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European Synthetic Cell Initiative
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Network of excellent European research institutions that have joined forces to collaborate on synthetic cell research and accelerate its translation into technology
Don't hesitate to participate today in the first of two public workshops organised by Dewpoint Therapeutics and hosted by @comeincell.bsky.social

Dr Diana M. Mitrea will discuss the topic ‘Drugging Condensates & Drug Discovery’

📅 When? 14.00 (Berlin Time)

🔗 www.comeincell.org/2025-12-08-d...
December 8, 2025 at 11:05 AM
PhD opportunities in Spain!
The SYNBIO-CSIC doctoral programme seeks to address key challenges in Synthetic Biology
More info 👉 lifehub.csic.es/synbio-cofund/

You can apply from 15 Dec. to 26 Feb.

#SynCell #SyntheticCell #SynBio #SyntheticBiology
December 8, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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New to RNA design? Please try pyFuRNAce! Looking forward to your feedback 🧬
December 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
📢Join us in London for the #SynCell2026 conference! Registration is now open 👉 iop.eventsair.com/syncell26/

📅 22–24 April 2026

Deadline for abstract submission: 31 January
Deadline for registration: 15 March (we recommend registering early - spots are limited)

#SynCell #SyntheticCell
December 2, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Pierangelo Gobbo focuses on designing novel biomimetic materials
In our latest article, we look at his work and his approach to designing cell mimics and tissue-like materials, connecting chemical reactivity and the physics/mechanics of the material itself
edu.nl/mfq4y

#syncell #syntheticcell
Pierangelo Gobbo, a researcher who designs novel biomimetic materials
At the University of Trieste, Pierangelo and his group design biomimetic materials (such as prototissues). Discover his research journey, approach and current projects.
edu.nl
December 2, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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🚨 Fully funded PhD positions in #microbiology!
Join IMPRS Principles of Microbial Life in Marburg,Germany
🌱 Interdisciplinary research
🧬 World-class mentoring
🧪 State-of-the-art research infrastructure
🗓️ Apply until Jan 31, 2026
🔗 imprs-marburg.mpg.de/3197/JOIN-US
#PhDposition #WomenInSTEM
December 1, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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I am happy to share that our review on the Controlled Protein Synthesis in Microfluidic Environments has been published 🎉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Thanks to @emmacrean.bsky.social, Imre Banlaki, @jankalkowski.bsky.social, and @hniederho.bsky.social for great teamwork!
November 24, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Check out Amogh's latest review:

"Microfluidics meets cell-free systems: from molecular engineering to synthetic cells"

now published in Current Opinion in Biotechnology.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Microfluidics meets cell-free systems: from molecular engineering to synthetic cells
Cell-free systems have emerged as a powerful platform for protein production, characterization, and bottom-up construction of artificial cells, offeri…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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There's only one week left to apply to our Integrated MSc/PhD program - apply now! mattertolife.maxplanckschools.org/application
November 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Oskar Staufer, Head of Immuno-Materials, is co-author of the new publication about "Restoring NK Cell Cytotoxicity Post‐Cryopreservation via Synthetic Cells" More information and full text available at: advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:38 AM
New review from the Zwicker group on biomolecular condensates/droplets
Our review on the physics of phase separation in cells has been published by Rep. Prog. Phys. 🎉 doi.org/10.1088/1361...

We hope that the text and citations are helpful for anyone interested in physical descriptions of condensates in cells!
November 24, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Don't miss today's online seminar given by Cesar Rodríguez-Emmenegger.
t.ly/WY330
Organised by MISB Frontiers
#MISB Frontiers (@csic.es-UIMP)

Crowding in reconstituted cellular environments in synthetic cells
Arnold Boersma, Bijvoet Institute for Biomolecular Research. Utrecht, The Netherlands

📅Nov 21
⏰12pm
The seminar will take place at @cib-csic.bsky.social and streamed online. Registration 🔗t.ly/w6PJ2
November 24, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Job's group aims to assemble self-sustaining, evolving synthetic cells from non-bio components

They have already designed systems that are subject to natural selection and can produce offspring

In this work, they have added a minimal ‘genotype’ to their system that gives them a survival advantage
November 11, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Our experiments with giant lipid vesicles from @univbordeaux.bsky.social @crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social in collab with @dlr-en.bsky.social are ready for lift off!

#science #spaceresearch #softmatter

@syncelleu.bsky.social

Photo credit: @dlr-de.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Freshly published: "Primitive genotype-phenotype coupling in fuel-dependent synthetic cells"

Amazing work and a critical step towards synthetic life by Hector Soria and Leonie Kauling. A thread will follow soon:
t.co/9LfrnVYzoq
November 6, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Thanks to receptors on their membranes and the process of cell signalling, cells can sense their environment and respond to it
@rogerrubiosanchez.bsky.social & @dimichelelab1.bsky.social sought to mimic the early stages of this process by building receptors from DNA
syntheticcell.eu/dna-based-re...
DNA-based receptors to help synthetic cells interact with their environment
Researchers have developed synthetic membrane receptors from DNA to mimic the early stages of cell signalling, a crucial process for cells
syntheticcell.eu
November 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Please share:
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

More details below

#syncell #syntheticcell #research
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
@syncelleu.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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📢 Don't miss out the "Lipid Membranes"! Monday, November 3rd at 16:00.

More information: www.comeincell.org/interdiscipl...

#ComeInCell #HorizonEurope #MSCA #LipidMembranes
October 30, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Building tissues from the bottom up!

In Advanced Healthcare Materials @wiley.com, @ostaufer.bsky.social and co-authors show synthetic cells forming lymph-node-like tissues that host immune cells -towards building synthetic organs.

doi.org/10.1002/adhm...

#academicsky 🧪
Synthetic Cell‐Based Tissues for Bottom‐Up Assembly of Artificial Lymphatic Organs
Synthetic cells have emerged as a novel biomimetic approach for fundamental research and therapeutic interventions. T cell activating synthetic cells are able to form 3D tissue-like structures by sel....
doi.org
October 29, 2025 at 9:57 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...
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.
www.jobs.ac.uk
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
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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
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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Our latest work in @jacs.acspublications.org!
Artificial system that can sense, grow, and adapt—just like cells! Our #droplets form directional filopodia in response to chemical cues- a step toward life-like materials. #SoftMatter #MatterToLife
🔗https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.5c11719
October 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Publication: Researchers from the Dutch research programme BaSyC (@basycresearch.bsky.social) have developed a quick method to edit plasmids (small circular DNA molecule) or generate large, diverse plasmid libraries

Interesting for in vivo/ in vitro applications in molecular and synthetic biology
Great to see our MOSAIC story about an easy, cloning-free efficient protocol for mutating plasmids using recombineering is out now officially and the cover story of ASC Synthetic Biology pubs.acs.org/toc/asbcd6/1... ! Great shoutout to Marijn van den Brink, Tim Althuis and Christophe Danelon!
ACS Synthetic Biology
We introduce MOSAIC, a highly efficient protocol for the editing of plasmids and generation of combinatorial plasmid libraries. This quick protocol employs the single-stranded DNA annealing protein Cs...
pubs.acs.org
October 20, 2025 at 8:49 AM