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Bongsoo Park
Ph.D program in Integrative Biosciences
Bioinformatics and Genomics option
The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
The Pennsylvania State University
312 Buckhout Lab, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Intro & Research Interests
Computational Biologist and Information Scientist, Academic Careers
Thinker, Dreamer, Blogger
and Friend of yours! My Facebook Page 
I will be a storyteller and genome scientist to contribute to society. It will be a positive influence on the science education.
For example, I hope that I will be writing a beautiful scientific fiction, so many kids would have dream to be good scientists.
I finished my B.S in Applied Biology & Chemistry and B.A in Information & Multimedia culture at Seoul National University in South Korea.
After arrival in United States, I've been working on designing and constructing cyber-infrastructure platform for the scientific communities.
Genome sequence analyses are very important in Life Sciences, therefore I've learned Bioinformatics and Genomics at Pennsylvania State
University. Currently, I'm a graduate research fellow in USDA-AFRI Plant Biosecurity program (2006-2011).
Participations in Academic Conferences
- Penn State no)Boundaries Geography Student Conferences
- Penn State Gamma Sigma Delta Agricultural Sciences Conferences
- Penn State Cyber Science and Network Science Conferences
- Korean Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Conferences
- Korean Genome Biology Organization Conferences
- Korean Plant Pathology Society Conferences
- American Phytopathology Society Conferences
- 2010 Oomycete Genetic Network Conference - Toulouse, France (NSF Travel grant)
- 2011 Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference - Incheon, South Korea
- 2011 International Society of Computational Biology - (Huck Institutes Travel grant)
Bioinformatics & Genomics Books
Involved projects(2004-2011)
I have involved in multiple projects as scientific programmer and database administrator since 2004.
- Global Phytophthora Networks
| Toward the goal of enhancing our ability to detect, diagnose, monitor, and manage Phytophthora diseases, we have been systematically cataloging genotypic and phenotypic data of Phytophthora spp. in a web-based database that can be easily accessed and utilized by the global community of plant health professionals. |
| Fusarium causes infectious disease to Plant, Animal, and Human. The long-term goal of CiF is to build a community resource that supports the archiving, integration and utilization of data from diverse areas of Fusarium research, ranging from genomics, phylogenetics, and population genetics to epidemiology. |
- Pythium Species and Isolate Database
- Comparative Fungal Genomics Platform (2008 NAR DB)
- SNUGB (Seoul National University Genome Browser)
- Phyloviewer (Web-based Phylogenomics Platform)
- IMGD (Insect Mitochondria Genome Database)
- FCPD (Fugal Cytochrome P450 Database)
- ABC Transporter Analysis Platform
- FTFD (Fugal Transcription Factor Database)
- LIMS (Lab Information Management System)
- Departmental Blog System at Penn State
- Wikipedia for Plant Pathology
- Cultural Studies for Genome Sciences
| Genome is one of the major keywords in human society. Life scientists are interested in genome information and its implication. Moreover, commercially available genome analysis packages were introduced recently, and genome science becomes very familiar and popular to general audiences. As growing number of genome sequencing projects, this will impact to culture of society in formats of movies, comics, games, and designs. |
Ph.D course works(2008-2011)
| Integrative Biosciences | Bioinformatics I - Algorithms in BX (Dr. Webb C. Miller) Bioinformatics II - Statistics in BX (Dr. Yu Zhang) Integrative Biosciences Colloquium I,II (Dr. Pamela J. Mitchell) Bioinformatics and Genomics Journal Club (Dr. John E. Carlson) Ethics in the Life Sciences (Dr. John W. Hanold) Thesis Research (Dr. Seogchan Kang) Supervised Experience in College Teaching (Genomics Fall 2010) |
| Biology and Physics | Genomics (Dr. Ross C. Hardison, Dr. Stephan Schuster et al.) Molecular Evolution (Dr. Katrina Makova) Systems Biology and Networks (Dr. Réka Albert) Introduction to Evolution (Dr. S. Blair Hedges) Molecular Evolution Seminar (Dr. Masatoshi Nei) |
| Statistics and Mathmatics | Applied Statistics (Dr. Mosuk Chow) Sampling Methods (Dr. Mosuk Chow) Regression Methods (Dr. Andrew Wiesner) Statistical Computing (Dr. Naomi S. Altman) Applied Time Series Analysis, Stochastic Modeling Colloquium in Statistics and Theory of Statistics I,II |
| Plant Pathology | Plant Pathology Seminars Microbe-Plant Interactions (Dr. Frederick E. Gildow) Fundamentals of Phytopathology (Dr. Maria Jimenzes Gasco) Biology of Fungi (Dr. David M. Geiser) Epidemiology of Plant Diseases (Dr. Seogchan Kang, Dr. Larry Madden) |
| Computer and Information Sciences(Undergrad) |
Computer Programming, Database, Data Structure, Web Programming, Engineering Mathmatics, Discrete Mathmatics, Human Computer Interaction, Virtual Reality, Mobile Computing, Mass Communication, Information Society, Visual Communication, Educational Technology, Agricultural Information System |
Presentations(2009-2011)
Presentation : (3/5)
BG Journal Club 2010
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University Park(2006-2011)
(University Park Campus)
- PP(Peter Park, Nickname)
- PP(Plant Pathology, Working place)
- PP(Pattee & Paterno Library, Nice places for studying at Penn State.) ^^*
- PP(Perl & Python, Oh! these are main computer languages I've used in Bioinformatics.) ^^;
- PP(Passion & Patience, I need to have more passion & patience.)
- PP(Prayer & Prayer, I trust in God.)
"In his heart a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps." - Proverbs 16:9