MBPE Info Sessions

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MBPE Info Session on 7 October 2025 featuring Vicky Olivares (MBPE '22) of Gilead

Please join us during our upcoming Info Sessions to learn more about the MBPE Program! Our Executive Director, Prof. Jason Ryder, will give an in-depth, virtual tour of the program from orientation through graduation. Prof. Ryder will also be joined by either a current student or alum for a peek into the day-to-day life of a UC Berkeley MBPE student.

Can’t join an MBPE session? Please send an email to mbpe@berkeley.edu.

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Our application is now open and will close January 20. The program is listed under "M" for Master of Bioprocess Engineering Program.

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For general information or admissions questions please contact Alethea Stoltzfus at: mbpe@berkeley.edu

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Jason Ryder
MBPE Executive Director
ryder@berkeley.edu

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Robert D. Kiss
MPBE Lecturer
bkiss@berkeley.edu

Staff member of the college.

Alethea Stoltzfus
MPBE Graduate Student Adviser
mbpe@berkeley.edu

ABPDU

Students will have access to state-of-the-art bioprocessing equipment at the Advanced Biofuels Process Demonstration Unit