Our synthetic tissue review is out in ACS Synthetic Bio! We survey🤓 examples of #syncell assemblies and contextualize/propose🤔 tech that might lead to long-range and coordinated behavior, akin to living tissue. Please check it out! Alex Lin Build-a-Cell pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Please give it a read! I had a great time surveying the rich literature from authors in the Build-a-Cell community! 🔨Engineering 🫀 tissue-like structures with #syncells UT Austin Chemistry TexasChE

I took Dr. Yan's Nanophotonics class the first semester he taught at UNC (Right before COVID). His impact on my development as a scientist was significant. A great professor and a great mentor. RIP

In loving memory of Prof. Zijie Yan For his parents gofund.me/2acd33c7 For his daughters gofund.me/b3eabf0c

🎓 Prospective Grad Students: Join us for a virtual info session on our amazing #PhD program UT Austin Chemistry! Check out the flyer for sign-up details. 🌍 International students, this one's especially useful for you! Please RT! Let's spread the word! #GradSchoolInfoSession

A severe thunderstorm with up to destructive hail greater than baseball size is moving south along I-35 from Round Rock towards Pflugerville and eastern portions of Austin. Stay safe and get to shelter as this dangerous storm approaches. #txwx

Three postdoc positions for the state-of-the-art HS-AFM #AFM research are open for biophysicists, biochemists, or molecular biologists to join our team. #postdocjobs Feel free to email/DM me if interested in postdoc positions. Job details: tinyurl.com/3nh7raee

Today’s #STEMsigns are crystal, gem, lattice, and unit cell! *Signs shown on #STEMsigns are seen & used by the community & are not created by Atomic Hands. We encourage you to evaluate the sign and adopt or discard it; or develop a new sign! Full video: youtu.be/m-xnTlhPdPg?si…

Our paper on actin-binding protein switches is up on bioRxiv! Unyime Effiong spearheaded this impressive effort, and we are excited to share it! We developed a suite of switches called CASTs that bind to actin in response to an external stimulus biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/4

Nanodrops should keep a high score list

Join us for our Best of BIOT 2023 Academia Edition: Biomolecule Design & Diagnostics on Wednesday, December 13 from 12-1p EST | 9-10a PST for two of our top voted presentations from the 2023 meeting in San Francisco! Register for free here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

I am delighted to be giving a talk at #cellbio23 detailing my work on the development of a suite of protein switch tools for controlling F-actin binding in living cells and tissue. Feel free to stop by room 254A tomorrow at 10:32am for some cool movies of these tools in action!

Excited to be working at the interface of chemistry 🧪 and synthetic cell biology🧬🧫! Come see how we’re making synthetic tissue closer to reality with transmembrane proteins

Announcing the 2024 Paper(s) of the Year Award: 1st Place: Ahmed Sihorwala – “Light Activated Assembly of Connexon Nanopores in Synthetic Cells” Runner Up: Jay Bender – “Understanding Cation Effect on the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction” #texasengineering #whatstartshere

A secret superpower of a lab with more than one research topic is that group meetings are a safe space for naive questions - because there are many ‘outsiders’ - and a big idea tends to start out as a naive question.

Delighted to share Unyime Effiong first paper from our lab out in Nature Communications! We engineered protein switches that bind to actin in response to stimuli (CASTs) in cells and tissues nature.com/articles/s4146… 1/3

Interested in delivering biologics orally? Then please check out Isabela Ramirez Velez work from our lab out in ACS Nano. We drew inspiration from enteric pathogens(!) to engineer a smart nanomaterial that transports drugs through the paracellular space of tissue pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.102…

Congrats to Devleena Samanta on earning a prestigious 2024 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering! She’s the first faculty member from UT Austin to receive the early-career award in the chemistry category. More at cns.utexas.edu/news/accolades… #PackardFellows #UTAustin