DEPARTMENTAL EVENTS

Bioengineering Colloquia

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

Understanding and Harnessing Microbes for Solving Complex Problems in Biology and Medicine Dr. Jiahe Li

Dr. Jiahe Li
Associate Professor, University Michigan, Ann Arbor
September 11, 2025

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The Science of Manufacturing: The Recipe to Making a Quality Drug

John Huynh
Vice President, Head of CMC and Technical Operations
October 23, 2025

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PAST SEMINARS

Liver-directed Genome Editing for Inherited Metabolic Disorders

Dr. Marco DeGiorgi
Assistant Professor, Baylor College of Medicine
August 28, 2025

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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

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Engineering stiffness-tunable biomimetic cancer models as an alternative to in vivo models

Dr. François Bordeleau
Associate Professor
Université Laval, Canada
April 10, 2025

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Engineering Physiologically Relevant Three-dimensional Environments to Study Cancer: From Bench to Bedside

Dr. Pilar de la Puente Garcia
Assistant Professor
Sanford Research
April 3, 2025

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Design of Affinity-Controlled Biomaterial Delivery Vehicles for Tissue Repair

Dr. Marian Hettiaratchi
Assistant Professor
University of Oregon
March 13, 2025

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Continual Improvement of Cis-Regulatory Models

Dr. Carl de’Boer
Assistant Professor
University of British Columbia
February 20, 2025

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Harnessing the Power of Immunometabolism to Engineer the Future of Medicine

Dr. Chima Maduka
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Colorado
February 18, 2025

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βeta Biomaterials: Supporting Islet Function In Vivo

Dr. Jacqueline Burke
Research Assistant Professor
Northwestern University
February 11, 2025

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Artificial Intelligence for State-of-the-art Gene Therapy

Dr. Jacob Witten
Postdoctoral Fellow
MIT
February 4, 2025

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Engineering placenta-tropic mRNA lipid nanoparticles to treat pregnancy Disorders

Kelsey Swingle
Ph.D. Candidate
University of Pennsylvania
January 30, 2025

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Biomolecular Circuits for Gene Therapy

Dr. Noa Katz
Stanford University
January 9, 2025

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