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Soon Mi Lim
Instructional Associate Professor

Department of Chemistry
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-3255

P: 979-845-1639
F: 979-845-4719
soonmi.lim@chem.tamu.edu

Researcher ID

Areas of Interest
  • Biomedical Research
  • Mentoring
  • Physical and Analytical Chemistry
  • Science Education

Current Activities

My research career started from studying ozone-depleting molecules at ultra-high vacuum conditions and tried to understand the mechanism in ozone depletion. Furthermore I applied physical chemistry to understand interfacial properties of lipids, proteins and adjacent water molecules using Vibrational Sum Frequency Spectroscopy. Studying cell components (lipids, proteins, and DNA) motivated me to look into medical research, in which I investigated cells from blood vessels and tried to understand cardiovascular diseases. More specifically I investigated redistribution of structural and adhesion proteins in live vascular cells with fluorescence microscopes (TIRF and confocal) and atomic force microscope (AFM), and observed vascular cells change their structure and adhesion properties to adapt to changes in mechanical environment.

I am currently teaching Quantitative Analysis and coordinating lab classes. I enjoy serving community in outreach activities. I have participated in NSF-funded outreach program of "Saturday Morning Biophysics - Image life" with Dr. Andreea Trache at Texas A&M Health Science Center since 2008. I also enjoy helping Chemistry department by serving in the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee and at our well-known Chemistry Open House.

Educational Background

Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 2006

Selected Publications

  • Randara Pulukkody, Rachel B. Chupik, Steven K. Montalvo, Sarosh Khan, Nattamai Bhuvanesh, Soon-Mi Lim, and Marcetta Y. Darensbourg, "Toward Biocompatible Dinitrosyl Iron Complexes: Sugar-Appended Thiolates", Chem. Commun. (2017), 53, 1180-1183, DOI: 10.1039/C6CC08659D.
  • Kevin T. Wacker, Samantha L. Kristufek, Soon-Mi Lim, Sarosh Kahn, and Karen L. Wooley, "Bio-based polycarbonates derived from the neolignan honokiol", RSC Advances (2016), 85, 81672-81679, DOI: 10.1039/c6ra19568g.
  • Tyler S. Kristufek, Samantha L. Kristufek, Lauren A. Link, Andrew c. Weems, Sarosh Khan, Soon-Mi Lim, Alexander T. Lonnecker, Jeffery E. Raymond, Duncan J. Maitland, Karen L. Wooley, "Rapidly-cured isosorbide-based cross-linked polycarbonate elastomers", Polymer Chemistry (2016), 7, 2639-2644, DOI: 10.1039/c5py01659b.
  • Mahmoud Elsabahy, Gyu Seong Heo, Soon-Mi Lim, Guorong Sun, Karen L. Wooley, "Polymeric Nanostructures for Imaging and Therapy", Chem. Rev. (2015), 115, 10967-11011, DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.5b00135.
  • Harini Sreenivasappa, Sankar P. Chaki, Soon-Mi Lim, Jerome P. Trzeciakowski, Michael W. Davidson, Gonzalo M. Rivera, Andreea Trache. Selective regulation of cytoskeletal tension and cell-matrix adhesion by RhoA and Src, Integrative Biology 6 (2014) 743-654, DOI: 10.1039/C4IB00019F.

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Texas A&M University
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College Station, TX 77842-3012

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College Station, TX 77843-3255

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