News

• 2023
  • Congratulations! Hana and Jinpyo won first and second places in the Research Symposium at CREC.
  • Dr. Yu Wang was named as one of the 34 university’s most productive and promising faculty members as UFRF Professors for 2023. Congratulations!
  • Congrats to Dongjoo for receiving The William F. Jaggard Memorial Scholarship from The Society of Flavor Chemists and The Ron H Schmidt Memorial Graduate Scholarship from The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Florida.
  • We are thrilled to announce that Zoey has been selected for an internship at General Mills.
  • We are delighted to congratulate Jingwen on successfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation.
  • Robert has successfully passed the Ph.D. candidacy exams and achieved the status of a Ph.D. candidate. Congratulations!
  • Kuikui joined our lab as a postdoctoral associate. Welcome!
• 2022
  • Xuebo and Hana have started their job as a postdoctoral associate in our lab. Welcome!
  • Dongjoo has started his Ph.D. program in Gainesville. He will be staying in Gainesville for two semesters for coursework and be back after Spring 2023.
  • We are honored to announce that our lab's paper "Determination of Mango Flavor Formation Through Pathway-based Metabolomics" has been recognized by the Florida State Horticultural Society (FSHS). The paper has been awarded the prestigious title of the "Best Paper" in the Handling and Processing Section for the year 2022.
  • Jingwen and Zoey pass the qualifying exam, officially becoming Ph.D. candidates and taking a significant step forward in their academic pursuits. Congratulations!
• 2021
  • Dongjoo has graduated with his M.S. program and is continuing his job here as a lab technician. Congratulations!
  • Congratulations to Miguel for joining our lab for his Ph.D. program with the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences Dean’s Award! He is staying in Gainesville for his required coursework. Welcome!
  • Joon has gotten an assistant professor position at the University of Georgia. Congratulations! We appreciate his hard work here.
  • Dongjoo received the NAFFS scholarship, The William & Agnes Brown Scholarship, and Travel Grant from the 134^th Annual Meeting of the FSHS this year. Congratulations!
  • Congratulations to Zhixin and Xin for having been selected as the outstanding reviewers for RSC Advances!
• 2020
  • Robert has finished his job in our lab and started his Ph.D. program in the Fall of 2020 and is attending classes in Gainesville. He was selected for the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences Dean’s Award. Congratulations!
  • Congratulations to Gar Yee for getting accepted into an assistant professor position at Texas State University. We wish her the best and appreciate her contributions to our lab for two years.
  • Jinpyo, Xin, and Zhixin started their postdoctoral associate works in our lab. Welcome, all!
  • Dongjoo started the master’s program at UF in Spring 2020. Welcome!
• October 2019
  • We would like to congratulate Kathryn Moorhead for her graduating with her Masters! We hope her nothing but the best going forward!
  • We are glad to say that Sophia has graduated with her PhD and has moved to Iowa to start her new job. Good luck up there in the cold!
  • After arriving here during a hurricane and leaving during one, we hope that Linhuang survives the trip and won’t be scared to come back and visit us!
  • Jeehye has finished her postdoc. training here and accepted a new job as an assistant professor at Andong National University. Good luck up there!
  • Chunmao has left us after 2 years of diligent work! We wish you the best and thanks for all the hard work.
  • Congratulations to Zoey for starting the PhD program at UF. She spent her first year up in Gainesville studying and will spend the reminder of her time here in Lake Alfred!
  • Jingwen Li has started her PhD and is currently attending classes in Gainesville.
• January 2018

  

  The new Q Exactive™ Plus Hybrid Quadrupole-Orbitrap™ Mass Spectrometer is being installed! 

  

  Sophia's paper " Differentiation between the flavors of sweet orange (Citrus sinensis) and mandarin (Citrus reticulata)" was selected as cover article of Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Congratulations!

• December 2017

  

  Welcome Kathryn Moorhead, the MS student join the lab!

  Hello! I'm Kathryn Moorhead, a Master's of Food Science student. During my undergraduate at Iowa State University, I enjoyed learning about food chemistry, flavors, and how the ingredients of a food could significantly change the composition. I'm excited to be working under Dr. Wung and to further study flavor chemistry, with an emphasis on produce. After living in the Midwest and Texas, and traveling around the world, I hope to combine my passion for food chemistry and world cultures. 

  

  Dr. Joonhyuk Suh's "paper Development of an improved sample preparation platform for acidic endogenous hormones in plant tissues using electromembrane extraction" was accepted by Journal of Chromatography A. Congratulations!

  

  2017 CREC Christmas Party!

  Laura won the second place of dessert contest and Joon rocked the party!!

• October 2017

  

  Congratulations papa Joon!

  Welcome our baby girl!