Stanford Department of Bioengineering

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.

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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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.

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 🌲🌟

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.

Congratulations to our Institute Scholar Hawa Racine Thiam for winning the 2026 Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award. Hawa is being recognized for being a trailblazer of subcellular biophysics and unveiling new paradigms of biophysical immunology through her dynamic measurements of physical forces on organelles in real time.

Congratulations to our Institute Scholar @hawa-racine.bsky.social for winning the 2026 Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award! @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social
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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.

🌱 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 🎉

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!

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.

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

📣 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

🏆 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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Art & Synthetic Biology with Drew Endy & Phil Ross | Art &

🍄 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.

Featuring: Nicolò Fusi (Microsoft Research), Brian Hie (Stanford University), Emma Lundberg (Stanford Medicine), James Zou (Stanford Medicine)

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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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.”

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...

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!!!

Microscopy image showing microbial cells (stained in pink) in the gut of a mouse. (Credit: Justin Sonnenburg/Stanford University)

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

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.

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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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?

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

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

Overhead view. Two people handle a large research instrument on a colorful ship. Blue choppy waves splash over the edge

Vast spiraling streaks of white lines in gray night sky. Below, a red glow on a small crowd of people and an observatory

Looking up, a person aims a green laser pointing diagonally into the night sky. Background of stars and tree silhouettes

Close-up of baby whale in vibrant blue water, second whale close behind. Reflective water surface frames top of photo

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

Synthetic Biology for Sustainability Symposium

Interested in learning about the latest innovations in synthetic biology for sustainability? Join us for the Stanford Synthetic Biology for Sustainability symposium happening on May 7 🌲synbioevent.stanford.edu

Mo Pandiarajan, founder of Eden school, shows students a view of a specimen in a Foldscope, which he's attached to his mobile phone. Photo credit: Viraj Nayer for NPR

A.Santhos inserts a slide into the foldscope. He is a former student who lives in the neigbourhood and keeps in touch with the students of his alma mater, often taking them for nature walks to examine the world around them through the foldscope. Viraj Nayer for NPR

Students at Eden School select specimens to examine with their Foldscopes. Viraj Nayer for NPR

Ramana Rajeesh Kumar, 11, Meenakshi, 8, and Magathi Yazhini, 9, with their Foldscopes. Ramana has been fascinated with bugs for a while. "They look even cooler under the Foldscope," he says. "Especially their eyes and hairy feet!" Viraj Nayer for NPR

My favorite NPR story blog - “Goats and Soda” sent a writer and photographer to a rural school in India; an early adopter of Foldscope. A wonderful photo story of kids “reading nature”. In this current challenging climate - the kids show us the way with joy and wonder.

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Congratulations @astraight.bsky.social! It is a well-deserved recognition 🔬

Four Stanford faculty named AAAS Fellows The faculty are among 471 new fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Congrats to SCI member @astraight.bsky.social on being named American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow. He was recognized for his distinguished contributions to the molecular, cellular, and #genomic properties of centromeres and spindle function.

Stanford faculty elected to the National Academy of Engineering Jennifer Cochran and Christopher Manning have earned one of engineering's highest professional distinctions.

Congratulations to Professor Jennifer Cochran who was recently elected to the National Academy of Engineering for protein discovery and development, biotechnology entrepreneurship, and leadership in academic bioengineering!
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