Stanford Department of Bioengineering
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Innovations, insights, and stories from Stanford BioE 💫
Stanford Bioengineering’s Hill-Maini Lab launches Chef-in-Residence program bringing in a two-Michelin-star chef into the lab to imagine a more sustainable food future.
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A Taste of the Future: Stanford Bioengineering’s Chef-in-Residence Program
A first-of-its-kind collaboration, the Hill-Maini Lab hosts two-Michelin-star chef to explore how creativity, technology, and taste help shape a more sustainable future for food.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Stanford Bioengineering’s Hill-Maini Lab launches Chef-in-Residence program bringing in a two-Michelin-star chef into the lab to imagine a more sustainable food future.
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One of the best parts of Stanford BioE is our incredible students — and Sydney Barta is no exception. 🌟
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Fast on the track, focused in the lab
Combining Paralympic experience with research at Stanford’s Human Performance Lab, Sydney Barta is pursuing a career as an orthopedic surgeon for athletes with amputations.
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November 17, 2025 at 5:23 PM
One of the best parts of Stanford BioE is our incredible students — and Sydney Barta is no exception. 🌟
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Autumn glow on campus 🌲🌟
November 11, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Autumn glow on campus 🌲🌟
Congrats to K.C. Huang on recieving the @NIH Director's Pioneer Award! With the award, Dr. Huang will create the first comprehensive atlas of small-intestinal microbes, build synthetic communities that model how they protect us from pathogens, and develop health precision tools.
October 16, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Congrats to K.C. Huang on recieving the @NIH Director's Pioneer Award! With the award, Dr. Huang will create the first comprehensive atlas of small-intestinal microbes, build synthetic communities that model how they protect us from pathogens, and develop health precision tools.
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Congratulations to our Institute Scholar @hawa-racine.bsky.social for winning the 2026 Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award! @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social
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September 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Congratulations to our Institute Scholar @hawa-racine.bsky.social for winning the 2026 Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award! @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social
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🌱 Congrats to Stanford BioE Professor @jennbrophy.bsky.social, named a 2025 HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar! www.hhmi.org/programs/fre...
The 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholars | HHMI
Freeman Hrabowski Scholars are outstanding early career faculty who have the potential to become leaders in their research fields.
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October 3, 2025 at 9:00 PM
🌱 Congrats to Stanford BioE Professor @jennbrophy.bsky.social, named a 2025 HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar! www.hhmi.org/programs/fre...
Siebel Scholars announced its 2026 scholarship recipients including 5 students from @bioe_stanford 🌟78 scholars were selected for their academic excellence and leadership potential. Congrats Xinyi Chen, Ananya Goyal, Ariel Hannum, Anoosha Pai S, Vivian Zhong 🎉
September 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Siebel Scholars announced its 2026 scholarship recipients including 5 students from @bioe_stanford 🌟78 scholars were selected for their academic excellence and leadership potential. Congrats Xinyi Chen, Ananya Goyal, Ariel Hannum, Anoosha Pai S, Vivian Zhong 🎉
The 2025 Stanford BioE Department Symposium was a celebration of bold science and a bright community! 🧫🧑🏻🔬🌲🖼️
September 22, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The 2025 Stanford BioE Department Symposium was a celebration of bold science and a bright community! 🧫🧑🏻🔬🌲🖼️
What a day! 🎉 The 1st Stanford Synthetic Biology Expo featured inspiring flash talks + posters from across disciplines. Thanks to all who joined and made it a success!
September 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
What a day! 🎉 The 1st Stanford Synthetic Biology Expo featured inspiring flash talks + posters from across disciplines. Thanks to all who joined and made it a success!
How does @bioe_stanford professor @rbaltman.bsky.social use AI? In this Stanford Report Q&A, Russ Altman shares why he allows AI in class, but rejects it in recommendation letters.
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How bioengineering Professor Russ Altman uses AI
In the first Q&A of a new series, Altman explains why he permits AI in classes, rejects it for recommendation letters, and feels both cautious and optimistic about its future.
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June 26, 2025 at 9:42 PM
How does @bioe_stanford professor @rbaltman.bsky.social use AI? In this Stanford Report Q&A, Russ Altman shares why he allows AI in class, but rejects it in recommendation letters.
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Introducing @bioe_stanford Class of 2025! 📸: Fontejon Photography
June 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Introducing @bioe_stanford Class of 2025! 📸: Fontejon Photography
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📣 Biomedical engineering students—it’s your last chance to enter your novel healthcare solution into the DEBUT Challenge. Don’t miss out on a $190K prize pool!
⏰ Submit your application by tomorrow, June 18 → bit.ly/4hxQgsB
⏰ Submit your application by tomorrow, June 18 → bit.ly/4hxQgsB
June 17, 2025 at 2:22 PM
📣 Biomedical engineering students—it’s your last chance to enter your novel healthcare solution into the DEBUT Challenge. Don’t miss out on a $190K prize pool!
⏰ Submit your application by tomorrow, June 18 → bit.ly/4hxQgsB
⏰ Submit your application by tomorrow, June 18 → bit.ly/4hxQgsB
🏆 Ross Venook has been named a 2024–25 recipient of the Stanford Lecturer’s Award for Teaching & Undergraduate Education! 🎓 Ross is a Senior Lecturer with Stanford Bioengineering and Associate Director for Engineering, Stanford Biodesign.
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June 6, 2025 at 10:23 PM
🏆 Ross Venook has been named a 2024–25 recipient of the Stanford Lecturer’s Award for Teaching & Undergraduate Education! 🎓 Ross is a Senior Lecturer with Stanford Bioengineering and Associate Director for Engineering, Stanford Biodesign.
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🍄 What if mushrooms could teach us how to build better futures? In Episode 5 of Art &, Drew Endy and Open Fung co-founder, Phil Ross take us from a mushroom farm to the edge of a new design frontier—where fungi become leather, buildings breathe, and science and art grow side by side.
Art & Synthetic Biology with Drew Endy & Phil Ross | Art &
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June 4, 2025 at 9:35 PM
🍄 What if mushrooms could teach us how to build better futures? In Episode 5 of Art &, Drew Endy and Open Fung co-founder, Phil Ross take us from a mushroom farm to the edge of a new design frontier—where fungi become leather, buildings breathe, and science and art grow side by side.
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Now streaming: AI in Life Sciences Discovery 💡
From protein structures to precision health, leaders from academia & industry explore how AI is transforming biomedical discovery. 🎙️ Nicolò Fusi, Brian Hie, Emma Lundberg, James Zou med.stanford.edu/raisehealth/...
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From protein structures to precision health, leaders from academia & industry explore how AI is transforming biomedical discovery. 🎙️ Nicolò Fusi, Brian Hie, Emma Lundberg, James Zou med.stanford.edu/raisehealth/...
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June 2, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Now streaming: AI in Life Sciences Discovery 💡
From protein structures to precision health, leaders from academia & industry explore how AI is transforming biomedical discovery. 🎙️ Nicolò Fusi, Brian Hie, Emma Lundberg, James Zou med.stanford.edu/raisehealth/...
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From protein structures to precision health, leaders from academia & industry explore how AI is transforming biomedical discovery. 🎙️ Nicolò Fusi, Brian Hie, Emma Lundberg, James Zou med.stanford.edu/raisehealth/...
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Manu Prakash practices “recreational biology,” a scientific approach that explores life in the same playful way that puzzles probe math. “Basic science is not at the service of something, but the groundwork that is our entire society’s foundation.” www.quantamagazine.org/how-paradoxi...
How Paradoxical Questions and Simple Wonder Lead to Great Science | Quanta Magazine
Manu Prakash works on the world’s most urgent problems and seemingly frivolous questions at the same time. They add up to a philosophy he calls “recreational biology.”
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May 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Manu Prakash practices “recreational biology,” a scientific approach that explores life in the same playful way that puzzles probe math. “Basic science is not at the service of something, but the groundwork that is our entire society’s foundation.” www.quantamagazine.org/how-paradoxi...
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Thank you very much @abdourachidthiam.bsky.social for kicking off the 2025 Stanford BioE colloquium @bioe-stanford.bsky.social! We had a blast learning about cellular lipid droplets and seeing all the creative ways you combine cell biology, chemistry and physics!!!
April 10, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Thank you very much @abdourachidthiam.bsky.social for kicking off the 2025 Stanford BioE colloquium @bioe-stanford.bsky.social! We had a blast learning about cellular lipid droplets and seeing all the creative ways you combine cell biology, chemistry and physics!!!
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Researchers @bioe-stanford.bsky.social and in #BioEGSB & @jgi.doe.gov @berkeleylab.lbl.gov collaborated on a high-impact approach for dissecting complex host-microbe interactions in the infant microbiome, revealing new possibilities for studying the broader microbial world. go.lbl.gov/gut_microbes
May 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Researchers @bioe-stanford.bsky.social and in #BioEGSB & @jgi.doe.gov @berkeleylab.lbl.gov collaborated on a high-impact approach for dissecting complex host-microbe interactions in the infant microbiome, revealing new possibilities for studying the broader microbial world. go.lbl.gov/gut_microbes
Bioprinting the future! 🖨️🧬
Dr. Mark Skylar-Scott & Soham Sinha demoed their cutting-edge 3D bioprinter at the Stanford School of Engineering Centennial Showcase.
Thanks to @kpixtv.bsky.social for stopping by! @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social
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Dr. Mark Skylar-Scott & Soham Sinha demoed their cutting-edge 3D bioprinter at the Stanford School of Engineering Centennial Showcase.
Thanks to @kpixtv.bsky.social for stopping by! @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social
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Stanford University marks a century of scientific discoveries
Stanford University is celebrating 100 years of engineering, commemorating a century of innovation and showcasing the engineering of tomorrow.
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May 29, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Bioprinting the future! 🖨️🧬
Dr. Mark Skylar-Scott & Soham Sinha demoed their cutting-edge 3D bioprinter at the Stanford School of Engineering Centennial Showcase.
Thanks to @kpixtv.bsky.social for stopping by! @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social
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Dr. Mark Skylar-Scott & Soham Sinha demoed their cutting-edge 3D bioprinter at the Stanford School of Engineering Centennial Showcase.
Thanks to @kpixtv.bsky.social for stopping by! @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social
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Episode #28 in #TheoreticalNeurosciencePodcast: On whole-cell modeling of bacteria – with Markus Covert
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In 2020 a model of E. coli with 10000 equations and 19000 parameters was presented by the guest.
How are such models made?
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In 2020 a model of E. coli with 10000 equations and 19000 parameters was presented by the guest.
How are such models made?
May 24, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Episode #28 in #TheoreticalNeurosciencePodcast: On whole-cell modeling of bacteria – with Markus Covert
theoreticalneuroscience.no/thn28
In 2020 a model of E. coli with 10000 equations and 19000 parameters was presented by the guest.
How are such models made?
theoreticalneuroscience.no/thn28
In 2020 a model of E. coli with 10000 equations and 19000 parameters was presented by the guest.
How are such models made?
Congrats to Assistant Professor Vayu Hill-Maini on being named a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar! 🌍🎉
May 22, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Congrats to Assistant Professor Vayu Hill-Maini on being named a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar! 🌍🎉
Our very own Prof. @stephenquake.bsky.social has been named a @royalsociety.org Fellow, joining the oldest scientific academy in the world. Great to see your huge contributions to driving scientific breakthroughs is recognized globally. 🎉 t.co/RPNEwgyfPu
https://royalsociety.org/news/2025/05/new-fellows/
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May 21, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Our very own Prof. @stephenquake.bsky.social has been named a @royalsociety.org Fellow, joining the oldest scientific academy in the world. Great to see your huge contributions to driving scientific breakthroughs is recognized globally. 🎉 t.co/RPNEwgyfPu
We had a blast sharing our research at the Stanford School of Engineering Centennial Showcase! Grateful to be part of 100 years of innovation, discovery, and community. Happy 100th anniversary, Stanford Engineering! 💯🌲🎈 #CentennialShowcase #100YearsOfInnovation #OurBioticFuture
May 16, 2025 at 8:36 PM
We had a blast sharing our research at the Stanford School of Engineering Centennial Showcase! Grateful to be part of 100 years of innovation, discovery, and community. Happy 100th anniversary, Stanford Engineering! 💯🌲🎈 #CentennialShowcase #100YearsOfInnovation #OurBioticFuture
Stanford hosted its 2nd Synthetic Biology for Sustainability Symposium on May 7! Supported by deans of the Stanford Schools of Medicine, Engineering & Sustainability, the event featured cross-campus speakers on how synthetic biology can power a more sustainable future. Live sketch by Callie Chappell
May 14, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Stanford hosted its 2nd Synthetic Biology for Sustainability Symposium on May 7! Supported by deans of the Stanford Schools of Medicine, Engineering & Sustainability, the event featured cross-campus speakers on how synthetic biology can power a more sustainable future. Live sketch by Callie Chappell
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Our 2025 photo contest results are in 📸 Explore action, beauty, and nature from the perspectives of Stanford community members: stanford.io/42sbSkW
Image credits: Cara Askren, Peter Marinos, Max Kessler, Laurie LaPat-Polasko
Image credits: Cara Askren, Peter Marinos, Max Kessler, Laurie LaPat-Polasko
April 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Our 2025 photo contest results are in 📸 Explore action, beauty, and nature from the perspectives of Stanford community members: stanford.io/42sbSkW
Image credits: Cara Askren, Peter Marinos, Max Kessler, Laurie LaPat-Polasko
Image credits: Cara Askren, Peter Marinos, Max Kessler, Laurie LaPat-Polasko