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Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute

The Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute (ODBI) is an interdisciplinary research center building a vibrant community of faculty, students, postdocs, staff and partners, with research focusing on cellular, device and computational bioengineering, all under one roof. ODBI is working to unlock fundamental discoveries in the life sciences and apply engineering principles to pressing human needs.

News

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Peter Jaffé named Distinguished Faculty Service Award recipient

Howard Stone giving talk at front of lecture hall

Stone inducted into American Academy of Sciences and Letters

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Faculty commended for outstanding teaching

TIna Kim portrait

Christina Kim, an expert in the brain and behavior, named Freeman Hrabowski Scholar by Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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Clifford Brangwynne wins Keio Medical Science Prize for discoveries merging materials science with biology

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Cells’ embrace advances medical implants

Events

March 16

12:30 pm

Reengineering Natural Product Biosynthesis to Garner Mechanically Interlocked Peptides

March 19

4:00 pm

Physicochemical Design of Bioelectrical Interfaces

March 26

4:00 pm

A Multi-modal Brain-computer Interface for Restoring Human Communication

April 02

4:00 pm

Interactomics-driven discovery and characterization of plant natural product biosynthetic pathways in yeast

April 16

4:00 pm

Imaging, Editing, and Deciphering the Lipidome Using Synthetic Lipid Biology

April 20

12:30 pm

Expanding the Labeling Toolbox for CRISPR/Cas13-based Imaging

Faculty

Joshua Atkinson outdoor portrait

Joshua Atkinson

Civil and Environmental Engineering

José Avalos

Chemical and Biological Engineering

Clifford Brangwynne

Chemical and Biological Engineering

Mark Brynildsen

Chemical and Biological Engineering

Daniel J. Cohen

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Tian-Ming Fu

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jerelle Joseph

Chemical and Biological Engineering

Christina Kim Portrait

Christina Kim

Portrait of Jared Toettcher.

Jared Toettcher