Assistant Professor of Developmental and Cell Biology
Ph.D. University of Washington, 2019
Research Areas: Transcriptional mechanisms, regulatory genomics, stem cell differentiation, development
Seungsoo was an HHMI-Damon Runyon postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, working with Joanna Wysocka on transcription factor cooperativity in cranial neural crest cells. Previously, he completed Ph.D. training in Genome Sciences with Jay Shendure at the University of Washington and an undergraduate degree at Harvard University.
Recent Publications
- Kim S, Morgunova E, Naqvi S, Goovaerts S, Bader M, Koska M, Popov A, Luong C, Pogson A, Swigut T, Claes P, Taipale J, Wysocka J. (2024). DNA-guided transcription factor cooperativity shapes face and limb mesenchyme. Cell 187:692-711. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2023.12.032.
- Naqvi S, Kim S*, Tabatabaee S*, Pampari A, Kundaje A, Pritchard JK, Wysocka J. (2025). Transfer learning reveals sequence determinants of the quantitative response to transcription factor dosage. Cell Genomics 5:100780. doi: 10.1016/j.xgen.2025.100780.
- Naqvi S, Kim S, Hoskens H, Matthews H, Spritz RA, Klein OD, Hallgrimsson B, Swigut T, Claes P, Pritchard JK, Wysocka J. (2023). Precise modulation of transcription factor levels reveals drivers of dosage sensitivity. Nature Genetics 55:841-851. doi: 10.1038/s41588-023-01366-2.
- Kim S, Wysocka J. (2023). Deciphering the multi-scale, quantitative cis-regulatory code. Molecular Cell 83:373-392. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2022.12.032.
- Griffin MF, Li DJ, Chen K, Parker JBL, Guo JL, Kim S, Kraft K, Downer M, Morgan AG, Kuhnert MM, Jing SL, Yao H, Valencia C, Cotterell A, Januszyk M, Gurtner GC, Chang HY, Wysocka J, Wan DC, Longaker MT. (2026). Fibroblasts of disparate developmental origins harbor anatomically variant scarring potential. Cell 189:783-799.e20. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2025.12.014.
*equal contribution
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