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Welcome back to Spring 2024!

Bioengineering Seminar Series

Dr. Ana Maria Porras Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering University of Florida [...]

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Recent news from Berkeley Bioengineering

Congratulations new NSF Fellows!

Congratulations to our new NSF Graduate Research Fellows! Among the winners are current PhD students Kira Buttrey, Emilie Kono, Nathan Lanclos, Brendan Mitchell, Gabriela Pena Carmona, Sarah Wasinger, and Dana Wilkins; incoming PhD students Joseph Asfouri and Corinne Martin; and graduating undergraduates Sushil Bohara, Justin Garlepp, Cyrus Tau and Dhruv Vaish. Well done!

Congratulations 2023-24 Outstanding GSIs!

Congratulations to Outstanding GSI Award Winners for 2023-24 from BioE courses: S. Erfan Ghazimirsaeed, Chinmoy Saayujya and Madeleine Snyder (BioE PhD Student)! The UC Berkeley Outstanding GSI Awards are given to the best GSIs of the year, nominated by the course instructor.

What bats can teach us about the evolution of human speech

What bats can teach us about the evolution of human speech

In a paper in the journal Science, a team led by Professor Michael Yartsev’s lab identified the part of the brain in Egyptian fruit bats that controls vocalizations and found that it contains very similar neural wiring to the part of the human brain that controls speech.

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Dr. Ana Maria Porras Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering University of Florida [...]

Printing Functional Polymers for Sustainable Earth and Habitable Mars: Nano Seminar series

New topological states of semiconducting polymers can empower unprecedented control over charge, spin, and exciton transport, reminiscent of how Nature efficiently transfers electrons and transduces energy using chiral helical structures. The ability to control non-equilibrium assembly during printing sets the stage for dynamically modulating assembled structures on the fly. We [...]

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