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By applying engineering principles to study and manipulate biology, biological engineers aim to benefit society by applying technologies to agriculture, environment, health, and medicine. be.mit.edu

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MIT Department of Biological Engineering @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social · 21h
BE Seminar Series this Thurs 10/01 Christopher Barnes, Stanford University “Breaking the Silence: Directing Antibody Evolution Toward the HIV-1 Silent Face” ow.ly/PcSo50ZT4cH
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MIT Department of Biological Engineering @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The competition for MIT engineering talent is on! Moderna, P&G, Qral Group, and Impact Technology Development are already attending the BE & ChemE Career Expo 10/20. Make sure your company has a seat at the table—and the opportunity to recruit top talent. Register today: ow.ly/NrhN50ZPHZf
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MIT Department of Biological Engineering @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Who's up at BATS? Aram Shajii (Hammond & White Labs): “Identification and Delivery of Phosphorylated MHC Peptides for Glioblastoma Immunotherapy” Fiona Wang (Buehler Lab): “Engineering AI Collectives for Biological Discovery” ow.ly/N8iP50ZPaSm
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MIT Department of Biological Engineering @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Voigt Lab researchers have engineered bacteria that can function as transistors, allowing the team to create living “circuit boards” that can be printed onto a growth medium in a Petri dish. ow.ly/jLrL50ZAH9B
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MIT Department of Biological Engineering @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Boyden Lab researchers have developed a method for imaging neuron activity in the zebrafish brain. Each colored spot (green and yellow) represents an active neuron. ow.ly/ZkhG50ZzSUi
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MIT Department of Biological Engineering @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Prof. Doug Lauffenburger named Institute Professor. This position is MIT's highest honor, recognizing invaluable contributions across teaching, research, and service. He was the central founder of MIT’s Department of Biological Engineering. ow.ly/lqBK50ZqLcU
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Emery Brown, Daniel Hastings, and Douglas Lauffenburger named Institute Professors
Emery Brown, Douglas Lauffenburger, and Daniel Hastings have been awarded MIT’s highest faculty honor: the title of Institute Professor.
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MIT Department of Biological Engineering @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
New MRI sensors developed in the Jasanoff Lab sensitively detect target molecules in the brain and body. Liposomal nanoparticle reporters, or LisNRs, can brighten or dim MRI signals in response to specific molecular targets. ow.ly/PkG650Z7JwV
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MIT Department of Biological Engineering @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Who's up at BATS? Bishal Thapa (Voigt Lab): “Engineering Radiation Tolerant Fungi for Space Biomanufacturing” Blythe Irwin (Birnbaum & DeKosky Labs): “Introducing RePLiCA: A Replication-Based Protein:Ligand Cellular Activation Assay” be.mit.edu/our-community/seminars
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MIT Department of Biological Engineering @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Who's up at BATS? Brian Cheng (Blainey Lab): “StimDrop: High-Throughput Combinatorial Microfluidics Platform for Transcriptional Profiling” Bruce Enzmann (White & Knouse Labs): “Investigating the Signaling Mechanisms of Organ Size Control in the Liver” be.mit.edu/our-community/seminars
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MIT Department of Biological Engineering @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
In a new study, Hansen Lab researchers have measured chromatin movement at timescales ranging from hundreds of microseconds to hours, allowing them to rigorously quantify those dynamics for the first time. news.mit.edu/2026/how-chromatin-mov…
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How chromatin movement helps control gene expression
For the first time, MIT researchers measured the dynamics of chromatin movement over an extended period of time, ranging from the scale of microseconds to hours. The findings offer insight into how gene expression is regulated, as well as how chromatin segments come together for other processes such as DNA repair.
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MIT Department of Biological Engineering @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Who's up at BATS? Matt Zackin (Niles Lab): “A Machine Learning Pipeline for Target-Specific Antimalarial Drug Discovery” Daniel Sellers (Ribbeck Lab): “Intestinal Mucin Architecture as a Driver of Microbial Community Health” be.mit.edu/our-community/seminars #infectiousdisease #mucin
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MIT Department of Biological Engineering @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
"Ask Janina Ojeiduma ’27 to describe one of her foremost personality traits and she’ll tell you: curiosity." betterworld.mit.edu/spectrum/issues…
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Janina Ojeiduma ’27 Eyes Impact of Toxic Chemicals on Human Health
MIT HEALS SuperUROP Scholar Janina Ojeiduma '27 researches the impact of environmental toxins on human health
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MIT Department of Biological Engineering @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Fraenkel Lab study shows that patterns of molecular activity in the blood may reveal not only a person’s fitness level, but also the biological processes that drive physical performance. ow.ly/1l6350YRfuj
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Jessica Stark @jcstark.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Grateful to @natbiotech.nature.com for the opportunity to reflect on my scientific journey, including launching my lab @mitkochinstitute.bsky.social @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social @mitcheme.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Five questions with Jessica Stark - Nature Biotechnology
A builder and problem solver at heart, she is developing technologies to understand and engineer the roles of cell-surface sugars, called glycans, in the immune system.
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MIT Department of Biological Engineering @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Shenghao Guo (Koehler) “Discovery of FBXW7 Binders for Targeted Protein Degradation Using Small Molecule Microarray” Malik George (Voigt, Niles) “Bioprospecting and Evolving Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria for the Advancement of Microbial Biofertilizers” ow.ly/3Mt050YOwp9
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MIT Department of Biological Engineering @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Who's up at BATS? Rachel McGinn (Bryson Lab): “Bacterial Control of Antigen Presentation on MHC-I in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection” James Jusuf (Hansen Lab): “Genome-Wide Absolute Quantification of Chromatin Looping” be.mit.edu/our-community/seminars
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MIT Department of Biological Engineering @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Engelward Lab research suggests that the chemical NDMA is much more likely to cause cancerous mutations after exposure early in life. ow.ly/LHns50YKzVM
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MIT Department of Biological Engineering @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Next BE Seminar this Thurs 4/9 at 4pm with Richard M. Murray, California Institute of Technology, 'Upscaling Engineering of Synthetic Biomachines via Synthetic Cells.' ow.ly/aX2850YIo1J
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MIT Department of Biological Engineering @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Huaiyao Peng (Belcher Lab): “Developing Organoid Models and AI-Driven Optical Imaging for Ovarian Cancer Early Detection” Luka Karginov (Lauffenburger): “Learning Features and Paths of Vaccine-Mediated Protection in Tuberculosis via Partial Correlation” be.mit.edu/our-community/seminars
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MIT Department of Biological Engineering @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Who's up at BATS? Amanda Chan (Birnbaum Lab): “A Library-Based Examination of T Cell Allorecognition” Qingyang Henry Zhao (Birnbaum & Wittrup): “Decoding Endogenous Anti-Tumor T Cell Responses for Polyclonal TCR-T Therapy” be.mit.edu/our-community/seminars #TCRrecognition #TILtherapy
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MIT Department of Biological Engineering @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
BE Seminar Series this Thur, 4pm, 32-155 Melanie Graham, University of Minnesota "You Don’t Control the Immune System, You Design Around It” be.mit.edu/our-community/seminars
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MIT Department of Biological Engineering @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
We have many administrative and technical open positions in BE! Learn more: be.mit.edu/about/open-staff-positio…
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MIT Department of Biological Engineering @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
A backup survival pathway can help tumor cells resist certain lung cancer and other drugs. The Forest White Lab reveals that combining therapies may offer a solution. ow.ly/U1rf50YARTo
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MIT Department of Biological Engineering @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
BE Seminar Series continues this Thursday at 4pm with BE alum Jennifer L. Wilson, UCLA "Turning Bugs Into Features - Modeling Drug Off-Target Effects to Understand Cancer Neurology” be.mit.edu/our-community/seminars
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MIT Department of Biological Engineering @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Who's up at BATS? Myra Dada (Manalis & Hemann): “Investigating Cell Stiffness as a Determinant of CAR T Efficacy in B-ALL” Connie Wang (Collins & Edelman): “Nanoengineering Materials to Probe Tissue-Implant Interactions” be.mit.edu/our-community/seminars #CARTtherapy #ramanspectroscopy
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MIT Department of Biological Engineering @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Help the MIT School of Engineering empower the next generation of thinkers and doers by contributing today, during the MIT 24-Hour Challenge. mit24hourchallenge.mightycause.com/…
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MIT Department of Biological Engineering @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
BE Seminar tomorrow at 4pm with Dan Dongeun Huh, University of Pennsylvania “Microengineered Mimicry of Human Health and Disease" be.mit.edu/our-community/seminars
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MIT Department of Biological Engineering @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Who's up at BATS? Miles George (Voigt & Niles Labs): “Containment of Engineered Bacteria by ‘Locking’ them to an Engineered Plant” Justine Shih (Blainey Lab): “Mapping Genetic Variants to Cellular Phenotypes with Targeted Optical Endogenous Sequencing (TOES)” ow.ly/AUip50Yn1TF
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MIT Department of Biological Engineering @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Who's up at BATS? Evan Collins (Langer & Anderson Labs): “Data-Driven Approaches for Understanding and Improving mRNA Lipid Nanoparticles” Nikita Podobedov (Blainey Lab): “Integration of Label-Free Imaging Modalities with Optical Pooled Screening” be.mit.edu/our-community/seminars
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MIT Department of Biological Engineering @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Who's up at BATS? Anastasiya Grebin (Ribbeck Lab): “Mucus as a Host Lever in Recurrent Bacterial Vaginosis” be.mit.edu/our-community/seminars #bacterialvaginosis #Cervicovaginalmucus #Host–microbeinteractions
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MIT Department of Biological Engineering @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Who's up at BATS? Victoria Chen (Voigt Lab): “Tracking Recombinant Genes in Estonia 35 Years After Release” Rachel Myers (Belcher & Hammond Labs): “Engineering Rare Earth Nanoparticles for Early Ovarian Cancer Detection” ow.ly/CTAR50Y9SZH
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MIT Department of Biological Engineering @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
This afternoon, Prof Doug Lauffenburger opened the BE Seminar Series Spring Term 2026 by sharing the history of BE.
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MIT Department of Biological Engineering @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Griffith Lab created a mini “liver-on-a-chip.” Tiny clusters of liver cells (shown in magenta) are embedded within a network of blood vessels (green) news.mit.edu/2026/new-tissue-models…
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New tissue models could help researchers develop drugs for liver disease
MIT engineers designed a type of tissue model that more accurately mimics the architecture of the liver, including blood vessels and immune cells, and could help researchers develop drugs for liver disease.
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Scalable TCR synthesis and screening enable antigen reactivity mapping in vitiligo @cp-immunity.bsky.social www.cell.com/immunity/ful... @mbirnbaum.bsky.social @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social
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MIT Department of Biological Engineering @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
“Here is a pathogen that has probably killed more people in human history than any other pathogen, so you want to learn how to kill it,” says Bryan Bryson about tuberculosis. ow.ly/yhZ750Y4Z3V
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MIT Department of Biological Engineering @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
New MIT research tackles one of medicine’s biggest threats — antibiotic resistance. Using synthetic biology and AI, Collins Lab researchers are developing programmable antibacterials to outsmart drug-resistant pathogens. ow.ly/u19v50Y4nQ7
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MIT Department of Biological Engineering @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Alumni & partners: help us spread the word! Our Career Fair is one month away, and we’re still accepting employer registrations. High-quality talent, low barrier to participation. ow.ly/ABIe50XXbty
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MIT Department of Biological Engineering @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Hiring? Looking for interns? The MIT BioEng Career Fair–Thur, 2/5, MIT campus–connects employers with exceptional engineering & science talent. Affordable, efficient, high-impact recruiting of UG, PhD, and Post-doc talent ow.ly/BuG450XVKAY
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MIT Department of Biological Engineering @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Professor Forest White among 18 MIT faculty honored as “Committed to Caring” for 2025-27. news.mit.edu/2026/mit-faculty-commi…
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Eighteen MIT faculty honored as “Committed to Caring” for 2025-27
Eighteen MIT professors were selected as “Committed to Caring” for 2025-27. These advisors encourage their students, advocate for meaningful research, and participate in their educational journey from the beginning to end.
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MIT Department of Biological Engineering @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Sean Luk has seen her grandparents’ cancer battles as a call for urgent action in immunotherapy. “The idea of creating something that is actually able to improve human health is what really drives me now,” Luk says. news.mit.edu/2026/addressing-urgent…
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MIT Department of Biological Engineering @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
🚨 Recruiting employers! MIT's BioEngineering Career Expo is happening in ONE MONTH 2/5 on MIT campus. Connect with outstanding MIT undergrad, master’s & PhD talent in one afternoon. Spots filling fast—register now: ow.ly/2gty50XSbVP
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MIT Department of Biological Engineering @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
"'We created a new kind of protein therapeutic that can block glycan-based immune checkpoints and boost anti-cancer immune responses,' says Jessica Stark" ow.ly/pN1h50XKBui
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Jessica Stark @jcstark.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Out now: We present antibody-lectin chimeras (AbLecs) as a molecular platform to target sugars, or glycans, for cancer immunotherapy. www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... @mitkochinstitute.bsky.social @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social @mitcheme.bsky.social @stanford-chemh.bsky.social
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Antibody-lectin chimeras for glyco-immune checkpoint blockade - Nature Biotechnology
Cancer immunotherapy benefits from antibody-lectin chimeras that block glyco-immune checkpoints.
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MIT Department of Biological Engineering @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Linda Griffith engineers human uterine endometrium in lab dishes, offering in vitro tools to study some uterine diseases and screen drugs to treat them. ow.ly/J6IB50XJZyZ
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MIT Department of Biological Engineering @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Who's up at BATS today? Patrick Song (Belcher Lab): “Symbiotic Cultures of Bacteria and Yeast as Engineered Living Materials for Water Purification” be.mit.edu/our-community/seminars
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MIT Department of Biological Engineering @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
BE Seminar tomorrow with Robbie Majzner, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute “Drawing on Biologic Principles to Engineer More Effective Cancer Immunotherapies” ow.ly/eMUL50XBCP3
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MIT Department of Biological Engineering @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
The Naked Scientists interview with Bryan Bryson on research toward a TB-targeted vaccine as part of their series 'New ways to combat the Antibiotic Apocalypse.' www.thenakedscientists.com/articles…
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New TB-targeted vaccine: picking up where the BCG left off
A shot in the arm for science...
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MIT Department of Biological Engineering @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Who's up at BATS? M Lockwood (COLLINS) “Engineering Saccharomyces boulardii as an Enterically Targeted Living Therapeutic for Ulcerative Colitis” N Cuthbert (NILES) “Investigating Plasmodium falciparum Survival and Resistance through Pfkelch13 Conditional Knockdown” ow.ly/qB4150XvOYG
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Jessica Stark @jcstark.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
🚨 Attention undergraduate scientists and engineers! 🚨 Want to spend a summer doing research at MIT? Join us for the 2026 MIT Summer Research Program! Learn more and apply: oge.mit.edu/msrp/ @mitdeptofbe.bsky.social @mitcheme.bsky.social @mitkochinstitute.bsky.social
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The Wyss Institute at Harvard University @wyssinstitute.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
We’re proud to share that nine Wyss Institute faculty and staff have been named to @clarivate.com Analytics’ Highly Cited Researchers 2025 list, which recognizes the top 1% of scientists worldwide whose research has been most frequently cited over the past decade.
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Highly Cited Researchers 2025 honors nine Wyss members
By Alexandra Jirstrand (BOSTON) – Clarivate Analytics announced its Highly Cited Researchers 2025 list, which honors the top 1% of researchers around the world whose papers have been cited the most ov...
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