (see publications)
Feb. 18, 2020: Minsuk’s paper on identifying gut metabolites associated with gut microbes and with colorectal cancer progression is now out in mBio. Congrats, Minsuk!
Jan. 2020: Jaeyun is now an adjunct faculty at the University of Minnesota. We invite incoming PhD and/or MS students to join our research group!

Nov. 20, 2019: Jaeyun gave a guest lecture on gut microbiome and pharmaceutical drug interactions to Mayo Clinic graduate students in MPET6813 (Systems Pharmacology).
Nov. 7, 2019: Jaeyun gave a talk at the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program, University of Minnesota.
Oct. 17, 2019: Jaeyun gave a talk at the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA.
Sep. 2019: sung_lab_members += 1 # We welcome Dr. Benjamin Hur from Seoul National University (South Korea)! Ben's background is in medical informatics, sequencing data analysis, and machine-learning, and will be joining the lab in December 2019.
Aug. 30, 2019: Jaeyun gave a talk at the Division of Rheumatology (Mayo Clinic) monthly seminar series.
July 18-21, 2019: The lab attended the Cold Spring Harbor Microbiome Meeting at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (NY). Vinod, Minsuk, and Utpal presented posters of their work. Great work, Team!
Apr. 19, 2019: Jaeyun gave an invited talk at the Channing Division of Network Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, in Boston, MA.
Apr. 18, 2019: Jaeyun gave an invited talk at the Translational Microbiome Conference in Boston, MA.
Apr. 8-9, 2019: Jaeyun attended the Institute for Systems Biology Annual Symposium and presented a poster on the group’s recent works.
Feb. 19, 2019: Jaeyun and Kevin hosted a workshop on Machine-learning Applications in Medicine for the (graduate student-led) Computational and Systems Biology Interest Group at Mayo Clinic.
Feb. 13, 2019: Jaeyun was interviewed on his perspectives on probiotics by Fitness Formulary, a personalized health, nutrition, and fitness start-up company based in Minneapolis. Q&A content can be found here.

Oct. 16, 2018: Minsuk’s paper on serum- & bile-based metabolomic signatures of Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis is published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences. Congratulations, Minsuk!
Oct. 11, 2018: Jaeyun gave an invited talk at Food | Ag | Ideas Week in Minneapolis, MN.
Sep. 12-13, 2018: The lab attended the annual Individualized Medicine Conference held here at Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN).
Sept. 12, 2018: Jaeyun gave a talk at the Department of Endocrinology Grand Rounds seminar series.
Sept. 6, 2018: Jaeyun gave a keynote talk at the Food Industry Thought Leaders symposium, hosted by the Agricultural Utilization Research Institute, in Minneapolis, MN.
Aug. 22, 2018: The lab is exploring research avenues into the food & nutrition industry! Jaeyun gave an invited talk at CJ Cheil-jedang Corporation in Suwon, South Korea.
Aug. 2018: We are excited to be working with Dr. Konstantinos N. Lazaridis, MD on his recently awarded RC2 grant from the NIH to collect and analyze multi-omics data from patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis. Jae will serve as a project co-Investigator.
July 4, 2018: Jaeyun gave an invited talk at Kangbuk Samsung Hospital in Seoul, South Korea.
May 2018: sung_lab_members += 1 # We welcome Mr. Sergio Cobo-López from Rovira i Virgili University (Tarragona, Spain)! Sergio's background is in condensed matter physics and statistical learning, and will be joining the lab for a 3-4 month rotation in September.
May 2018: sung_lab_members += 1 # We welcome our third post-doc, Dr. Utpal Bakshi from CSIR-IICB (Kolkata, India)! Dr. Bakshi's background is in bioinformatics pipeline development for pathogen (Enterococci) genome analysis, and will be joining the lab in August.March 4-8, 2018: The lab attended the Keystone Symposia in Banff, Alberta, Canada.
Feb. 12-14, 2018: Jaeyun gave a talk at the Pathway Tools Workshop on Microbiome Metabolic Modeling in Menlo Park, CA.Jan. 21-24, 2018: The lab attended the Keystone Symposia in Olympic Valley, CA.

Dec. 2017: sung_lab_members += 1 # We welcome our second post-doc, Dr. Minsuk Kim from Seoul National University (Seoul, South Korea)! Dr. Kim's background is in genome-scale metabolic modeling and computational strain design, and will be joining the lab in April 2018.
Nov. 2017: sung_lab_members += 1 # We welcome our first undergraduate researcher, Mr. Kevin Cunningham! Kevin's background is in financial data analysis and computer science, and will be joining the lab this coming December.
Nov. 2-3, 2017: Jaeyun presented a poster of his past work at the Probiotics Congress: USA meeting in San Diego, CA.
Oct. 11-14, 2017: Jaeyun presented a poster of his past work at the BMES2017 conference in Phoenix, AZ.
Oct. 9-10, 2017: The lab attended the Individualizing Medicine Conference held here at Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN).
Sept. 2017: The lab was awarded a project grant from Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) for personalized nutrition and probiotics research focusing on the maintenance of healthy body weight. | NYTimes press release
Aug. 1-3, 2017: Jaeyun presented a poster of his past work at the Multi-omics for Microbiomes conference in Pasco, WA.
July 2017: sung_lab_members += 1 # We welcome our first post-doc, Dr. Vinod K. Gupta from CSIR-IICB (Kolkata, India)! Dr. Gupta's background is in meta-genome bioinformatics, and will be joining the lab this coming October.
July 3-5, 2017: Jaeyun gave an invited talk at the Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Spain.
June 20-22, 2017: Jaeyun visited colleagues at Weizmann Institute of Science and Day Two Ltd. in Tel Aviv, Israel.
June, 2017: Jaeyun is featured in the Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine news blog.
June 6, 2017: Our paper on gut microbiota metabolic network modeling is out in Nature Communications.
April 2017: Sung Lab has officially launched!