The College of Arts and Sciences Spotlight Symposia Series recognizes and elevates members of our faculty. Each Spotlight symposium honors a particular faculty member by inviting distinguished speakers to our campus who share the honoree’s research field. The symposium places our honoree at the center of vital national and international conversations and serves as an important venue for building scholarly relationships critical to the university.
About Soo-Kyung Lee, PhD
Soo-Kyung Lee’s long-term goals are to dissect gene regulatory events that lead to cellular diversity and, eventually, the formation of functional neural circuits in the CNS and to understand the genetic and mechanistic basis for neurodevelopmental defects, ultimately contributing to the generation of better treatment strategies for human developmental disorders.
Research News
- Based on ‘hope and love,’ UB celebrates opening of FOXG1 Research Center
- UB launches center to find treatments for FOXG1 syndrome
- Study suggests promising gene therapy for FOXG1 syndrome
- SFARI supports Soo-Kyung Lee's research on FOXG1 Syndrome
- How motor neurons develop into subtypes that activate different muscles
- New York Times article on the Lee’s journey with FOXG1 syndrome
Symposium organizing committee:
- Yeong Shin Yim, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, University of Pennsylvania
- Mi-Hyeon Jang, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Rutgers Brain Health Institute
- Mike Yu, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, University at Buffalo
- Jae Lee, Professor of Biological Sciences, University at Buffalo
- Edward Kwon, Assistant Professor of Oral Biology, University at Buffalo
- Wei Sun, Associate Professor of Communicative Disorders and Sciences, University at Buffalo
- Derek Daniels, professor, organizing committee chair and chair of the Department of Biological Sciences
- Sambandamurthy Ganapathy, Associate Dean for Research, College of Arts and Sciences
Diana Aga, PhD, SUNY Distinguished Professor, Henry M. Woodburn Chair of Chemistry and Director of UB’s RENEW Institute was the inaugural symposia honoree. The symposia, "Convergence of Science for One Planet, One Health" addressed the world’s increasing chemical pollution and scarcity of natural resources that are exacerbated by the rapidly changing climate in a vicious, existential cycle. In order to create solutions for the fragile water-energy-food nexus, we must understand the threats we face as interlocking global sustainability challenges.
