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kibaek

Dr. Kibaek Lee

Postdoc in Chemical Engineering

  • Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, UCR (2020)
  • M.S. Chemical Engineering, Dongguk University (2014)
  • B.S. Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Dongguk University (2012) 
Contact Information
Postdoctoral Fellows
klee122@ucr.edu
Awards Received
  • 2019 Dissertation Year Program Fellowship (two quarters), UCR 
  • 2018 Mogam Science Scholarship Foundation Fellowship, Korea
  • 2017 Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Research Grant, UCR
  • 2012 Honors graduate, Dongguk University
  • 2010 First semester honors student, Dongguk University
  • 2005 First semester of 2005 honorable entrance, Dongguk University
Publications
  • 1Nam DH, 1Lee KB, Kruchowy E, Pham H, Ge X. Protease inhibition mechanism of camelid-like synthetic human antibodies. Biochemistry (2020) 59[40]:3802-3812. (1co-first authors) 
  • Lee KB, Dunn Z, Lopez T, Mustafa Z, Ge X. Generation of highly selective monoclonal antibodies inhibiting a recalcitrant protease using decoy designs. Biotechnology and Bioengineering (2020). 10.1002/bit.27519.
  • Mei M, Li J, Wang S, Lee KB, Iverson BL, Zhang G, Ge X, Yi L. Prompting Fab Yeast Surface Display Efficiency by ER Retention and Molecular Chaperon Coexpression. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology (2019) 7:362.
  • Lopez T, Mustafa Z, Chen C, Lee KB, Ramirez A, Benitez C, Luo X, Ji R-R, Ge X. Functional Selection of Protease Inhibitory Antibodies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2019) 116 [33]:16314-16319.
  • Lee KB, Dunn Z, Ge X. Reducing Proteolytic Liability of an MMP-14 Inhibitory Antibody by Site-Saturation Mutagenesis. Protein Science (2019) 28[3]:643-653.
  • Nam DH, Lee KB, Ge X. Functional production of catalytic domains of human MMPs. In Proteases and Cancer. Methods in Molecular Biology book series (Clifton, NJ 2018) 1731:65-72.
  • Lee KB, Nam DH, Nuhn JA, Wang J, Schneider IC, Ge X. Direct Expression of Active Human Tissue Inhibitors of Metalloproteinases by Periplasmic Secretion in Escherichia Coli. Microbial Cell Factories (2017) 16[1]:73.
  • Lee KB, Hou CY, Kim CE, Kim DM, Suga H, Kang TJ. Genetic Code Expansion by Degeneracy Reprogramming of Arginyl Codons. Chembiochem (2016) 17[13]:1198-1201. Inside Cover 
  • Lee KB, Kim HC, Kim DM, Kang TJ, Suga H. Comparative evaluation of two cell-free protein synthesis systems derived from Escherichia coli for genetic code reprogramming. J Biotechnol. (2012) 164[2]:330-335.