Check this paper out: my colleague Ferdi Greiss trapped E.coli chromosomes in microfluidic reservoirs and looked at protein expression at the single molecule level.

I am very proud to share the core project of my post-doc in this beautiful paper. With colleagues at the Weizmann, we built biochips to interrogate antigen-antibody interactions at high-throughput and quantitatively. Check it out at @natnano.nature.com

I am happy to share that our review on the Controlled Protein Synthesis in Microfluidic Environments has been published 🎉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Thanks to @emmacrean.bsky.social, Imre Banlaki, @jankalkowski.bsky.social, and @hniederho.bsky.social for great teamwork!

🧬How do synthetic cells talk to each other? 🗣️🔬 Discover our new open access review, written together with the postdocs of the Bar-Ziv lab: Aurore Dupin, @mattschwa.bsky.social, and Ferdinand Greiss. 📖 Dive in and join the conversation! doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

New on @biorxiv!!!!!! We’re excited to share our latest paper on combining cell-free systems and machine learning to express full genome in vitro. Check it out now! 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Catch us at SEED in Houston this June to discuss this work. #CellFree

Congratulations to Noa Avidan who defended her PhD supervised by Pr Roy Bar-Ziv in front of Pr Ada Yonath at the Weizmann Institute of Science Autonomous synthesis of ribosomal large subunit intermediates in a minimal system

Disentangling microbial interaction networks www.cell.com/trends/micro...

New study in @cellpress.bsky.social by Allen Distinguished Investigator @elowitzlab.bsky.social and collaborators explores the versatility of protein dimers. #FrontierScience 🔗 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Build-a-cell seminar with Roy Bar-Ziv youtu.be/yvbPmAS_cPM?...

Our review, What remains from living cells in bacterial lysate-based cell-free systems, is available on HAL (the french open archive): hal.science/hal-04118475...

Finally published: A fluorescence microscope that performs microscale MRI using NV centers in diamond. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🔬💎 #QuantumTech #MRI #NMR #Microscopy

Nature research paper: De novo designed proteins neutralize lethal snake venom toxins https://go.nature.com/4fZU9EI

A cell-free biosensor signal amplification circuit with polymerase strand recycling www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Five years of hard work has paid off! 🎉 What a nice new year surprise—we made it to the cover of Nature Microbiology! 🌟 Acknowledgment to all co-authors and specially Elisa Atza for producing this cover image!

Applications of bacteriophages in precision engineering of the human gut microbiome doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

First paper of the year is out! A collaboration with Tzion Fahima @University of Haifa with heavy lifting by Tamara Reveguk, who was a pleasure to co-supervise. We generated an atlas of tandem kinase proteins (TKPs). TKPs are known to confer disease resistance in monocots. 🧵(1/4) rdcu.be/d5ADS

Integrating bioelectronics with cell-based synthetic biology www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Exciting new #synbio engineered living materials work from Chao Zhong, Peng Huang and Bolin An's team in Shenzhen has just come out on bioRxiv. Lovely demonstration of how engineered E.coli can sense and treat in vivo. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Happy to kick off 2025 with this new review on gut microbiota-neuroepithelial signaling by the very talented Taka Ohara!

1/n Some time ago my colleague, excellent cook, and friend Ivan told me: "Cacio e pepe is the recipe that I screw up more often. Let's make a project studying systematically the physics of that sauce". Prepare to get cheesy, I'm glad to share the Cacio e paper preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2501.00536

I remember doing this maze with our lab after lunch one day! Great work on collective cognition comparing humans vs. ants in trying to solve a maze by Dreyer et al. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Building a capacity for making Turing patterns into bacteria. This is very cool. www.cell.com/cell-systems...

There are always many ways to look at your data.

This is our latest preprint about the biogenesis of the translation proteins in a minimal translation system (PURE). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Tracking transcription–translation coupling in real time doi.org/10.1038/s415...

The cellular dogma www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

My latest article is out! 1000 artificial cells synchronize in 2D and collective behavior emerges! #microfluidics #artificialcells #syntheticcells #cellfreeexpression doi.org/10.1038/s414...