• Analysis of protozoan infection and proliferation mechanisms within the host body and tissues, and research on therapeutics and vaccine development.

• Cloning of genes related to the midgut, hemolymph, and salivary glands of blood-sucking arthropods involved in protozoan transmission, and vaccine research.

• PhD : United Veterinary Medicine, Gihu University

• MS : Veterinary Medicine, Chungnam National University

• BSc : Veterinary Medicine, Chungnam National University

• 2014 - present, professor, College of Veterinary Medicine, Jeonbuk National University

• 2009 - 2014 Associate professor, College of Veterinary Medicine, Jeonbuk National University

• 2005 - 2009 Assistant professor, College of Veterinary Medicine, Jeonbuk National University

• 2003 - 2005 Full-time lecturer, College of Veterinary Medicine, Jeonbuk National University

• 2003.3 – 2003.8 Postdoctoral fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

• e-x-p-r-e-s-s-i-o-n Patterns of Host Inflammatory Cytokine Genes during Infestation with Haemaphysalis longicornis, a Zoonotic Vector, in Blood Sucking Periods, 2018(56:55-61)

• Drug Induced Sialorrhea and Microfluidic-Chip-Electrophoretic Analysis of Engorged Adult Female Tick Saliva of Haemaphysalis longicornis (Acari: Ixodidae), JOURNAL OF ARTHROPOD-BORNE DISEASES, 2017(11:10-18)

• Convallaria keiskei as a novel therapeutic alternative for salivary gland cancer treatment by targeting myeloid cell leukemia-1, HEAD AND NECK-JOURNAL FOR THE SCIENCES AND SPECIALTIES OF THE HEAD AND NECK, 2016(38:761-770)

• Prevalence of canine giardiasis in the Daejeon and Chungnam area, ournal of Veterinary Clinics, 2015(32:477-480)

• Human Anaplasmosis in Acute Febrile Patients during Scrub Typhus Season in Korea, Infection and Chemotherapy, 2015(47:181-182)

• Saliva from nymph and adult females of Haemaphysalis longicornis: a proteomic study, PARASITES & VECTORS, 2015(8:338-360)

• Proteomic Screening of Antigenic Proteins from the Hard Tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis (Acari: Ixodidae), KOREAN JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY, 2015(53:85-93)

• Clostridium tertium bacteremia in a patient with glyphosate ingestion, American Journal of Case Reports, 2015(16:4-7)

• Effects of Different Sizes of Glass Beads on the Release of Sporocysts from Eimeria tenella Oocysts, KOREAN JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY, 2014(52:435-438)

• Suppression of Eimeria tenella Sporulation by Disinfectants, KOREAN JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY, 2014(52:317-319)

• Resistance and control of cypermethrin and chlorpyrifos as acaricide for control of hard tick Haemaphysalis longicornis (acari: ixodidae), Korean Journal of Veterinary Research, 2014(54:117-120)

• Detection of four important Eimeria species by multiplex PCR in a single assay, PARASITOLOGY INTERNATIONAL, 2014(63:527-532)1. Antibiotic and heavy-metal resistance in motile Aeromonas strains isolated from fish, African Journal of Microbiology Research, 2014(8:1793-1797)

• Antibiotic and heavy-metal resistance in motile Aeromonas strains isolated from fish, African Journal of Microbiology Research, 2014(8:1793-1797)

• Inhibition of specificity protein 1 by dibenzylideneacetone, a curcumin analogue, induces apoptosis in mucoepidermoid carcinomas and tumor xenografts through Bim and truncated Bid, ORAL ONCOLOGY, 2014(50:189-195)

• Severe Sepsis due to Aeromonas aquariorum in a Patient with Liver Cirrhosis, JAPANESE JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 2013(66:519-522)

• Phylogenetic Identification and Distribution of Enterotoxin Genes in Aeromonas Strains Isolated from Pet Fish, JOURNAL OF ANIMAL AND VETERINARY ADVANCES, 2013(12:557-564)

• Molecular characterization of Aeromonas species isolated from farmed eels (Anguilla japonica), VETERINARY MICROBIOLOGY, 2013(164:195-200)

• Catheter-Related Bacteremia Caused by Multidrug-Resistant Leclercia adecarboxylata in a Patient with Breast Cancer, JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY, 2012(50:3129-3132)

• Generation of CD2(+)CD8(+) NK Cells from c-Kit(+) Bone Marrow Cells in Porcine, KOREAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY & PHARMACOLOGY, 2012(16:167-174)

• Synthetic Prion Peptide 106-126 Resulted in an Increase Matrix Metalloproteinases and Inflammatory Cytokines from Rat Astrocytes and Microglial Cells, Toxicological Research, 2012(28:5-9)