QBiolog/Biophysics Lab

Kyung Suk Lee, Ph.D.

ACADEMIC INTERESTS

Quantitative understanding of physics of living systems

· Regulation mechanism of food uptake

· Host-pathogen interactions during microbial infection

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2013- Research Associate, Department of Physics, Harvard University

“Animal behaviors and regulatory responses to environmental cues”

· Development of microfluidics-based longitudinal imaging platform for C. elegans

· Automated image analysis of animal behaviors and regulatory responses

· Characterization of responses to food availability, neurotransmitters, and bacterial infection

EDUCATION

2012 Ph.D. in Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“Fluorescence imaging of single molecule dynamics on long single-stranded DNA”

· Development of an optical tweezer combined with single molecule fluorescence microscopy

· Characterization of the activities of various proteins at single molecule level

· Instrumentation of single molecule microscopes (smFRET, ALEX, STORM)

2006 B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering

B.S. in Physics, Minor in Mathematics, Seoul National University, South Korea