Lectures & Interviews

Stanford Introduction to Bioengineering

Digital Teaching Assistant!

Prof. Jan Liphardt has trained a large-language model on the BIOE.80 course material and related readings... introducing BITS, the Introduction to Bioengineering Digital Teaching Assistant! BITS is still being developed; all feedback welcome.

Digital "Lab"-rary Game!

Wondering what a bioengineering research lab is like? Ngoc Tran, Stanford Class of '26 & iGEMer, has made a video game just for you. Please enjoy her spectacular: Phil's Laberia!

Lecture Videos!

Stanford Professors Brophy & Endy do their darndest to introduce anyone to 21st century bioengineering!

PRECLASS

0. Bionauts Assemble!

WEEK 1 (Literature Parsing; Fermi Estimation)

WEEK 2 (People Health)

WEEK 3 (DNA Wrangling; Functional Abstractions)

WEEK 4 (DNA Read/Write)

WEEK 5 (Evolution as a Tool for Engineering)

WEEK 6 (Planet Health)

WEEK 7 (Cancer & Organs Shortages)

Bioengineering Cutting Edge Cancer Therapies

WEEK 8 (Brainstorming/Framestorming; Legal/Ethical; Design Criteria; Futures Wheel)

Bionaut Project Intro! (d.school Tools!!!)

WEEK 9 (Bioengineering Beyond the Bench)

Bio-Economy (Jobs and Money!)
Bio-Culture (Can Hip Hop Save Bioengineering?)

Bionaut Interviews!

Incredible conversations with amazing people operating in and adjacent to 21st century bioengineering. Learn from their life stories, interests, motivations, and dreams! What is it like to become a bioengineer? Or, to navigate a world in which biology is becoming a general purpose technology? Watch them all!

Ben Nowak: Bringing Back an Extinct Species!
Ahmed Best: Awestronomy & Storytelling!
Barbara Juncosa: Community College!
Kari McInturff: FBI Special Agent!
Siavash Ahrar: Tool Builder!
Luis de Luna: Community College Student!
Sophia Wang: From Dancer to Entrepreneur!
Rogelio Hernadez Lopez: Scientist & Engineer! (En Español)
Tia Lyles-Williams: Bootstrapping a Biotech!

Do you have a suggestion for someone we should interview next? We are particularly intersted in representing diverse perspectives and stories at the intersection of bioengineering and the real world. Please email Profs. Brophy or Endy.