Natural Products Metabolomics Lab @ Sookmyung Women's University
Latest News
July 26, 2024
Our lab is awarded an international cooperative grant named <Science and Technology Amicable Relationships (South Korea-France)> (again)! We will collaborate with Prof. Emmanuel Gaquerel (Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes (IBMP) CNRS / Université de Strasbourg) and Prof. Youngsung Joo (Seoul National University) to decipher the complexity of plant-insect interactions using next-generation metabolomics!
Juny 16–20, 2024
We participated in the International Congress on Natural Products Research held in Krakow, Poland.
Kyo Bin served as a part of the organizing committee, representing the Korean Society of Pharmacognosy.
Kyungha and Yukyung were awarded Robert Krueger Travel Award and Lynn Brady Travel Award by the American Society of Pharmacognosy, respectively. Each was granted an honorarium of USD 1200. Congratulations!
July 9, 2024
We hosted a workshop titled "mzmine workship in Seoul" dedicated to mzmine, one of the most popular open-source mass spectrometry data processing software. Drs. Corrinna Brungs and Robin Schmids from Tomáš Pluskal Group (IOCB Prague, Czech) gave a wonderful hands-on course to more than 200 participants.
Thank you Corinna and Robin!
June 24, 2024
Eunah won the Ph.D. student fellowship from NRF (National Research Foundation) of Korea. She will be funded 50 million KRW (about 36000 USD) for 2 years. Congratulations!
June 16–20, 2024
Our lab participated in the 20th Annual Conference of the Metabolomics Society held in Osaka, Japan!
Huong made a 20-minute oral presentation about her project on siderophore-mediated fungal-bacterial interaction. It was a great talk!
Kyo Bin gave a talk at a workshop, and also participated in the early-career member network (EMN) round table discussion as a discussion leader. He was also a part of the scientific organizing committee.
May 13–17, 2024
Prof. Syarul Nataqain Baharum, Dr. Nurkhalida kamal, and Dr. Habsah Aziz from the Institute of Systems Biology (INBIOSIS) at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) visited our lab for a week to learn about the application of molecular networking in natural product research and discuss on future collaboration.
April 4–5, 2024
Our lab participated in the 2024 Annual Symposium of the Korea Metabolomics Society held in Daegu.
Kyo Bin won the Young Researcher Award (학술장려상), and Yu Kyung won the Excellent Poster Award!
February 23, 2024
Congratulations Taekyoung on your M.Sc. graduation and outstanding thesis award!
January 19, 2024
Our lab published a review article about mass spectrometry-based ginsenoside profiling in Journal of Ginseng Research. In addition to summarizing the previous works, we present our results of untargeted and targeted ginsenoside profiling of different genotypes cultivated under identical conditions, which were made in the late Prof. Sang Hyun Sung's lab 6 years ago under a collaborative project with Prof. Tae-Jin Yang's lab(Seoul National University).
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jgr.2024.01.004
November 2–3, 2023
Our lab participated in the 2023 Annual Meeting of The Korean Society of Pharmacognosy held in Seoul.
Kyungha won the best poster award, and also won the second prize (an Illy coffee machine) in the lucky draw. Double congratulations!
October 30 – November 3, 2023
Prof. Mehdi Beniddir and Sarah Szwarc (Université Paris-Saclay, France), and Prof. Amit Jaisi (Walailak University, Thailand) visited our lab for discussions on our collaborative projects on monoterpene indole alkaloids.
We had a great time consisting of the wonderful science and beauty of autumn in Seoul. Mehdi and Amit gave great talks at the Korean Society of Pharmacognosy meeting!
August 12–20, 2023
Kyo Bin visited Dr. Daniel Petras's group at the University of Tübingen, where Huong and Eunah has already been for 3 weeks as visiting students.
See the Petras group web page where our photos are posted in the Alumni section! :D
July 26, 2023
Just after the ASP meeting, Huong and Eunah left for Tübingen, Germany. They will stay at Dr. Daniel Petras's group at the University of Tübingen as visiting students for a month and work on our collaborative projects for native metabolomics on xenobiotics biotransformants.
* This visiting research is supported by the NRF's 'Korea-Germany R&D Network Program.'
July 22–26, 2023
Kyo Bin and 4 PhD students, Huong, Eunah, Kyungha, and Yukyung, participated in the 2023 Annual Meeting of American Society of Pharmacognosy (ASP), held in Rockville, Maryland, USA. Kyo Bin gave a contributed talk, and students presented their own results as posters.
Huong and Eunah were awarded Lynn Brady Student Travel Award consisting of an honorarium of USD 600. Congratulations!
July 17–22, 2023
Kyo Bin visited Prof. Mehdi Beniddir's group at Université Paris-Saclay, where Kyungha has already been for 3 weeks as a visiting student.
Kyo Bin and Kyungha participated in 6th AFERP (Association Francophone pour l’Enseignement et la Recherche en Pharmacognosie) International Symposium. and Kyo Bin gave an invited talk.
After the symposium, we had an intensive discussion about our collaborative project on monoterpene indole alkaloids, with Mehdi's group and our dear friend Prof. Justin van der Hooft (Wageningen University, Netherlands).
July 3, 2023
Eunah published her first first-authored paper in PNAS!
Here we suggest mass spectrometry-based metabolomics as a powerful method for phenotyping of microbial biotransformation, and demonstrated the efficiency of the method by discovering a UDP-xylosyltransferase with a substrate promiscuity from a wood-decaying fungus Lentinus brumalis.
Eunah did the key experimental parts of this study as her master thesis work, and successfully finalized the project with additional efforts for one more year. Congratulations!
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2301007120
*highlighted in BRIC 한빛사: Eunah's interview can be found here (Korean)
June 25, 2023
Kyungha left for Paris, France. She will stay at Prof. Mehdi Beniddir's group at Université Paris-Saclay as a visiting student for a month and work on our collaborative projects for metabolomics on monoterpene indole alkaloids.
* This visiting research is supported by the NRF international cooperative grant program titled 'Science and Technology Amicable Relationships (South Korea-France).'
June 21–23, 2023
Our lab participated in the 2023 Annual Meeting of The Korean Society for Microbiology and Biotechnology held in Gyeongju.
Kyo Bin gave an invited talk at the International Symposium Session titled "Microbial Natural Products in Drug Discovery".
Our lab also had a great time with Prof. Chung Sub Kim's lab at Sungkyunkwan University, having dinner together.
May 19, 2023
Kyo Bin gave an invited talk at the Phytochemical Society of Europe (PSE) meeting 2023 held in Seoul National University.
April 20–21, 2023
We participated in the 2023 Spring International Convention of the Pharmaceutical Society of Korea held in Gyeongju.
Kyungha gave a 5-min talk about her project in monoterpene indole alkaloids. Congratulations!
April 6–7, 2023
Our lab participated in the 2023 Annual Symposium of the Korea Metabolomics Society held in Seoul.
March 23, 2023
Kyungha published her first first-authored paper in ACS Omega! Collaborating with Prof. Hangun Kim at Sunchon National University, we found phthalide derivatives that inhibit human umbilical vein endothelial cell motility by suppressing mRNA expressions of genes regulating epithelial cell survival and motility from an endolichenic fungus Arthrinium sp. EL000127.
February 24, 2023
Congratulations Kyungha and Dayoung on M.Sc. graduation!
