The Lee Lab @ SUNY ESF

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Jun Hyung Lee, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Dept. Environmental Biology

College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York

Postdoc, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Postdoc, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Ph.D., Purdue University

M.S., Seoul National University

B.S., Seoul National University

458 Illick Hall, 1 Forestry Drive, Syracuse, NY 13210

Phone: 315-470-4847

Email: jlee477@esf.edu

Gabriella King

Graduate Student (Ph.D.), 2025 Fall - Present

I’m Gabriella King, a PhD student working on developing synthetic inducible promoters to regulate the expression of Emerald Ash Borer resistance genes in Black Ash (Fraxinus nigra). I completed my undergraduate degree from the University of Tennessee, where I majored in Plant Science with a concentration in Plant Genetics and Biotechnology. During my undergraduate experience, I worked as an undergraduate researcher and assistant for the Center of Agricultural Synthetic Biology. My previous research topics include chloroplast transformations, plastid metabolic engineering, and the development of mini-synplastomes. For this work, I was awarded the Advanced Undergraduate Research Award (AURA), the Excellence in Undergraduate Research Award, and the Distinction in Undergraduate Research Award. A fun fact about me, while all my research involves vascular plants, my favorite plants are non-vascular plants (ferns, mosses, etc.)

Emily Farley

Undergraduate Student, 2026 Spring - Present

I'm Emily Farley, an undergraduate student pursuing a B.S. in Biotechnology with an interest in plant genetics and molecular biology. I graduated from high school with an A.S. in Environmental Science in 2025. In the past I have worked as a microbiology lab assistant, and have lab experience from coursework in molecular biology, genetics, cell biology, microbiology, and more. In the Lee lab, I'm currently working on genotyping Arabidopsis mutant lines and establishing in vitro cultures of green ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica).

Bryce Bevier

Undergraduate Student, 2026 Spring - Present

Current project: Developing a regeneration protocol for white ash (Fraxinus americana).

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