Jae-Hyeok Lee

The Lee Laboratory investigates Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, a unicellular alga sharing
ancestry with plants, as a model to uncover how photoautotrophs perceive and respond to
changing nutrient conditions. Our research seeks to elucidate the fundamental mechanisms
that enable efficient nutrient utilization and long-term survival under environmental
fluctuations.

Over the next five years, our goals are to:

• Identify molecular regulators that integrate nitrogen availability with cellular behaviour;
• Reveal how intracellular nitrogen and phosphorus buffering sustain growth; and
• Develop a systems-level framework for understanding nutrient resilience in eukaryotic
  photoautotrophs.

Courses:

• BIOL2520: Introduction to cell biology (Winter Term only)
• BIOL4500: Molecular genetics of plant development (focused on modern laboratory practices used in plant research)

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