Ron is selected as a 2015 Howard Hughes Medical Institute EXceptional Research Opportunities Program awardee. Ron was also named as a 2015 United Negro College Fund-Merck Undergraduate Science Research Fellow.
JBC Paper of the Week: An alternative mechanism for the methylation of phosphoethanolamine catalyzed by Plasmodium falciparum phosphoethanolamine methyltransferase (Saen-oon & Lee et al., 2014 J Biol Chem 289, 33815)
A chemical inhibitor of jasmonate signaling targets JAR1 in Arabidopsis thaliana (Meesters et al., 2014 Nature Chem Biol 10, 830)
Structural basis for regulation of rhizobial nodulation and symbiosis gene expression by the regulatory protein NolR (Lee et al., 2014 Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 111, 6509)
Molecular basis for Auxin Response Factor protein interaction and the control of auxin response repression (Korasick et al., 2014 Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 111, 5427)
Evolution of structure and mechanistic divergence in di-domain methyltransferases from mematode phosphocholine biosynthesis (Lee & Jez, 2013 Structure 21, 1778)