Jisook Kim

Assistant Professor

Office: Grote 311

Department of Chemistry

  University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Phone: 423-425-5101

Email: jisook-kim@utc.edu

 

 

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 Education

 Postdoctoral Fellow, Biological Engineering and Toxicology, MIT, Boston, 2004.

 Postdoctoral Fellow, Medicinal Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 2003.

 Ph.D., Chemistry, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, 2001.

 M.S., Chemistry, Chung Ang University, Seoul, Korea, 1995.

 B.S.,  Chemistry, Chung Ang University, Seoul, Korea, 1993.

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 Classes Taught

 CHEM 3010 & 3010L: Organic Chemistry 1 Lecture and Lab

 CHEM 3020L: Organic Chemistry 2 Lab

 CHEM 3820: Chemical Literature

 CHEM 4510: Biochemistry

 CHEM 4830: Chemistry Seminar

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 Research Interests

My research area is multidisciplinary encompassing biochemistry, organic synthesis, chemical biology, toxicology, medicinal chemistry, and bioanalytical chemistry. The primary interests are summarized as follows:

• Design and development of nucleic acid binding dyes.
• Investigate the interactions of various environmental toxins with proteins and/or nucleic acids.
• Design and development of biologically active small molecules exhibiting anticancer or antiviral activity

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 Other Information:

 Conan O'Brien's Commencement Address to Darthmouth College Graduates

 Protein Data Bank

 ACS

 NCBI PubMed link

 http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/labs/gel/: Useful Biochemistry Animation Link

 Protein Factory

 Autumn in Korea