Really happy to see our most recent Voices article, on the importance of DEI in science, published this week. Includes perspectives from 8 researchers from the USA, UK, China, and Bangladesh www.cell.com/cell-reports...

🚨Oli's soft robotic engines are now in #AdvancedMaterials. A new paradigm for hydrogel actuators - non-reciprocal motion. Kinetic asymmetry rocks advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #softrobotics #ercfunded @erc.europa.eu #hydrogel #actuator #noneqsys #lifelike #physicalintelligence

🚨Miao's and Weixiang's work on RNA transcription in DNA based condensates as nucleus mimics is now out in @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... #syncell #DNA #condensate #LLPS. Great work to understand transcription and LLPS in #crowded #viscoelastic environments @sfb1551.bsky.social

📄🚨 Great work by @Lorena now out in @jacs.acspublications.org "DNA Flipping as Facile Mechanism for Transmembrane Signaling in Synthetic Cells" We show that simple chol-ssDNA does not stay on the outside of GUV membranes but flips inside and can trigger reactions. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

A few great days in Vienna at the #schroedinger Institut for a Workshop on #softmatter. Wonderful to meet old Friends from our EU ITN polyamphi from my PHD times. Check out the toilets in the Institute 🫨.

We have a new Dr Zixuan in Tampere !! Congratulations and thank you for the discussion.

We have a new Dr Zixuan in Tampere !! Congratulations and thank you for the discussion.

Heading out to Tampere for a PhD Defense with @arri-priimagi.bsky.social . Looking forward to some good discussions. 🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮

Tomahawk vs chateaubriand. Chateaubriand wins. What a lovely dinner with friends. #chemistswhocook.

I think #linkedin has entered a new age, where AI and LLM are sending it into self-amplifying cycles of praise and gratitude till explosion of data centers. 😆😆

ATP-Powered Signaling between Synthetic and Living Cells https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.13.670118v1

Become my colleague!!! We are recruiting in a junior faculty level. Junior Professor for Theoretical Chemistry of Macromolecular and Supramolecular Systems #simulations #theory #noneqsys #assistantprofessor #chemjob Thank you for sharing this. berufungsportal.uni-mainz.de/ausschreibun...

A new Tool has arrived in our lab: 2 Photon Lithography by #upnano. Now we can print across all scales. Funded through the @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social putting it to work for neuroregeneration. #biomaterials #3Dprinting

Fantastic group excursion with the #team. Down the Rhine valley. Great weather, great team, great fun. And huge schnitzel in the evening. Absolutely loved the day.

Adjusting a pool with the very generic pH + and pH - chemicals. Putting my entire academic skillset to work!

@waltherlab.bsky.social taking us on a magical ride about adaptive soft matter. What a treat and fantastic talk at @uniulm.bsky.social!

Small tour in Ulm; looking froward to my @gdch.de lecture today. Most special hotel built in 1300. “The tilted hotel”

#chemistswhocook Merisier cherries for the duck. - handpicked by myself - because you cannot buy them. So good.

ACDC PwrUp tour. It’s amazing to see the old giants in action.

Great recognition for Joshua Krehan's work on Homeostatic Artificial Cells (in Chem) by colleagues from China, who wrote a two-page highlight about our work (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...).

It’s been a while since I contributed to #chemistswhocook. Tomahawk 🇺🇸 vegetable tian 🇫🇷 and mozzarella di bufala 🇮🇹. Delicious 😋

This needs wider attention 🥳.

Well done Hungary! #Diversity is strength.

In my recent News & Views in @natnano.nature.com ‬I highlight a new exciting work by @waltherlab.bsky.social on programmable ballistic wave diffusion in DNA #condensates

🚨 Two weeks left to apply for our joint #PhD position with @landfesterdept.bsky.social. “Ultraspecific mRNA delivery for targeted neurotherapeutics”. More details 👇🏼

Some final impressions from the #erc grantees chemistry conference in Porvoo. Thanks so much to @arri-priimagi.bsky.social and Olli Ikkala for organizing this great event!

Just checked in in Porvoo for the 6th #ERC grantees conference. Finland always brings back great memories to my postdoc time @erc.europa.eu

🚀 New diffusion mechanism in biomolecular #condensates! In our latest work in @natnano.nature.com, we report ballistic wave diffusion — a fundamentally different transport mode featuring ultrasharp fronts that propagate linearly in time. Congrats to Weixiang Chen! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Spent a great day for the @gdch.de lecture in Bayreuth. It was great to speak in the lecture hall I once had lectures in, in what feels ages ago. Thank you to Andre Groeschel, Johannes Brendel and Markus Retsch. still beer available in the Mensa #bavaria @unibayreuth.bsky.social

We are still hiring a #PhD researcher for our Carl Zeiss Project #Chemistry and #SyntheticBiology meet #Neuroscience. More details below. #phdposition #mRNA. Join us and grow our team of many PIs from chemistry to biology and medicine!

Our "Deep Learning Reaction Framework (DLRN) for kinetic modeling of time-resolved data" #machinelearning #CRN #systemschemistry A thread to explain: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

I decided for a different office today. 😍

Congratulation to the new Dr Sjoerd. master of vitrimers and mechanics. Love the meme on Protocell seminars. #eufunded #vitrimer 🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱

Here is our "DNA droplets shuffle in the spotlight" News and Views in Nature Materials for a brilliant article by Nan-Nan Deng's group. Droplets gone dancing! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨🚨We are hiring!🚨🚨 Together with my colleague @waltherlab.bsky.social, we are searching for a motivate PhD candidate to work on "Ultrapecise mRNA Delivery for Targeted Neurotherapeutics" within our Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung-funded project InteReg. More details can be found below.

I wrote my first letter confirming employment for one of my team members traveling to a conference in the US. This is how far we have come… but flights are getting cheap.

🚨🚨Together w/ @landfesterdept.bsky.social from @mpip-mainz.mpg.de, we are recruiting a joint #PHD #researcher on the topic of "Ultrapecise mRNA Delivery for Targeted Neurotherapeutics" in a larger collaborative center. #phdposition #chemistry #biomedicalengineering #mRNA #syntheticbiology RT = 😍

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to work on a project funded by the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation on dynamic peptide self-assembly. 📄 Full position ad: bit.ly/4jAIrmg 📅 Application deadline: May 31, 2025 #Postdoc #ChemistryJobs #SystemsChemistry #AcademicJobs #Freiburg #livMatS

Congrats to Aritra! New in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social "Photoactivated Enzymatic Reaction Network Enables Spatiotemporal Programming of Thiol/Disulfide Redox Systems" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... #systemschemistry #photochemistry #CRN #Noneqsys @humboldt-foundation.de #SFB1552

That’s quite beautiful and so true.

A new synthetic tissue mimic which, like living tissue, can self-protect against environmental threats. The work of Andreas Walther and Esther Amstad's groups is opening up new perspectives for cancer therapy. syntheticcell.eu/self-protect... @waltherlab.bsky.social #syncell #syntheticcell

NAND Hybrid Riboswitch Design by Deep Batch Bayesian Optimization https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.28.645907v1

Epic #Preprint 🚨: "Soft Robotic Engines with Non-Reciprocal Motion by Physical Intelligence". Background: Motion, motility, and accumulating work requires non-reciprocal movement-like in cilia or bacteria flagella. Breaking time reversal symmetry is one of the hardest aspects in #softrobotics.

A week of workation in the Dolomites. Good to clear the mind and write some papers. Plus celebrate my sister’s birthday. 🎉

Congrats to Davide for the poster award at “mechanics of bond breaking” conference. davide just showed a glimpse into his work! the ultimate concept is a tough cookie, but Davide is the scientist to achieve this. Davide is funded @dfg.de via Wal Ben Pro. Go strong ! @davidecampagna.bsky.social

Some impressions from Beijing. Feeling very athletic today 😆

Heading out to #beijing via #singapore to select the Chinese participants for the #lindau #nobellaureate Meeting. Excited to get to know many young science talents.

Large language models are really awesome. So much development, and my email spam filter is still lousy! When, when will it change? Snowy Lang I hate you. Zero training of #Mac Mail.

Homeostatic Artificial Cells Enable Self-Protection in Prototissue Spheroids - Fantastic and detailed work by Joshua on using chemo-structural feedback to reach self-regulation effects in #syntheticcells #systemschemistry now online in Chem www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Wonderful team effort. Chinese dumplings for celebrating Chinese new year. Better late than never. Thanks so much for some tasty treats.