Happy to join the #BBSRC #People and #Talent #Advisory #Pool to provide feedback on specific policies or surveys and engage with other strategy advisory or funding panels across BBSRC. www.ukri.org/councils/bbs...

#Synthetic #Cells, what are they and how can we use of them? 👇👇👇 @syncelleu.bsky.social @imperiallifesci.bsky.social @imperialsci.bsky.social @synbio.bsky.social

Registrations are now open! Hope to see many of you in London! #SynCell26

Looking forward to parted at the #MRSFall25 Meeting in #Boston this week. Lots of great symposium sessions ahead! If you are around, feel free to reach out!

There is still time to register for the EngBio Forum on Monday. It's free to attend with a great speaker line up - Andreas Walther @waltherlab.bsky.social and Claudia Contini @continiclau.bsky.social exploring #SyntheticCells #LifeLikeSystems #EngineeringBiology 🎟️🫱 buytickets.at/engineeringb...

Are you interested in how #living and #synthetic systems navigate chemical gradients, from #bacteria to #active #colloids? Click here: doi.org/10.1002/anie... #EngineeringBiology #SyntheticBiology #ActiveMatter #SoftMatter

In May 2024 we had a great workshop on chemotaxis in the MPI PKS in Dresden! The social impressions are in the picture below, and the scientific discussions are summarised in Angewandte Chemie lnkd.in/d6ymRhGK What a nice way to remember!

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

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...

Starting the week on a great note! 🤗 Here’s a snapshot from our #ComeInCell DC introductory meeting, which took place on 02.10 at the #MPICI in Potsdam, co-hosted by #SigSynCell. A big thank you to everyone who joined, both in person and online! #MSCA #HorizonEurope

We're extremely excited to welcome Prof Andreas Walther @waltherlab.bsky.social and Dr Claudia Contini @continiclau.bsky.social for our next Forum We'll be exploring #SyntheticCells #LifeLikeSystems and #EngineeringBiology from the bottom-up Don't miss it, register now! 👉 bit.ly/engbio-forum-nov25

Celebrating the last night of Biomembrane Days with a proper German meal 🍺

Excited to share this new extensive review in #Chemical #Society #Review on #nanoparticle - #membrane interaction. Thanks Rashad Kariuki, Aaron Elbourne, Saffron Bryant and Andrew J. Christofferson for leading this work! 💫 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

@continiclau.bsky.social at the #BiomembtaneDays25 introduced us to a variety of synthetic-cell-like systems showing motility, contraction and deformation @comeincell.bsky.social

🎉 Finally: tomorrow Sept 29 we open BIOMEMBRANE DAYS 2025 in Berlin: 3 days packed with exciting science on membranes! Looking forward to an amazing program of invited & contributed talks, posters & lively discussions. 📍 events.mpikg.mpg.de/event/15/ @ewerslab.bsky.social @mpici.bsky.social

Looking forward to seeing many of you at the Biomembrane Days! events.mpikg.mpg.de/event/15/

Welcome to the team, Zain!

📢The Contini Lab is hiring! Based at Imperial College, you will join a vibrant, multidisciplinary team developing next-generation nanomaterials and synthetic biology platforms to tackle antimicrobial resistance. Apply before 19 October! #syncell #syntheticcell

I am looking for a motivated #Postdoctoral #Researcher to join my group at Imperial @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @imperiallifesci.bsky.social. The project focuses on #Antimicrobial #Materials & #Biomimetic #Interfaces Please repost! @imperialsci.bsky.social www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

We’ve developed the first-ever method to control nucleic acid activity and gene-expressing synthetic cells with a deeply tissue penetrating alternating magnetic field 🧬 🧪 🧲!!! Published in *Nature Chemistry* Led by Ellen Parkes @syncelleu.bsky.social #chemsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

💫Thrilled to see our work on the front cover of Small! This work explores how #polymers empower #SyntheticCells with programmable dynamics, enabling fusion, contraction and interactions with biological cells. Huge thanks to Michela Vargiolu for the stunning artwork! @imperiallifesci.bsky.social

Come and join us!! @imperiallifesci.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

New academic faculty posts available at Imperial College London! Assistant/Associate Professors in Life Sciences. Please apply and/or circulate details! www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

WORK! I currently have 5 (!) open positions for postdocs/PhD students in our CDlab for projects: - Nanopore protein sequencing - Archaeal CDV cell division - Microfluidics for synthetic cells - Nuclear Pore Complex - Origami mimics of peroxisomes Please apply! ceesdekkerlab.nl/come-join-us/ RT=👍

A sneak peek at some of the upcoming talks at the FoNS Research Showcase on 11 September 2025.... Register now! www.imperial.ac.uk/events/19397...

200 engineering/life science/medical grants, including my lab's NIH MIRA, have been suspended. In case you are wondering, this means immediately stop spending = stop paying salaries for students & postdocs. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Now online: News & Views on the Article by Ke Shi, Peiyong Song, Jianwei Li, Yan Qiao & Yiyang Lin www.nature.com/articles/s44... ($) From light to life-like protocells by @continiclau.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44... ($) #Chemsky

New paper! In my #Nature #Synthesis News & Views, I discuss how light-driven #chemistry enables dynamic life-like #protocells, highlighting the outstanding work of Lin and co-workers #SyntheticBiology #SyntheticCells @imperiallifesci.bsky.social @natsynth.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s44...

🎉Just out in @chemcomm.rsc.org! We present a modular strategy to create bacterial #biohybrids with magnetic motility, #biosensing and cargo release. 👏🏻huge congrats to Nina on her first first-author paper and thanks to Yuval and Matt for the great collaboration! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... @rsc.org

🚨New publication! Led by Talia Shmool, the project explores using ionic liquids to optimise IgG-Gold #nanoparticles for #DrugDelivery , including crossing the BBB with focused ultrasound. #drugdelivery @pubs.acs.org @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Excited to be speaking at #LivingMachines2025 workshop on #Biomimetic #Microrobots as #Microscale Living Machines! See you in Sheffield on July 15! sites.google.com/view/lm2025b...

Apply now to join my group as a postdoctoral Fellow at @imperialcollege We are supporting applications for: - Imperial College Research Fellowship -Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships Get in touch: continilab.com #SoftMatter, #CellMimicry #polymerchemistry

🇮🇹 Yesterday, we celebrated the Italian Republic surrounded by #Caravaggio ’s masterpieces at the #NationalGallery . A perfect tribute to Italy’s rich heritage! ✨ #FestaDellaRepubblica

Apply now to join my group as a postdoctoral Fellow at @imperialcollege We are supporting applications for: - Imperial College Research Fellowship -Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships Get in touch: continilab.com #SoftMatter, #CellMimicry #polymerchemistry

🎉So proud of Yeyang Sun for winning 1st prize for his poster presentation at the #London #Polymer #Group #Symposium! A fantastic recognition for his hard work. Congratulations 🥳 Thanks the organisers for an amazing day of (polymer) science! #LPG2025

My dept in London at Imperial (Bioengineering) is recruiting a group leader at Professor level 🧑‍🎓 Please RT. It's a great place with world-class expertise in all sorts of biomedical & biological engineering topics like synthetic biology. It's also not in the USA. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

Fully funded PhD studentship in the group for Home students! Please RT! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Fully funded PhD studentship in the group for Home students! Please RT! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Can we design polymeric systems that look like cells and have #dynamic #cell-like #behavours ? #YES! 🔥 our vesicles fuse, contract and even trap external objects.

💥First research paper from the lab is out in Small! 👉We show how thermally driven dynamic behaviors in #polymeric #vesicles create a versatile platform for synthetic cell applications. #SynCells #SoftMatter onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Future astronaut in the making 👩‍🚀 Ready for take off 🚀 #inspiredby Samantha Cristoforetti @esa.int

Exciting news! 💥 The first paper from my research group has been accepted! Stay tuned for more details soon!

One week left to apply to this exciting PhD project! 👇👇👇

One week left to apply to this exciting PhD project! 👇👇👇

🚨Three weeks left to apply for this #fullyfunded #PhDopportunity in my group! 🚨 Are you an UK-Home student interest in #SyntheticCells science? We are looking for you! @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @imperiallifesci.bsky.social @imperialsci.bsky.social

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

🚨PhD opportunities available! 🚨 I have two open #PhDpositions in my group: 1️⃣ For international EU students (deadline in 1 week!) 2️⃣ For home-UK students If you’re excited about synthetic cells, don’t miss out! 📄 Apply here: continilab.com/join-us/

We are live! 🎉 Our official group website is now online! 🎉 Discover our #projects, meet the #team and stay tuned for job #openings and exciting #news ! 👉 Check it out here: continilab.com

Happy new year everyone, and some great news! We have an opening for a PhD candidate to join our lab @cebcambridge.bsky.social in October 2025 as part of the new exciting MSCA Doctoral Network @comeincell.bsky.social jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49240/

Please Share! 🚨 #FullyFunded #PhDopportunity for UK-home student 🚨 🔬Are you interested in designing dynamic synthetic cells that mimic essential life-like functions? Join my group at @imperialsci.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social ! #cellmimicry #FindAPhD findaphd.com/phds/project/e…