Vector Genetics Lab

Yoosook Lee Postdoctoral Scholar Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology School of Veterinary Medicine University of California - Davis One Shields Avenue Davis, CA 95616 Phone: (530) 752-7333 Email: yoslee[at]ucdavis.edu Education Research Interests Research Experience Honors and Awards Publications CV (PDF)

Education

B.S in Life Science, Life Science Department, the Pohang University of Science and Technolgy (POSTECH), 2000

Ph.D. in Biology, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California - Los Angeles, 2006

Posdoctoral Scholar, Department of Entomology, University of California - Davis, 2006-2007

Postdoctoral Scholar, UC Mosquito Research Program, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California - Davis, 2007 - 2011

Research Interests

• Population Genetics
• Compuatational biology
• Population Genomics Database

Research Experience

Honors and Awards

2010

Journal of Medical Entomology 2009 Editor's Choice Award for Lee et al. 2009. JME.

BioMed Central Open Data Award 2009 Winner at the 4th BioMed Central Annual Research Award, London, UK, Jun 10, 2010

2009

Invited speaker for the Symposium, "Advances in Anopheles gambiae Population Genomics" at the 58th annual meeting of American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Nov 18-22, 2009, Washington, DC, USA

2009

Invited speaker for the Life Sciences Department Seminar Series, "Ecological and Genetic Relationship among members of Anopheles gambiae s.l.", POSTECH, Korea, Jun 16, 2009

2008

The annual meeting of the Bioinformatics Resource Centers, NIAID, "Anopheles gambiae Population Genomics Database: Ground work for population genetic database", Deerfield Beach, Florida, Oct 28- 29, 2008

2008

Speaker for UCLA Bioformatics IDP Research Conference, "Anopheles gambiae Population Genomics Database: Ground work for population genetic database", Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA, May 23, 2008

2008

William C. Reeves New Investigator Award 3rd place winner, 2008 Mosquito and Vector Control Association of California Annual Conference.

2003

Best Paper Award, 8th International conference on artificial life and robotics

Selected Publications

1. Marsden CD, Lee Y, Neiman C, Sanford MR, Dinis J, Marins C, Rodrigues AR, Cornel AJ, Lanzaro GC. (2011) Asymmetric introgression between the M and S molecular forms of the malaria vector, Anopheles gambiae, maintains divergence despite extensive hybridisation. Mol Ecol. Accepted.
2. Ng'habi KR, Knos BGJ, Lee Y, Ferguson HM, Lanzaro GC. Population genetic structure of Anopheles arabiensis and Anopheles gambiae in a malaria endemic region of southern Tanzania. Malaria J. 2011. 10:289
3. Lee Y, Seifert SN, Nieman CS, McAbee RD, Goodell P, Fryxell RT, Lanzaro GC, Cornel AJ. High degree of single nucleotide polymorphisms in California Culex pipiens (Diptera:Culicidae) sensu lato. 2011. Accepted.
4. Horton A, Lee Y, Coulibaly C, Rashbrook VK, Cornel AJ, Lanzaro GC, Luckhart S. (2010) Identification of three single nucleotide polymorphism in Anopheles gambiae immune signaling genes that are associated with natural Plamodium falciparum infection. Malaria J. 2010 9:160.
5. Lee Y, Cornel AJ, Meneses CR, Fofana A, Andrianarivo AG, McAbee RD, Fondjo E, Traoré SF, Lanzaro GC. Ecological and genetic relationships of the Forest-M form among chromosomal and molecular forms of the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae sensu stricto. Malaria J. 2009 8:75.
6. Lee Y, Meneses CR, Fofana A, Lanzaro GC. Desiccation resistance among subpopulations of Anopheles gambiae s.s. from Selinkenyi, Mali. J Med Entomol. 2009 46(2):316-20.
7. Lee Y, Collier TC, Taylor CE, Olfati-Saber R. Emergence of cohesion in the evolutionary dynamics of grammar networks. Evol Ecol Res. 2009. 11(5): 433-445.
8. Jung KH, Lee J, Dardick C, Seo YS, Cao P, Canlas P, Phetsom J, Xu X, Ouyang S, An K, Cho YJ, Lee GC, Lee Y, An G, Ronald PC. (2008) Identification and functional analysis of light-responsive unique genes and gene family members in rice. PLoS Genet. 4(8):e1000164.
9. Reimer L, Fondjo E, Patchoké S, Diallo B, Lee Y, Ng A, Ndjemai HM, Atangana J, Traore SF, Lanzaro G, Cornel AJ. Relationship between kdr mutation and resistance to pyrethroid and DDT insecticides in natural populations of Anopheles gambiae. J Med Entomol. 2008 45(2):260-6.
10. Slotman MA, Tripet F, Cornel AJ, Meneses CR, Lee Y, Reimer LJ, Thiemann TC, Fondjo E, Fofana F, Traore SF, Lanzaro GC. Evidence for subdivision within the M molecular form of Anopheles gambiae. Mol Ecol. 2007 16(3):639-649
11. Manoukis NC, Lee Y, Vallejo E, Taylor CE. Detecting recurrent extinction in a metapopulations of Anopheles gambiae: preliminary results using simulation. Proceedings of the 6th WSEAS International Conference on Algorithms, Scientific Computing, Modeling and Simulation. 2004
12. Lee Y, Collier TC, Taylor CE, Stabler EP. Cohesion of languages in grammar networks. 2007. pp. 359-376 in Shamma, J., Cooperative Control of Distributed Multiagent Systems. Wiley-Interscience. Chichester, U.K.
13. Lee Y, Collier TC, Kobele GM, Stabler EP, Taylor CE. Grammar Structure and the Dynamics of Language Evolution. 2005. pp 634-643 in Advances in Artificial Life. Proceedings of the VIIIth European Conference on Artificial Life. Canterbury, UK. September. Springer, Berlin
14. Lee Y, Collier TC, Stabler EP, Taylor CE. The role of population structure in language evolution. 2004. in M. Sugisaka and H. Tanaka, eds., Proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics.
15. Lee Y, Riggle J, Collier TC, Stabler EP, Taylor CE. Adaptive Communication among Collaborative Agents: Preliminary Results with Symbol Grounding. 2004. Artificial Life and Robotics, 8:127-132.
16. Kobele GM, Riggle J, Collier TC, Taylor CE, Lee Y, Lin Y, Yao Y, Stabler EP. Grounding as Learning. 2003. Proceedings of the ESSLLI
17. Stabler EP, Collier TC, Kobele GM, Taylor CE, Lee Y, Lin Y, Riggle J, Yao Y. The learning and emergence of mildly context sensitive languages. 2003. pp525-534 in W. Banzhaf, T. Christaller, P. Dittrich, J. T. Kim and J. Ziegler, eds. Advances in Artificial Life: 7th European Conference, ECAL 2003. Springer, Berlin.

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