Biological Sciences Seoul National University

Overview

Key Features

As a first decade of the 21st century passes away, we are witnessing the ever-growing public interest in biomedical research and break-through researches unraveling the mysteries of life.

Since working with living organisms is complicated and the secrets of life are too complex for a single biological discipline to fully decipher, more and more, the biological research requires collaboration, sharing of ideas and knowledge with other disciplines in natural sciences as well as with the fields of humanities and social sciences. Therefore, current biology has become a truly multi-faceted science, all of which sub-disciplines must achieve collateral advancement.

The research areas of fifty-one faculty members, thus span most of the major disciplines in current biological sciences, representing most cutting-edge researches in diverse areas in Korea as well as in the world stage. The passion and dedication in research are naturally transferred to education, and students benefit from diverse expertise in biology that our faculty offers.

Research groups of various disciplines such as Biochemistry, Biophysics, Cell Biology, Genetics, Developmental Biology, Neurobiology, Systematics, Ecology, Microbiology, Biotechnology, Plant Physiology and Molecular Biology are interactive and collaborative, creating multi-disciplinary research environment among individual faculty members and students in the School.