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 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. news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...

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. news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...

🍄 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.

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/... @stanfordhai.bsky.social

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!!!

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 www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco...

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?

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

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

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

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. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

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.

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! news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...

Stanford BioE PhD student Bella Archibald named Top 30 Young Scientists working on breakthrough solutions to climate change 🌍🛠️🌿 Honored by Inflection Award for her impact @jennbrophy.bsky.social Read more: bioengineering.stanford.edu/news/stanfor...

Stanford faculty are working to transform the way the world grows, distributes, and consumes food, with research in sustainable food systems, food security, health equity, culture, and diet. 🥗 news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...

Science thrives in a culture of support 💕

We are excited to make #CRISPR accessible to high school education. 🧬 Go check out the article in The Stanford Daily to read about our frugal CRISPRkits. #democratizingscience #scienceaccessibility @bioe-stanford.bsky.social @stanford-chemh.bsky.social stanforddaily.com/2025/02/03/c...

🚀 Meet Eliel Akinbami, a Stanford BioE PhD student in @pollyfordyce.bsky.social Lab! Their research has led to HT-MEK (High-Throughput Microfluidic Enzyme Kinetics), a groundbreaking technique that condenses years of enzyme research work into just weeks. 🔬 @stanford-chemh.bsky.social #stanfordbioe

Are you on the #academicjobmarket? Join Stanford Department of Bioengineering! We are seeking a Biological-Laboratory Lecturer to help develop and teach @Stanford undergraduate bioe courses! #bioengineering #synbio #molecular #cell #physiology Apply here: goto.stanford.edu/bioe-jobs

Researchers in Stanford’s Department of Bioengineering have developed a policy roadmap for community-centered science, LABraries, and a career path for community science, LABrarians. Read our policy report here: bioengineering.stanford.edu/news/stanfor...

Professor Michael Jewett and his collaborators are leveraging AI to revolutionize enzyme discovery, using a computational process that allows for engineering enzymes faster, while not having to rely on using living cells to produce the enzymes. Read more: engineering.stanford.edu/news/hunt-ne...

Stanford BioE ❤️🌲 youtu.be/VmHBADXeCy8?...

Congratulations to Dr. Paul Yock, Professor Emeritus and founding Co-Chair of Stanford Bioengineering, on receiving the National Medal of Technology and Innovation—the nation’s highest honor for groundbreaking achievements in technological achievement🏅👏 #StanfordBioE

Science in 60 Seconds: Haotian Du, PhD student with Possu Huang’s lab, explains her research on creating novel proteins that expands the possibilities for detecting more cancer types. @possuhuanglab.bsky.social @haotiandu.bsky.social

Incredible work from BioE Professor’s Possu Huang Lab @possuhuanglab.bsky.social @haotiandu.bsky.social - pioneering novel proteins with new structures and functions, unlocking new possibilities for detecting more cancer types. Congratulations!

Just another day conducting research with the Prakash Lab @prakashlab.bsky.social: sailing to the Arctic and ice-olating diatoms at -15°C! Talk about a cool discovery ❄️🔬

Virtual cell models have the potential to transform biological research. Stanford BioE Professors Emma Lundberg, Stephen Quake, and collaborators highlight how collective efforts to build these models could open new pathways for how we understand and model biology.

Proteins are central to life, responsible when things go right & part of the problem when they don't, like in diseases. Stanford researchers, like Chaitan Khosla & @pollyfordyce.bsky.social, are unlocking the potential of proteins in medicine & beyond: engineering.stanford.edu/news/unlocki...

View from the top—literally! A classic Hoover Tower sighting from the Shriram Center of Bioengineering & Chemical Engineering. #iconic #Stanford 🌲🌟🌅

Vaccines, but make it skincare!🧴🧬 Congratulations to Stanford BioE Professor Michael Fischbach @mfgrp.bsky.social & @djenetbousbaine.bsky.social for engineering a skin bacterium that could lead to needle-free vaccines.

Stanford BioE's Prakash Lab @prakashlab.bsky.social is bringing science into focus for millions—2M+ foldscopes handed out. Because curiosity deserves to be magnified!

Jeopardy fame suits you, @pollyfordyce.bsky.social From Stanford BioE labs to TV trivia—changing the world one clue at a time. 🎉🧪 #StanfordBioELegend