Dr. Jaimie Marie Stewart is an assistant professor in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research exploits the structural and functional programmability of RNA to design and synthesize RNA materials capable of interfacing with biological systems to advance applications in molecular sensing and regenerative medicine. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the California Institute of Technology in Dr. Paul W.K. Rothemund’s group, where she focused on the design, synthesis, and characterization of DNA and RNA structures for the detection and separation of biomolecules. She completed a Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of California, Riverside, where she studied the self-assembly principles of RNA molecules in Dr. Elisa Franco’s group and a B.S. in Bioengineering with a concentration in cell and tissue engineering and a minor in Italian from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has earned recognition as an Intersections Science Fellow and a Stanford.Berkeley.UCSF Next Generation Faculty Fellow. Dr. Stewart has received several awards, including the Life Sciences Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship sponsored by Merck, the Ford Postdoctoral Fellowship, the Kavli Nanoscience Institute Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship and most recently the Alfred P. Sloan Matter-to-Life seed grant.