Dr. Jing Pan is an assistant professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University (2017). During his Ph.D., Dr. Jing Pan worked on engineering DNA-based synthetic motors and optical sensors in Dr. Jong Hyun Choi’s lab.  He conducted his postdoctoral research in Dr. Tom Soh’s lab at Stanford University where he worked on designing switchable affinity reagents for biomedical sensing applications. His research focuses on engineering nucleic acid-based nanostructures and exploring their emerging applications in healthcare and agriculture.