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Our Next Event:
4/30/25 – Marc Dandin
Professor Marc Dandin
Carnegie Mellon University
“Lab-on-CMOS Platforms for Cell Culture Monitoring and Drug Potency Studies”
April 30, 2025, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, 106 Stanley Hall
Congratulations to our new NSF Graduate Research Fellows! Among the winners are current PhD students Ashley Qin; incoming PhD students Erin Ahern and Steven Robles Blasini; graduating undergraduates Monica Mendoza, Safaa Mouline and Arvind Swamynathan; and undergraduate alumni Jacob Bryan, Emily Huynh, and Elaine Tong. Well done!
Our PhD program in bioengineering has been ranked #4 in the United States by the latest US News & World Report graduate schools ranking! Berkeley tied with Duke and Stanford for the #4 spot.
Berkeley startup AsparaGlue, founded on science by Professor Phil Messersmith and postdoc Subhajit Pal, won an East Bay Innovation Award for their bioinspired surgical superglue.
Professor Aaron Streets has been named to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Streets was selected for “developing innovative technology to elucidate genome regulation with single-cell and molecule resolution, and for impactful leadership to diversify bioengineering.
Departmental Events
In addition to our established annual events, the department offers frequent enrichment and training events for students, some in partnership with other campus units.
Grad school application workshops, alumni chats, startup founder panels, poster sessions and more occur throughout the school year.
Check out the campus events calendar for even more opportunities.
Spotlight: Bioengineering In Depth
BlotSeq single cell sequencing – animated!
BioE postdoc Trinh Lam’s animated video explains how Herr Lab’s BlotSeq single-cell tool uses sequencing data to guide protein selection without the need to predefine targets, making the process more flexible.
Diverse paths to discovery at UC Berkeley
BioE graduate student Jazmin Isabel Velazquez examines the unique paths every graduate student takes on the road to their PhD in this story based on her experience in the Healy and Rubinsky Labs.
Faculty Focus on Leah Guthrie
Professor Leah Guthrie works to understand how the microbiome metabolites and proteins communicate with our human cells to influence our physiology and pathophysiology. Learn more about Guthrie in this interview with QB3.