Youngmi Lee

Youngmi, while a technical associate in the Synthetic Neurobiology group, was interested in investigating novel methods for mapping and understanding brain diseases. She completed her B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Department of Bio and Brain Engineering at KAIST. After graduation, she spent several years working in the life science industry, including venture capital, business development, and finance/operations.

Publications

Expansion Revealing of Pathology Resolves Nanostructures Associated with Inflammatory Phenotypes in COVID-19 Decedent Human Brain Tissue

bioRxiv | 2026

Alice E. Stanton*, Jinyoung Kang*, Joel W. Blanchard, Carles A. Boix, Margaret E. Schroeder, Youngmi Lee, Hanquan Su, Shiwei Wang, Eunah Yu, Amauche Emenari, Zhuyu Peng, Emre Agbas, Oyku Cerit, Demian Park, Ruihan Zhang, David A. Bennett, Peng Yin, Manolis Kellis, Robert Langer, Edward Boyden**, Li-Huei Tsai** (2026) Expansion Revealing of Pathology Resolves Nanostructures Associated with Inflammatory Phenotypes in COVID-19 Decedent Human Brain Tissue, bioRxiv 2026.05.14.725177; doi: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.05.14.725177. (*, contributed equally; **, co-corresponding)

Multiplexed expansion revealing for imaging multiprotein nanostructures in healthy and diseased brain

Nature Communications | 2024

Kang J*, Schroeder ME*, Lee Y, Kapoor C, Yu E, Tarr TB, Titterton K, Zeng M, Park D, Niederst E, Wei D, Feng G, Boyden ES (2024) Multiplexed expansion revealing for imaging multiprotein nanostructures in healthy and diseased brain, Nature Communications 15(1):9722. (*, contributed equally)