The Rice Bioengineering Colloquia is a longstanding and distinguished seminar series hosted by the Department of Bioengineering at Rice University. Each week, it brings leading experts from around the globe to share cutting-edge research and advancements across the diverse and dynamic field of bioengineering.
UPCOMING SEMINARS
Engineering Physiologically Relevant Three-dimensional Environments to Study Cancer: From Bench to Bedside
Dr. Pilar de la Puente Garcia
Associate Scientist
Sanford Research
April 3, 2025
BRC, Room 280
12:10 PM
BIOE Colloquium - Dr. François Bordeleau
Dr. François Bordeleau
Associate Professor
Université Laval, Canada
April 10, 2025
BRC, Room 280
12:10 PM
Advancing Drug Development with Microphysiological Systems and Scalable Nanoparticle Manufacturing
YongTae Kim, PhD
Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
CEO - Mepsgen Co., Ltd.
April 17, 2025
BRC, Room 280
12:10 PM
Participant-centric Sampling Tools for At-home Blood and Saliva Collection: Probing Personalized Longitudinal Responses
Dr. Ashleigh Theberge
Assistant Professor
University of Washington
April 24, 2025
BRC, Room 280
12:10 PM
PAST SPRING 2025 SEMINARS
Design of Affinity-Controlled Biomaterial Delivery Vehicles for Tissue Repair
Dr. Marian Hettiaratchi
Assistant Professor
University of Oregon
March 13, 2025
Continual Improvement of Cis-Regulatory Models
Dr. Carl de’Boer
Assistant Professor
University of British Columbia
February 20, 2025
Harnessing the Power of Immunometabolism to Engineer the Future of Medicine
Dr. Chima Maduka
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Colorado
February 18, 2025
βeta Biomaterials: Supporting Islet Function In Vivo
Dr. Jacqueline Burke
Research Assistant Professor
Northwestern University
February 11, 2025
Artificial Intelligence for State-of-the-art Gene Therapy
Dr. Jacob Witten
Postdoctoral Fellow
MIT
February 4, 2025
Engineering placenta-tropic mRNA lipid nanoparticles to treat pregnancy Disorders
Kelsey Swingle
Ph.D. Candidate
University of Pennsylvania
January 30, 2025
Engineering Technologies for Enhanced Modeling, Detection and Treatment of Neurological Disease
Dr. Alice Stanton
MIT
January 16, 2025