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PhD project in Belfast, UK, on the development of engineered peptides and biomimetic platforms capable of enabling safe, targeted and efficient delivery of therapeutic compounds to the brain.

Deadline: 16/01

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lucialombardi.bsky.social Lucia Lombardi @lucialombardi.bsky.social · 8d
A PhD position is available under the supervision of Lucia Lombardi and Paulina Quintanilla (UCL). The successful candidate will collaborate with Sophie Morse and Yuval Elani (Imperial) within a dynamic, interdisciplinary team.
More details and how to apply: lnkd.in/d8QPjwBw
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November 4, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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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...
Research Associate in Biochemical Technology and Synthetic Cells at Imperial College London
Discover Research Associate in Biochemical Technology and Synthetic Cells jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.
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October 27, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Congratulations to Soumya and Charu for making the first ATP-fueled homeostatic cytokine delivery system for communication between artificial and living cells. Now in Angewandte Chemie @angewandtechemie.bsky.social #syntheticcell #noneqsys #DNAnanoscience
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ATP‐Powered Signaling Between Artificial and Living Cells
We introduce an ATP-powered artificial cell platform capable of selectively and transiently releasing DNA signals to facilitate communication between artificial and living cells. By engineering these...
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October 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Fresh in @natchemeng.nature.com Growing artificial cytoskeleton in the viscoelastic confinement of DNA Artificial Cells. Brilliant work bey Weixiang! #Syntheticcell #systemschemistry
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Growing functional artificial cytoskeletons in the viscoelastic confinement of DNA synthetic cells - Nature Chemical Engineering
Engineering structurally and functionally complex synthetic cells remains a key challenge. Here DNA condensate synthetic cells combine phase separation and DNA nanostructures to reveal how switchable ...
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October 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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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.

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engbioirc.bsky.social Engineering Biology Interdisciplinary Research Centre @engbioirc.bsky.social · 23d
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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Don't miss the opportunity to hear researcher Roberto Brea talk about in situ lipid synthesis for building synthetic cells!

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cib-csic.bsky.social Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas Margarita Salas (CSIC) @cib-csic.bsky.social · 26d
#MISB Frontiers (@csic.es-UIMP)

In situ lipid synthesis: Building functional artificial cells from scratch
Roberto Brea, CICA

📅Oct 24
⏰12pm
The seminar will take place at @cib-csic.bsky.social and streamed online 🔗https://rediris.zoom.us/meeting/register/L6BvR2BNRZ-yReJdvIRHqg<a href="/hashtag/%2Fregistration" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#/registration
October 20, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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The ComeInCell doctoral network is launching a new series of monthly lectures open to all.
The first conference, on 3 November, will present the topic of lipid membranes and condensates.
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comeincell.bsky.social ComeInCell @comeincell.bsky.social · 26d
🚀 Our Interdisciplinary Lecture Series begins on Nov 3, 16:00 (Berlin)! Carlos Marques will talk about Lipid Membranes, and the first 45 min are open to all — join us!

👉 www.comeincell.org/interdiscipl...
#MSCA #HorizonEurope #Biophysics #ComeInCell #LipidMembranes #MembraneCondensates
October 20, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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📢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!
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September 22, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Our collaborative review article on the latest strategies and applications of synthetic cell communication is now out!

With Allen Liu (+group)
Published in Nature Chemical Biology @natchembio.nature.com

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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Strategies and applications of synthetic cell communication - Nature Chemical Biology
Recent advances in engineering bottom-up synthetic cells have created powerful compartmentalized biochemical reactors with cell-like abilities. To push the boundaries of the collective capabilities of...
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August 29, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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"The measures taken to limit planetary back-contamination can serve to help develop biosafety protocols for synthetic cell research"

What existing tools can be used to create biosafety & biosecurity protocols for synthetic cells? Here is a summary in the publication below 👇

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August 18, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Latest work from the Di Michele Lab on multi-phase condensates using synthetic DNA nanostructures

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August 14, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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We discovered this in our #DNA #syntheticcell during the invasion of host DNA synthetic cells that take up guest DNA invader strands with molecular recognition. We generalized it ultimately to simple sticker-spacer DNA condensates.
June 7, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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Should researchers use proteins designed from scratch rather than those found in nature to build synthetic cells?

In a new review, Béla Frohn, Shunshi Kohyama and Petra Schwille explore how protein design and optimisation offer new possibilities for #syntheticcell design.

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mpibiochem.bsky.social Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry @mpibiochem.bsky.social · May 21
Can we build synthetic cells from de novo designed proteins?

Find out more in the latest review @natrevbioeng.nature.com from Bela Frohn, Shunshi Kohyama and Petra Schwille.

❕Publication: doi.org/10.1038/s442...

#ProteinDesign #SyntheticBiology @belafrohn.bsky.social ‬
May 22, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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The factory of the future is a #syntheticcell

#TUDelft highlighted the potential of #syncell research and tech in its latest Pioneering Tech magazine.

How can syncell #research drive sustainable innovation?
What are the keys to making it a #EU innovation success story?

Story here 👉 edu.nl/kppvd
The factory of the future is a synthetic cell
So far, synthetic cells have been cause for excitement, especially for fundamental scientists. But take note: they can become efficient and sustainable factories that make all kinds of things for us a...
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May 8, 2025 at 8:36 AM
comeincell.bsky.social
We are super excited to announce that Marion has joined our #MSCA-DN to work in the @ostaufer.bsky.social lab.

The project will focus on the development of #SyntheticCell models that mimic #Age-RelatedDiseases. More details: www.comeincell.org/dc04-synthet...

Welcome Marion! #HorizonEurope
April 29, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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See this new publication by Job Boekhoven's group in Nature Communications.

They controlled the size of active droplets (mimicking membrane-less organelles) in cell-like systems.

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boekhovenlab.bsky.social Job Boekhoven @boekhovenlab.bsky.social · Apr 25
How can a cell control the size of its organelles?

Excited to share a mechanism to control droplet size we recently found.

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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
April 28, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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Build-A-Cell Workshop (#14) on 10 May at Stanford University, USA.
Registration is now open
For more information, visit www.buildacell.org/workshop14
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Workshop14 — Build-a-Cell
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April 15, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Congratulations to @ceesdekker.bsky.social #TUDelft, winner of the 2026 Biochemical Society Award for a Significant Breakthrough or Achievement! www.biochemistry.org/about-us/new...
#nanopores for #proteinsequencing; #chromosome structure; #building living #syntheticcell from lifeless #molecules.
Biochemical Society announces 2026 award recipients
Following another record year of nominations, the work and contribution of seventeen eminent bioscientists, outstanding educators and exceptional early career researchers has been acknowledged in the ...
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April 8, 2025 at 1:03 PM
syncelleu.bsky.social
A new synthetic tissue mimic which, like living tissue, can self-protect against environmental threats.

The work of Andreas Walther and Esther Amstad's groups is opening up new perspectives for cancer therapy.

syntheticcell.eu/self-protect...

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Self-protecting tissue mimics to the rescue
A new synthetic tissue mimic, which can self-protect against environmental threats, opens up new perspectives in cancer therapy
syntheticcell.eu
April 1, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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We may not have really squared the circle — but we came close! 😉 In our @NaturePhysics paper w/ @fakhrilab.bsky.social, light-triggered membrane excitability enables programmable shapes — a step toward engineering living matter.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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March 31, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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New paper from the #BaSyC #research programme

Dutch researchers have conducted a large European survey to gather people's reactions and opinions on emerging #syntheticcell technologies.

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March 20, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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See this publication by the Goepfrich Lab in Nature Nanotechnology: RNA origami cytoskeleton mimics expressed directly inside giant unilamellar lipid vesicles
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March 18, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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PhD position in the Robinson Lab (@labrobinson.bsky.social) at the Institute for Bioengineering in Edinburg!

Interested in working on the bottom-up construction of synthetic cells using #microfluidics and #lipid membranes?
Job description 👇 eng.ed.ac.uk/studying/deg...

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Bottom-up assembly of multi-compartment synthetic cells
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March 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
syncelleu.bsky.social
Registration is still open for this symposium and spring school with a special focus on synthetic cells.
Please share!
More info: coins2025.weebly.com

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March 3, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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New paper from the Rodriguez Emmenegger lab in Advanced Science. They have been working on a new design for cell membrane mimicry using peptides as scaffolding

advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Pepticombisomes: Biomimetic Vesicles Crafted From Recombinant Supercharged Polypeptides with Uniformly Distributed Side‐Chains
Pepticombisomes are biomimetic vesicles formed by elastin-like supercharged unfolded polypeptides (SUPs) uniformly functionalized with anionic surfactants with lipid-like hydrophobic tails. The molec...
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February 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM