{"id":9394,"date":"2019-10-09T23:35:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T23:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/?p=9394"},"modified":"2019-10-09T23:35:39","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T23:35:39","slug":"lucy-lees-fishy-business-in-ufv-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2019\/10\/09\/lucy-lees-fishy-business-in-ufv-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucy Lee’s fishy business in UFV Today!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Lucy Lee<\/a>, Dean of the Faculty of Science was recently featured UFV Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Fishy business: Dr. Lucy Lee raising fish cell lines and next-gen researchers<\/strong><\/h2>\n

By<\/span> Greg Laychak<\/a><\/span><\/span> on<\/span> October 6, 2019<\/abbr><\/em><\/p>\n

Dr. Lucy Lee is in demand.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n

She\u2019s on the phone, walking down the hall near her UFV office arranging a trip to New Zealand, having just returned from San Francisco. There\u2019s an email from Chile in her inbox. Is she going to Japan in a few weeks? There\u2019s also that shipment that needs to get on its way to Austria.<\/p>\n

This is normal for Lee, as is apparent by her calm demeanor while she juggles all of these possibilities with a smile.<\/p>\n

What is less ordinary is the reason she\u2019s shuffling these various international to-dos.<\/p>\n

In addition to her regular duties as the Dean of the Faculty of Science at UFV, Lee offers a growing global clientele something that is itself literally multiplying.<\/p>\n

She shares access to her fish cell lines that \u2014 given the right conditions \u2014 are essentially immortal, continuously dividing, again and again, relatively quickly.<\/p>\n

Having grown alongside Lee\u2019s career, these proliferating cellular samples are sought after because of their increasing value in solving today\u2019s urgent problems in industry and society.<\/p>\n

Viruses can\u2019t grow on their own, they need a live host,\u201d she says. \u201cBut you don\u2019t want to be injecting a virus in animals just to be a factory for viruses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It was the desire to grow fish viruses in fish cells for research that was the impetus for the first fish cell line RTG-2 in 1962 \u2014 a less-defined line that would later provide some of the impetus for Lee\u2019s own foundational work.<\/p>\n

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