Laura Rodríguez Arco
@lrodriguezarco.bsky.social
Associate professor at University of Granada. Interested in self-assembled compartments and materials and their interaction with force fields
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The Elani Group at Imperial College is offering a postdoc position to work on genetically encoded cell-like systems that can sense their environment, perform computation, make decisions & respond by modulating their environment #syncell #syntheticcell
Deadline: 9 Nov
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ224/r...
Deadline: 9 Nov
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ224/r...
Research Associate in Biochemical Technology and Synthetic Cells at Imperial College London
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October 27, 2025 at 9:20 AM
The Elani Group at Imperial College is offering a postdoc position to work on genetically encoded cell-like systems that can sense their environment, perform computation, make decisions & respond by modulating their environment #syncell #syntheticcell
Deadline: 9 Nov
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ224/r...
Deadline: 9 Nov
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ224/r...
Reposted by Laura Rodríguez Arco
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The Gobbo group (Trieste, Italy) is offering a 2-year postdoc position to work on the synthesis of protocells and their assembly into materials that mimic the behaviours of living tissue
Application deadline: 28/11
More info
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#syncell #syntheticcell
The Gobbo group (Trieste, Italy) is offering a 2-year postdoc position to work on the synthesis of protocells and their assembly into materials that mimic the behaviours of living tissue
Application deadline: 28/11
More info
syntheticcell.eu/careers/post...
#syncell #syntheticcell
Postdoctoral position in protocell synthesis and tissue mimic assembly - European Synthetic Cell Initiative
The Gobbo Group at the Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences of the University of Trieste (Italy) is seeking candidates for a Postdoctoral Researcher position in Chemistry. The research p...
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October 16, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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The Gobbo group (Trieste, Italy) is offering a 2-year postdoc position to work on the synthesis of protocells and their assembly into materials that mimic the behaviours of living tissue
Application deadline: 28/11
More info
syntheticcell.eu/careers/post...
#syncell #syntheticcell
The Gobbo group (Trieste, Italy) is offering a 2-year postdoc position to work on the synthesis of protocells and their assembly into materials that mimic the behaviours of living tissue
Application deadline: 28/11
More info
syntheticcell.eu/careers/post...
#syncell #syntheticcell
Reposted by Laura Rodríguez Arco
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!
@imperialsci.bsky.social
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Please repost!
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September 19, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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!
@imperialsci.bsky.social
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Please repost!
@imperialsci.bsky.social
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
Reposted by Laura Rodríguez Arco
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...
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
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...
Published in *Nature Chemistry*
Led by Ellen Parkes
@syncelleu.bsky.social #chemsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New paper in @softmatter.rsc.org in collaboration with Raul Rica. We show out-of-equilibrium rotation of biphasic oil-in-water droplets in optical tweezers! Super cool videos 😉
Thanks to all co-authors, especially to Ana and Jesús 💛
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Thanks to all co-authors, especially to Ana and Jesús 💛
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Windmill droplets: optically induced rotation of biphasic oil-in-water droplets
In the field of microdroplet manipulation, optical tweezers have been used to form and grow droplets, to transport them, or to measure forces between droplet pairs. However, the exploration of out-of-...
pubs.rsc.org
August 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM
New paper in @softmatter.rsc.org in collaboration with Raul Rica. We show out-of-equilibrium rotation of biphasic oil-in-water droplets in optical tweezers! Super cool videos 😉
Thanks to all co-authors, especially to Ana and Jesús 💛
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Thanks to all co-authors, especially to Ana and Jesús 💛
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Reposted by Laura Rodríguez Arco
It's out & hot 🔥 Not only because it just went online but since we show that engineered heat patterns are super effective in manipulating fluid flows & particles.
If you work in microfluidics, or need reconfigurable environments in your experiments, give it a read!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪💡
If you work in microfluidics, or need reconfigurable environments in your experiments, give it a read!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪💡
Three-dimensional optofluidic control using reconfigurable thermal barriers - Nature Photonics
A fluidic system with spatially reconfigurable hot spots generated by optical pumping of plasmonic nanorods is demonstrated, creating virtual barriers by generating local heating via photothermal conv...
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August 8, 2025 at 12:17 PM
It's out & hot 🔥 Not only because it just went online but since we show that engineered heat patterns are super effective in manipulating fluid flows & particles.
If you work in microfluidics, or need reconfigurable environments in your experiments, give it a read!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪💡
If you work in microfluidics, or need reconfigurable environments in your experiments, give it a read!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪💡
Reposted by Laura Rodríguez Arco
We have developed a dynamic ‘off’ switch for PROTAC activity by using DNA linkers and toehold mediated strand displacement!
Published in JACS Au @pubs.acs.org
Led by Disha Kashyap, with @shozebhaider.bsky.social + Tom Milne
@uclchemistry.bsky.social #chemsky 🧪🧬
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Published in JACS Au @pubs.acs.org
Led by Disha Kashyap, with @shozebhaider.bsky.social + Tom Milne
@uclchemistry.bsky.social #chemsky 🧪🧬
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
DNA-Programmable Protein Degradation: Dynamic Control of Proteolysis-Targeting Chimera Activity via DNA Hybridization and Strand Displacement
Targeted protein degradation is a powerful therapeutic approach: expanding the druggable proteome, providing enhanced selectivity, and having the ability to overcome conventional resistance mechanisms...
pubs.acs.org
August 1, 2025 at 8:18 AM
We have developed a dynamic ‘off’ switch for PROTAC activity by using DNA linkers and toehold mediated strand displacement!
Published in JACS Au @pubs.acs.org
Led by Disha Kashyap, with @shozebhaider.bsky.social + Tom Milne
@uclchemistry.bsky.social #chemsky 🧪🧬
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Published in JACS Au @pubs.acs.org
Led by Disha Kashyap, with @shozebhaider.bsky.social + Tom Milne
@uclchemistry.bsky.social #chemsky 🧪🧬
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Reposted by Laura Rodríguez Arco
Preprint by @towalther.bsky.social at al! We design DNA hydrogel microparticles with sequence-controlled stiffness from 30 Pa to 6.5 kPa. They are remodelled in fibroblast spheroids www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thanks @ibecbarcelona.eu @xaviertrepat.bsky.social @pcusachs.bsky.social
July 28, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Preprint by @towalther.bsky.social at al! We design DNA hydrogel microparticles with sequence-controlled stiffness from 30 Pa to 6.5 kPa. They are remodelled in fibroblast spheroids www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thanks @ibecbarcelona.eu @xaviertrepat.bsky.social @pcusachs.bsky.social
Reposted by Laura Rodríguez Arco
🎨🔬 In our lab, science meets art! From vibrant colors to stunning shapes, our experiments are as beautiful as they are fascinating. Because science is art!
✨ Check out our gallery of images captured by the team:
www.softbiocoll.com
#SciArt #SoftMatter #Microscopy #SyntheticCells #ActiveMatter
✨ Check out our gallery of images captured by the team:
www.softbiocoll.com
#SciArt #SoftMatter #Microscopy #SyntheticCells #ActiveMatter
July 21, 2025 at 11:05 PM
🎨🔬 In our lab, science meets art! From vibrant colors to stunning shapes, our experiments are as beautiful as they are fascinating. Because science is art!
✨ Check out our gallery of images captured by the team:
www.softbiocoll.com
#SciArt #SoftMatter #Microscopy #SyntheticCells #ActiveMatter
✨ Check out our gallery of images captured by the team:
www.softbiocoll.com
#SciArt #SoftMatter #Microscopy #SyntheticCells #ActiveMatter
Reposted by Laura Rodríguez Arco
Publication by Yuval Elani's lab on lipid vesicles that can crawl up surface concentration gradients using DNA receptors. Collaboration with @dimichelelab1.bsky.social
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Haptotactic Motion of Multivalent Vesicles Along Ligand-Density Gradients
Multivalent adhesion between cell-membrane receptors and surface- or particle-anchored ligands underpins a range of active cellular processes, such as cell crawling and pathogen invasion. In these cir...
pubs.acs.org
June 30, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Publication by Yuval Elani's lab on lipid vesicles that can crawl up surface concentration gradients using DNA receptors. Collaboration with @dimichelelab1.bsky.social
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Laura Rodríguez Arco
New publication from our group @softbiocol.bsky.social
led by Vivien Willems.
Check the group Twitter thread about it below👇
A step forward on active soft microsystems
Thanks to all the colleagues who made this happen!
@crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social
@univbordeaux.bsky.social
led by Vivien Willems.
Check the group Twitter thread about it below👇
A step forward on active soft microsystems
Thanks to all the colleagues who made this happen!
@crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social
@univbordeaux.bsky.social
Publication Alert!🎉
🚀🧪 New paper out! @softmatter.rsc.org @rsc.org
We show that Janus lipid vesicles can self-propel under AC electric fields, exhibiting run-and-tumble dynamics—just like bacteria, but driven by membrane-phase behavior.
👉 Read here: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art
🚀🧪 New paper out! @softmatter.rsc.org @rsc.org
We show that Janus lipid vesicles can self-propel under AC electric fields, exhibiting run-and-tumble dynamics—just like bacteria, but driven by membrane-phase behavior.
👉 Read here: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art
May 26, 2025 at 9:50 AM
New publication from our group @softbiocol.bsky.social
led by Vivien Willems.
Check the group Twitter thread about it below👇
A step forward on active soft microsystems
Thanks to all the colleagues who made this happen!
@crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social
@univbordeaux.bsky.social
led by Vivien Willems.
Check the group Twitter thread about it below👇
A step forward on active soft microsystems
Thanks to all the colleagues who made this happen!
@crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social
@univbordeaux.bsky.social
Reposted by Laura Rodríguez Arco
Publication Alert!📢
Check our new article by José in collab with C. Fernandez-Rico, L. Rodriguez-Arco M. Dijkstra R. Subert & M. Lopez.
We engineering reversible 2D rod percolated networks!
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
#SoftMatter #Colloids
@crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social
Check our new article by José in collab with C. Fernandez-Rico, L. Rodriguez-Arco M. Dijkstra R. Subert & M. Lopez.
We engineering reversible 2D rod percolated networks!
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
#SoftMatter #Colloids
@crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social
May 5, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Publication Alert!📢
Check our new article by José in collab with C. Fernandez-Rico, L. Rodriguez-Arco M. Dijkstra R. Subert & M. Lopez.
We engineering reversible 2D rod percolated networks!
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
#SoftMatter #Colloids
@crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social
Check our new article by José in collab with C. Fernandez-Rico, L. Rodriguez-Arco M. Dijkstra R. Subert & M. Lopez.
We engineering reversible 2D rod percolated networks!
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
#SoftMatter #Colloids
@crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social
Reposted by Laura Rodríguez Arco
[🫧 Meet our doctoral candidates]
New DC sighted!
Pablo Moreno Reolid is our DC based at the University of Granada under the supervision of Dr. Laura Rodriguez-Arco. He will work on the designing of bioinspired microcompartments that harness energy from external force fields.
New DC sighted!
Pablo Moreno Reolid is our DC based at the University of Granada under the supervision of Dr. Laura Rodriguez-Arco. He will work on the designing of bioinspired microcompartments that harness energy from external force fields.
March 24, 2025 at 10:40 AM
[🫧 Meet our doctoral candidates]
New DC sighted!
Pablo Moreno Reolid is our DC based at the University of Granada under the supervision of Dr. Laura Rodriguez-Arco. He will work on the designing of bioinspired microcompartments that harness energy from external force fields.
New DC sighted!
Pablo Moreno Reolid is our DC based at the University of Granada under the supervision of Dr. Laura Rodriguez-Arco. He will work on the designing of bioinspired microcompartments that harness energy from external force fields.
Reposted by Laura Rodríguez Arco
Synetic Cell MC Doctoral Network PhD offer alert!📌 at @kgoepfrich.bsky.social
group in Heidelberg!
If you are interested in RNA origami, synthetic cells, & membranes, contact Kerstin with a CV and a transcript of your records!
More info goepfrichgroup.de
& sigsyncell.crpp.cnrs.fr
group in Heidelberg!
If you are interested in RNA origami, synthetic cells, & membranes, contact Kerstin with a CV and a transcript of your records!
More info goepfrichgroup.de
& sigsyncell.crpp.cnrs.fr
March 11, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Synetic Cell MC Doctoral Network PhD offer alert!📌 at @kgoepfrich.bsky.social
group in Heidelberg!
If you are interested in RNA origami, synthetic cells, & membranes, contact Kerstin with a CV and a transcript of your records!
More info goepfrichgroup.de
& sigsyncell.crpp.cnrs.fr
group in Heidelberg!
If you are interested in RNA origami, synthetic cells, & membranes, contact Kerstin with a CV and a transcript of your records!
More info goepfrichgroup.de
& sigsyncell.crpp.cnrs.fr
Reposted by Laura Rodríguez Arco
Please RT📢 #Fullyfunded #PhD opportunity for #International Student 📢
Are you interested in designing #SyntheticCells with life-like functions? Join my group to explore how condensates interact with polymeric membranes to induce dynamic behaviours.
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
Are you interested in designing #SyntheticCells with life-like functions? Join my group to explore how condensates interact with polymeric membranes to induce dynamic behaviours.
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
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December 18, 2024 at 9:15 AM
Please RT📢 #Fullyfunded #PhD opportunity for #International Student 📢
Are you interested in designing #SyntheticCells with life-like functions? Join my group to explore how condensates interact with polymeric membranes to induce dynamic behaviours.
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
Are you interested in designing #SyntheticCells with life-like functions? Join my group to explore how condensates interact with polymeric membranes to induce dynamic behaviours.
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...