{"id":454,"date":"2020-07-13T13:57:40","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T13:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/schuster-lab\/?page_id=454"},"modified":"2026-08-31T14:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T14:38:11","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/schuster-lab\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Welcome To The Schuster Lab!<\/h2>\n<p>The Schuster Lab has two main goals: to do great science, and to train great people.<\/p>\n<p>We are a group of researchers from interdisciplinary backgrounds, including chemical engineering, bioengineering, biochemistry, and the biopharmaceutical industry. Our lab studies and engineers protein materials. We are particularly interested in biomolecular condensates, intrinsically disordered proteins, and the self-organization of proteins into mesoscale assemblies. 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