Insect Systematic Bioinformatics Laboratory
Advisor: Dr. Soowon Cho
Do you like insects? Interested in insect gathering, breeding or specimen collection? Our laboratory staff starts with curiosity.
We investigate, classify, and study the diversity of insects that make up the majority of natural ecosystems, and analyze their morphological and molecular phylogenetic relationships from an evolutionary perspective on how insects flourished.
The classification system of insects and the naming of new and unrecorded species are the basis of the academic language used in all other academic fields that use insects.
◁ Introducing our laboratory
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Cho, Soowon
Professor
Cho, Soowon
insect phylogenetics
S20 Building, Room 416
soowon@chungbuk.ac.kr, chosoowon@gmail.com
Education
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B.S. in Biology, Sungkyunkwan University, KOREA
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M.S. in Morphological Systematics, Mississippi State University, USA
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Ph.D. in Molecular Phylogenetics, University of Maryland, USA
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Phylogenetic Bioinformatics, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Representative career
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F) President of the Korean Society of Systematic Zoology
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F) Co-Chairman of the Korean Association of Biodiversity Academia
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Standing Councilor/Vice President, Korean Society of Applied Entomology
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Director, Entomological Society of Korea
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Member of the operation deliberation committee for the responsible operating institutions of the Ministry of Environment
Research field
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Insect evolution and phylogenetics, systematic bioinformatics, butterfly park
Representative research results
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2013. A large-scale, higher-level, molecular phylogenetic study of the insect order Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies). PLoS One.
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2011. Plant Medicine. Korea National Open University Press
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2011. Can deliberately incomplete gene sample augmentation improve a phylogeny estimate for the advanced moths and butterflies (Hexapoda: Lepidoptera)? Systematic Biology.
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2000. The current state of insect molecular systematics: a thriving Tower of Babel. Annual Review of Entomology.
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1995. A highly conserved nuclear gene for low-level phylogenetics: elongation factor-1α recovers morphology-based tree for heliothine moths. Molecular Biology and Evolution.
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