Graduate Students

Lab Researcher

Dongwei Sun (dsun027@ucr.edu)

Postdoctoral Researcher, Materials Science and Engineering

Project:

B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, Henan University of Technology (HUT), China, 2013

M.Sc. Materials Science and Engineering, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, 2015

Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering, UC Riverside, 2022

@ BNL since 2017

Graduate Students

Nhu Nguyen (nnguy067@ucr.edu)

Ph.D. candidate, Microbiology

Project: Antimicrobial properties of biomaterials

M. Sc. Biological Science, Cal Poly Pomona, 2013

B.S. Microbiology, UC Davis, 2009

@ BNL since 2013

Changlu Xu (cxu050@ucr.edu)

Ph.D. candidate, 6th year, Materials Science and Engineering

Project: 3D printing of hyaluronic acid hydrogel for biomedical applications

B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, Changzhou University, 2014

M.Sc. Materials Science and Engineering, Soochow University, 2017

@ BNL since 2017

Patricia Holt-Torres (pholt001@ucr.edu)

Ph.D. student, 6th year, Microbiology

Project: Identify magnesium oxide nanoparticle mechanisms of antimicrobial activity

B.A. Biology, California State University, San Bernardino, 2015

M.Sc. Biology, California State University, San Bernardino, 2017

@ BNL since 2019

Ruoyu Sheng (rshen005@ucr.edu)

Ph.D. candidate, 5th year, Materials Science and Engineering

Project:

B.S. Biomedical Engineering, the Chinese University of Hongkong, China, 2016

M.Sc. Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, US, 2017

@ BNL since 2018

Yiqing Chen (ychen766@ucr.edu)

Ph.D. candidate, 5th year, Materials Science and Engineering

Project: Surface modification of magnesium for orthopedic applications

B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, China, 2018

@ BNL since 2019

Xiyu Chen (xchen373@ucr.edu)

Ph.D. student, 2nd year

B.S. Plant Biology, South China Agriculture University, China, 2018

M.S. Translational Biotechnology, University of Southern California, 2020

@BNL since 2022

Jinrui Tan (jtan110@ucr.edu)

Ph.D. student, 1st year, Bioengineering

Project:

B.E. Materials Science and Engineering, Shenzhen University, China, 2021

@BNL since 2022