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
Curriculum vitae [pdf]
Education
Honors & Awards
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
Curriculum vitae [pdf]
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
- 2019 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
- 2018 Early-Career Faculty Investigator Grant Award (Inaugural), Neurodegeneration of brain iron accumulation (NBIA) association
- 2016 Grand Prize of the Postdoctoral Research Award, The American Society for Nutrition
- 2014 NIH/NIEHS K99/R00 “Pathway to Independence” Award
- 2012 Robert Gunn Student Award for Cell and Molecular Physiology, The American Physiological Society
- 2011 Grand Prize of the Vitamin and Mineral Research Poster Competition, The American Society for Nutrition
- 2010 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
Lab members

Eun-kyeong Choi, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
2019-2020 Dean's Non-Traditional Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Organogenesis, University of Michigan Medical School
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
2019-2020 Dean's Non-Traditional Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Organogenesis, University of Michigan Medical School

Luisa Aring, MS
Visiting Doctoral Student
Biochemistry
Ruhr University Bochum (Ger)/University of Michigan (US)
Visiting Doctoral Student
Biochemistry
Ruhr University Bochum (Ger)/University of Michigan (US)

Junru Pan
Doctoral Student
Nutritional Sciences
Doctoral Student
Nutritional Sciences

Brittany McKenzie
Master student
Nutritional Sciences
Master student
Nutritional Sciences

Yujie Peng
Master student
Nutritional Sciences
Master student
Nutritional Sciences

Molly Paschall
Master student
Nutritional Sciences
Master student
Nutritional Sciences

Catherine Hong
Undergraduate, Research Assistant
University of Michigan
Biology
Undergraduate, Research Assistant
University of Michigan
Biology

Robert Daniels
Undergraduate, Research Assistant
University of Michigan
Premed
Undergraduate, Research Assistant
University of Michigan
Premed