Current Members

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 the advice of the late Prof. Sang Hyun Sung. After his 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 at the University of California, San Diego, performing collaborative research with William Gerwick's lab in the Scripps Institution 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 the College of Pharmacy, Sookmyung Women's University in September 2018.

Eunjin Park, Ph.D.

Postdoc (Sep 2024 – present)

Eunjin earned her PhD at Pharmacognosy from College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University in 2024. Her research focuses on exploring natural products for medicinal applications and understanding their ecological metabolic functions.

Huong T. Pham 

Postdoc (Sep 2026 – present)
Ph.D. course (Sep 2021 – Aug 2026)
Visiting student at the Petras lab (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Aug 2023)
Master (Sep 2019 – Aug 2021) *outstanding thesis award

Houng is trying to reveal how bacterial siderophores alter the biosynthesis of fungal specialized metabolites.

Eunah Jeong

Postdoc (Sep 2026 – present)
Ph.D. course (Mar 2022 – Aug 2026)
Visiting student at the Petras lab (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Aug 2023)
Master (Mar 2020 – Feb 2022) *outstanding thesis award

Eunah is working to discover bacterial urocanate reductase inhibitors from fungal natural products using LC-MS/MS-based metabolomics and in silico screening.

Kyungha Lee

Ph.D. course (Mar 2023 – present)
Visiting  student at the Dorrestein lab (UC San Diego,  Sep 2026 – Mar 2027)
Visiting student at the Beniddir lab (Université Paris-Saclay, Jul 2023)
Master (Mar 2021 – Feb 2023)

Kyungha is investigating how human skin and gut symbiotic bacteria metabolize phytochemicals in personal care products and foods.

Yukyung Choi

Ph.D. course (Mar 2023 – present)
Visiting  student at the Pluskal lab (IOCB Prague,  Jul – Dec 2026)

Yukyung is investigating how fungi living in marine environments utilize halogens in their specialized metabolites. She is also working on plant-herbivore insect interactions.

Hyunjin Choi

Ph.D. course (Mar 2026 – present)

Hyunjin is investigating the structural and functional diversity of fungal UDP-glycosyltransferases with substrate promiscuity.

Yeonhee Lee

Master course (Mar 2026 – present)

Yeonhee is revealing the synergistic roles of human gut bacteria in the biotransformation of bioactive isoflavonoids.

Han I Kim

Master course (Mar 2026 – present)

Han I is discovering fungal natural products induced by halogen supplementation.