Principal Investigator

Young-Ah Seo, Ph.D. 
Assistant Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry 
University of Michigan School of Public Health
3850 SPHI, 1415 Washington Heights
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
Phone: (734) 763-0745
Email: youngseo@umich.edu


Education​

• Research associate, Genetics & Complex Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, 2016
• Postdoctoral research fellows, Genetics & Complex Diseases and Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, 2014
• Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 2012
• B.S., Magna Cum Laude, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea, 2004

Honors & Awards

• E. L. R. Stokstad Outstanding Young Investigator Award given for fundamental research in nutrition, The American Society for Nutrition, 2019 
• Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research (MICHR) “Pathway to Independence” Award, University of Michigan, 2019
• Early-Career Faculty Investigator Grant Award (Inaugural), Neurodegeneration of brain iron accumulation (NBIA) association, 2018
• Grand Prize of the Postdoctoral Research Award, The American Society for Nutrition, 2016
• NIH/NIEHS K99/R00 “Pathway to Independence” Award, 2014
• Robert Gunn Student Award for Cell and Molecular Physiology, The American Physiological Society, 2012
• Grand Prize of the Vitamin and Mineral Research Poster Competition, The American Society for Nutrition, 2011
• Grand Prize of the Graduate Student Research Award Competition, The American Society for Nutrition, 2010
• Wrigley Science Institute Predoctoral Fellowship for Students in Nutrition Research, The American Society for Nutrition, 2010

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Lab members 

Eun-kyeong Choi, PhD 
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
PhD in Biochemistry
Email: eunkchoi@umich.edu

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Luisa Aring, MS
Visiting Doctoral Student
​Biochemistry
Email: laring@umich.edu

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 Junru Pan, BS
 Doctoral Student
​ Nutritional Sciences
 Email: junrupan@umich.edu
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Brittany McKenzie
Master student
​Nutritional Sciences
Email: bmckenz@umich.edu 

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Yujie Peng
Master student 
Nutritional Sciences
Email: yujiep@umich.edu
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Molly Paschall
Master student
​Nutritional Sciences
Email: paschall@umich.edu 

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Catherine Hong
Undergraduate, Research Assistant
University of Michigan 
Biology
Email: cjhong@umich.edu

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​Robert Daniels 
Undergraduate, Research Assistant 
University of Michigan
Premed
Email: daniero@umich.edu

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