Tong Geon Lee is a Courtesy Assistant Professor of Horticultural Sciences at the University of Florida.
Tong Geon was University of Florida’s applied tomato geneticist. He focused on solving challenging problems in fresh-market tomato production. His program used classical genetics/breeding disciplines (population field trials, testing genomic estimated breeding value, genetic mapping, plant physiology and genetics), molecular biology (gene-editing, gene co-expression network analysis), and high performance computing (genome data analysis).
Tong Geon Lee completed a postdoctoral program in Bioinformatics and Genomics of soybean disease resistance under the guidance of Matthew Hudson at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Tong Geon discovered that plant disease resistance loci can consist of a multigene cluster copy number variation of non-canonical resistance genes in tandem formation.
Tong Geon Lee received a PhD in molecular wheat breeding from Korea University.
