"Speaker 1: Hello, nice to meet you.
So my name is Seungil Kim.
I am a postdoc in Bush Lab.
My current research is about how the human cleft palate happens.
So actually I was born in Seoul Korea, South Korea.
And then I came to U.S. about 10 years ago to study my Ph.D. course at WashU at St. Louis.
Then I moved to San Francisco about three years ago to do my post-doc current work in
this line.
No, my parents in Korea and my father doing some like postman's job.
And then my like, my mother is just housewife.
So I became interested in biology because I read one noble book with Michael Crichton,
Jurassic Park.
I was watching some movies.
And then that inspired me to have some interest in biology science.
Yeah, so I think the cleft palate research like, make me, like, more interesting because
it covers both basic developmental process and also link to the human disease.
So I think the cleft palate research is very important because many like, newborn child
has these symptoms or disease related to this phenotype.
So if we understand the basic mechanism for like, making this complete palate structure
so we may better understand how this happens, cleft palate symptoms happens during embryogenesis.
So I'm doing lots of live cell imagings because I'm interested in how cells move and changes
during like, development, tissue development.
So I'm watching this in real time with microscope.
So I make a movie and like, images, and many times I'm spending a lot of time to analyze
those images.
I kind of, I feel like I'm a pioneer.
I almost completed my first research project, so I'm preparing my manuscript now so we can
submit soon.
So I hope I can get like, good publication."