Jungjoon Lee
![]() Jungjoon Lee Address Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford Department of Radiology 1201 Welch Road, Lucas P086 Stanford, CA 94305-5484 Tel: (650) 724-3456 Email: jkl22@stanford.edu Graduate student, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University My research aims to select Aptamer sequence that binds to and activate quenched dye. Method called SELEX is used to achieve this goal. Education: PhD Candidate, Stanford University, 2005 – Present Thesis Advisor: Professor Jianghong Rao BA / M.Sci. University of Cambridge, 2001-2005 Thesis advisor: Professor Carol Robinson FRS Awards and Honors: Foundation Scholarship for achieving 1st Degree Honor, 2004 Cambridge Overseas Trust Fellowship, 2001-2005 Silver Medal, 33rd International Chemistry Olympiad, 2001 D & G Schoental Award for achieving top score in British Chemistry Olympiad, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2001 Gold Medal, British Physics Olympiad, 2001 UK representative for International Physics Olympiad, 2001 (declined) Experience: Research Assistant, 2007– Current, Rao Lab, Stanford University Research Assistant, 2006 – 2007, Herschlag Lab, Stanford University Teaching Assistant, 2005 – 2007, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University Courses: 2005 Fall: Organic Polyfunctional Compounds (Professor Heustis), 2005 Winter: Biochemistry II (Professor Khosla), 2006 Spring: Organic Chemistry Lab I, 2007 Fall: Statistical Mechanics (Professor Pande) Master Student, 2004 – 2005, Robinson Lab, University of Cambridge Undergraduate Research Student, 2003 – 2004, Spring Lab, University of Cambridge Summer Research Student, 2004, Kim Lab, Seoul National University Residential Training, 2004, Glaxo Smith Kline, UK Publications: M. Forconi, J. Lee, J. K. Lee, J. Piccirilli, D. Herschlag, Functional Identification of Ligands for a Catalytic Metal Ion in Group I Introns. (2008) Biochemistry 47, 6883-6894 F. G. Glansdorp, G. L. Thomas, J. K. Lee, J. M. Dutton, G. P. C. Salmond, M. Welch, D. R. Spring, Synthesis and stability of small molecule probes for Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing modulation. (2004) Org. Biomol. Chem. 2, 3329-3336 |

