Jiho Seok

Programmable Isothermal Amplification for Point-of-Care Biosensors

• Programmable AND-gate strategy to reduce false positives in rolling circle amplification

Seok, Jiho, and Mark P. Styczynski

Biosensors and Bioelectronics (2026): 118515. 

• Modular multicompontent target recognition approach to reduce false positives in rolling circle amplification

Seok, Jiho, Yesenia K. Collins, and Mark P. Styczynski

In preparation (2026)

Cell-Free Systems for Rapid Prototyping of Biological Systems

• Whole-cell and cell-free biosensor-driven metabolic engineering

Seok, Jiho, and Mark P. Styczynski

Current Opinion in Biotechnology 96 (2025): 103385. 

Systems Metabolic Engineering across Diverse Microbial Chassis

• Recombinant Corynebacterium capable of producing biliverdin IX-alpha and method of producing biliverdin IX-alpha using the same

Han, Sung Ok, Jiho Seok, and Young Jin Ko

U.S. Patent 11,066,683, issued July 20, 2021. 

Republic of Korea Patent 10-2198107, issued January 5, 2021. 

• Systems metabolic engineering of Corynebacterium glutamicum for the bioproduction of biliverdin via protoporphyrin independent pathway

Seok, Jiho, Young Jin Ko, Myeong-Eun Lee, Jeong Eun Hyeon, and Sung Ok Han

Journal of Biological Engineering 13, no. 1 (2019): 28. 

• Biosynthesis of organic photosensitizer Zn-porphyrin by diphtheria toxin repressor (DtxR)-mediated global upregulation of engineered heme biosynthesis pathway in Corynebacterium glutamicum

Ko, Young Jin, Young-Chul Joo, Jeong Eun Hyeon, Eunhye Lee, Myeong-Eun Lee, Jiho Seok, Seung Wook Kim, Chulhwan Park, and Sung Ok Han.

Scientific reports 8, no. 1 (2018): 14460.