Assistant Professor Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Diego Ph.D., Oregon Health and Science University B.A., University of California Berkeley

Microbiology & Immunology Infectious & Vector-Born Diseases

Bao YJ, Liang Z, Booyjzsen C, Mayfield JA, Li Y, Lee SW, Ploplis VA, Song H, Castellino FJ. Unique Genomic Arrangements in an Invasive Serotype M23 Strain of Streptococcus pyogenes that Induce Hypervirulence. 2014. J Bacteriology 196(23):4089-102. Flaherty, R., Freed, S., Lee, S.W. The wide world of Bacteriocins: ribosomally encoded bacterial peptides. 2014. PLOS Pathogens 10(7): e1004221. Mayfield,J.A. Liang, Z., Agrahari, G., Lee, S.W., Ploplis, V.A., Castellino, F.J. Random Mutations in the Control of Virulence Sensor Gene from Streptococcus pyogenes After Infection in Mice Lead to Clonal Variants With Altered Gene Regulatory Activity and Virulence. 2014. PLOS One. 9(6):e1000698. Thomas, C.L. and Lee, S.W. Knowing is half the battle: Targeting virulence factors of Group A Streptococcus for vaccine and therapeutics. 2012. Curr Drug Targets. 13(3):308-22. Markley, A.L., Jensen, E.R., Lee, S.W. A novel E. coli-based bioengineering strategy to study Streptolysin S biosynthesis. 2012. Anal Biochem. 420(2):191-3. Gonzalez, D.J, Lee, S.W., Hensler, M. Dahesh, S. Markley, A.L. Mitchell, D.A., Banderia, N., Nizet V. , Dixon, J.E., Dorrestein, P.C. Clostridiolysin S: A posttranslationally modified biotoxin from Clostridium botulinum. 2010. J Biol Chem. 285(36):28220-8. Lee, S.W.; Mitchell, D.A., Markley, A.L., Hensler, M.E., Gonzalez, D., Wohlrab, A., Dorrestein, P.C., Nizet,V., Dixon, J.E. Discovery of a Widely Distributed Toxin Biosynthetic Gene Cluster. 2008. Proc. Natl. Acac. Sci. U.S.A.105:(15), 5879-84.