Natural Products Metabolomics Lab @ Sookmyung Women's University
Current Members
Our lab is recruiting passionate students and postdocs who are interested in natural product chemistry.
If you are interested, please contact PI through email: kbkang@sookmyung.ac.kr
Principal Investigator
Kyo Bin Kang, Ph.D.
Kyo Bin earned his BS in Pharmacy from Seoul National University (2010), and then earned his MS (2012) and PhD (2016) in Pharmacognosy from Seoul National University, under advising of the late Prof. Sang Hyun Sung. After PhD, he stayed in the same lab as a postdoctoral researcher and worked on several LC-MS-based plant metabolomics projects. In March 2018, he joined Pieter Dorrestein's lab as a postdoc in University of California, San Diego, performing a collaborative research with William Gerwick's lab in Scripps Institute of Oceanography to develop new methodology for bioactive natural product discovery based on modern analytical platforms, especially tandem mass spectrometry, NMR spectroscopy, and genome-mining.
He started his lab at College of Pharmacy, Sookmyung Women's University in September 2018.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Eunjin Park, Ph.D.
Eunjin earned her PhD at Pharmacognosy from Seoul National University. Her research focuses on exploring natural products for medicinal applications and understanding their ecological metabolic functions.
Graduate Students
Huong T. Pham
Ph.D. course (Sep 2021 - present)
Master (Sep 2019 - Aug 2021) *outstanding thesis award
Houng is trying to reveal how fungal-fungal and fungal-bacterial interactions alter the biosynthesis of fungal specialized metabolites.
Eunah Jeong
Ph.D. course (Mar 2022 - present)
Master (Mar 2020 - Feb 2022) *outstanding thesis award
Eunah is working on the chemical and molecular mechanism, and ecological meaning of fungal biotransformation of phytochemicals.
Kyungha Lee
Ph.D. course (Mar 2023 - present)
Master (Mar 2021 - Feb 2023)
Kyungha is applying MS/MS-based untargeted metabolomics strategy to reveal the chemical diversity of monoterpene indole alkaloids, which are highly bioactive phytochemicals.
Yukyung Choi
Ph.D. course (Mar 2023 - present)
Yukyung is investigating how fungi living in marine environments utilize halogens in their specialized metabolites.
Hyemin Yoo
Master course (Mar 2023 - present)
Yeji Kim
Master course (Mar 2024 - present)
Jiwoo Jeon
Master course (Mar 2024 - present)