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International Day of Women and Girls in Science – in conversation with Zexi Xu

13 / 02 / 2023

Zexi Xu is a postdoc in the Membrane Biochemistry and Biophysics research group at Utrecht University. She is currently working on the interaction between cold atmospheric plasma and biological membranes. She obtained her PhD at the University of Leeds in 2022. What motivated you to do research? Since I was a ...

International Day of Women and Girls in Science

13 / 02 / 2023

February 11 was the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. At the European Synthetic Cell Initiative, we think it is important to celebrate this day and add to the collective voice on equality in science. On this occasion, we are highlighting female researchers in our community to ...

International Day of Women and Girls in Science – in conversation with Claudia Contini

13 / 02 / 2023

Originally from Sardinia, Italy, Claudia Contini does not come from an academic family and is in fact the only person in her family with a PhD. After a PhD in Physical Chemistry at University College London (UCL), she worked for five years at Imperial College London and is now ...

International Day of Women and Girls in Science – in conversation with Jacqueline De Lora

13 / 02 / 2023

Jacqueline De Lora is a postdoc in the lab of Joachim Spatz at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Germany. Born and raised in New Mexico, USA, she completed her PhD in biomedical Sciences at the University of New Mexico, with a focus on biomedical engineering. One ...

International Day of Women and Girls in Science – in conversation with Marcelina Cardoso Dos Santos

13 / 02 / 2023

Marcelina Cardoso Dos Santos is the only one in her family working in science and with a PhD. Biophysicist at the CEA (The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission) at Paris-Saclay University, Institute of Integrative Biology of the Cell since 2018, she is interested in biomimetic systems and ...

International Day of Women and Girls in Science – in conversation with Liedewij Laan

13 / 02 / 2023

Liedewij Laan has been leading a research group at TU Delft (Netherlands) since October 2014. Her group focuses on evolutionary cell biophysics: how can a cell be both robust on cell cycle timescales while being also adaptive on evolutionary timescales. One of the approaches they use to address this ...

Collaborative Research - Case study: Yash and Jacqueline

02 / 02 / 2023

Last May, we hosted SynCell2022, a scientific conference to present and discuss the latest research results in bottom-up synthetic biology. During the conference, Yash Jawale, from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, and Jacqueline De Lora, from the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Germany, exchanged ideas ...

SynCell2023 conference - registration is open!

19 / 01 / 2023

SynCell2023, the International Conference on Engineering Synthetic Cells and Organelles will be held May 22-24 in Minneapolis, USA. Registration is now open. The conference aims to bring together researchers from around the world to present and discuss the latest research results in bottom-up synthetic biology. In addition, SynCell2023 provides room ...

How to achieve cell division in animal cell-like systems

02 / 01 / 2023

Because of its complexity, cell division remains difficult for scientists to reconstruct. A research team from the Kavli Institute of Delft University of Technology, involved in the BaSyC (Building a Synthetic Cell) research program, analyzed the various works on cell division. Since the process differs depending on the cell ...

Meet the Community – Henrik Toft Simonsen

13 / 12 / 2022

Trained as a pharmacist and chemist, Henrik fell into the field of biotechnology during his postdoc in 2006 and has been working in it ever since. He specializes in plant cells and studies terpenoids, fragrant molecules that he uses to develop drugs and pharmaceuticals. As a strong advocate of ...