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Tongil Ko

Postdoctoral fellow


City/country of origin
New Haven/USA
Hobbies
Soccer, cooking, and a cold beer after a long day
Places You Like
Big cities, beach, and anywhere with good food
What are your strong points?
I like to talk about science
Music: what is some intense music for intense lab work?
ALL CAPS – MF DOOM
What are people in the lab doing?
Figuring it out
Original motivation towards science?
Curiosity to try something new and good mentors along the way
A few words for future lab mates
Learn Japanese if you can!

Education & professional career

2014-2018
B.S., Department of Chemistry, Yale University, advisor Prof. Timothy Newhouse
2018-2022
M.Phil., Department of Chemistry, New York University, advisor Prof. Dirk Trauner
2022-2024
PhD, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, advisor Prof. Dirk Trauner


Publications

"Cell-Specific Optical Control of AMPA Glutamate Receptors with a Photoswitchable Tethered Antagonist."
D. Trauner; P. Leipppe; P. Donthamsetti; T. Ko; C. Stanley; E. Isacoff
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, e202411181 (2024)
"Optical Control of Proteasomal Protein Degradation with a Photoswitchable Lipopeptide."
J. Morstein; A. Amatuni; A. Shuster; W. Kuttenlochner; T. Ko; D. Abegg; M. Groll; A. Adibekian; H. Renata; D.H. Trauner
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 63, e202314791 (2024)
"Light-Activatable, Cell-Type Specific Labeling of the Nascent Proteome."
H.T. Evans; T. Ko; M.M. Oliveira; A. Yu; S.V. Kalavai; E.N. Golhan; A. Polavarapu; E. Balamoti; V. Wu; E. Klann; D. Trauner
ACS Chemical Neuroscience, (2024)
"Photoactivated Protein Degrader for Optical Control of Synaptic Function."
T. Ko; C. Jou; A.B. Grau-Perales; M. Reynders; A.A. Fenton; D. Trauner
ACS Chemical Neuroscience, 14, 3704-3713 (2023)
"Optical control of translation with a puromycin photoswitch."
T. Ko; M.M. Oliveira; J.M. Alapin; J. Morstein; E. Klann; D. Trauner
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 144, 21494-21501 (2022)
"Effects of π-extension on pyrrole hemithioindigo photoswitches."
J.E. Zweig; T.A. Ko; J. Huang; T.R. Newhouse
Tetrahedron, 75, 130466 (2019)
"Oxidative approach enables efficient access to cyclic azobenzenes."
M.S. Maier; K. Hüll; M. Reynders; B.S. Matsuura; P. Leippe; T. Ko; L. Schäffer; D. Trauner
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 141, 17295-17304 (2019)

Contact info

    • E-mail… tongilko"at"g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (change "at" to @)