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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

CLICK ON MEDIA ​

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Passionate Gae-Sin-Man

​ Hwa-Nong Award

Best Teaching Award

Bio Med Exploratorium

​ Best Prize in the Ag. Monitoring Contest

Professor Cho Soo-won

Cho, Soowon

Professor

Cho, Soowon
insect phylogenetics
S20 Building, Room 416
soowon@chungbuk.ac.kr, chosoowon@gmail.com

Education

  • B.S. in Biology, Sungkyunkwan University, KOREA

  • M.S. in Morphological Systematics, Mississippi State University, USA

  • Ph.D. in Molecular Phylogenetics, University of Maryland, USA

  • Postdoctoral Fellow in Phylogenetic Bioinformatics, University of California, Berkeley, USA

 

Representative career

  • F) President of the Korean Society of Systematic Zoology

  • F) Co-Chairman of the Korean Association of Biodiversity Academia

  • Standing Councilor/Vice President, Korean Society of Applied Entomology

  • Director, Entomological Society of Korea

  • Member of the operation deliberation committee for the responsible operating institutions of the Ministry of Environment


Research field

  • Insect evolution and phylogenetics, systematic bioinformatics, butterfly park


Representative research results

  • 2013. A large-scale, higher-level, molecular phylogenetic study of the insect order Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies). PLoS One.

  • 2011. Plant Medicine. Korea National Open University Press

  • 2011. Can deliberately incomplete gene sample augmentation improve a phylogeny estimate for the advanced moths and butterflies (Hexapoda: Lepidoptera)? Systematic Biology.

  • 2000. The current state of insect molecular systematics: a thriving Tower of Babel. Annual Review of Entomology.

  • 1995. A highly conserved nuclear gene for low-level phylogenetics: elongation factor-1α recovers morphology-based tree for heliothine moths. Molecular Biology and Evolution.

실험실: 교직원

Key Words: #Nature #Plant Disease #Insect #Pest #Plant_Medicine #College_of_Agriculture #Life_&_Environment_Sciences #Chungbuk_National_University #Cheongju #Chungbuk #Korea

It is a kind of Dobble game. The goal is to find the matches from the left and right that belong to the same group (classes/orders outside Hexapoda are considered one group here). After clicking to start, you can stop and renew cards with the mouse button and space key (on PC).

The creators are Soowon Cho & Hansol J. Cho, and it was first made in 2020 and is being used for teaching at Chungbuk National University.

Original Image Credits except CC0s (Most of the original images were downloaded before May, 2023, except CC04-5 on 25-3-17, CC10-5 on 25-3-24, CC25-1~6 on 25-4-7; All the images were modified for the insect dobble game; $ sign used in the website addresses means either  / or : for file saving.)

CC04-1: Trichoptera Nectopsyche; Kozue Kawakami, www.inaturalist.org$photos$174761581, CC BY, shifted to www.inaturalist.org/observations/104312930, CC BY SA
CC04-5: Trichoptera Hydropsyche pellucidula larva; Hallvard Elven, Naturhistorisk museum, Universitetet i Oslo, de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Hydropsyche_pellucidula_larva.jpg#file, CC BY 4.0
CC05-1: Protura, Acerentomidae Amphientulus zelandicus; Desmond W. Helmore, commons.wikimedia.org$wiki$File$PROT_Acerentomidae_Amphientulus_zelandicus.png, CC BY 4.0
CC05-3: Protura; L.Fdez, commons.wikimedia.org$wiki$File$Proturo2.png, CC BY-SA 2.1 ES
CC05-4: Protura, Acerentomon species; Gregor $nidar, commons.wikimedia.org$wiki$File$Protura_(Acerentomon_species)_micrograph.jpg, CC BY 2.0
CC05-5: Protura; L.Fdez, commons.wikimedia.org$wiki$File$Proturo.png, CC BY-SA 2.1 ES
CC05-6: Protura; David R. Maddison, commons.wikimedia.org$wiki$File$Protura_from_Durham,_NC,_USA..jpg, CC BY-SA 3.0
CC07-1: Psocodea, Dennyus (Dennyus) hirundinis; Al-Shammery KA, commons.wikimedia.org$wiki$File$Dennyus_(Dennyus)_hirundinis_(10.3897-BDJ.9.e67927)_Figure_3.jpeg, CC BY 4.0
CC10-2: Coleoptera Platerodrilus sp., larva; Michal Masek & Ladislav Bocak, commons.wikimedia.org$wiki$File$Platerodrilus_larva_30555-36.jpg, CC BY 4.0
CC10-3: Coleoptera Meloe proscarabaeus; Thomas, www.inaturalist.org$photos$259972691, CC0
CC10-4: Coleoptera Leucitus; Philipp Hoenle, www.inaturalist.org$photos$235291491, CC0
CC10-5: Coleoptera Dynastes hercules; Anaxibia, commons.wikimedia.org$wiki$File$Dynastes_hercules.lichyi_(male)2.JPG; CC BY-SA 3.0
CC12-1: Notoptera, Mantophasmatodea, Namaquaphasma ookiepensis; Kevin Murray, www.inaturalist.org$photos$31566734, CC BY
CC12-2: Notoptera, Mantophasmatodea, Karoophasma biedouwensis; Tony Rebelo, www.inaturalist.org$photos$15669932, CC BY-SA
CC12-3: Notoptera, Mantophasmatodea, Austrophasma; kevin koen, www.inaturalist.org$photos$244758460, CC BY-SA
CC13-1: Zoraptera; Seb az86556, commons.wikimedia.org$wiki$File$Tsina%27ay%C4%85%27ii_biy%C3%A1zh%C3%AD.jpg, CC BY-SA 3.0
CC13-3: Zoraptera; DataBase Center for Life Science, commons.wikimedia.org$wiki$File$202203_angel_insect_no_wings.svg, CC BY 4.0
CC13-4: Zoraptera; DataBase Center for Life Science, commons.wikimedia.org$wiki$File$202203_angel_insect.svg, CC BY 4.0
CC13-5: Zoraptera, Zorotypus; Graham Montgomery, commons.wikimedia.org$wiki$File$Zorotypus_from_Los_Bancos,_Pichincha,_Ecuador.jpg, CC BY-SA 4.0
CC13-6: Zoraptera, Zorotypus; Angal insect, commons.wikimedia.org$wiki$File$Zorotypus.jpg, CC BY-SA 4.0
CC18-4: Siphonaptera Xenopsylla cheopis cheopis; Olha Schedrina $ The Natural History Museum, commons.wikimedia.org$wiki$File$NHMUK010177265_The_plague_flea_-_Xenopsylla_cheopis_cheopis_(Rothschild,_1903).jpg, CC BY 4.0
CC18-5: Siphonaptera female cat flea; Andrei Savitsky, commons.wikimedia.org$wiki$File$%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%88%D0%B0%D1%87%D1%8C%D1%8F_%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%85%D0%B0.jpg, CC BY 4.0
CC18-6: Siphonaptera Craneopsylla minerva; López Berrizbeitia MF, Sánchez RT, Barquez RM, Díaz MM, commons.wikimedia.org$wiki$File$Craneopsylla_minerva.jpg, CC BY 4.0
CC19-3: Strepsiptera; Duane D. McKenna , Brian D. Farrell, commons.wikimedia.org$wiki$File$Strepsiptera.png, CC BY 4.0
CC19-4: Strepsiptera Coriophagus casui; Stephen Thorpe, www.inaturalist.org$photos$244734843, CC BY
CC19-5: Strepsiptera Xenos yangi; Zhiwei Dong, Xingyue Liu, Chuyang Mao, Jinwu He, Xueyan Li, commons.wikimedia.org$wiki$File$Xenos_yangi.jpg, CC BY 4.0
CC19-6: Strepsiptera; DataBase Center for Life Science (DBCLS), commons.wikimedia.org$wiki$File$202111_Strepsiptera.svg, CC BY 4.0
CC20-1: Mantodea, Mantidae, Hierodula patellifera; Soowon Cho, author, 넓적배사마귀 photographed in 2018, CC BY NC ND
CC23-1: Zygentoma; Soowon Cho, CC BY-SA
CC24-1: Diplura, Campodea redii; from www.legambientearcipelagotoscano.it, commons.wikimedia.org$wiki$File$Campodea_redii.jpg, CC BY-SA 3.0
CC24-2: Diplura, Japygidae; Marshal Hedin, commons.wikimedia.org$wiki$File$F_Japygidae,_Diplura.jpg, CC BY-SA 2.0
CC24-3: Diplura, Japygidae sp.; Rodrigo Ferreira, commons.wikimedia.org$wiki$File$Wynberg_Cave_System_(10.3897-subtbiol.36.60162)_Figure_1.jpg, CC BY 4.0
CC24-4: Diplura, Cycladiacampa irakleiae Sendra; I. Gavalas, commons.wikimedia.org$wiki$File$Cycladiacampa_irakleiae_(10.3897-subtbiol.35.53579)_Figures_21%E2%80%9324_(cropped).jpg, CC BY 4.0
CC24-5: Diplura, Campodea staphylinus; Mvuijlst, commons.wikimedia.org$wiki$File$Diplura.jpg, CC BY-SA 3.0
CC24-6: Diplura, Campodeidae; Andy Murray, commons.wikimedia.org$wiki$File$Campodeidae_sp._(11499938054).jpg, CC BY-SA 2.0
CC25-1: Dermaptera, Forficulidae, Forficula auricularia; Bugboy52.40, commons.wikimedia.org$wiki$File$Earwig_description.svg, CC BY-SA 3.0

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