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Soo Chan Lee, PhD Post-Doctoral Fellow 320 CARL Building Box 3546 DUMC Durham, N.C. 27710 Phone: 919.684.3036 Fax: 919.684.5458 Email: soochan.lee@duke.edu

I received a BS degree in biology and an MS degree in microbiology from Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea. As a master student, I worked in bacteriology, specifically, studying the resistance mechanism of bacteria against heavy metals. In the fall of 2003, I went to Texas A&M University, where I worked with Dr. Brian Shaw as a graduate student. At that time, I made progress from investigating prokaryotes to eukaryotes. I was primarily interested in how Aspergillus nidulans, a filamentous fungus, establishes and maintains hyphal polarity. In this study, I investigated the role of protein lipidation, especially N-myristoylation, in polarized growth of the fungus.

After obtaining my PhD in December 2007 from Texas A&M University, I relocated to Durham, NC to join the Heitman lab. Currently, my main project is to understand the sexual development of Cryptococcus neoformans, a human pathogenic fungus. This will enable me to make further progress from investigating ascomycetes to basidiomycetes.

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