Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry

Biography

2017-present

Associate Research Professor, University of Notre Dame

2008-2017

Assistant Professional Specialist, University of Notre Dame

2003-2007

Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Notre Dame

2001-2003

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Wayne State University

2002

Ph.D. in Chemistry, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, South Korea

1995

B.S. in Chemistry, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, South Korea

Research Interests

Research Support Services

Dr. Lee joined the Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Facility of the University in 2018. She specializes in LC/MS and LC/MS/MS methods development for small molecules and peptidoglycan analysis using electrospray ionization (ESI).

Recent Publications

• Stewart, N. K.; Toth, M.; Alqurafi, M. A.; Chai, W.; Nguyen, T. Q.; Quan, P.; Lee, M.; Buynak, J. D.; Smith, C. A. and Vakulenko, S. B. "C6 Hydroxymethyl-Substituted Carbapenem MA-1-206 Inhibits the Major Acinetobacter Baumannii Carbapenemase OXA-23 by Impeding Deacylation" 2022 Mbio, in press. DOI: 10.1128/mbio.00367-22.
• Toth, M.; Lee, M.; Stewart, N. K. and Vakulenko, S. B. "Effects of Inactivation of D,D-Transpeptidases of Acinetobacter Baumannii on Bacterial Growth and Susceptibility to Beta-Lactam Antibiotics" 2022 Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 66 (1), e01729-21. DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01729-21.
• Hentig, J.; Campbell, L. J.; Cloghessy, K.; Lee, M.; Boggess, W. and Hyde, D. R. "Prophylactic Activation of Shh Signaling Attenuates TBI-Induced Seizures in Zebrafish by Modulating Glutamate Excitotoxicity through Eaat2a" 2021 Biomedicines, 10 (1), 32. DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines10010032.
• Prado, D. S.; Cattley, R. T.; Shipman, C. W.; Happe, C.; Lee, M.; Boggess, W. C.; MacDonald, M. L. and Hawse, W. F. "Synergistic and Additive Interactions between Receptor Signaling Networks Drive the Regulatory T Cell Versus T Helper 17 Cell Fate Choice" 2021 Journal of Biological Chemistry, 297 (6), 101330. DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2021.101330.
• Smith, T. E.; Lee, M.; Person, M. D.; Hesek, D.; Mobashery, S. and Moran, N. A. "Horizontal-Acquisition of a Promiscuous Peptidoglycan-Recycling Enzyme Enables Aphids to Influence Symbiont Cell Wall Metabolism" 2021 Mbio, 12 (6), e02636-21. DOI: 10.1128/mBio.02636-21.
• Martinez-Caballero, S.; Mahasenan, K., V.; Kim, C.; Molina, R.; Feltzer, R.; Lee, M.; Bouley, R.; Hesek, D.; Fisher, J. F.; Munoz, I. G.; Chang, M.; Mobashery, S. and Hermoso, J. A. "Integrative Structural Biology of the Penicillin-Binding Protein-1 from Staphylococcus Aureus, an Essential Component of the Divisome Machinery" 2021 Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 19, pp.5392-5405. DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2021.09.018.

 

For a complete list of publications at PubMed, please see:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/mijoon.lee.1/bibliography/53964124/public/?sort=date&direction=descending