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Claudia Contini
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BBSRC Fellow and Assistant Professor in Soft Matter and Life-like Systems. / Dept. Life Sciences, Imperial College London /📍London 🇬🇧 https://continilab.com
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engbioirc.bsky.social
There is still time to register for the EngBio Forum on Monday.
It's free to attend with a great speaker line up - Andreas Walther @waltherlab.bsky.social and Claudia Contini @continiclau.bsky.social exploring #SyntheticCells #LifeLikeSystems #EngineeringBiology

🎟️🫱 buytickets.at/engineeringb...
November 5, 2025 at 10:30 AM
continiclau.bsky.social
Are you interested in how #living and #synthetic systems navigate chemical gradients, from #bacteria to #active #colloids? Click here: doi.org/10.1002/anie...

#EngineeringBiology #SyntheticBiology #ActiveMatter #SoftMatter
Perspective on Interdisciplinary Approaches on Chemotaxis
Chemotaxis is the movement of individual organisms towards or away from a chemical stimulus. This phenomenon is investigated in various disciplines, ranging from biology to physics and even engineeri....
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November 3, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Reposted by Claudia Contini
jsimmchen.bsky.social
In May 2024 we had a great workshop on chemotaxis in the MPI PKS in Dresden! The social impressions are in the picture below, and the scientific discussions are summarised in Angewandte Chemie lnkd.in/d6ymRhGK
What a nice way to remember!
October 29, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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syncelleu.bsky.social
If you happen to be in Cambridge (UK) on 10 November, come and join the EngBio forum. Claudia Contini @continiclau.bsky.social and Andreas Walther @waltherlab.bsky.social will be presenting their work on synthetic cells.

#syncell #syntheticcell #research
engbioirc.bsky.social Engineering Biology Interdisciplinary Research Centre @engbioirc.bsky.social · 22d
Join us at our EngBio Forum on 10 Nov with Claudia Contini @continiclau.bsky.social. Her lab studies how cells work by rebuilding their processes from the ground up and explores biohybrid systems.

Don’t miss it!🎟️👉 buytickets.at/engineeringb...
October 21, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Join us at our EngBio Forum on 10 Nov with Claudia Contini @continiclau.bsky.social. Her lab studies how cells work by rebuilding their processes from the ground up and explores biohybrid systems.

Don’t miss it!🎟️👉 buytickets.at/engineeringb...
October 20, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Reposted by Claudia Contini
comeincell.bsky.social
Starting the week on a great note! 🤗 Here’s a snapshot from our #ComeInCell DC introductory meeting, which took place on 02.10 at the #MPICI in Potsdam, co-hosted by #SigSynCell.

A big thank you to everyone who joined, both in person and online! #MSCA #HorizonEurope
October 6, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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engbioirc.bsky.social
We're extremely excited to welcome Prof Andreas Walther @waltherlab.bsky.social and Dr Claudia Contini @continiclau.bsky.social for our next Forum

We'll be exploring #SyntheticCells #LifeLikeSystems and #EngineeringBiology from the bottom-up

Don't miss it, register now! 👉 bit.ly/engbio-forum-nov25
Headshots of speakers Andreas Walther and Claudia Contini next to text that reads "Engineering Biology Forum. Synthetic Cells. Mon 10 Nov. 5pm to 8pm. St Catharine's College, Cambridge".
October 6, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Celebrating the last night of Biomembrane Days with a proper German meal 🍺
October 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Excited to share this new extensive review in #Chemical #Society #Review on #nanoparticle - #membrane interaction.

Thanks Rashad Kariuki, Aaron Elbourne, Saffron Bryant and Andrew J. Christofferson for leading this work! 💫

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Interactions of nanoparticles with living and synthetic bio-membrane
Interactions between nanomaterials and biointerfaces are of great interest across many research fields, including chemistry, physics, engineering, and biology, with applications from diagnostics to th...
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September 30, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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dimovalab.bsky.social
@continiclau.bsky.social at the #BiomembtaneDays25 introduced us to a variety of synthetic-cell-like systems showing motility, contraction and deformation

@comeincell.bsky.social
September 29, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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dimovalab.bsky.social
🎉 Finally: tomorrow Sept 29 we open BIOMEMBRANE DAYS 2025 in Berlin: 3 days packed with exciting science on membranes!
Looking forward to an amazing program of invited & contributed talks, posters & lively discussions.

📍 events.mpikg.mpg.de/event/15/

@ewerslab.bsky.social @mpici.bsky.social
September 28, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Looking forward to seeing many of you at the Biomembrane Days! events.mpikg.mpg.de/event/15/
Biomembrane Days 2025
Membranes form the intricately shaped compartments of life. The Biomembrane Days are a triannual workshop that highlights recent advances in understanding the morphology and molecular organization of ...
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September 27, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Welcome to the team, Zain!
comeincell.bsky.social ComeInCell @comeincell.bsky.social · Sep 26
We are happy that Zain Raef has joined #ComeInCell this week! She will work on the DC16 project in Claudia Contini's lab.

More details about the project: www.comeincell.org/dc16-dynamic...

Welcome to our DN, Zain! #HorizonEurope #MSCA
September 26, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Reposted by Claudia Contini
syncelleu.bsky.social
📢The Contini Lab is hiring!
Based at Imperial College, you will join a vibrant, multidisciplinary team developing next-generation nanomaterials and synthetic biology platforms to tackle antimicrobial resistance.
Apply before 19 October!
#syncell #syntheticcell
September 22, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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I am looking for a motivated #Postdoctoral #Researcher to join my group at Imperial @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @imperiallifesci.bsky.social. The project focuses on #Antimicrobial #Materials & #Biomimetic #Interfaces
Please repost!

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September 19, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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drmikebooth.bsky.social
We’ve developed the first-ever method to control nucleic acid activity and gene-expressing synthetic cells with a deeply tissue penetrating alternating magnetic field 🧬 🧪 🧲!!!

Published in *Nature Chemistry*

Led by Ellen Parkes
@syncelleu.bsky.social #chemsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Magnetic activation of spherical nucleic acids enables the remote control of synthetic cells - Nature Chemistry
The programmability of synthetic cells, comprising lipid vesicles that are capable of imitating the structure and function of living cells, facilitates their application as drug delivery devices. Now,...
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September 2, 2025 at 9:31 AM
continiclau.bsky.social
💫Thrilled to see our work on the front cover of Small!
This work explores how #polymers empower #SyntheticCells with programmable dynamics, enabling fusion, contraction and interactions with biological cells.

Huge thanks to Michela Vargiolu for the stunning artwork!

@imperiallifesci.bsky.social
August 25, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Come and join us!! @imperiallifesci.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
August 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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dandavis101.bsky.social
New academic faculty posts available at Imperial College London! Assistant/Associate Professors in Life Sciences. Please apply and/or circulate details!

www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
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Please note that job descriptions are not exhaustive, and you may be asked to take on additional duties that align with the key responsibilities ment...
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August 18, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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ceesdekker.bsky.social
WORK!

I currently have 5 (!) open positions for postdocs/PhD students in our CDlab for projects:

- Nanopore protein sequencing
- Archaeal CDV cell division
- Microfluidics for synthetic cells
- Nuclear Pore Complex
- Origami mimics of peroxisomes

Please apply! ceesdekkerlab.nl/come-join-us/

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August 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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A sneak peek at some of the upcoming talks at the FoNS Research Showcase on 11 September 2025....

Register now! www.imperial.ac.uk/events/19397...
August 14, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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francolab.bsky.social
200 engineering/life science/medical grants, including my lab's NIH MIRA, have been suspended. In case you are wondering, this means immediately stop spending = stop paying salaries for students & postdocs. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Trump freezes $200 million in UCLA science and medical research funding, citing antisemitism
The Trump administration has frozen roughly $200 million in National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health and other federal agency-funded research at UCLA, citing allegations the school d...
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August 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Now online:

News & Views on the Article by Ke Shi, Peiyong Song, Jianwei Li, Yan Qiao & Yiyang Lin

www.nature.com/articles/s44... ($)

From light to life-like protocells by @continiclau.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s44... ($)

#Chemsky
From light to life-like protocells - Nature Synthesis
Light-driven chemical reactivity enables a synthetic system to give rise to protocells with dynamic, life-like behaviour.
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July 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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New paper! In my #Nature #Synthesis News & Views, I discuss how light-driven #chemistry enables dynamic life-like #protocells, highlighting the outstanding work of Lin and co-workers
#SyntheticBiology #SyntheticCells @imperiallifesci.bsky.social @natsynth.nature.com

www.nature.com/articles/s44...
From light to life-like protocells - Nature Synthesis
Light-driven chemical reactivity enables a synthetic system to give rise to protocells with dynamic, life-like behaviour.
www.nature.com
July 22, 2025 at 9:51 AM
continiclau.bsky.social
🎉Just out in @chemcomm.rsc.org! We present a modular strategy to create bacterial #biohybrids with magnetic motility, #biosensing and cargo release.
👏🏻huge congrats to Nina on her first first-author paper and thanks to Yuval and Matt for the great collaboration! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... @rsc.org
Microfluidic generation of bacterial biohybrids for magnetic guidance and content release
Bacterial biohybrids use bacterial and synthetic components for biotechnological applications. Here, we outline an adaptable and high-throughput microfluidic platform to create microscale biocontained...
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July 14, 2025 at 2:57 PM