People:IS Lee

	Insuk Lee Department of Biotechnology College of Life Science and Biotechnology 134 Shinchon-dong, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 120-749, Korea Office: +82-2-2123-5559 Email: insuklee@yonsei.ac.kr or insuksysbio@gmail.com URL: http://polaris.icmb.utexas.edu/people/il1001/index.htm

Education

• Postdoctoral Work, University of Texas at Austin, TX (01/2003 – 02/2008)
  Research Advisor: Prof. Edward M. Marcotte
  Biological network modeling and analysis for genotype-phenotype mapping
• Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, TX (09/1996 – 12/2002)
  Advisor: Prof. Rasika M. Harshey
  Dissertation: Importance of the Conserved TG/CA Dinucleotide Termini in Phage Mu
  Transposition: Similarities to Transposable Elements in the Human Genome
• M.S., Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL (09/1993 – 05/1996)
  Advisor: Prof. Thomas Alton
  Thesis: Genetic analysis of Agrobacterium vir region by generating gene fusion using bacterial transposon
• B.S. in Biology, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea (03/1986 – 02/1993, military service: 02/1988 – 05/1990)

Professional Experience

• 03/2008 – present
  Assistant Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.

Current Research Interests

• Biological data mining, integration, interpretation, hypothesis generation
• Gene network construction and analysis for various model organisms
• Genotype-phenotype mapping by various biological data and modeling algorithms
• Analysis of protein-protein interactions and genetic interactions in animals and plants

Awards, Honors, Fellowships

9. Yonsei University Teaching Excellence Award (Year 2009), 2010
8. Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) Travel Fellowship Award, 2006
7. National Institute of General Medicine Science Scholarship for Keystone Symposia of Systems Biology, 2006
6. Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) Travel Fellowship Award, 2005
5. The L. Joe Berry Memorial Scholarship, University of Texas at Austin, 2001
4. David Bruton, Jr. Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin, 2000
3. Korean Honor Scholarship from Embassy of the Republic of Korea in the U.S., 1999
2. The Hal H. Ramsey, III Memorial Scholarship, University of Texas at Austin, 19991. Academic Achievement Scholarship, Hanyang University, 1986, 1991, 1992

Professional Societies

• Member, International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)
• Committee Member, Korean Society of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (KSBSB)

Community service

• Associate Editor: Journal Frontiers in Plant Physiology (2010 – present)
• Editorial Board member: Animal Cells and Systems (2010 – present)
• Ad hoc Journal reviewer:

Genome Research, Genome Biology, Bioinformatics, BioTechniques, IET-Systems Biology, and INFORMS Journal on Computing.

• Program Committee:

ACM Third International Workshop on Data and Text Mining in Bioinformatics (2009)

Teaching and Advising

University Courses Taught

• 12. FGP6004 Advanced Bioinformatics, Spring 2010, Yonsei University, Korea
• 11. BTE7240 Advanced Bioinformatics, Spring 2010, Yonsei University, Korea
• 10. BTE4402 Bioinformatics, Spring 2010, Yonsei University, Korea
• 9. UCS1001 Freshmen seminar, Fall 2009, Yonsei University, Korea
• 8. LSB 3101 Biochemistry I, Fall 2009, Yonsei University, Korea
• 7. Introduction to Modern Biochemistry, Summer 2009, Yanbian University of Science and Technology, China
• 6. BTE7240 Advanced Bioinformatics, Spring 2009, Yonsei University, Korea
• 5. BTE4402 Bioinformatics, Spring 2009, Yonsei University, Korea
• 4. UCS1001 Freshmen seminar, Fall 2008, Yonsei University, Korea
• 3. BTE2001 Biochemistry I, Fall 2008, Yonsei University, Korea
• 3. Introduction to Modern Biochemistry, Summer 2008, Yanbian University of Science and Technology, China
• 2. BTE7240 Advanced Bioinformatics, Spring 2008, Yonsei University, Korea
• 1. BTE4402 Bioinformatics, Spring 2008, Yonsei University, Korea