Ala Jo

 

Ala Jo was born in 1988 in Seoul, Korea. She received his B.S. degree in chemistry at Seoul national university in 2011 in Korea. She has joined this group in 2011 spring. She is now post-doctoral researcher at department of chemistry at Seoul national university .

She is interested in developement of bio-imaging tools. She is devotedly work on high-throughput screening of our compound library. Recently, she is trying to find out novel pathway to rescue insulin resistance.

Lipid-overloaded enlarged adipocytes provoke insulin resistance independent of inflammation. Kim, J.I.; Huh, J.Y.; Sohn, J.H.; Choe, S.S.; Lee, Y.S.; Lim, C.Y.; Jo, A.; Park, S.B.; Han, W.; Kim, J.B.; Mol. Cell. Biol. 2015, doi:10.1128/MCB.01321-14.

Impact of molecular charge on GLUT-specific cellular uptake of glucose bioprobes and in vivo application of the glucose bioprobe, GB2-Cy3. Park, J.; Um, J.I.; Jo, A.; Lee, J.; Jung, D.-W.; Williams, D.*; Park, S. B.*; Chem. Commun. 2014 50(66), 9251–9254 (Selected as Front Cover).

Phenotypic Screening to Identify Small-Molecule Enhancers for Glucose Uptake: Target Identification and Rational Optimization of Their Efficacy. Koh, M.; Park, J.; Koo, J.Y.; Lim, D.; Cha, M.Y.; Jo, A.; Choi, J.H.; Park, S. B.* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53(20), 5102–5106 (selected as Cover Article).

Rational Perturbation of Fluorescence Quantum Yields in Emission-tunable and predictable Fluorophores, Seoul-Fluors, via Facile Synthesis using C-H Activation. Choi, E.; Kim, E.; Lee, Y.; Jo, A.; Park, S. B.* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013 in press DOI: 10.1002/anie.201308826 (IF: 13.734)

Exploiting the mechanism of cellular glucose uptake to develop an image-based high-throughput screening system in living cells. Jo, A; Park, J.;Park, S.B.* Chem. Comm., 2013 49(45), 5138–5140 (Back Cover Article) (IF: 6.378)

Discovery of highly selective FLT3 kinase inhibitor from phenotypic cell viability profiling. Lee, S.; Jo, A.; Park, S.B.* Med. Chem. Comm. 20134(1), 228–232. (Front Cover Article) Invited for the themed issue highlighting “New Talent” in Medicinal Chemistry (IF: 2.722)

Colorimetric and orange light-emitting fluorescent probe for pyrophosphate in water. Lee, D.-N.; Jo, A.; Park, S.B.*; Hong, J.-I.* Tetrahedron Lett. 2012 53(41), 5528–5530. (IF: 2.397)