I am honored to give a lecture in Germany to nurture our future leaders! Hope to see many bright young students and researchers! lsclifemat.de/events/

Want to go in-depth following Caroline Ajo-Franklin's #SEED2023 talk? Check out her group's paper here: nature.com/articles/s4146…

Project member Salla Koskela from Aalto University created this wonderfully fluorescent version of our NextSkins logo in the lab. Salla made the text by placing a printed NextSkins logo under the agar plate and then spread GFP-expressing E. Coli with inoculation loop.

Paid my first visit to the Future Fabrics Expo today in London run by @Sustainable_Ang and was blown away by the influx of all-things-biology in the fabrics and fashion space.

Happy to share that our work engineering cellulose-producing bacteria to grow light-induced patterns and make melanin to grow black leather-like materials is now published OA in Nature Biotechnology > Study led by the amazing Marcus Walker Marcus Walker nature.com/articles/s4158…

Genetic engineering of material-producing bacteria creates pigmented products, according to a paper in Nature Biotechnology. go.nature.com/3J4SkbB

NextSkins was excited to share their first results and to hear from the other ELM projects at the EIC ELMs Portfolio Symposium last month in Saarbrucken! #ELMs #NextSkins #EIC Koray Malcı

Cellulose-producing bacteria are driving sustainable biomaterials and #EngineeredLivingMaterials (ELMs). In our latest review with Tom Ellis, Ivy Li, and Natasha Kisseroudis, we explore the intersection of #SynBio and bacterial cellulose design.👇 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

NextSkins x Fungateria workshop on biomineralized ELMs. Exciting to have two of the EIC projects on Engineered Living Materials getting together in Ghent 🇧🇪 for a productive afternoon.

The NextSkins team is together in Ghent for our latest project meeting. 2 days of updates and workshops.