Lee Laboratory
for Biological Mass Spectrometry
Department of Chemistry
Iowa State University
Dr. Young-Jin Lee
Professor, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University
Faculty Scientist, Ames Laboratory
Tel: 515-294-1235
Email: yjlee at iastate.edu
Dr. Lee joined the faculty in August 2008. Before joining Iowa State, he worked at the Genome Center, University of California-Davis as a staff scientist, and at the Department of Chemistry, Indiana University as a post-doctoral fellow with Prof. David E. Clemmer. He received his PhD from Seoul National University in 1997 with Prof. Myung Soo Kim, and worked for LG Semicon and Hyndai Electronics before coming to United States. His mass spectrometry expertise covers wide disciplines including fundamentals, instrumentation, proteomics, and ion mobility. His current research interests include MALDI-based mass spectrometry imaging and its applications to plant metabolites, forensics, among others.
Graduate Students
Josiah Rensner
PhD candidate
Joined Group 2020
Education
B.S. Concordia University-Nebraska in Biology, Chemistry, and Education, 2019
Daphne Patten
PhD candidate
Joined Group 2020
Education
B.S. Lake Superior State University in Forensic Chemistry, 2020
Sumin Na
PhD student
Joined Group Spring 2021
Education
M.S. Yonsei University
B.S. Kyunghee University
Pubudu Hapuarachchige
PhD student
Joined Group 2021
Education
M.S. Eastern Illinois University, 2021
B.S. University of Sri Jayewardenepura
Vy Tat
PhD student
Joined Group 2021
Education
B.S. Concordia College in Chemistry, 2021
Anna Uhlmansiek
PhD student
Joined Group 2022
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Education
B.S. Hanover College, 2022
Undergraduate Research Associate
Luke Fredericks
Please contatct me @ yjlee et iastate.edu if you are in research opportunity!
Summer Intern
Fides Ybanez, high school teacher in Prince George County, MD
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