June 1, 2021: We welcome a REU student (Tiffany Jeng) from Georgia Tech this summer! 
March 17, 2021: Dr. Jang has received an NSF CAREER Award! The Jang Lab works on engineering self-assembly of recombinant fusion proteins for bottom-up construction of protein-powered synthetic protocols.  
January 3, 2021: We welcome a UG student (Noah Pruitt) to the lab! He works with Ruwen and Nick to investigate our antibacterial surfaces against different types of bacterial strains. 
December 17, 2020: Dr. Jang gives an invited talk at UKC 2020, virtual meeting.
November 23, 2020: Congratulations! Ruwen and Nick's work has been published online in ACS Applied Polymer Materials! 
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acsapm.0c01054
November 16-20, 2020: Dr. Jang gives an invited talk at 2020 Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting, in "Emerging Junior Investigator Open Innovation Forum", also serves as the session chair for Biomolecules at Interface I & II (Interfacial Phenomena 01C) and Biopolymers (Materials Engineering and Science Division (08). 
October 30, 2020: Congratulations! Ruwen won Honorable Mention (Second Place), GRACE Symposium 2020 Awards!
October 9, 2020: Congratulations! Ruwen won the best nano-image in the image contest for UF Nano Day 2020. See it in our scientific gallery :)
September 30, 2020: We welcome a PhD student (Jackson Powers) to the Lab! Also, welcome back Julio :) 
September 21, 2020: Congratulations! Our first research article (Ruwen, Jooyong, and Blair's work), entitled "Tuning the Structural Integrity and Mechanical Properties of Globular Protein Vesicles by Blending Crosslinkable and Non-crosslinkable Building Blocks" is accepted in Biomacromolecules.  
September, 2020: We welcome a master student (Blair Cole) and undergraduate students (Pragati Patel and Stella Belony) to the lab! 
April 15, 2020: Congrats to Ruwen for passing his qualifying exam! 
March 03, 2020: Ruwen's work on a book chapter, entitled "Engineering Approaches to Create Antibacterial Surfaces on Biomedical Implants and Device" is published online! Congratulations!
January, 2020: We welcome a master student (Ting), undergraduate students (Gabriella, Shannon, and Jackson) to the lab! 

Lab Logo Contest Results!

Guess who the winner is! :)
July 31, 2019: We also had a Farewell Lunch for Camilo. 
June 9 - July 27, 2019: The Jang Lab participates in the UF Student Science Training Program (SSTP). Welcome Steven Meikle and Alicia Tsung :)  
 


​Group Photo on February 26, 2019, in our NEW LAB! 
 
Working on study surface adhesion behavior of our recombinant fusion proteins with monitoring of conformation changes on a gold surface.  

We are so excited to work here and can't wait for outcomes!

Group photo on Valentine's day (02-14-2019): Clark, Ruwen, Josie, Camilo, Nick & Yeongseon

October 28-November 1, 2018: Dr. Yeongseon Jang will attend the AIChE meeting in Pittsburg, PA.
                                                        Please find Dr. Jang if you have interests in our research! 
October 15, 2018: New PhD candidates, Clark & Ruwen joined the Jang Lab! Let's go gators :) 
August 1, 2018: Dr. Yeongseon Jang joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Florida as an Assistant Professor!