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 Autonomous Biobehavioral Interventions for Just-in-Time Health Support
Dr. Asim Gazi
Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard University
January 21, 2026
Reengineering Paper-Based Diagnostics: From High-Performance Assays to AI-Integrated Point-of-Care Systems
Dr. Gyeo-Ro Han
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
January 22, 2026
Highly Multiplexed Nanolaser Particles for Understanding Dynamic Cellular Heterogeneity
Dr. Sangyeon "Fred" Cho
Assistant Professor
Harvard Medical School
January 23, 2026
Modernizing pathology with intelligent 3D microscopy
Dr. David Brenes
Postdoctoral Scholar
Stanford University School of Medicine
January 27, 2026
Blood Engineering for Molecular Biology: From the Dried Blood Book for Molecular Data Storage to Purification-Free Molecular Diagnostics
Dr. Jongwon Lim
Joe Greene Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (UIUC)
January 29, 2026
Systems Immunoengineering of Living Therapeutics: From Biomanufacturing to Tumor Microenvironment Adaptation
Dr. Yapeng Su
NIH K99 & Damon Runyon Fellow
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
February 6, 2026
PAST SEMINARS
From the Lab to the Living Room: Open Microfluidics for Tissue Engineering and Home Transcriptomics
Dr. Amanda Haack
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Washington
January 9, 2026
Developing single cell multi-omic technologies to link genotypes & phenotypes in breast cancer
Nicholas E. Navin
Professor and Chair
Department of Systems Biology
MD Anderson Cancer Center
December 4, 2025
Engineering Precision Biomaterials: The Convergence of Nanoengineering, Biology and Translation to Improve Therapy for Patients
Tejal A. Desai
Sorensen Family Dean of Engineering, Professor of Engineering
Brown University
November 20, 2025
Embryonic Economics
Arjun Raj
Richard K. Lubin Professor of Bioengineering
University of Pennsylvania
November 13, 2025
Understanding & Rewriting the Genomic Music of Old Muscle Stem Cells
Carlos Aguilar
Associate Professor
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
November 11, 2025
Programming and Probing the Intracellular Self-assembly of Disordered Proteins
Felipe Quiroz
Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University
October 30, 2025
The Science of Manufacturing: The Recipe to Making a Quality Drug
John Huynh
Vice President, Head of CMC and Technical Operations
October 23, 2025
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
Liver-directed Genome Editing for Inherited Metabolic Disorders
Dr. Marco DeGiorgi
Assistant Professor, Baylor College of Medicine
August 28, 2025
Participant-centric Sampling Tools for At-home Blood and Saliva Collection: Probing Personalized Longitudinal Responses
Dr. Ashleigh Theberge
Professor, University of Washington
April 24, 2025
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
Engineering stiffness-tunable biomimetic cancer models as an alternative to in vivo models
Dr. François Bordeleau
Associate Professor
Université Laval, Canada
April 10, 2025
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
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