That's amazing! Congrats Varun on winning the poster prize at this incredible biomaterials conference. Look out for the preprint coming out soon everyone! LSC Living Therapeutic Materials SFB 1027

Just noticed this now...a nice end to last year - Our paper in the Programmable Living Biomaterials special issue Biomaterials Advances is online: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Super quick and constructive review process! Shardul Bhusari LSC Living Therapeutic Materials SFB 1027

Excited to share the first article emerging solely from my research group! We found and characterized new genetic parts to expand the programmability of probiotic lactobacilli for medical applications Microbial Biotechnology (MBT) SOURIK DEY Marc Blanch Asensio doi.org/10.1111/1751-7… More in🧵

Join us at #CellPhysics2023 Oct. 10-13, Saarbruecken, DE, this time jointly organized by SFB 1027 and DGZ, @DGZ.bsky.social. Abstract and early bird deadline July 3. #cellbiology #biophysics #cytoskeleton #mechanobiology

Bacteria: I need more space! Pluronic: Don't stress, let me relax a bit! 😎 Take a deep dive into the stress relaxation and creep-recovery behavior of pluronic hydrogels used for bacteria encapsulation in #EngineeredLivingMaterials #ELM LSC Living Therapeutic Materials Shrikrishnan Sankaran SFB 1027

We reprogrammed some bacteria, stuck them in a gel and shone light. YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED NEXT! If that clickbait worked, click this link to check out our latest work on bacterial gels for regeneration - doi.org/10.1002/adfm.2… Varun Tadimarri Priyanka Dhakane @AdvSciNews

Registration & abstract submission for #CellPhysics2023 opened! Please spread & join us, more info: t.ly/RItP. Abstract deadline July 3. Short-talks chosen from abstracts & poster prizes waiting for you #cellbiology #biophysics #cytoskeleton DGZ, @DGZ.bsky.social SFB 1027

🎬Unravel the epic tale of our heroes, Bacteria encapsulated within Hydrogels, as they embark on a daring quest to heal and revolutionize medicine!🦸‍♂️But can they survive the relentless attacks of the formidable ImmuneSystem?🌪️ sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Shrikrishnan Sankaran LSC Living Therapeutic Materials

May I introduce: the immuno-materials group🥳 Want to be part of the video? We are looking for three PhD students to work with us on synthetic cells, organoids and imunotherapy between Leibniz-Gemeinschaft MaxPlanckBristol & Antibiotikaforschung (inaktiv) Please RT and apply here bit.ly/3sK5Ts4

Several people asked whether they could still register for #CellPhysics2023, thus we extended the registration deadline until this Sunday, Sept 17 (no abstract submission anymore though) - your last chance to sign up and join us in Saarbruecken! cell-physics.uni-saarland.de/#registration

Here some impressions from our #DGZ International Meeting DGZ, @DGZ.bsky.social, held in Saarbrücken, with SFB 1027 #CellPhysics2023. ~300 participants enjoyed exciting data by invited speakers, in 28 short-talks & on 135 posters. The science shared was outstanding, thx to all who joined!

After the pandemics it was so nice to have intense poster discussions again!

Two presentations addressed funding opportunities for early career researchers DFG public | DFG public | @[email protected]@wisskomm.social and European Research Council (ERC), here Dr. Britta Mädge's talk on related programs at @dfg_public

Together with our colleagues from SBCF we held a joint German-French Cell Biology session – thank you to Florence Niedergang, Isabelle Tardieux, Cristina Cardoso and Joerg Hoehfeld!

Next to all the science, networking was continued in some off-campus activities (climbing parc, visit at World Heritage Site Völklinger Hütte, a long hike, & more sports🧘‍♂️🏃‍♀️).

The last evening was concluded with a vivid conference party!

Big thanks to our industrial sponsors for funding various awards🏆: Our gold sponsors ibidi GmbH, Thorlabs, acCELLerate @Cellseeker1; plus further sponsors ZEISS Microscopy & The Company of Biologists Biology Open (awardee list here: cell-physics.uni-saarland.de/#awards)

…and also a camera team of #SaarländischerRundfunk joined us one day to accompany one participant during the meeting: sr-mediathek.de/index.php?seit…

Excited to visit SFB 1027 today. Day starts with a (almost) private flight to Universität Saarland. I will mainly talk about our recent works on cell free membrane protein synthesis

Ein neues DFG-Schwerpunktprogramm zur Zellbiologie wird von Professorin Sandra Iden an der Universität Saarland koordiniert. Nur elf von 43 dieser neuen interdisziplinären Verbundprojekte werden für zunächst drei Jahre mit 72 Millionen Euro gefördert (Foto: Mohr): uni-saarland.de/aktuell/dfg-sc…