Kwonmoo Lee

Ph.D. Candidate, MIT Department of Physics

Marc Kirschner Lab, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School

PERSONAL INFORMATION

- Gender: Male

- Nationality: Korea, Republic Of

- Marital Status: Married to Namnim Choo

EDUCATION

PH.D. CANDIDATE, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Cambridge, MA, USA

~ Physics (Specialty Area: Biophysics)

~ Research Advisor: Marc W. Kirschner (Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School), Co-Advisor: Alexander van Oudenaarden (Department of Physics, MIT)

MASTER OF SCIENCE, POHANG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Pohang, Korea

~ Physics (Stochastic Model of Voltage-Gated Ion Channels; Advisor: Prof. Wokyung Sung)

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE, POHANG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Pohang, Korea

~ Electronic and Electrical Engineering and Physics (Minor), Magna cum laude

EXPERIENCES

SAMSUNG SDS, Korea

~ Research Engineer, Bioinformatics Lab, IT R&D Center

LG CABLE, Korea

~ Research Engineer, Fiber Optics and Telecommunications Lab

POHANG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Korea

~ Research/Teaching Assistant, Department of Physics

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Actin Dynamics, Cell Migration, Single Molecule Biochemistry/Biophysics, Quantitative Biochemistry, Biological Mechanics, Quantitative Modeling of Intracellular Dynamics

COURSEWORKS AND QUALIFICATION DURING PhD COURSE

~ Biology/Medicine: Introductory Biology, General Biochemistry, Molecular Biology of the Cell, Laboratory in Molecular and Cellular Sciences, Molecular Biology and Genetics in Modern Medicine, Human Pathology, Quantitative Physiology: Organ Transport Systems

~ Physics: Statistical Mechanics I, Modern Dynamical Systems, Introduction to Plasma Physics I, Atomic and Optical Physics I, PhD Qualification Exam Part I (Undergraduate Level Physics), II (Graduate Level of Classical Mechanics, Electromagnetism, Quantum Mechanics, Statistical Mechanics), III (Oral Exam of Biophysics)

~ Interdisciplinary Subjects: Systems Biology, A Systems Approach to Biology, Frontiers in Biophysics, Biological Mechanics, Force Measurement & Manipulation in Biological Microscopy (Workshop at UNC)

SKILLS

TIRF Microscopy, Confocal Microscopy, Electron Microscopy (Thin Section, Negative Staining), Immunofluorescence , Protein Purification (Mammalian/Bacterial), Basic Molecular Biology (Subcloning), Protein Labeling, Cell Culture, Radioactive Assays, Image Analysis, Java/Matlab Programming, Numerical Analysis

AWARDS AND HONORS

~ Excellent Science Book Chosen by the National Academy of Sciences, Korea (Translated from Post-Genome Informatics, M. Kanehisa)

~ Medical Engineering and Medical Physics Graduate Fellowship by HST

~ Lester Wolfe Fellowship by MIT Department of Physics (declined for HST/MEMP Fellowship)

~ Graduate Study Abroad Scholarship by Korea Science and Engineering Foundation

~ LG Cable Scholarship

~ Graduation with Magna Cum Laude by Pohang University of Science and Technology

~ Young-il Scholarship by Pohang University of Science and Technology

~ Tuition Scholarship by Pohang University of Science and Technology

Memberships

Student member, ASCB (American Society for Cell Biology)

Student member, APS (American Physical Society)

PUBLICATIONS

K. Lee, T. S. Chung, and J. H. Kim, Global Optimization of Clusters in Gene Expression Data of DNA Microarrays by Deterministic Annealing, Genomics and Informatics, 1, 20-25, 2003

K. Lee and W. Sung, Ion Transport and Channel Transition in Biomembrane, Physica A, 315, 79-97, 2002

K. Lee and W. Sung, A Stochastic Model of Conductance Transitions in Voltage-Gated Ion Channels, Journal of Biological Physics, 28:279-287, 2002

K. Lee, J. H. Kim, T. S. Chung, B. Moon, H. Lee, I. S. Kohane, Evolution Strategy Applied to Global Optimization of Clusters in Gene Expression Data of DNA Microarrays, Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Seoul, Korea, 845-850

Post-Genome Informatics by Minoru Kanehisa, Translated by K. B. Lee, H. Lee, D. H. Han, D. W. Kim, B. S. Moon, K. Lee, and Y. B. Bae, 2000

H. S. Chung, H. Kim, S. E. Jin, E. S. Son, D. W. Kim, K. M. Lee, H. Y. Park, and Y. C. Chung, 320-Gb/s WDM Transmission with 50-GHz Channel Spacing Over 564 km of Short-Period Dispersion-Managed Fiber (Perfect Cable), IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 12, 1397-1399, 2000

S. E. Jin, H. Kim, K. M. Lee, H. Y. Park, and Y. C. Chung, Cross Phase Modulation in a Short-Period Dispersion-Managed Fiber, Conference on Opto-electronics and Optical Communications, Pohang, Korea, 2000

K. Lee and W. Sung, Effects of Nonequilibrium Fluctuations on Ionic Transport through Biomembranes, Physical Review E, 60, 4681-4686, 1999

K. M. Lee, H. Y. Park, and C. Y. Cho, An Efficient Method to Determine Chromatic Dispersion of Complicated Refractive Index Profiles, LG Cable Technical Review, 5:58-65, 1998

PATENTS

H. Y. Park, K. M. Lee, and C. Y. Cho, Dispersion Shifted Optical Fiber Having Triple Clad, U. S. Patent Number: 6516125, Feb., 4, 2003

K. M. Lee, D. W. Kim, D. W. Lee, D. Y. Kim and Y. C. Chung, Optical Fiber for Wavelength Division Multiplexing Optical Transmission System Using Densely Spaced Optical Channels, Korea Patent Number: 1003493200000, Aug., 6, 2002