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Farewell to Hyunsu, our visiting PhD student who is back to Korea!

News: July 14, 2023

Hyunsu Kim, our visiting PhD student from Sungkyunkwan University is back to Korea to finish her PhD program. Below is our farewell dinner to Hyunsu, we hope you had a great time at our lab and we wish you all the best on your next journey!

Welcome Shayna and Katherine, our first two research assistants!

News: June 05, 2023

We are excited to welcome two research assistants joining our lab this year, Shayna Mallett as a dry lab RA and Katherine Nguyen as wet lab RA. Shayna graduated as a Computer Science major from Arizona State University and Katherine graduated as a Biochemistry & Molecular Biology major from Mercer...

Jayoung Ku, PhD

Person: Postdoctoral Fellow

Jayoung joined the lab in August 2023 as a postdoctoral fellow. He received a PhD in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in Daejeon, Republic of Korea in 2023. His PhD research in Yoosik Kim’s group focused on post-transcriptional...

Jenny Lai successfully defended her thesis! Congrats Dr. Lai!

News: August 29, 2023

Jenny successfully defended her dissertation on " Functional genomic dissection of human brain development, degeneration, and dysfunction in pediatric neurogenetic disorders". She was an MD-PhD student in the Harvard/MIT MD-PhD Program in Neuroscience (PiN). Congratulations to Dr. Lai! We wish you...

Lee Lab

Contribution and Therapeutic Implications of Retroelement Insertions in Ataxia Telangiectasia

Publication: Journal Article

Zhao, Boxun, Minh A Nguyen, Sijae Woo, Jinkuk Kim, Timothy W. Yu**, and Eunjung Alice Lee**. 2023. “Contribution and Therapeutic Implications of Retroelement Insertions in Ataxia Telangiectasia”. American Journal of Human Genetics 110 (11): 1976-82.

A Neurodegeneration Checkpoint Mediated by REST Protects Against the Onset of Alzheimer’s Disease

Publication: Journal Article

Aron*, Liviu, Chenxi Qiu*, Zhen Kai Ngian, Marianna Liang, Derek Drake, Jaejoon Choi, Marty A. Fernandez, et al. 2023. “A Neurodegeneration Checkpoint Mediated by REST Protects Against the Onset of Alzheimer’s Disease”. Nature Communications 14 (1).

ATM-deficiency induced microglial activation promotes neurodegeneration in Ataxia-Telangiectasia

Publication: Journal Article

Lai, Jenny, Didem Demirbas, Junho Kim, Ailsa M. Jeffries, Allie Tolles, Junseok Park, Thomas W. Chittenden, et al. 2024. “ATM-Deficiency Induced Microglial Activation Promotes Neurodegeneration in Ataxia-Telangiectasia”. Cell Reports 43 (1).

Shayna Mallett

Person:

Shayna is a computational research assistant in the Lee Lab. She graduated summa cum laude with her BS in Computer Science from Barrett the Honors College at Arizona State University in May 2022. She contributes to the pipeline development for identifying and analyzing somatic SNV and LINE-1 calling...

Khue (Katherine) Nguyen

Person:

Khue (Katherine) is a research assistant (wet-lab position). She graduated from Mercer University, GA in May 2023 with a BS in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. She joined Lee lab in June 2023. Her research interest and involvement includes Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and somatic mutation...