Laboratory of Biomaterials and Biomolecular Systems (LBMS)
Our Team
Dr. Christine Wang
Principal Investigator
Materials Science and Engineering
Dr. Jiawen Chen
Postdoctoral Fellow
Materials Science and Engineering
Dr. Albertus Ivan Brilian
Postdoctoral Fellow
Materials Science and Engineering
Sydney Cook
Graduate Researcher
Materials Science and Engineering
Nhu Ton
Graduate Researcher
Materials Science and Engineering
Katie Riley
MS Graduate Researcher
Biomedical Engineering
Claire Shen
BS/MS Graduate Researcher
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Materials Science and Engineering
Shane Yankovitz
Undergraduate Researcher
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Lab photos
2026
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01/23/26 Birthday celebration for Mark!
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02/04/26 First visit to Argonne National Lab (two accepted proposals!)
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02/02/26 First lab member-led subgroup and journal club
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Feb2026 Chicago restaurant week
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02/13/26 After lab meeting
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02/13/26 Celebrating five proposals submitted in January and February
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05/14/26 Center of Synthetic Biology 10-year anniversay retreat (three poster prizes!)
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06/25/26 PACCRI Spark grant shark-tank style competition (we won $100k!)
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07/09/26 Lab journal club with summer high school and college interns
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07/31/26 Our summer intern Kaspar presented poster (his first poster!) at the Kimberly Querrey Summer Research Program research day and gave thanks to his mentor Jiawen
2025
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4/11/25 First trainee bonding
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10/31/25 Halloween pumpkin carving
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11/11/25 Random life event :)
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12/12/25 Lab holiday hotpot
Alumni
2026
Oindri Biswas: high school summer intern, Chicago Public School, July 2026-August 2026
Zi-Yu Chen: undergraduate summer intern (Northwestern-Taiwan NYCU College of Medicine Program Fellow), Medicine, NYCU, June 2026-August 2026
Kaspar Sepp: undergraduate summer intern (Kimberly Querrey Program Fellow), Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, June 2026-July 2026
Oriana Berdnikova: undergraduate summer intern, Electrical Engineering, Cornell University, June 2026-July 2026
Mark Siringan: graduate researcher, Feinberg School of Medicine, March 2025-March 2026
2025
Janice Xie: undergraduate researcher, Materials Science and Engineering, Jan-June 2025 --> starting PhD program at the University of Minnesota fall 2026!