Yoosook Lee
Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology
Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology
Research Profile
Education
2000, BS, POSTECH, Pohang, Kyungbuk, South Korea
2006, PhD, University of California - Los Angeles,
2011, Postdoc. Researcher, University of California - Davis,
Active Research Grants
Co-Investigator, Pacific Southwest Regional Center of Excellence for Vector-Borne Disease Research at the University of California, C Barker (Principal Investigator), CDC
Co-Investigator, University of California Irvine Malaria Initiative - field component, Gregory Lanzaro (Principal Investigator), University of California Irvine Malaria Initiative
Honors and Awards
2003 Best Paper Award, 8th International conference on artificial life and robotics
2008 William C. Reeves New Investigator Award 3rd place winner, 2008 Mosquito and Vector Control Association of California Annual Conference.
2010 BioMed Central Open Data Award 2009 Winner at the 4th BioMed Central Annual Research Award, London, UK, Jun 10, 2010
2010 Journal of Medical Entomology 2009 Editor's Choice Award for Lee et al. 2009. JME.
Most Recent Five Book Chapters
2017 Dorn PL, Justi S, Krafsur ES, Lanzaro GC, Cornel AJ, Lee Y, Hill CA: Chapter 15, Genetics of major insect vectors, Tibayrenc M, (ed), Genetics and Evolution of Infectious Diseases, 2nd Edition, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 341-382.
2013 Lanzaro GC, Lee Y: Chapter 6: Speciation in Anopheles gambiae - The distribution of genetic polymorphism and patterns of reproductive isolation among natural populations, Manguin S, (ed), Anopheles mosquitoes - New insights into malaria vectors, . 173-96.
2008 Lee Y, Collier TC, Taylor CE, Stabler EP: Cohesion of languages in grammar networks, J Shamma, (ed), Cooperative Control of Distributed Multi-Agent Systems, Chichster, UK. .
Research Focus
Population Genetics; Population genomics; Vector Biology; Bioinformatics
Specialty Focus
SNP genotyping, Microarray, Next-generation sequencing