We may not have really squared the circle — but we came close! 😉 In our @NaturePhysics paper w/ @fakhrilab.bsky.social, light-triggered membrane excitability enables programmable shapes — a step toward engineering living matter.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#biophysics #syntheticcell #softmatter
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#biophysics #syntheticcell #softmatter
March 31, 2025 at 1:11 PM
We may not have really squared the circle — but we came close! 😉 In our @NaturePhysics paper w/ @fakhrilab.bsky.social, light-triggered membrane excitability enables programmable shapes — a step toward engineering living matter.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#biophysics #syntheticcell #softmatter
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#biophysics #syntheticcell #softmatter
July 2, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Fresh in @natchemeng.nature.com Growing artificial cytoskeleton in the viscoelastic confinement of DNA Artificial Cells. Brilliant work bey Weixiang! #Syntheticcell #systemschemistry
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Growing functional artificial cytoskeletons in the viscoelastic confinement of DNA synthetic cells - Nature Chemical Engineering
Engineering structurally and functionally complex synthetic cells remains a key challenge. Here DNA condensate synthetic cells combine phase separation and DNA nanostructures to reveal how switchable ...
www.nature.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Fresh in @natchemeng.nature.com Growing artificial cytoskeleton in the viscoelastic confinement of DNA Artificial Cells. Brilliant work bey Weixiang! #Syntheticcell #systemschemistry
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Build-A-Cell Workshop (#14) on 10 May at Stanford University, USA.
Registration is now open
For more information, visit www.buildacell.org/workshop14
#syncell #syntheticcell #research
@kateadamala.bsky.social
Registration is now open
For more information, visit www.buildacell.org/workshop14
#syncell #syntheticcell #research
@kateadamala.bsky.social
Workshop14 — Build-a-Cell
www.buildacell.org
April 15, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Build-A-Cell Workshop (#14) on 10 May at Stanford University, USA.
Registration is now open
For more information, visit www.buildacell.org/workshop14
#syncell #syntheticcell #research
@kateadamala.bsky.social
Registration is now open
For more information, visit www.buildacell.org/workshop14
#syncell #syntheticcell #research
@kateadamala.bsky.social
Latest work from the Di Michele Lab on multi-phase condensates using synthetic DNA nanostructures
#syncell #syntheticcell
#syncell #syntheticcell
Thrilled to share this new Adv. Sci. paper by @dianatanase.bsky.social with Dino Osmanovic @rogerrubiosanchez.bsky.social @laylamalouf.bsky.social @francolab.bsky.social. We demonstrate a modular approach to program internal phase separation in DNA condensates 1/n doi.org/10.1002/advs...
Internal Phase Separation in Synthetic DNA Condensates
The modular, programmable system of DNA nanostructures developed provides programmatic control over multiphase condensate behavior, enabling mapping onto a predictive Flory-Huggins model. This combin...
doi.org
August 14, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Latest work from the Di Michele Lab on multi-phase condensates using synthetic DNA nanostructures
#syncell #syntheticcell
#syncell #syntheticcell
Yay🎉 Manuscript got accepted for publication! We developed a matrix-adhered complex coacervation method for artificial/synthetic cell-embedded 3D bioprinting. It'll be out soon, cannot wait to share!
#bioprinting #coacervate #artificialcell #syntheticcell #tissueengineering #biofabrication
#bioprinting #coacervate #artificialcell #syntheticcell #tissueengineering #biofabrication
September 25, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Yay🎉 Manuscript got accepted for publication! We developed a matrix-adhered complex coacervation method for artificial/synthetic cell-embedded 3D bioprinting. It'll be out soon, cannot wait to share!
#bioprinting #coacervate #artificialcell #syntheticcell #tissueengineering #biofabrication
#bioprinting #coacervate #artificialcell #syntheticcell #tissueengineering #biofabrication
📢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
📅 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
📢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
📅 22–24 April 2026
Deadline for abstract submission: 31 January
Deadline for registration: 15 March (we recommend registering early - spots are limited)
#SynCell #SyntheticCell
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
#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...
Don’t miss it!🎟️👉 buytickets.at/engineeringb...
October 21, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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
#syncell #syntheticcell #research
Our collaborative review article on the latest strategies and applications of synthetic cell communication is now out!
With Allen Liu (+group)
Published in Nature Chemical Biology @natchembio.nature.com
#syncell #syntheticcell @syncelleu.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
With Allen Liu (+group)
Published in Nature Chemical Biology @natchembio.nature.com
#syncell #syntheticcell @syncelleu.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Strategies and applications of synthetic cell communication - Nature Chemical Biology
Recent advances in engineering bottom-up synthetic cells have created powerful compartmentalized biochemical reactors with cell-like abilities. To push the boundaries of the collective capabilities of...
www.nature.com
August 29, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Our collaborative review article on the latest strategies and applications of synthetic cell communication is now out!
With Allen Liu (+group)
Published in Nature Chemical Biology @natchembio.nature.com
#syncell #syntheticcell @syncelleu.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
With Allen Liu (+group)
Published in Nature Chemical Biology @natchembio.nature.com
#syncell #syntheticcell @syncelleu.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The newly created SpudCell still has several key limitations that separate it from living cells. (2)
#SpudCell
#SyntheticCell
#Science
Science
#SpudCell
#SyntheticCell
#Science
Science
July 2, 2026 at 10:27 PM
The newly created SpudCell still has several key limitations that separate it from living cells. (2)
#SpudCell
#SyntheticCell
#Science
Science
#SpudCell
#SyntheticCell
#Science
Science
Check out our latest article, in which we present recent work by Naresh Yandrapalli, Tom Robinson, Reinhard Lipowsky and Tina Seemann on the production of asymmetric membranes (published in Nature Communications)
edu.nl/7degt
#SyntheticCell #SynCell
edu.nl/7degt
#SyntheticCell #SynCell
July 6, 2026 at 12:14 PM
Check out our latest article, in which we present recent work by Naresh Yandrapalli, Tom Robinson, Reinhard Lipowsky and Tina Seemann on the production of asymmetric membranes (published in Nature Communications)
edu.nl/7degt
#SyntheticCell #SynCell
edu.nl/7degt
#SyntheticCell #SynCell
See this publication by the Goepfrich Lab in Nature Nanotechnology: RNA origami cytoskeleton mimics expressed directly inside giant unilamellar lipid vesicles
#syntheticcell #syncell #research
#syntheticcell #syncell #research
The Goepfrich lab @kgoepfrich.bsky.social yesterday published the creation of cytoskeleton-like structures with different properties inside lipid vesicles using RNA origami: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Genetic encoding and expression of RNA origami cytoskeletons in synthetic cells - Nature Nanotechnology
This study introduces RNA origami nanotubes as self-assembling cytoskeleton mimics for synthetic cells. Expressed in vesicles from DNA templates, these RNA structures reach micrometre lengths, deform ...
www.nature.com
March 18, 2025 at 8:58 AM
See this publication by the Goepfrich Lab in Nature Nanotechnology: RNA origami cytoskeleton mimics expressed directly inside giant unilamellar lipid vesicles
#syntheticcell #syncell #research
#syntheticcell #syncell #research
PhD position in the Niederholtmeyer Lab (Straubing Germany) on feedback control of dynamic condensate assembly and disassembly
edu.nl/7v364
Deadline: 26/04
@hniederho.bsky.social
#SynCell #SyntheticCell
edu.nl/7v364
Deadline: 26/04
@hniederho.bsky.social
#SynCell #SyntheticCell
TUM - PhD position in cell-free synthetic biology (m/f/d)
Studierenden- und Mitarbeiterportal der Technische Universität München
edu.nl
April 13, 2026 at 11:30 AM
PhD position in the Niederholtmeyer Lab (Straubing Germany) on feedback control of dynamic condensate assembly and disassembly
edu.nl/7v364
Deadline: 26/04
@hniederho.bsky.social
#SynCell #SyntheticCell
edu.nl/7v364
Deadline: 26/04
@hniederho.bsky.social
#SynCell #SyntheticCell
Should researchers use proteins designed from scratch rather than those found in nature to build synthetic cells?
In a new review, Béla Frohn, Shunshi Kohyama and Petra Schwille explore how protein design and optimisation offer new possibilities for #syntheticcell design.
#syncell
In a new review, Béla Frohn, Shunshi Kohyama and Petra Schwille explore how protein design and optimisation offer new possibilities for #syntheticcell design.
#syncell
Can we build synthetic cells from de novo designed proteins?
Find out more in the latest review @natrevbioeng.nature.com from Bela Frohn, Shunshi Kohyama and Petra Schwille.
❕Publication: doi.org/10.1038/s442...
#ProteinDesign #SyntheticBiology @belafrohn.bsky.social
Find out more in the latest review @natrevbioeng.nature.com from Bela Frohn, Shunshi Kohyama and Petra Schwille.
❕Publication: doi.org/10.1038/s442...
#ProteinDesign #SyntheticBiology @belafrohn.bsky.social
May 22, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Should researchers use proteins designed from scratch rather than those found in nature to build synthetic cells?
In a new review, Béla Frohn, Shunshi Kohyama and Petra Schwille explore how protein design and optimisation offer new possibilities for #syntheticcell design.
#syncell
In a new review, Béla Frohn, Shunshi Kohyama and Petra Schwille explore how protein design and optimisation offer new possibilities for #syntheticcell design.
#syncell
Join @continiclau.bsky.social team at the #ImperialCollege
to pioneer #SyntheticCell technology! 😍🔬 If you're passionate about #PolymericMembranes and #MembraneCondensates, apply for our #PhDposition here: www.comeincell.org/dc16-dynamic...
#ComeInCell #MSCA
to pioneer #SyntheticCell technology! 😍🔬 If you're passionate about #PolymericMembranes and #MembraneCondensates, apply for our #PhDposition here: www.comeincell.org/dc16-dynamic...
#ComeInCell #MSCA
December 11, 2024 at 4:11 PM
Join @continiclau.bsky.social team at the #ImperialCollege
to pioneer #SyntheticCell technology! 😍🔬 If you're passionate about #PolymericMembranes and #MembraneCondensates, apply for our #PhDposition here: www.comeincell.org/dc16-dynamic...
#ComeInCell #MSCA
to pioneer #SyntheticCell technology! 😍🔬 If you're passionate about #PolymericMembranes and #MembraneCondensates, apply for our #PhDposition here: www.comeincell.org/dc16-dynamic...
#ComeInCell #MSCA
On August 1st, the @maxplanck.de will launch the SynCell‑nExUs #postdoc programme. The programme will be coordinated by @mpibiochem.bsky.social & @mpimicrobiomarburg.bsky.social in coll. with 22 research institutions across Europe.
❕More: www.biochem.mpg.de/syncell-nexu...
#SyntheticCell
❕More: www.biochem.mpg.de/syncell-nexu...
#SyntheticCell
May 28, 2026 at 12:54 PM
On August 1st, the @maxplanck.de will launch the SynCell‑nExUs #postdoc programme. The programme will be coordinated by @mpibiochem.bsky.social & @mpimicrobiomarburg.bsky.social in coll. with 22 research institutions across Europe.
❕More: www.biochem.mpg.de/syncell-nexu...
#SyntheticCell
❕More: www.biochem.mpg.de/syncell-nexu...
#SyntheticCell
See this new publication by Job Boekhoven's group in Nature Communications.
They controlled the size of active droplets (mimicking membrane-less organelles) in cell-like systems.
#syncell #syntheticcell
They controlled the size of active droplets (mimicking membrane-less organelles) in cell-like systems.
#syncell #syntheticcell
How can a cell control the size of its organelles?
Excited to share a mechanism to control droplet size we recently found.
a 🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Excited to share a mechanism to control droplet size we recently found.
a 🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
April 28, 2025 at 7:25 AM
See this new publication by Job Boekhoven's group in Nature Communications.
They controlled the size of active droplets (mimicking membrane-less organelles) in cell-like systems.
#syncell #syntheticcell
They controlled the size of active droplets (mimicking membrane-less organelles) in cell-like systems.
#syncell #syntheticcell
PhD position in the Robinson Lab (@labrobinson.bsky.social) at the Institute for Bioengineering in Edinburg!
Interested in working on the bottom-up construction of synthetic cells using #microfluidics and #lipid membranes?
Job description 👇 eng.ed.ac.uk/studying/deg...
#syncell #syntheticcell
Interested in working on the bottom-up construction of synthetic cells using #microfluidics and #lipid membranes?
Job description 👇 eng.ed.ac.uk/studying/deg...
#syncell #syntheticcell
Bottom-up assembly of multi-compartment synthetic cells
eng.ed.ac.uk
March 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
PhD position in the Robinson Lab (@labrobinson.bsky.social) at the Institute for Bioengineering in Edinburg!
Interested in working on the bottom-up construction of synthetic cells using #microfluidics and #lipid membranes?
Job description 👇 eng.ed.ac.uk/studying/deg...
#syncell #syntheticcell
Interested in working on the bottom-up construction of synthetic cells using #microfluidics and #lipid membranes?
Job description 👇 eng.ed.ac.uk/studying/deg...
#syncell #syntheticcell
Don't miss the opportunity to hear researcher Roberto Brea talk about in situ lipid synthesis for building synthetic cells!
#syncell #syntheticcell #research
#syncell #syntheticcell #research
#MISB Frontiers (@csic.es-UIMP)
In situ lipid synthesis: Building functional artificial cells from scratch
Roberto Brea, CICA
📅Oct 24
⏰12pm
The seminar will take place at @cib-csic.bsky.social and streamed online 🔗https://rediris.zoom.us/meeting/register/L6BvR2BNRZ-yReJdvIRHqg<a href="/hashtag/%2Fregistration" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#/registration
In situ lipid synthesis: Building functional artificial cells from scratch
Roberto Brea, CICA
📅Oct 24
⏰12pm
The seminar will take place at @cib-csic.bsky.social and streamed online 🔗https://rediris.zoom.us/meeting/register/L6BvR2BNRZ-yReJdvIRHqg<a href="/hashtag/%2Fregistration" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#/registration
October 20, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Don't miss the opportunity to hear researcher Roberto Brea talk about in situ lipid synthesis for building synthetic cells!
#syncell #syntheticcell #research
#syncell #syntheticcell #research
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/...
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
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/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
New publication from the Walther Lab on the design of proto-tissues, made of artificial cells, which can communicate chemically to resist environmental challenges.
#syntheticcell #syncell #research
#syntheticcell #syncell #research
Homeostatic Artificial Cells Enable Self-Protection in Prototissue Spheroids - Fantastic and detailed work by Joshua on using chemo-structural feedback to reach self-regulation effects in #syntheticcells #systemschemistry
now online in Chem
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
now online in Chem
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Homeostatic artificial cells enable self-protection in prototissue spheroids
Prototissues made from artificial cells (ACs) aim to replicate the behaviors of living tissues, such as communication, collective behavior, and homeos…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 10, 2025 at 8:38 AM
New publication from the Walther Lab on the design of proto-tissues, made of artificial cells, which can communicate chemically to resist environmental challenges.
#syntheticcell #syncell #research
#syntheticcell #syncell #research
Exciting work in the space of #SyntheticCell. Our recent work, rdcu.be/e93ZA in @natcomms.nature.com provide an accurate way of generating complex asymmetric bilayers with phase separation - bringing #bottomup #SCs ever so close to real cells.
Engineering synthetic cells with intramembrane domains possessing distinct bilayer asymmetries
Nature Communications - Lipid bilayer asymmetry, phase separation, and encapsulation are long standing issues in the development of synthetic cells. Here the authors develop an inverted emulsion...
rdcu.be
April 1, 2026 at 11:59 AM
Exciting work in the space of #SyntheticCell. Our recent work, rdcu.be/e93ZA in @natcomms.nature.com provide an accurate way of generating complex asymmetric bilayers with phase separation - bringing #bottomup #SCs ever so close to real cells.
🧪 New Paper Alert!
Out now in @cp-cellrepmethods.bsky.social : A robust method for on-chip production & manipulation and oil-free retreival of lipid vesicles via inverted emulsion
#SyntheticBiology.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.cr...
#Microfluidics #Biophysics #Science #SciSky #Syntheticcell
Out now in @cp-cellrepmethods.bsky.social : A robust method for on-chip production & manipulation and oil-free retreival of lipid vesicles via inverted emulsion
#SyntheticBiology.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.cr...
#Microfluidics #Biophysics #Science #SciSky #Syntheticcell
March 10, 2026 at 3:44 PM
🧪 New Paper Alert!
Out now in @cp-cellrepmethods.bsky.social : A robust method for on-chip production & manipulation and oil-free retreival of lipid vesicles via inverted emulsion
#SyntheticBiology.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.cr...
#Microfluidics #Biophysics #Science #SciSky #Syntheticcell
Out now in @cp-cellrepmethods.bsky.social : A robust method for on-chip production & manipulation and oil-free retreival of lipid vesicles via inverted emulsion
#SyntheticBiology.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.cr...
#Microfluidics #Biophysics #Science #SciSky #Syntheticcell
Pre registration is open for the Master’s in Integrative Synthetic Biology (MISB)
The master’s programme offers advanced training in bottom-up #SyntheticCell engineering, top-down and computational synthetic biology, and applications in sustainability and health
Deadline: 29/05
#SynCell
The master’s programme offers advanced training in bottom-up #SyntheticCell engineering, top-down and computational synthetic biology, and applications in sustainability and health
Deadline: 29/05
#SynCell
Pre‑Registration Open for @csic.es-UIMP Master in Synthetic Biology MISB - VI Edition 2026–2028
First Call: 9/03-29/05 2026
More information 🔗 www.misb-synbio.com
Pre‑registration form 🔗 www.uimp.es/actividades-...
First Call: 9/03-29/05 2026
More information 🔗 www.misb-synbio.com
Pre‑registration form 🔗 www.uimp.es/actividades-...
March 16, 2026 at 8:05 AM
Pre registration is open for the Master’s in Integrative Synthetic Biology (MISB)
The master’s programme offers advanced training in bottom-up #SyntheticCell engineering, top-down and computational synthetic biology, and applications in sustainability and health
Deadline: 29/05
#SynCell
The master’s programme offers advanced training in bottom-up #SyntheticCell engineering, top-down and computational synthetic biology, and applications in sustainability and health
Deadline: 29/05
#SynCell