PI
Changhan Lee Ph.D.
Education:
2007 - 2012 Ph.D., Dept. of Biological Sciences, KAIST, Korea
Advisor: Chankyu Park, Ph.D.
2003 - 2007 B.S., Dept. of Biological Sciences, KAIST, Korea
Research experience:
2021 – present: Assistant professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Ajou University, Korea
2017 – 2020: Postdoctoral fellow
Dept. of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI),
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Advisor: James Bardwell, Ph.D.
2015: Visiting scholar
Center for Molecular Biology of the University of Heidelberg (ZMBH) and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg University, Germany
Advisor: Axel Mogk, Ph.D. and Dr. Bernd Bukau Ph.D.
2013 – 2017: Postdoctoral fellow
Dept. of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Advisor: Ute Römling, Ph.D.
2012 - 2013: Postdoctoral fellow
Dept. of Biological Sciences, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea
Advisor: Chankyu Park, Ph.D.
Activities:
2021 - present: 한국미생물학회 정회원
2021 - present: Korean Journal of Microbiology, Editor
2022 - present: 한국미생물학회 미생물 생리/생화학 분과 간사
2023 - present: 한국미생물 생명공학회 정회원
2024 - present: 한국미생물학회 정책기획위원회 실무위원
Changhan earned his Ph.D. degree at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 2012. During his Ph.D. thesis, he characterized the regulatory mechanism to respond reactive electrophilic species (RES) in Escherichia coli under the supervision of Dr. Chankyu Park. In 2013, he moved to Ute Römling lab at Karolinska Institute in Sweden as a postdoc and expended his research area to protein quality control system in a key opportunistic human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Changhan joined James Bardwell lab at University of Michigan, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) in 2017 and studied kept his deep interest to protein folding and proteostasis in bacteria. He is amazed by the sophisticated protein quality contol system, called chaperones, in living orgasnisms, and continues his journey in science. Changhan peruses to understand how bacteria respond to various proteotoxic stresses and how it can be applied to understand host-microbe interaction and to develop new antimicrobial drug. He loves to travel around the world and watch movies.