Namhee Kim

     Ph.D. Candidate
     Computational Biology Program
     Department of Chemistry
     New York University
     31 Washington Place, Main 1021
     New York, NY 10003
     Phone: (212) 998-3594
     Fax: (212) 995-4152
     Email: nk401@nyu.edu

I am a 5th year graduate student in the Computational Biology Program and Department of Chemistry at New York University. Currently, I am working on my Ph.D. thesis projects on designing new RNAs using graph theory and computational approaches under the guidance of Professor Tamar Schlick. I have my M.S. in Mathematics from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, M.S. in Statistics and B.S. in Mathematics from the Seoul National University, South Korea.

Research Interests

RNA Structure and Function: computational and experimental RNA design, in vitro selection and evolution, applications to biomedicine and nanotechnology, synthetic biology, tertiary structure prediction, folding and dynamics, applied mathematics and statistics

Publications

1. N. Kim, J.S. Shin, S. Elmetwaly, H.H. Gan, and T. Schlick, RAGPOOLS: RNA-As-Graph-Pools -- A Web Server for Assisting the Design of Structured RNA Pools for In Vitro Selection, Bioinformatics 23:2959 (2007) pdf

2. N. Kim, H.H. Gan, and T. Schlick, A Computational Proposal for Designing Structured RNA Pools for In Vitro Selection of RNAs, RNA 13:478 (2007) pdf

3. N. Kim, N. Shiffeldrim, H. H. Gan, and T. Schlick, Novel Candidates of RNA Topologies, J. Mol. Biol. 341:1129 (2004) pdf

4. D. Fera, N. Kim, N. Shiffeldrim, J. Zorn, U. Laserson, H.H. Gan, and T. Schlick, RAG: RNA-As-Graphs web resource. BMC Bioinformatics 5:88 (2004) pdf

5. H. H. Gan, D. Fera, J. Zorn, M. Tang, N. Shiffeldrim, U. Laserson, N. Kim, and T. Schlick, RAG: RNA-As-Graphs Database -- Concepts, Analysis, and Features, Bioinformatics 20:1285 (2004).pdf

Invited Presentations

IMA Workshop: RNA in Biology, Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Oct 29-Nov 2, 2007, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota, MN. Presented a talk and a poster.
RNA Society Annual Meeting, May 29-June 3, 2007, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. Presented a poster.
RNA Ontology Consortium, May 27-28, 2007, Madison, WI. Presented a talk.
American Mathematical Society -- Southeast Sectional Meeting, Special Session on Discrete Models in Biology, Oct 15-16, 2005, East Tennessee State University, TN. Presented a talk.