Professors Joachim Kohn, Doyle Knight, and Martin Yarmush are invited speakers at the 1st Annual Conference on Methods in Bioengineering to be held at MIT, July 17 and 18, 2006. The conference will focus on the current state of the art in polymeric biomaterials, microfabrication technologies, and tissue engineering. For more information, please see http://cem.sbi.org/MiB/