New paper out by Michal Walczak with Ryan Brady, AdrianLeathers, Jurij Kotar. We explore the effect of tweaking hydrophobic bits in our beloved amphiphilic DNA nanostars. Thanks The Journal of Chemical Physics for the invitation to this Emerging Investigator Collection 1/4 aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.…

Influence of hydrophobic moieties on the crystallization of amphiphilic DNA nanostructures aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.10…

Preprint Highlight: A synthetic signaling network imitating the action of immune cells in response to bacterial metabolism molbiolcell.org/doi/full/10.10… Authors of the original preprint, found on biorxiv include Michal Walczak @FedericaRaguseo Pietro Cicuta 🌍 🐟🐟🕯🇪🇺 🇮🇹 DiMicheleLAB and others!

🚨JOB ALERT!!🚨Postdoc position available for 3.5 years: Come and join us to work on aptamer selection for bacterial outer membrane targets, DNA nanostructures and AFM - what’s not to like?!

🚨 Hiring postdoc on DNA nanotech / syncells 🚨 Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research funded and it comes with a *4-month* visit to the amazing Takinoue Lab (瀧ノ上研究室, 情報生命物理学) Hirohide Saito/齊藤博英 🇯🇵 Also coll Yuval Elani I would totally hire myself if I could CEB Cambridge can I do that? pls share/RT jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/40068/

🧬New preprint from @L_Malouf 🧬 Controlling structure and shape adaptation in SynCells with phase separation and RNA synthesis. Also with Diana Tanase @FabriniFabrini Miguel Paez Perez AdrianLeathers Michael Booth European Research Council (ERC) CEB Cambridge 1/4 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🚨 Postdoc position open 🚨 to join our European Research Council (ERC) team at CEB Cambridge and use 🧬 to build synthetic cells that do interesting things. Still a few days to apply! Please share/RT/apply (also those who applied for the position that just closed 😉) jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/40125/

We have 3 postdoc vacancies in Bioinspired Technologies & Synthetic Cells in our group Imperial ChemEng. Projects are at the cutting edge of microfluidics, SynCells, membrane engineering & BioHybrid design. Adverts to follow. Interested? Get in touch! RT massively appreciated!

We're looking for 3 postdocs to work with us Imperial ChemEng fabriCELL on various topics in SynCell science, bio-inspired tech, microfluidics and BioHybrid systems Build-a-Cell Synthetic Cell initiative. RT massively appreciated! jobs.ac.uk/job/CZR963/res… jobs.ac.uk/job/CZR972/res…

Please apply/RT!

🚨 New @AdvSciNews Adv Mater paper 🚨 Michal Walczak built immunomimetic SynCells that sense, trap and hinder the division of live bacteria. Small step towards synthetic immunity! Cicuta Group 🐊 Leonardo Mancini CEB Cambridge Imperial Chemistry fabriCELL 1/3 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad…

🚨NEW PAPER ALERT🚨 Michal Walczak DiMicheleLAB et al. have been published by @AdvSciNews ! Read more here: ceb.cam.ac.uk/news/imitating… 🧬

We engineered new synthetic and biological parts for synthetic cells 💪 for controllable communication with living bacteria 😍 orthogonal to previous studies 😎 Published in Nature Chemical Biology Led by Jefferson Smith Dr Denis Hartmann UCL Chemistry @SynBioCDT tinyurl.com/bdd3y56m

doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.… Dormant organisms are super-sturdy and dormant bacteria are no exception. Why does a bacterium become dormant? Has it run out of energy? Some works support the "yes", others point towards "no". In this work, Teuta and I show that "it depends". 1/9

Faculty opening in the Cavendish Lab (Physics) at Cambridge University in the area of physics of life. Please consider if of interest, and re-X. Closing Sunday, 17th Sept. details: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/42340/ Cambridge Centre for Physical Biology Biological Physics Group UK American Physical Society Physics of Life Dresden Physics of Life at York

🚨Thrilled to share, after much preparation, this bioRxiv on the work of @FabriniFabrini!🚨 Introducing co-transcriptionally-folding 🧬 RNA nanostars✨ that form modular, programmable and addressable condensates and membrane-less organelles 1/n biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🚨Thrilled to share this preprint by Hannah Sleath in collaboration with Bortolo Mognetti Yuval Elani - Hannah looked at how receptor-decorated vesicles adhere on substrates with a gradient in ligand density, and migrate up the gradient.... 1/2 arxiv.org/abs/2310.09990

🚨We are hiring!!🚨 A fully-funded PhD opportunity is available in the lab through the Cambridge Biosciences DTP PhD Programme! Join us for exciting work on #aptamers for bacterial outer membrane targets! More details here: bbsrcdtp.lifesci.cam.ac.uk/files/trg-phar…, deadline 5th December! Dept. of Pharmacology, Univ. Cambridge School of Biological Sciences

📢 New paper out Chem lead by @L_Malouf 📢with Diana Tanase @FabriniFabrini Ryan Brady Miguel Paez Perez AdrianLeathers Michael Booth - Complex #SynCells made using #DNAnanotech #condensates and phase separation 1/n sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We developed light-activated plasmids for cell-free and living cells 🤩🔦🧬🧫 To do this we created a new method to add chemical modifications into plasmids 😮😎 Published in Chemical Science Led by Khoa Chung @uclchemistry @oxfordchemistry @synbiocdt pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…