Dear Colleagues:

As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds across the globe, in-person seminar series at our universities have been cancelled; conferences and workshops postponed, re-scheduled or cancelled; and research activities significantly ramped down.  To help keep our students engaged, enhance their educational experience, and gain new knowledge in bioengineering and biomedical research, including COVID-19 research, Rice Bioengineering has organized a weekly webinar series, Frontiers in Bioengineering Research, to be held on Thursdays 3:00pm-4:30pm CDT.  Starting this Thursday April 16th, 2020, each webinar has two 30-minute presentations that feature cutting-edge research in bioengineering, following by a short Q&A session. All faculty and traineesin bioengineering and biomedical engineering departments are welcome to participate by clicking ‘JOIN THE WEBINAR’ on the following website, which gives more details on the webinar series:

https://bioengineering.rice.edu/frontiers

The first 4 webinars in the series highlight Synthetic Biology for COVID-19 Research (4/16), Immunoengineering and Immunotherapy (4/23), COVID-19 Diagnosis and Critical Care (4/30), and Antibody-based Diagnostics and Therapeutics (5/7), with speakers from different institutions in the US and Canada. More topics will be announced shortly. 

With best regards, and please stay safe.

Jane Grande-Allen (chair) and Gang Bao (incoming chair)