Seminar – SangYoun Park

Invited by the  Courtier Lab, SangYoun Park, Soongsil University in Seoul, will present a seminar on the theme:

The Insect Egg Glue Proteins of Human Lice, Bed Bugs, and Giant Toe-biters

Abstract:

SangYoun Park’s main tool of research is using X-ray to determine protein structures, and he has also been working on identification and characterization of various insect egg glue proteins. So far, he has worked on the egg glue protein of the human head/body louse (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-36913-z), which have been extended to the analogs of the pubic louse, chimpanzee louse, and gorilla louse (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-24011-w). He has also looked into the egg glue proteins of the bed bug (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.126004) and very recently of the aquatic water bugs (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2025.12.052). 

The seminar will take place in room 430B of the Institut Jacques Monod.