Professor
Ja Yil Lee
Assistant Professor in School of Life Science
Ph.D. in Physics
biojayil@unist.ac.kr
EDUCATION & RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Seoul National University (1993-1997)
B. S. in Dept. of Physics
Seoul National University (1997-1999)
M. S. in Dept. of Physics (Prof. Dai-Sik Kim)
Samsung SDI (1999-2001)
Assistant Researcher
Biomedlab Co. (2001-2003)
Researcher
Seoul National University (2003-2006)
Ph.D. in Dept. of Physics (Prof. Dai-Sik Kim)
Korea University (2006-2008)
Research Professor in Dept. of Physics (Prof. Seok-Cheol Hong)
Columbia University (2008-2016)
Associate Research Scientist (Prof. Eric C. Greene)
UNIST (2016-)
Assistant Professor in School of Life Sciences
REPRESENTATIVE PAPERS
Na Young Cheon, Hyun-Suk Kim, Jung-Eun Yeo, Orlando D. Scharer, and Ja Yil Lee
Single-molecule visualization reveals the damage search mechanism for the human NER protein XPC-RAD23B
Nucleic Acids Research, gkz629
Lee JY, Steinfeld JB, Qi Z, Kwon Y, Sung, P, and Greene EC
Sequence imperfections and base triplet recognition by the Rad51/RecA family of recombinases.
J. Biol. Chem. 2017: 292: 11125-11135
**This paper was chosen as Editors’ pick.
Lee JY, Qi Z, and Greene EC
ATP hydrolysis promotes duplex DNA release by the RecA presynaptic complex.
J. Biol. Chem. 2016: 291: 22218-22230.
** This paper was chosen in Faculty of 1000.
Lee JY, Tsuyoshi T, Qi Z, Steinfeld JB, Redding S, Kwon YH, Gaines WA, Zhao X, Sung P, and Greene EC
Base triplet stepping during DNA strand exchange by the Rad51/RecA family of recombinases.
Science. 2015: 349: 977-981.