BioEngineering Day 2026
Event details
| Date | 31.08.2026 |
| Hour | 11:30 › 21:00 |
| Speaker | Various speakers |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
| Event Language | English |
Join us for the Annual BioEngineering Day, the flagship event of the EPFL Institute of BioEngineering.
BioEngineering Day brings together researchers, students, alumni, and partners for a day of scientific exchange featuring keynote lectures, poster presentations, award finalist talks, and networking opportunities.
Program
11:30 – Registration
12:00 – Lunch and Poster Session
13:50 – Welcome and Introductory Remarks
14:00 – Keynote Lecture: Smita Krishnaswamy, Yale University
Learning Data-Driven Geometry and Dynamics for Lab-in-the-Loop AI Scientists
15:00 – 2026 Jeffrey Hubbell and Melody Swartz Young Bioengineer Award: Presentations by the 4 Finalists:
Luca Fusar Bassini
Building the toolkit for interpretable, spatiotemporal metabolomics in Neuroscience
Wei Guo
Polarization fluorescence microscopy enables instant super-resolution imaging
Verena Rukes
Nanopore technology: when proteins analyze proteins
Tingyang (Yist) Yu
Tissue Reassembly with Generative AI
16:00 – Coffee Break
16:30 – Keynote Lecture: Bozhi Tian, The University of Chicago
Rethinking Bioelectronic Interfaces: Living, Simple, Sustainable
17:30 – Award Ceremony
18:30 – Networking, beer & wine, dinner buffet
Come and discover the latest advances in bioengineering while connecting with the EPFL BioEngineering community!
Registration
Event is free – registration required.
Registration is now closed.
Practical information
- Informed public
- Registration required
Organizer
- EPFL Institute of BioEngineering
Contact
- Fiorella Ghisays, Deputy Director, Institute of BioEngineering