MIT Dept of BE
@MITdeptofBE
The MIT Department of Biological Engineering – Creating biological technologies from discovery to design.
Jenna Houle ‘25, a recent graduate from @MITdeptofBE and @MIT_DMSE, received the 2025 Henry Ford II Scholar Award. 📸: Conor McArdle engineering.mit.edu/connect/news/j…
Tis the season! Please check for ticks:
⚠️ WOW! A popular beach in CT is closed for the season due to a dangerous tick invasion! Multiple species, including Asian longhorned ticks, have been found on Pleasure Beach. We commend the city of Bridgeport for taking this remarkable step to prevent tick-borne diseases! 🏖️
Eight MIT affiliates, including School of Engineering alumni Matthew Caren ’25 (@MITEECS), Isabelle A. Quaye ’22, MNG ’24 (EECS), and Gianfranco (Franco) Yee ’24 (@MITDeptofBE), won 2025 Hertz Foundation Fellowships. news.mit.edu/2025/hertz-fou…
I'll be giving Tick Talks around Boston this summer to raise awareness about #Lyme disease and our clinical study MAESTRO. First up, July 2nd 1-2 pm at the Roxbury branch, and coming soon after July 9th 12:30-1:30pm at the Chinatown branch. More to come talresearchgroup.mit.edu/mitmaestro
Gitanjali Rao, a rising junior majoring in biological engineering, wins first-ever Stephen Hawking Junior Medal for Science Communication. @StarmusFestival ow.ly/Wzsf50WjCEs
Steven Troung ’20, an @MITDeptofBE alumnus, has been awarded a 2025 Knight-Hennessy Scholarship and will receive up to three years of financial support for graduate studies at Stanford University. news.mit.edu/2025/steven-tr…
We are looking for talented postdocs/visiting students to join our team @MITdeptofBE and @kochinstitute to innovate spatial multi-omics technologies, map clinical samples, and integrate AI/ML models to advance next-generation cancer immunotherapy. Please help to spread!!
I’m very excited to be joining MIT Biological Engineering @MITdeptofBE as an Assistant Professor and the Ragon Institute @ragoninstitute as a member in January 2026! I will be recruiting students and postdocs (see more info below).
And now, for something completely different from MIT - academic couples getting PhDs in Biological Engineering together! @DALauffenburger and I co-advise Erin Tevonian - who married a fellow BE student and it is happy ever after....news.mit.edu/2025/scene-at-…
We’re thrilled to welcome Eric Sun to the MIT Biological Engineering faculty. We can’t wait to see what’s ahead! @ericdsun #welcometoMIT
Learn more about the Ribbeck Lab be.mit.edu/faculty/kathar…
Mucus does far more than just act as a protective barrier. Emerging research reveals ways to harness its power and deliver treatments for everything from yeast infections to inflammatory bowel disease. newscientist.com/article/248140…
A study by Forest White Lab shows that a high-fat diet sets off metabolic dysfunction in cells that leads to weight gain, but that these effects can be reversed by treatment with an antioxidant. ow.ly/1GCo50W0Z9m @MolecularCell
Congratulations to Dr. Viraat Goel and Dr. Domenic Narducci, both new PhDs in Biological Engineering from the lab!
Jenna Houle, a double major in @MITDeptofBE and @MIT_DMSE, received the Henry Ford II Scholarship. The award honors an undergraduate who, at the end of his or her third year of study at MIT, has achieved the highest academic standing in the School. 📸: Conor McArdle
(1/13) Thread on @mazzocca_matteo @DomenicNarducci @SGrosseHolz @_jessematthias new preprint Q: how does chromatin move? Using MINFLUX, SPT & SRLCI, we track chromatin dynamics across 7 orders of magnitude in time to provide some answers biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Tracking tiny changes in cells’ physical state is difficult to do at a large scale but Manalis Lab have found a way to measure cell density quickly and accurately — measuring up to 30,000 cells in a single hour. ow.ly/87hi50VVZqW
Using a computational strategy that allows them to combine information from many large datasets, Fraenkel Lab have identified several new potential drug targets for Alzheimer’s disease. news.mit.edu/2025/scientist…
Just in time for finals 🙇♂️: a bacterium designed to live in your gut and keep you performing well with little sleep. @hopton_rachel @danielgpascal @BrandonFields #microbiome #synbio #biotech #AirForce @MITdeptofBE @MIT pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…