Portrait Songhwan Hwang

Dr.

Songhwan Hwang

PostDoc Sun Group

 +49 30 94793 575

 hwang@fmp-berlin.de

0000-0003-4323-1450

MD simulations of biomolecular systems

Chemical Biology

Sun Group

FMP

Publications

2025 2023 2022

Spectral tuning and signaling of diverse and most red sensitive animal opsins in Mantis Shrimp eyes

  • Camille Brouillon; Alina Pushkarev; Marjorie A. Liénard; Songhwan Hwang; Arno Munhoven; Richard McDowell; Robert J. Lucas; Megan Porter; Han Sun; Peter Hegemann
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Pore-Opening and Ion-Conduction Mechanism in Channelrhodopsins C1C2, ChR2, and iChloC by Computational Electrophysiology and Constant-pH Simulations

  • Songhwan Hwang; Tillmann Utesch; Caspar Schattenberg; Johannes Vierock; Han Sun

Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 2025

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Structural Insights Into the Opening Mechanism of C1C2 Channelrhodopsin

  • Matthias Mulder; Songhwan Hwang; Matthias Broser; Steffen Brünle; Petr Skopintsev; Caspar Schattenberg; Christina Schnick; Sina Hartmann; Jonathan Church; Igor Schapiro; Florian Dworkowski; Tobias Weinert; Peter Hegemann; Han Sun; Jörg Standfuss

Journal of the American Chemical Society 2025

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Structural insights into light-gating of potassium-selective channelrhodopsin

  • Takefumi Morizumi; Kyumhyuk Kim; Hai Li; Probal Nag; Tal Dogon; Oleg A. Sineshchekov; Yumei Wang; Leonid S. Brown; Songhwan Hwang; Han Sun; Ana-Nicoleta Bondar; Igor Schapiro; Elena G. Govorunova; John L. Spudich; Oliver P. Ernst

Nature Communications 2025

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Atomistic mechanism of non-canonical voltage gating in K2P channels

  • Thomas Baukrowitz; Marcus Schewe; Han Sun; Yessenbek Aldakul; Carlos Coll-Diez; Songhwan Hwang

Science Advances 2025

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Diversity of rhodopsin cyclases in zoospore-forming fungi

  • Matthias Broser; Wayne Busse; Anika Spreen; Maila Reh; Yinth Andrea Bernal Sierra; Songhwan Hwang; Tillmann Utesch; Han Sun; Peter Hegemann

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2023

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QuasAr Odyssey: the origin of fluorescence and its voltage sensitivity in microbial rhodopsins

  • Arita Silapetere; Songhwan Hwang; Yusaku Hontani; Rodrigo G. Fernandez Lahore; Jens Balke; Francisco Velazquez Escobar; Martijn Tros; Patrick E. Konold; Rainer Matis; Roberta Croce; Peter J. Walla; Peter Hildebrandt; Ulrike Alexiev; John T. M. Kennis; Han Sun; Tillmann Utesch; Peter Hegemann

Nature Communications 2022

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Probing Factor Xa Protein–Ligand Interactions: Accurate Free Energy Calculations and Experimental Validations of Two Series of High-Affinity Ligands

  • María Isabel Fernández-Bachiller; Songhwan Hwang; María Elena Schembri; Peter Lindemann; Mónica Guberman; Svenja Herziger; Edgar Specker; Hans Matter; David W. Will; Jörg Czech; Michael Wagner; Armin Bauer; Herman Schreuder; Kurt Ritter; Matthias Urmann; Volkmar Wehner; Han Sun; Marc Nazaré

Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 2022

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Author Correction: QuasAr Odyssey: the origin of fluorescence and its voltage sensitivity in microbial rhodopsins

  • Arita Silapetere; Songhwan Hwang; Yusaku Hontani; Rodrigo G. Fernandez Lahore; Jens Balke; Francisco Velazquez Escobar; Martijn Tros; Patrick E. Konold; Rainer Matis; Roberta Croce; Peter J. Walla; Peter Hildebrandt; Ulrike Alexiev; John T. M. Kennis; Han Sun; Tillmann Utesch; Peter Hegemann

Nature Communications 2022

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