BEACON ASIA TOUR |
Join us in Seoul at Seoul National University College of Medicine, Lecture Hall 115
Overview
Experience the full potential of live single-cell functional analysis and discover how researchers use Beacon technology to accelerate discoveries and unlock new insights.
Powered by advanced optofluidics, every Beacon instrument lets you track multimodal, time-resolved cellular responses in real timeโseamlessly pairing functional data with sequencing from the very same cell.
Explore Beacon Discoveryโข, our new benchtop platform that packs these powerful optofluidic capabilities into a more accessible and compact package.
Speakers
Dr. Patrick Schmidt
Group Leader Transgenic T Cell Therapy, DKFZ
Dr. rer. nat. Patrick Schmidt is a senior scientist with 20 years of experience in CAR-T research. He completed his undergraduate studies in Developmental Biology and Genetics at the University of Cologne, earning his diploma in 2005. He conducted his Ph.D. research in Hinrich Abken's lab, developing anti-melanoma CARs, and finished in 2008. This was followed by a three-year DFG fellowship-sponsored postdoctoral position at the รcole Polytechnique Fรฉdรฉrale de Lausanne in Switzerland. In 2014, Patrick joined the Department of Medical Oncology at the National Center of Tumor Diseases Heidelberg, led by Dirk Jรคger. He is currently a research group leader and head of ATMP manufacturing, affiliated with the University Hospital Heidelberg and the German Cancer Research Center.
Dr. Chang-Han Lee
Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Colleage of Medicine, Seoul National University
Dr. Chang-Han Lee serves as an Assistant Professor at Seoul National University, College of Medicine, where he is affiliated with the Department of Pharmacology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, and several interdisciplinary programs including the Convergence Research Centre for Dementia and the Wide River Institute of Immunology. Dr. Lee completed his education at Ajor University, followed by Postdoctoral research at The University of Texas at Austin. His work spans bioengineering, immunology and dementia research.
Dr. Hyun-woo Kim
Team Lead,Gangwon Techno Park
Dr. Hyun-woo Kim received his Ph.D. in neuroscience from Yonsei University College of Medicine. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Yonsei Medical Center Neurology/Pediatric Neurology Research Institute. He was the head of the Industry-Academic Cooperation Group at Seoul National University Systems Immunology Research Institute and is currently the team leader of the Bio-Convergence Team at Gangwon Techno Park.
Dr. Kyoungeun Park
Field Application Scientist, MDxK
Dr. Kyoungeun Park studied biochemistry and pharmacology. After completing her studies, she moved to the industry to share her technical expertise as a Field Application Scientist at MDxK. For over six years, she has been focusing on NGS, single-cell sequencing, and cell dispensing systems. Currently, she is supporting all Beacon users in Korea as an FAS for a distributor in Korea. She is looking forward to sharing real experimental cases and technology with scientists.
Ms. Sekyung Kim (Ella)
Field Application Scientist II, Twist Bioscience
Sekyung (Ella) Kim is a Field Application Scientist at Twist Bioscience, where she supports customers across Asia in the areas of antibody discovery, genomics, and synthetic biology. She brings over a decade of experience spanning molecular biology, virology, and product management, having previously held key roles at ThunderbioScience, BMS Korea, and the Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency. She holds an M.S. in Agriculture and Life Sciences from Seoul National University and a B.S. from Sejong University. Her research on viral susceptibility and antiviral strategies has been published in Antiviral Research and the Journal of Bacteriology and Virology.