A visit from Dr. Hong
CABI is just down the road
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After having met at a conference in Korea in the summer, I was happy to host Dr. Seung-Beom Hong, head of agricultural culture collections at South Korea’s National Institute of Crop and Food Science, for a quick tour of the campus and our lab. He was joined by Miguel Bonnin, a fellow PhD student who I had met at the beginning of my studies.
Dr. Hong is establishing a collaboration with CABI to establish a microbiome preservation project in Korea (Kim et al. 2024). After the tour, Dr. Hong treated us to dinner and cask ale at the Barley Mow.
References
Kim, Yiseul, Hyang Min Cheong, Grace Choi, Kyung-Min Choi, Eu Jin Chung, Ahran Kim, Song-Gun Kim, et al. 2024. “Strengthening the Korean Network of Microbial Culture Collections in the Microbiome Era.” Mycobiology 52 (4): 207–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/12298093.2024.2372917.