Excellent news for #syncell #research !
The Dutch EVOLF programme has been awarded €40 million by the Dutch Research Council

The 10-year programme aims to build a living synthetic cell from lifeless biomolecules, using laboratory evolution and AI
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#career opportunity!
2 professorship positions at Saarland University in Germany. Deadline 6 June 2024

1: W3 Professorship for #Systems Physiology
2: Professor (W2 tenure track W3) for Molecular and #Cell #Biology
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Join the next #EUSynBioSeminar to hear Rahmi Lale from NTNU and co-founder/CEO of Syngens give a talk titled 'Engineering Promoters and 5' UTRs: A Journey from Random DNA to Rational and Predictable Design with Transformer Models'

Scan the QR code to register! 🧬

Congratulations Cees and Petra!

The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) has chosen Gijsje Koenderink as its newest member. Congratulations Gijsje Koenderink!
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Our fabulous review on 'DNA-empowered synthetic cells as minimalistic life forms' is out in #Nature #Review #Chemistry #syntheticcell #Com2Life #DNA #dnananoscience Mainz University Avik Samanta Lorena Baranda and Marcos Enjoy reading!! nature.com/articles/s4157…

Fancy a project at the intersection of synthetic cells, exosomes, and biotech? We're hiring! Join our team as a Research Assistant/PhD candidate with SigSynCell Doctoral Network. RTs greatly appreciated!
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Check out our new post!
With German and American colleagues, #RoyBarZiv 's team has identified and characterised a gene regulation mechanism that could be used in the design of synthetic cells to optimise resources and functions
Weizmann Institute Ferdinand Greiss
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We've compiled the best moments of the #SynCell2024 conference. Watch our video to get a taste of this edition!

Thank you to all the participants and we hope to see many of you at the next edition, #SynCell2025 , in Asilomar, California, USA.

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Want to learn about synthetic cells and slime molds?
Tune into my #MaterialMinds Leibniz_INM podcast to learn more:

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Check out Lorenzo's talk DiMicheleLAB at Pint of Science, 13 May 'Building Synthetic Cells, one molecule at a time' discussing the concept and potential applications of synthetic cells, and how we try to build them using DNA Lego. pintofscience.co.uk/event/biotech Pint of Science UK

Check out our latest paper in JACS Au describing novel methods to measure actin biophysics using FLIM & show that actin binding influences SynCell membrane mechanics. Kudos to superstar PhD student Ion Ioannou & collabs Kuimova Group + Nick Brooks
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For building a synthetic cell, we will need to access the information carried in large DNA molecules. We used active learning to adapt in vitro gene expression to E. coli's chromosomes with a surprising efficiency. Synthetic Cell initiative
Now out in ACS_Omega 🥳
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#Postdocs opportunities in the Göpfrich Group in Heidelberg, Germany

Conference
#ArtBio2024 - 2nd conference on artificial biology: Assemble - Imitate - Adapt.
🗓 3-day forum in Artificial Biology: 14-16 August 2024.
📍 Aarhus, Denmark

Two #postdoc opportunities at Imperial College London, UK

A new MSCA DN emerges from the Horizon Europe.
At SigSynCell we aim to develop synthetic cells with the key characteristic function of living systems: the ability to interact with its environment. Follow us up here, on LinkedIn and on sigsyncell.crpp.cnrs.fr

The official announcement of the Synthetic Cell Africa Initiative was made today Synthetic Cell initiative join us for the official launch during the SynBio Africa Conf 17-19 July 2024 Nairobi Kenya Register bit.ly/SBACONF2024
Otim geoffrey Magox Office of Naval Research (ONR) Tae Seok Moon

Congratulations to Layla Malouf Layla Malouf, Céline Cleij, and Jorik Waeterschoot who won the award for best poster
#SynCell2024

Final parallel session this afternoon on cell-cell communication, innovations and applications, and building blocks.
#SynCell2024
Rodriguez-Emmenegger Lab