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Staff Member Information

Jennifer Chen Lee 
Investigator (Tenure-Track)
Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, NHLBI
 
leej4@mail.nih.gov
301 496 3741
301 402 3404
50 South Dr, Building 50
 3513, MSC-8013
 Bethesda, MD 20892-8013
 
 
 
 
 

Education, Affiliations, and Memberships

EDUCATION

Beckman Senior Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, 2003-2006

Postdoctoral Fellow, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, 2002-2003

PhD, Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, 2002

BS, Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, 1997
BA, Economics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, 1997

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Tenure Track Investigator, 2006-present
Bioinorganic chemistry and Biophysics: protein conformation and dynamics; protein-protein, protein-membrane, and protein-nucleic acid interactions; roles of metals in protein misfolding and aggregation; interactions of anesthetics with ligand-gated ion channels and heme proteins

Beckman Senior Research Fellow
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, 2003-2006
alpha-synuclein structures and dynamics probed by fluorescence energy transfer and electron transfer kinetics; interactions of alpha-synuclein and membrane mimics; characterization of metal binding to alpha-synuclein; amyloid formation kinetics studies

Postdoctoral Fellow with Ralf Langen
Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, 2002-2003
Recombinant expression and purification of amyloidogenic proteins

Graduate Student with Harry B. Gray
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, 1997-2002
Electron transfer triggered folding of four-helix bundle cytochromes. Probing protein folding by energy and electron transfer kinetics