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Designing minimal cells with 3D bioprinting
10 / 02 / 20213D bioprintingbiophysics
The ability of three dimensional printers of biomaterials – 3D bioprinters – to mimic cells on the microscale makes this technique an attractive starting point for constructing minimal cells from the bottom-up. Hiromune Eto makes use of a two-photon laser printer to create hydrogel protein structures. Since these bio-printed ...
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Jean-Christophe Baret on making cells that produce new materials
10 / 12 / 2020cell metabolismcircular cell-productsmicrofluidicsvideo
Jean-Christophe Baret on making cells that produce new materials What if we could get cells to produce materials for us? Microfluidics is the technology of controlling soft and biological matter at a small scale. Prof. Dr. Jean-Christophe Baret and his team at the CRPP institute in Bordeaux create chips to ...
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Tobias Erb on turning CO2 into valuable products
09 / 12 / 2020artificial photosynthesismetabolismvideo
Tobias Erb on turning CO2 into valuable products What if we could transform the harmful CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere into useful products? Plants can filter CO2 from the atmosphere very efficiently, but also very slowly. Using synthetic biology methods, Prof. Dr. Tobias Erb and his team at the Max ...
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The promise of synthetic cells
14 / 09 / 2020video
The promise of synthetic cells Charlotte Koster from the Dutch consortium BaSyC explains how building a synthetic cell from scratch can lead to biological solutions that will make industry more sustainable:
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Charting the way to minimal cells
16 / 07 / 2020origins of lifeworkshop
Proteins reveal hidden functions As it turns out, proteins reveal new, previously hidden functions when you build them from the bottom up, outside of their natural environment. These new functions might actually be quite old, Professor Petra Schwille from Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry shares during the discussions: “Life on ...
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Reconstituting Biology 2020: Lorentz workshop 29 June - 1 July 2020
29 / 06 / 2020workshop
Date: 29 June – 3 July 2020 Event location: online workshop Description: This workshop aims to reflect on the achievements in bottom-up synthetic biology worldwide and to map future research directions and visions towards – or even away from – the promise of a synthetic cell. Junior and senior researchers working ...
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Issue of Emerging Topics in Life Sciences about Synthetic Biology
27 / 11 / 2019
This issue of Emerging Topics in Life Sciences brings together a collection of perspectives and reviews discussing the exciting advances in synthetic biology.
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Synthetic Cell symposium held in Madrid
14 / 11 / 2019
The event kicked off with presentations about the science & technology vision of three of the promotors of the Synthetic Cell project: Marileen Dogterom, Petra Schwille and Manuel Thery. Paul Clarke then delivered an inspirational talk about his work at Ocado Technology, a company that has combined AI and ...
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Marileen Dogterom named Society Fellow of the Biophysical Society
05 / 09 / 2018
Marileen Dogterom named Society Fellow of the Biophysical Society Marileen Dogterom (Bionanoscience) is one of seven people who will be designated as Society Fellows of the Biophysical Society. She is awarded this honor for her pioneering experimental work on elucidating the physical mechanisms that govern assembly and dynamics of cytoskeleton filaments, ...
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1st International Symposium on Building a Synthetic Cell (BaSyC)
27 / 06 / 2018
The symposium is fully dedicated to research on the bottom-up assembly of a functioning synthetic cell from its molecular components. Aim of this symposium is to bring together researchers worldwide to present and discuss the latest results in cutting-edge research on the synthetic cell, and its future scientific and technological ...
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