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...

Thanks @syncelleu.bsky.social for highlighting our recent work on DNA receptors at @jacs.acspublications.org! 🧬 🧪 💡

🚨I am excited to announce the upcoming Designer Membranes and Bio-inspired Interfaces Symposium, taking place at Wolfson College, Cambridge on the 26th and 27th of March 2026. iop.eventsair.com/dmbi2025/

As promised, we run the town and gown 10k! In the photos are group members @rogerrubiosanchez.bsky.social Juliette Bucci, Brian Ng, Cathrine Fan, Sebastian Krauss and Lorenzo (the old one). Thanks to all who supported us with donations to @mdukcharity.bsky.social

Hey! Some group members and I are running a 10k race in Cambridge this Sunday, and raining some funds for @mdukcharity.bsky.social Please donate and share! @ceb.cam.ac.uk @pembroke1347.bsky.social sportsgiving.co.uk/sponsorship/...

Check out this new @jacs.acspublications.org paper by @rogerrubiosanchez.bsky.social. Building cation responsive DNA receptors for synthetic cells!

So glad to see this beautiful work out! Got to work with an amazing team and see these small but mighty DNA receptors in action. 🧬

Really happy to see this published in its final form @jacs.acspublications.org! 🧬 In this paper, we introduce a new class of biomimetic receptors to host functionality in synthetic cell membranes Elita Peters @dianatanase.bsky.social @dimichelelab1.bsky.social pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Super elegant work on DNA-DNA interactions 👇🏼 🧬

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...

My work on DNA condensates @dimichelelab1.bsky.social is now out! 🧬🎉🍬 A huge thank you to @francolab.bsky.social lab for their invaluable expertise and to everyone in our lab for their insights, feedback, and countless discussions along the way. I’ve learned so much from working with you all!

Very exciting to see this preprint live! Check out @dimichelelab1.bsky.social 🧵 👇🏼 showing how to produce synthetic condensates as ‘designer’ membrane-less organelles inside bacteria using RNA nanotechnology 🧬 ✨

New preprint! 🚨 With Elita Peters @dianatanase.bsky.social @dimichelelab1.bsky.social, we introduce cation-regulated DNA receptors for structural and functional responses in synthetic cells! 🧬 We think they are useful for bottom-up sensing and signalling pathways. Hope you enjoy the read!

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

📣NEW PAPER ALERT ⚠️ Finally out in Nature Communications, after unfortunately spending almost 1 year under review at Nature Materials 🤐 But very very pround of this work that was spearheaded by extremely talented PhD student Moritz Weck: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Research Fellow in Artificial Cell Modification Particularly suited to applicants with expertise in protein overexpression and purification, peptide synthesis and characterisation of proteins and their conjugates, including mass spectrometry. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

PhD alert! I have two ERC-funded PhD positions to uncover the chemical origins of life (Oct 2025). *UK fees only*. Projects described here: www.lclu.cam.ac.uk/studentship-... Email me if interested - deadline (PhD in Biochemistry, Uni of Cambridge): Jan 7th! Please share within your networks!

If you’re interested in immune cell metabolism I’m recruiting for a PhD student. Deadline: 17th Jan. Start date: Sept 2025. Informal discussion always welcome. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Great talks by Juliette Bucci @cebcambridge.bsky.social and Honghao Su @honghaosu.bsky.social @plantscience.bsky.social at our EngBio ECR Meetup today. We hope to see you at next meetup 20 Jan 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/engin...

#Phd project available to join my group and @drmikebooth.bsky.social group at @uclchemistry.bsky.social on the #CDT in #Engineering Solutions for #Antimicrobial #Resistance to work on electrokinetic and nucleic acid technology for lateral flow assays (shorturl.at/mCozh) App Deadline: 26/01/25

Join us for the final EngBio Early Career Researcher Meetup of 2024! @engbioirc.bsky.social 📆Monday 9th December📍Cambridge West Hub. Talks by Juliette Bucci @cebcambridge.bsky.social 🧬 and Honghao Su @honghaosu.bsky.social @plantscience.bsky.social 🌱. 👉RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/engin...

A growing starting package of the Engineering Biology community in Cambridge (UK) 🧬! Contact EngBio IRC @engbioirc.bsky.social if you want to be added go.bsky.app/CFmRK7X

Please share this PhD opportunity in my new lab in Bristol, using protein design/ engineering to understand and build molecular motors to control intracellular transport. Working with @markdodding.bsky.social and Prof Dek Woolfson. www.findaphd.com/phds/project... www.swbio.ac.uk/biomolecular...

Ok, trying to bring my community back together... I created a starter pack for lipids and membrane protein aficionados! Feel free to share, add and distribute, so we can come together again! 😍 go.bsky.app/AEeXh86

I am excited to share our review published online with Nature Reviews MCB. Pilong Li, Gaofeng Pei, Heankel Lyons, and I review the current literature on the regulation of transcription by condensates, large length scale assemblies of complexes (Figure 1). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

To accelerate the X-odus, I created a DNA & RNA nanotech starter pack :) Comment if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/7LUeJ61

Amazing to see our work on designer RNA condensates featured on the cover of @naturenano.bsky.social!!! #RNAnanotech #condensates #SynCells www.nature.com/articles/s41...