Donghyun Raphael Park
استادیار · Structural Biology
Irell and Manella Graduate School of Biological Sciencesمعرفی
Donghyun Raphael Park, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology at Scripps Research. He holds joint appointments in the Immunology & Microbiology division and the Skaggs Graduate School of Chemical and Biological Sciences. His research focuses on bacterial nanomachine structures using cryo-electron tomography to understand pathogen-host interactions.
- Education:
- B.S. in Microbiology, University of Minnesota (2013)
- Ph.D. in Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale School of Medicine (2022)
- Professional Experience:
- Post-baccalaureate research at Bing Chen Laboratory, Harvard Medical School (2013–2015)
Research interests: Deciphering how bacterial secretion systems assemble and function in native environments to mediate pathogenicity. Uses cryo-ET to visualize multiprotein complexes involved in substrate secretion during infection.
Publications highlight structural analyses of HIV envelope spikes, type III secretion systems, and Coxiella burnetii's Dot/Icm system. Work emphasizes in situ structural biology to reveal mechanistic details of bacterial virulence.
