Seung-Wuk Lee Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering Faculty Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 220 Donner Lab mailcode: (510) 486-4628 fax: 510-486-6488 This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it http://leelab.berkeley.edu

Joined the UC Berkeley Faculty in 2005

Research Interests

We are interested in bio-inspired nanomaterials and nanotechnology. We are developing new ways to fabricate high performance materials and devices through self-assembly processes by exploiting biological organisms such as viruses and cells. We are also designing synthetic viruses which can be exploited as regenerative tissue engineering materials and drug delivery vehicles.
  

Education

2003 Ph. D., The University of Texas at Austin, Chemistry and Biochemistry,
1998 M. S.,  Korea University, Seoul, Korea, Chemistry
1995 B. S. Korea University Seoul, Korea, Chemistry

Major Awards

National Science Foundation CAREER Award 2008 (2008)

Hellman Family Faculty Award (2008)

First place at MRS 2007 Spring Meeting, Top 5 Hot Talk/Cool Papers (April, 2007)

Best Paper at IEEE-NEMS 2007 Meeting (April, 2007)

Annual Nanotech Briefs' Nano50 Award (2005)

Professional Experience

2006-present Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, UC, Berkeley

2006-present Faculty Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Selected Publications

1.    Lee, S.-W.; Mao, C.; Flynn, E. C.; Belcher, A. M. Ordering of Quantum Dots Using Genetically Engineered Viruses. Science 2002, 296, 892-895.

2.    Merzlyak, A.; Lee, S.-W., “Phage as Templates for Hybrid Materials and Mediators for Nanomaterial Synthesis”, Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, 2006 10, 246-252.

3.    Jaworski, J; Raorane, D.; Huh, J.; Majumdar, A.; Lee, S.-W.; Evolutionary Screening of Biomimetic Coatings for Selective Detection of Explosives. Langmuir, 2008, 28, 4938-4943.

4.    Kwon, K.-Y.; Wang, E., Chung, A,; Chiang N.; Saiz, E.; Koobastian, M.;Choi, W.; Lee, S.-W.; Defect Induced Asymmetric Pit Formation on Hydroxyapatite, Langmuir, 2008, 28, 11063-11066.

5.    Merzlyak, A.; Lee, S.-W., “Genetically Engineered Liquid Crystalline Virus Matrices For Tissue Regenerating Materials”, Nano Letters, 2009, in press (10.1021/nl8036728)