Dr. Jin-Woo Kim

Associate Professor
Biological and Agricultural Engineering

Office: ENGR 232
Phone: (479) 575-3402
Fax: (479) 575-2846
E-mail: jwkim@uark.edu

Education

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, University of Iowa
Ph.D., Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M University
M.S., Biology, University of Wisconsin
B.S., Microbiology, University of Iowa
B.S., Chemical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National University, Korea

Teaching and Research

TEACHING

Courses Taught

Undergraduate Courses

Biological Process Engineering
Bioreactor Systems Design
Transport Phenomena in Biological Systems
Honors Thesis

Graduate Courses

Advanced Biotechnology Engineering
Advanced Instrumentation
Bioremediation and Biodegradation
Bio-MEMS
Engineering Aspects of Molecular Biology
Introduction to Bioinformatics

RESEARCH

Dr. Kim's primary research interest is in the area of Bio/Nano Technology. His expertise spans interdisciplinary fields of biological engineering, biomedical engineering, biology, chemistry, and nanotechnology. He has extensive experience in aqueous-phase self-organization of nanomaterials and their biological and biomedical applications, in particular bio-driven nanostructure self-assembly, nanoscale bio/abio interfacing technology, and nonoparticle-based disease diagnostics and therapeutics. Also he is engaged in research on nanobiotechnology for hybrid devise development, nucleic acid technology for molecular computation, and molecular biological engineering for genomic and proteomic analyses of biomolecules. He has nearly 60 publications, over 100 conference presentations with over 20 invited presentations, 3 book chapters, and 4 pending patents. His research has been funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. National Institute of Health, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Arkansas Biosciences Institute in these fields. He has served as organizing chair, on organizing committees, and on technical program committees for several international conferences including International Meeting on DNA Computing and Molecular Programming, IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Conference, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, and the International meeting of the Institute of Biological Engineering, and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting. He is an editorial board member for the Journal of Biological Engineering (2007-present) and Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine (2005-2008). He has received several awards, including Outstanding Researcher Award (2004) inaugural Imhoff Outstanding Researcher Award (2005), Outstanding Mentor Award (2006, 2009), and Outstanding Teacher Award (2007) in the University of Arkansas. His research work has been cited in "MIT Technology Review", "ASEE Prism", "Chemistry World", "NanotechWeb.org", "Medical Device Daily", "Modern Drug Discovery", "Research Frontier", "Marquis Who's Who", etc

Professional Societies

Active Member in American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), American Chemical Society (ACS), American Society of Microbiology (ASM), American Society of Agricultural Engineers (ASAE), American Association for the Advancement Sci-ence (AAAS), Biophysical Society, SPIE, IEEE, Institute of Biological Engineering (IBE), and American Society of Nanomedicine (ASN).

Biographical Information

POSITIONS HELD

Assistant Professor (2001) and Associate Professor (2006) of Biological Enginnering, University of Arkansas (2001 - present)
Assistant Professor (2004) and Associate Professor (2006) of Biomedical Engineering, University of Arkansas (2004 - present)
Associate Professor (2008) of Institute for Nanoscale Materials Science and Engineering, University of Arkansas (2008 - present)
Assistant Professor (2001) and Associate Professor (2006) of Cell and Molecular Biology Program and Micro-Electronics and Photonics Program, University of Arkansas (2001 - present)
Director, Bio/Nano Technology Laboratory, University of Arkansas (2001 - present)
Co-Founder of GeneFab LLC, Fayetteville, Arkansas (2005 - present)

RECOGNITIONS

“Outstanding Teacher” award, Bio & Ag Engineering, College of Engineering, the University of Arkansas (2006-2007)
“Outstanding Mentor” award, Honors College, the University of Arkansas (2006)
“Imhoff Outstanding Researcher Award”, College of Engineering, the University of Arkansas (2005)
“Outstanding Researcher” award, Bio & Ag Engineering, College of Engineering, the University of Arkansas (2003-2004)
Finalist of ORAU Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards (2003)

Selected Publications

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS

· Kim, J.-W., Galanzha, E.I., Shashkov, E.V., Moon, H.-M. & Zharov, V.P. Golden carbon nanotubes as multimodal photoacoustic and photothermal high-contrast molecular agents. Nature Nanotechnology doi: 10.1038/nnano.2009.231 (2009).

· Galanzha, E.I., Kokoska, M.S., Shashkov, E.V., Kim, J.-W., Tuchin, V.V. & Zharov, V.P. In vivo fiber-based multicolor photoacoustic detection and photothermal purging of metastasis in sentinel lymph nodes targeted by nanoparticles. Journal of Biophotonics doi: 10.1002/jbio.2009.10046 (2009).

· Galanzha, E.I., Shashkov, E.V., Kelly, T., Kim, J.-W., Yang, L. & Zharov, V.P. In vivo magnetic enrichment and multiplex photoacoustic detection of circulating tumour cells. Nature Nanotechnology (accepted for publication).

· Moon, H.-M. & Kim, J.-W. Carbon nanotube clusters as universal bacterial adsorbents and magnetic separation agents. Biotechnology Progress (in press).

· Yu, W., Lee, J.S., Johnson, C., Kim, J.-W. & Deaton, R. Independent sets of DNA oligonucleotides for nanotechnology applications. IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience (in press).

· Kim, J.-H. & Kim, J.-W. Sequential solid-phase fabrication of bi-functional anchors on gold nanoparticles for controllable and scalable nanoscale structure assembly. Langmuir 24,5667-5671 (2008).

· Wang, H., Kim, J.-H., Zou, M., Tung, S. & Kim, J.-W. Adhesion study of Escherichia coli cells on nano-/micro-textured surfaces in a microfluidic system. IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology 7, 573-579 (2008).

· Tung, S. & Kim, J.-W. Putting E. coli in good use. IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine 2, 4-8 (2008).

· Kim, J.-W., Galanzha, E.I., Shashkov, E.V., Kotagiri, N. & Zharov, V.P. Photothermal antimicrobial nanotherapy and nanodiagnostics with self-assembling carbon nanotube clusters. Lasers in Surgery and Medicine 39, 622-634 (2007).

· Zharov, V.P., Galanzha, E.I., Shashkov, E.V., Kim, J.-W., Khlebtsov, N.G. & Tuchin, V.V. Photoacoustic flow cytometry: principle and application for real-time detection of circulating single nanoparticles, pathogens, and contrast dyes in vivo. Journal of Biomedical Optics 12, 051503 (2007).

· Deaton, R., Lusth, J. & Kim, J.-W. 2007. Integrating nanoscale science and technology into introductory computer science courses. In: Nanoscale Science and Engineering Education. A.E. Sweeney and S. Seal (eds). American Scientific Publishers.

· Li, M., Hanford, M.J., Kim, J.-W.^* & T.L. Peeples. Amyloglucosidase enzymatic reactivity inside lipid vesicles. Journal of Biological Engineering 1, 4 (2007).

· Kim, J.-W., Kotagiri, N., Kim, J.-H. & Deaton, R. In situ fluorescence microscopy visualization and characterization of nanometer-scale carbon nanotubes labeled with 1-pyrenebutanoic acid, succinimidyl ester. Applied Physics Letter 88, 213110 (2006).

· Deaton, R., Chen, J., Kim, J.-W., Garzon, M. & Wood, D.H. 2006. Test tube selection of large independent sets of DNA oligonucleotides. In: Nanotechnology: Science and Computation. J. Chen et al. (eds). Springer.

· Kim, J.-W. & T.L. Peeples. Screening extremophiles for bioconversion potentials. Biotechnology Progress 22, 1720-1724 (2006).

· Kim, J.-W. & Tung, S. Hybrid flagellar motor/MEMS based TNT detection system. Proc. SPIE 6223, 62230A (2006).

· Tung, S. & Kim, J.-W. Microscale hybrid devices powered by biological flagellar motors. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering 3, 260-263 (2006).

· Al-fandi, M., Kim, J.-W., Malshe, A., Tung, S., Jenkins, J. & Pooran, R. Chemo-sensitivity and reliability of flagellar rotary motor in a MEMS microfluidic actuation system. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical 114, 229-238 (2006).

· Zharov, V.P., Kim, J.-W., Everts, M. & Curiel, D.T. Self-assembling nanoclusters in living systems: application for integrated photothermal nanodiagnostics and nanotherapy (review). Nanomedicine 1, 326-345 (2005).

· Kim, J.-W., Carpenter, D.P. & Deaton, R. Estimating the sequence complexity of a random oligonucleotide population using in vitro thermal melting and C_ot analyses. Nanomedicine 1, 220-230 (2005).

· Deaton, R., Kim, J.-W. & Chen, J. Design and test of non-crosshybridizing oligonucleotide building blocks for DNA computers and nanostructures. Applied Physics Letters 82, 1305-1307 (2003).

Patents & Invention Disclosures

· Two patents pending, including “Near-Infrared Responsive Carbon Nanostructures” and “Nanostructure Assembly System and Applications of the Same”

· Two invention disclosures filed, including “Fluorescent Gold (FluoGold) NanoDots” and “Carbon nanotubes for shape- and size-controlled aqueous-phase synthesis of single-crystalline metallic nanoparticles”