Changyuan Wang

Hi! I am Changyuan Wang.

I am a physics major at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). I am currently working in Prof. Zvonimir Dogic's group, focusing on colloidal membranes, which are self-assembled from filamentous bacteriophages.
I am interested in both the simplicity of physics and the complexity of biology, especially in using biological materials to study physics by making materials with unique physical properties. Over the past years, I have been crosslinking, end-labeling, and genetically engineering phages to build a toolbox to characterize the formation of colloidal membranes.

Recent Update:
Colloidal Vesicle Project: In progress! Trying to label the colloidal vesicles with two colors and track the color patches to explore the dynamics :)
End-Labeling Project: Have found orthogonal reactions of attaching molecules on bacteriophages; still working on choosing appropriate sizes of molecules to induce curvatures in membranes and analyze the dynamics of shape change.