Our Team

Meet the researchers and students behind our innovations.

Principal Investigator

Dr. Jing Pan

Principle Investigator

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, specialize in bionanotechnology research.

Students

Ethan Freiberg

Undergraduate

Instrumentation, microphysiological system

Jacob Lee

Undergraduate

AI, biosensor, instrumentation

Kayley Sanchez Forbes

Undergraduate

UFL 2026 SURF-REU reseaher

Wenting Wang

PhD Student

Protein expression and purification, microfluidic biosensors.

Yida Wang

PhD Student

Optics and photonics, optical biosensor, MEMS

Yongcheng Tai

PhD Student

Optical biosensor, biomolecular engineering, DNA nanotechnology, microphysiological system

Yunshen Li

PhD Student

Automation and instrumentation, microphysiological system, droplet microfluidics

Alumni

Aditi Kumari

Undergraduate

Organoids, microphysiological system

Anthony Restrepo

Undergraduate

Optical instrumentation

Audrey Singletary

Undergraduate

Protein engineering, synthetic biology

Bryan Bailey-Feliciano

Undergraduate

Modeling, MathBio, iGEM

Changxiao Liang

Undergraduate 2020-2021

Instrumentation

George VanVeckhoven

Undergraduate

Modeling, MathBio, iGEM

Joseph Marder

Undergraduate 2020-2021

Instrumentation

Levy Truong

Undergraduate

Organoid, microphysiological system

Mitchell Conover

Undergraduate

Optical biosensor, instrumentation

Nan Lin

Undergraduate

Optical biosensor, instrumentation

Natalie Chavanu

Undergraduate

Organoid, microphysiological system

Ryan Skelton

Undergraduate

Optical biosensor, instrumentation

Samantha Harris

Master 2021-2022

Synthetic biology, DNA nanotechnology, optics