Jiyoung Lee, PhD

Lee
Assistant Professor
Environmental Health Sciences

375 Howlett, 2001 Fyffe Ct.
Columbus, OH 43210
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Phone: (614) 292-5546

 

Education

PhD, Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., 1997
MS, Microbiology, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, 1989
BS, Microbiology, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, 1987

 

Background

Jiyoung Lee, Ph.D, joined the College’s Division of Environmental Health Sciences in September 2008. She was recruited as part of the research initiative on Public Health Preparedness for Infectious Diseases and has a joint appointment with the Department of Food Science and Technology. Dr. Lee’s laboratory seeks to understand waterborne and food-borne pathogens using molecular technology and to investigate their contamination sources, transport and health risks. She is interested in new fecal indicators in recreational water. Her emerging research area is renewable energy using microbes, especially in developing world.

Appointments

American Society for Microbiology
International Water Association

 

Research

Waterborne and food-borne pathogens

New indicator organisms of recreational water

Environmental application of molecular biotechnology

Global health issue: renewable energy and disease reduction

Clean technology for food industry wastewater

 

2008 Publications

T.R. Meier, C.J. Maute, J.M. Cadillac, J. Lee, D.J. Righter, K.M.S. Hugunin, R.A. Deininger and R.C. Dysko. 2008. Quantification, Distribution and Possible Source of Bacterial Biofilm in Rodent Automated Watering Systems. Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science 79:2:1-9.

 

2006 Publications

J. Min, J. Lee and R.A. Deininger. 2006. Simple and Rapid Method for Detection of Bacterial Spores in Powder Useful for First Responders. Journal of Environmental Health. 68:8:34-37