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Joined April 2013
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It’s official: UC Berkeley Engineering has a new dean! Mark Asta, a distinguished materials scientist and a UC Berkeley faculty member for more than 15 years, will lead our college after a competitive national search. bit.ly/4sSMsIc
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New work from @arkin_lab, funded by the HHS, have engineered colonies of bacteria that can be inhaled to crowd out pathogenic bacteria without antibiotics. @Cal_Engineer Learn more at bit.ly/3YCNuug
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Congratulations to bioengineering MD/PhD candidate Alice Tang, named to the 2026 Forbes 30 Under 30! forbes.com/30-under-30/2026/…
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Profs Paul Adams, Adam Arkin, Patrick Hsu & Jay Keasling made the Clarivate 2025 Highly Cited Researchers list! clarivate.com/highly-cited-r…
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Published today in @natBME, Healy and Murthy labs' heart-on-a-chip + lipid nanoparticles discovers ways to effectively deliver gene therapies to the heart. engineering.berkeley.edu/new…
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Good news for the future of adaptable oat cultivation! Adjunct Taner Sen and colleagues have assembled and annotated 33 wild oat genomes and an atlas of gene expression. sci.news/genetics/oat-pangen…
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Berkeley Bioengineer retweeted
⏳ Only 1 week left! UC Berkeley’s Engineering Leadership Program starts Aug 20. ✅ Apply now: hubs.li/Q03yZ-rc0 🎥 Watch: hubs.li/Q03yZYnB0 🎓 Trusted by Apple, Samsung, Qualcomm & 1,200+ engineers. #BerkeleyELPP #Leadership #STEM #TechLeadership #Engineering
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Bioengineer Maria Astolfi is working to bring equity to the sharing of indigenous biomedical knowledge
PhD student Maria Astolfi, Professor Jay Keasling and colleagues argue for partnerships with indigenous peoples to create a more ethical bioeconomy, one that will sustain indigenous biodiversity and bring these communities into science as equal partners. news.berkeley.edu/2025/04/30…
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Congratulations to the 12 incoming, continuing, graduating and alumni BioE Bears receiving NSF Graduate Research Fellowships!
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Congratulations Prof Aaron Streets, just inducted as a new 2025 Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)
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Congratulations Professor Phil Messersmith, named a 2024 Fellow of AAAS! tinyurl.com/2025aaasbioe
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You did it! BIG THANK YOU to over 40 donors who gave to BioE today and unlocked our two matching gifts - you're the best! Go Bears! lnkd.in/gbq4qWXY #CalBigGive #FundFutureEngineers
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Less than 8 hours left to unlock over $50,000 in matching gift for BioE! lnkd.in/gbq4qWXY Together we make a brighter future for our students and the world. #CalBigGive #FundFutureEngineers
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Berkeley Bioengineer retweeted
🌟 Big Give is now LIVE! Consider supporting a group of passionate young scientists running experimental teams, training initiatives, and building a synbio community by students FOR students 🧑‍🔬 bit.ly/igem-give25 #CalBigGive #iGEMBerkeley #bioengineering #syntheticbiology
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Berkeley Bioengineer retweeted
#iGEMBerkeley deserves Big Give love because of all the amazing opportunities in bioengineering and synthetic biology our students get to participate in! Donate at bit.ly/igem-give25 today! #CalBigGive
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Help BioE unlock over $50,000 in matching gifts with your gift of any size! tinyurl.com/bioebiggive #BerkeleyBioE #CalBigGive #FundFutureEngineers
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Join us! Bioengineering is recruiting a part-time lecturer: bioeng.berkeley.edu/people/l…
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Congratulations to Professor David Schaffer on his election to the National Academy of Engineering!
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