What's the cost of German bureaucracy? For a DAAD PhD, it's 6 months of waiting for a visa, then €350 per semester just to get basic student privileges (like a login and transportation!). We can't claim to be a research powerhouse and then treat international scholars this way. #DAAD

October 8: fancy new plate reader is delivered, yay! October 17: pipes in the room of the fancy new plate reader burst, fancy new plate reader is flooded.

Amazing Life - Inspired Functional Assembly Workshop at Harbin Institute of Technology. Thank you so much for the invitation, Dietmar Appelhans and Xin Huang, it was great to listen and discuss with our Chinese colleagues!

And it's a wrap for my talk at European Federation of Biotechnology - Designer Biology in Newcastle, where I showed biologists how can artificial cells imitate real ones, just worse!

New elective at @tuda.bsky.social (WiSe 25/26): Macromolecular Systems for Drug Delivery. Polymer architectures, nanocarriers & translation to biomedical applications. Excited to teach this in the new Master’s program!

Honoured to have presented our recent work on polymeric artificial cells at @epf2025.bsky.social in Groningen. The audience was spread out but locked in!

On my way to @epf2025.bsky.social , DB has already changed my train and itinerary twice. If the Heavens support me, I'll eventually be in Groningen for a week of science!

We're seeking a postdoc to apply for the DAAD PRIME fellowship (18 months: 12 in Padova with Prof. Francesca Lorandi, 6 in Darmstadt with me) to work on an interdisciplinary project combining polymer brush chemistry and engineered yeast cells for heavy metal remediation 🧵

Yesterday I had the pleasure to present my research of the past couple of years at APME 2025 in Catania

Nice try, phishers, as if my university's administration would ever do anything without paper!

21/02/2025 11 AM: be rejected for a grant 1 PM: your student achieves a preliminary result that would have made your proposal basically reviewer-proof.

Me, a Spaniard, looking at the research cuts proposed in the US:

I'm happy to share this roadmap towards the synthesis of life! It is the result of one of the best workshops I ever attended, where scientists across biology, chemistry, and physics came together to map out the key challenges to synthesize life. Enjoy! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It’s out!😃 2 years ago, I organized a workshop with @WebersGroup and @KGoepfrich on how to build Life. We discussed with leading scientists by day and wrote up our discussions in the eves. The "Roadmap Towards Synthetic Life" is now out in Chem! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My spider-sense keeps hinting that any paper title since 2023 that is "Meaningless Short Title: Longer Explanation" was created using ChatGPT.

Im Video: Der TU-Biotechnologe @andreabelluati.bsky.social arbeitet im Forschungsvorhaben „CoM2Life“ daran, künstliche und lebende Zellen miteinander zu verbinden. "CoM2Life" ist eines der Projekte, mit denen sich die TUDa um einen Exzerllenzcluster bewirbt. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ePi...

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/

Happy to end the year with the News and Views of @bruns-lab.bsky.social and I in @naturecatalysis.bsky.social , discussing about the great work of Prof Wu! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

TWO PhD opportunities to join my group on the new CDT in Engineering Solutions for Antimicrobial Resistance! Synthetic cells and DNA nanotechnology 🧬🦠🧑‍🔬 - Project details below Open Day 18th December 11 am Application Deadline 26th January 2025 #chemsky 🧪 www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

Our new work on bioPISA artificial cells has been published in Advanced Biology ! We characterized the heterogeneity of their population, how their interior looks like and loaded them via electroporation. @synbio.bsky.social @max-planck-polymer.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

My last out-of-office automatic reply was set one year ago. I might be daring and set one again for these holidays.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... We're ending the year with good news: together with Dr Sharma and the Dhiman Lab at @unimainz.bsky.social, we have a new article on Angewandte Chemie, where we show how enzymatic ATRP and reaction networks form transient coacervate protocells!

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