Young Wha Lee
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Department of Biology
Duke University
Box 90338
Durham NC 27708
919-660-7316 (lab)
919-660-7223 (office)
YWL2@duke.edu
Website: http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:Young_Wha_Lee
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Education
Ph.D Duke University
2002-2009
Advisor: Dr. John Willis
Co-adviser: Dr. John Kelly, University of Kansas
Thesis: Genetic Analysis of Standing Variation for Floral Morphology and Fitness
Components in a Natural Population of Mimulus guttatus (common monkeyflower)
B.A. Vanderbilt University
1998-2002
Advisor: Dr. Carl Johnson
Thesis: The Role of Ca2+ in Plant Circadian Rhythms and Measurement of the
Photoperiod
Fellowships and Awards
Duke Biology one-semester fellowship
 Salary+fees for one semester
James B. Duke Fellowship
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2002-2006
$4000/year above the standard stipend
Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy Studentship
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2008
2004-2005
Salary+fees for 1 year
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Predoctoral Fellowship Honorable Mention
2003
McMinn Scholarship for Natural Sciences
2000-2002
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Full tuition scholarship for junior and senior years, one summer support for
research
Harold Stirling Vanderbilt Scholarship
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1998-2002
4-year full tuition scholarship, refused for 2000-2002 for McMinn Scholarship
Publications
Lee, Y.W., J.H. Willis, and J.K. Kelly. Genetic architecture of standing variation for
traits affecting survival, fertility, and mating strategy in a natural population of common
monkeyflower. In prep
Lee, Y.W., J.K. Kelly, and J.H. Willis. Genetic architecture of inbreeding depression in
an outcrossing population of annual Mimulus guttatus. In prep
Scoville, A., Y.W. Lee, J.H. Willis, and J. K. Kelly. The contribution of chromosomal
polymorphisms to the G-matrix of Mimulus guttatus. In revision for The New Phytologist
Wu, C.A., D.B. Lowry, A.M. Cooley, K.M. Wright, Y.W. Lee, and J.H. Willis. Mimulus
is an emerging model system for the integration of ecological and genomic studies. 2007.
Heredity: Special Issue on Evolutionary and Ecological Functional Genomics
Xu, X., C.T. Hotta, A.N. Dodd, J. Love, R. Sharrock, Y.W. Lee, Q. Xie, C.H. Johnson,
and A.R. Webb. Distinct light and clock modulation of cytosolic free Ca2+ oscillations
and rhythmic CHLOROPHYLL A BINDING PROTEIN2 expression in Arabidopsis. 2007.
Plant Cell, 19:3474.
Grants in Support of Research
Gordon Research Conference Travel Scholarship $500
2009
3rd International Conference in Quantitative Genetics Travel Grant $1946
2007
NIH R01GM073990 “A Genomic Analysis of Complex Trait Variation in Mimulus” PI
Dr. John Kelly, co-PI Dr. John Willis. I contributed to conception and design of research,
produced supporting data, and helped write the grant.
2006 - 2010
Duke Biology Department grant-in-aid of research $900
2004
Teaching Assistant Experience
BIO 118 Genetics and Molecular Biology
BIO 124 Molecular Evolution
BIO 116 Ecology and Evolution
BIO 120 Population Genetics
2008
2007
2006
2005
Service Activities
Duke Population Biology Seminar czar
Research mentorship:
 NSF-REU, Duke University, summers 2005-6
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HHMI precollege summer program, Duke University 2005
2006-2007