Lab news
2024
4/9/24: Congratulations to JoAnne on her nomination for Student Employee of the Year! Her graduate mentor, Fateme (right), celebrated with her.
3/13/24: ENGage 2024. Thank you, Fateme, JoAnne and Stephen for sharing your experience with middle school students!
2/28/24: Ariel joined our lab. Welcome!
2023
12/13/23: Congratulations to Anna on both her graduation and her well-deserved recognition as a Distinguished Undergraduate Researcher!
12/8/23: Lane has defended his general exam, officially advancing to doctoral candidacy! His exceptional preparedness and remarkable progress were lauded by all committee members. He has truly been a driving force, reviving our cardiac regeneration project program at LSU. Congratulations, Lane!
We enjoyed celebrating another successful Fall semester with a happy hour. Thank you to everyone for their hard work and dedication, which have made our progress possible.
11/9/23: Our Academic Surgical Congress abstract (with Lane and Kenny's contributions), titled "Sustained Oxygenation and ROS-Scavenging by Lignin Composites Promote Diabetic Wound Healing," was selected for the Plenary Session (top 1% of abstracts) of the 19th Annual Academic Surgical Congress in Washington, DC. Congratulations, Tanuj and Dr. Balaji!
10/24/23: Lane is one of the awardees of Charles E. Severance Endowed Scholarship for the graduate students in our department. Congratulations!
10/14/23: We presented our multiple research projects at BMES and reconnected with good old friends and past students - Grace, Alexis and Hamid. Micah won the 3rd place winner in the Top 10 High School Poster Competition (Gene Co-expression Network Analysis of the Genotype-Tissue Expression Dataset from the Left Ventricle)!
9/28/23: Week of rheometry training!
9/13/23: JoAnne is back after a break. Welcome, JoAnne!
9/3/23: We have several BMES presenations this year. The solution-free staining project will be presented in the platform session of Technologies for Emerging Infectious Diseases to Bioinformatics. Micha's project on the analysis of GTEx datasets was selected for Top 10 finalist in the High School Expo and Poster Competition. The collaborative project with the Balaji lab is accepted for poster presentation with the critical piece of works from Lane's experiments and Kenny's analyses. Further, Stephen will present a poster with his project through the NSF IRES Process Development for Cell and Tissue Biomanufacturing Program in Hannover, Germany. Excellent works and congratulations!
8/25/23: We have the first lab meeting with new members. Welcome Fateme and Avery!
8/12/23: Micah presented his summer research in the High School Summer Research poster session. He is going to run the national competition in the Annual Meeting of Biomedical Engineering Society (Seattle, WA).
8/7/23: Rayana joined our lab!
8/7/23: Our wound healing work is awarded the Young Scholar Award in Biomedical Engineering at UKC 2023 (Dallas, TX).
5/19/23: Week of commencement and celebration! Congrats, Alyson, Kenny and Miller! With BE Honors students (Lauren with Dr. Lima and Chloe with Dr. Kwon).
5/10/23: Farewell to Kenny and Miller. Kenny will pursue his PhD in BME at Cornell University and Miller will join the BME program at Tulane University. And Stephen and Peter will leave the lab for their summer research programs. We also expect more people joining in the fall semester!
5/4/23: The dean (Dr. Wornat) and the department chair (Dr. Lima) gave me the tenure and promotion letter this afternoon. I'd like to thank those who have been working with me for the last 7 years on multiple different projects. I also received Donald W. Clayton Engineering Excellence Award for Outstanding Mentor for Graduate Students!
4/26/23: The first Graduate Research Conference at LSU today. Lane is presenting his most recent GB1 (Structure-Informed Machine Learning-assisted Directed Evolution) manuscript in the poster session.
4/21/23: It's Discover Day. Kenny presented our systems biology results for the first time! Peter presented our GB1 manuscript. Thanks for those coming to support these two excellent students, including Peter's father and Peter's girlfriend).
4/16/23: Chris from Biological Sciences joined our lab!
3/29/23: Stephen was accepted to the NSF IRES Process Development for Cell and Tissue Biomanufacturing Program in Hannover, Germany over this summer. Congrats!
3/13/23: Lane, Kenny and Stephen organized and volunteered for ENGage 2023. We demonstrated how we can use AlphaFold2 for designing a protein. And happy lunch with the Kwon lab at Torchy's Tacos!
2/8/23: Owen joined our lab!
1/20/23: Nolan joined our lab!
1/17/23: Ice cream social after lab cleaning, thank you, guys!
1/13/23: Peter is awarded the Discover Research Grant for his lectin-glycan computation project. Congrats!
2022
12/30/22: Miller is awarded the Star and Crescent Foundation of Louisiana Scholarship. Congrats!
12/21/22: Yinka's abstract is selected for the Yong Investigator Award in the Wound Healing Society Annual Meerting at National Habor, MD.
12/14/22: Claire also completed her qualifying exam. Congrats! Claire and Lane have will work together to make this protein engineering project moving forward.
12/13/22: Lane successfully completed his qualifying exam. Congrats and a more exciting journey is waiting for you.
10/15/22: We went to BMES and presented 1 talk and 3 posters. This is the fruition of the last 4 years of collaboration with Dr. Balaji at Baylor College of Medicine and Dr. Joohyun Kim at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Thank you, especially, Lane, Yinka, Phillip and Olivia for wonderful presentation! More exciting results coming!!!
10/11/22: Peter received the Routh Family Scholarship from the College of Engineering. Congrats!
8/25/22: Natalie joined our lab. She is interested in our PNS regeneration project. Welcome!
8/5/22: Bye, Jenna! We have small ups and downs. But we like science that much and deal with all troubles to achieve our goals.
7/29/22: Peter received the R.L. Hartman Memorial Scholarship from the Department of Chemical Engineering. Congrats!
7/6/22: Lane is awarded the Clayton Assistantship for his PhD training. Congratulations!
7/5/22: Last year's senior design project is highlighted in the COE website.
7/3/22: Jacqueline joined our lab, working on 3DBP. Welcome!
6/7/22: Jenna from WashU (locally from LaPlace) joined our lab, working on agrin delivery modules. Welcome!
5/6/22: End of semester happy hour. Many of them leaving for their internship, REU and study abroad. Newest members, Peter and Stephen, are welcomed, again!
4/22/22: Sarah, Anna and Miller presented their work at the LSU Discover Day. Anna and Sarah's work is on the oxygen-releasing lignin composites. Miller's work is on engineering ECM composites with BO. Great and hard work!
4/21/22: Kenny received Mansel M. Mayeux Honorary Scholarship. Sarah received William H & Barbara Brown Scholarship. Congrats!
4/11/22: Dr. Jung received the LSU Alumni Association Rising Faculty Research Award! This award recognizes faculty at the rank of Assistant Professor who has outstanding records of scholarship and published records.
4/9/22: Stephen from Biochemistry joined our lab, Welcome, Stephen!
4/1/22: Peter from Chemical Engineering joined our lab. Welcome, Peter!
1/24/22: Nick joined our lab. Welcome, Nick!
1/21/22: Our microneedle project is funded by the LSU ORED. Thank you for those working in the project including Dr. Belgodere!
1/14/22: Anna received another Discover Research Grant. Congratulations, Anna!
2021
12/3/21: We began the semester with the hurricane Ida and it's already the end of the semester. We celebrated the hard work of all these students, many good progresses in our regenerative engineering projects and Justin's graduation. Congrats, Justin!
10/21/21: Kenny joined our lab. Welcome!
9/24/2021: Sarah's abstract is accepted to present the lignin composite project at Rice University with a travel award. Congratulations!
9/3/2021: JoAnne joined our lab for the optostimulation project. Welcome!
8/27/2021: Reid and Evan joined our lab. Reid is the senior in Mechanical Engineering, working in the Devireddy lab. Evan begins the first semester at LSU from this Fall semester. Welcome!
8/17/2021: Anna received the Discover Research Grant for the lignin composite project. Congratulations and this is the 4th Discover grant (the 5th awardee) to the Jung lab!
8/13/2021: Libby earned the Engaged Citizen distinction. Congrats your graduation with this distinction!
8/12/2021: A memorable gift from Kaushik! I really appreciate it and good luck on your PhD at NYU!!
8/3/2021: Sarah received Donald W. Clayton Engineering Excellence Award for those who plan to attend graduate school. Congrats!
7/7/2021: Kathy joined our lab to help BO and ML of our tissue engineering projects. Welcome!
7/6/2021: Kaushik successfully defended his thesis. Congratulations! He will continue his PhD at New York University at Abu Dhabi, UAE.
5/28/2021: Miller received the Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honor Society) scholarship for the year 2021-2022. Many congratulations for multiple awards this year!
5/20/2021: Justin joined our lab. Welcome!
5/19/2021: Miller's proposal is accepted for the Discover Research Grant and she is the 4th awardee in the lab. Congratulations, Miller!
5/13/2021: After Adam had fun in CO, we finally celebrated his graduation. Good luck in UCSD! We already talked about the next plans!!! (everyone is vaccinated)
5/10/2021: Sarah is accepted to the MARC program (supported by the NIH Training grant) for her research projects. Congratulations, Sarah!
5/7/2021: Lauren joined our lab and will be working on the 3DBP infarct model. Welcome!
4/27/2021: Jorge's second paper is accepted in ACS Biomater Sci & Eng. Congrats!
4/1/2021: Both Miller and Sarah were selected for the S&B Engineers Scholarship from the college. Double congratulations!!
3/29/2021: Libby was also selected for the recipient of the Hullain Scholarship. Congrats!
3/22/2021: Miller received this year's Hullain Scholarship. Congrats!
2/8/2021: Our cardiac tissue engineering project was recommended for the NSF CAREER award (This is the most prestigious award for a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor from NSF)! I truly appreciate those who worked together for this project!!! LSU COE website & Inha University alumnus interview
2/1/2021: I'd like to thank Dr. Myungwoong Kim for the invitation to the 1st International Symposium in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Inha University. It's truly my honor to go back to my college to share our tissue engineering research.
1/20/2021: Miller joined our lab. Welcome!
1/13/2021: Libby got her first Discover Research Grant! Congrats!
2020
12/29/2020: We're ready for 2021 with sparkling labs. Thank you guys for helping maintain clean and safe lab space!
10/8/2020: Jorge successfully defended his dissertation. It was a long, challenging project for both of us, but he will come out of the journey with 8 manuscripts! Congrats! This is what Joel did for me and I really wanted to do this to my students.
9/25/2020: Another zoom picture in 4 month. Hope this is the last one!
9/7/2020: Kaushik in the Devireddy lab will work on our 3DBP and BO project. Welcome!
8/28/2020: Yena presented her work for the summer and this is her last day in the lab. Good luck at UChicago!
8/18/2020: Our cardiac project is selected for oral (on-demand) presentation at BMES this year. The lignin-metabolism project and staining chip project were also selected for poster presentation. Congrats, Hamid, Jorge and Tina!
8/17/2020: Jacob joined our lab. He will work on the cardiac tissue engineering. Welcome, Jacob!
8/7/2020: Sean earned his doctorate and Ga'Lyn successfully presented her work at the end of the ASPIRE program. Many congratulations to both and good luck in your future careers!
7/20/2020: Anna (a rising sophomore in Biological Engineering) joined our lab. She will work with Jorge for auto-oxidation project. Welcome!
6/12/2020: Yena (planning on attending University of Chicago from this Fall) joined our lab for the summer. Welcome!
6/3/2020: Jake and Adam's Discover Research project was awarded for the summer research grant. Congrats for both!
5/29/2020: We have new members joining our lab. Libby Breaux (a rising junior in Biological Engineering) and Ga'Lyn Butler (ASPIRE intern in Baton Rouge Community College). Welcome!
5/1/2020: We ended up the Spring semester very differently!
4/13/2020: Jake was nominated for the Student Employee of the Year!
3/28/2020: Both of our HS science project won the 2nd (Amelia) and the 3rd (Olivia) place in the State Science Fair. Congratulations and we thank again for those helping the HS students last year.
3/10/2020: Akbar will receive the Scott-Windham Scholarship in the Scholarship Banquet on 3/31 (cancelled due to COVID-19). Congrats!
2/19/2020: HS science projects from our lab won the 1st and 2nd places in the regional Science and Engineering Fair. Congrats, Amelia (1st) and Olivia (2nd)! We thank Hamid, Jake and Brittany for helping these HS students.
2/18/2020: Maggie joined our lab! She has contacted me to ask questions on Biomedical Engineering since her HS years (in Baton Rouge Magnet HS). And her passion on BME is every growing. Welcome!
2/7/2020: Angelina from the Ban Franklin HS in New Orleans, LA joined our lab as a HS intern (HSSR program through the College of Engineering). She will work on a project for the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair throughout the year. Welcome!
1/20/2020: Our POC device work is accepted for an oral presentation in the MicroHematology workshop (Apr 2020 in Chicago, IL). Our collaborators Tina and Steve at Noul will present the work. Congrats!
1/13/2020: Adam joined our lab for the project on fabricating tissue scaffolds with machine learning approaches. Welcome!
1/11/2020: Amelia's project won the first place in her category. Congrats!
2019
12/17/2019: Congratulations, Brittany! She graduates this week. This is our continued tradition (from the Ogle lab)!
Also, Sultan completes her visiting scholar program next week and continues her MS in Bioengineering. Jane finished the machine intelligence project and continues her Research Associate position in the Department of Biological Sciences. Thank you guys for working hard in the lab. This is our 2019 Holiday party!
12/4/2019: Our outreach effort is exposed to The Advocate Communities section and the the College of Engineering website today.
11/2/2019: Jorge won the 1st place of the poster competition in the APTEC meeting at LSU. Congrats!
8/29/2019: Amelia's HS intern program is highlighted in The Advocate article.
9/6/2019: Welcome Eva! Eva will do the collaborative research project with the Ochsner and Xavier University team for PNS regeneration.
8/6/2019: Jorge's paper is selected for a supplemental cover article of ACS Applied Bio Materials. And it was a perfect time to share the news at the NSF EPSCoR meeting. Congrats, Jorge!
7/8/2019: Sultan from Yildiz Technical University in Turkey joined our lab for nanoparticle and myoblast cell differentiation research. Welcome!
7/5/2019: The collaboration with the Bharti lab produced a cover article in Macromolecular Rapid Communication. Congrats, Jorge!
6/11/2019: Summer lab happy hour!
6/10/2019: Bokyoung just joined the lab for the Summer at LSU. She has been working on the chemistry of our lignin composites since last Aug 2018.
6/5/2019: Hamid successfully passed his qualifying exam. He became a cardiovascular tissue engineer, congrats!
5/31/2019: Jane McKee joined our lab for the machine intelligence project (Collaboration with Dr. Joohyun Kim at CCT). Welcome!
5/9/2019: Mackenzie's graduation is this Sat. She worked on the collaboration project with the team at the Ochsner Hospital in New Orleans. We send off her, but welcome Hanna!!! Hanna takes over Mackenzie's project.
4/26/2019: Akbar is awarded the Barry Goldwater Scholarship. The Goldwater Foundation is a federally endowed agency established by Public Law 99-661 on November 14, 1986. The Scholarship Program honoring Senator Barry Goldwater was designed to foster and encourage outstanding students to pursue careers in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences, and engineering. The Goldwater Scholarship is the preeminent undergraduate award of its type in these fields. Many congrats, Akbar!
4/10/2019: Akbar's (and Jorge's) research is selected for oral presentation in LSU Discover day! and Akbar won the 3rd place in the oral presentation STEM division category! Many congrats!
2/25/2019: Three members of our lab won the department scholarship this year. Congrats Jorge (Charles Severance Scholarship), Akbar and Mackenzie (both Albert Halluin Scholarship)!
1/31/2019: Amelia from St. Joseph's Academy joined our lab as a HS intern. She will work on a project for the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair throughout the year. Welcome!
1/7/2019: Jake Fontenot (undergraduate) joined our lab. Welcome, Jake!
2018
11/13/2018: Michael Sumera (undergraduate, freshmen) joined our lab. Welcome, Michael!
10/31/2018: Dr. Jung will be editing the Special Issue of "Engineering and Imaging Extracellular Matrix Microenvironments" in Frontiers in Bioengineering/ Biotechnology & Cell and Developmental Biology.
10/11/2018: before we go to BMES.
8/30/2018: Akbar's abstract is selected for a poster presentation in the BMES meeting (undergraduate/REU competition). Congrats!
8/14/2018: Allen, a freshman, FastPath, and PFLR student joined our lab and participated in the first lab meeting. Welcome!
7/10/2018: Jorge's BMES abstract is selected for oral presentation. Congrats!
7/2/2018: Jongwon just joined the lab. He will lead the covalent cross-linking of lignin project over this summer. Welcome!
5/22/2018: New members joined the lab. Welcome, Hamid, Joe, Mackenzie, and Brittany.
5/14/2018: Jorge successfully completed his qualifying exam. His review paper is in press now. Congrats2!
4/25/2018: Jorge received another travel award from the graduate school. This fund supports his travel to Boston as a discussion leader in the GRC meeting - Nano-Enabled Technologies to Improve Efficiency, Quality, and Health in Food and Agriculture.
4/13/2018: Jorge received Charles Severance Scholarship. Congrats!
4/6/2018: Our cardiomyocyte differentiation proposal was recommended for funding (rank 1) from the Board of Regents Support Fund over three years!
3/22/2018: Allie's project won the third place in the Biomedical Engineering Category at the Louisiana State Science and Engineering Fair 2018. Congratulations!
2/22/2018: Katie won Graduate School Dean's Travel Award for presenting her MSC-ECM composite work at ISCT 2018 in Montreal, Canada. Congratulations!
2/16/2018: Our review paper submitted to Frontiers in Biotechnology and Bioengineering is selected from the LSU Library Open Access Author Fund to cover the article processing fee. Congrats, Jorge, the first author!
1/5/2018: Allie's project won the first place in Biomedical Engineering category of the science fair at SJA. Her project title is "Formation of size-tunable organoids from hydrogel arrays". Congrats, Allie!
1/1/2018: Jeehye joins our lab for the Epidermolysis Bullosa and synthetic biology project! Welcome!
2017
12/12/2017: Our lignin project is awarded Tipton Team Research Award from LSU AgCenter and LSU Foundation. The entire NSF EPSCoR team is awarded for their excellent progress and contribution in lignin chemistry and healthcare application.
11/29/2017: Katie is awarded the Flagship Ph.D. Graduate Assistantship from the College of Engineering at LSU. Congratulations!
10/6/2017: Jorge won the Graduate Student Travel Award from LSU Grad School for presenting his collagen-lignin paper in BMES. Congrats!
7/14/2017: Katie's abstract submitted to IFATS was accepted for an oral presentation. Congrats!
7/10/2017: Matthew joins the lab for the new consulting project from a company in South Korea. Welcome!
7/5/2017: Nick and Fischer join the lab for the new project developed with Dr. Kanotra at CHNOLA. Welcome!
7/3/2017: The abstract of the lignin composite project was accepted to present at BMES (poster). Congrats, Jorge and Akbar, to make it happen over such a short period of time!
5/12/2017: Over the last two semesters, all of us worked hard for a fresh start in the lab! I like to thank all of our students who worked really hard.
1/25/2017: Allie from St. Joseph's Academy joined our lab as a HS intern. Welcome!