Laura Rodríguez Arco

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The Elani Group at Imperial College is offering a postdoc position to work on genetically encoded cell-like systems that can sense their environment, perform computation, make decisions & respond by modulating their environment #syncell #syntheticcell
Deadline: 9 Nov
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The Gobbo group (Trieste, Italy) is offering a 2-year postdoc position to work on the synthesis of protocells and their assembly into materials that mimic the behaviours of living tissue

Application deadline: 28/11

More info
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#syncell #syntheticcell

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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
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Magnetic activation of spherical nucleic acids enables the remote control of synthetic cells - Nature Chemistry The programmability of synthetic cells, comprising lipid vesicles that are capable of imitating the structure and function of living cells, facilitates their application as drug delivery devices. Now,...

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...

Beautiful! 😍

We refer to them as “Windmill droplets” in connection with the concept of “Windmill effect” proposed by @giovannivolpe.bsky.social and colleagues. To the best of our knowledge this is the first example of this kind of rotation in a soft, liquid,💧system, and could find applications in optofluidics

Windmill droplets: optically induced rotation of biphasic oil-in-water droplets In the field of microdroplet manipulation, optical tweezers have been used to form and grow droplets, to transport them, or to measure forces between droplet pairs. However, the exploration of out-of-...

New paper in @softmatter.rsc.org in collaboration with Raul Rica. We show out-of-equilibrium rotation of biphasic oil-in-water droplets in optical tweezers! Super cool videos 😉
Thanks to all co-authors, especially to Ana and Jesús 💛

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Three-dimensional optofluidic control using reconfigurable thermal barriers - Nature Photonics A fluidic system with spatially reconfigurable hot spots generated by optical pumping of plasmonic nanorods is demonstrated, creating virtual barriers by generating local heating via photothermal conv...

It's out & hot 🔥 Not only because it just went online but since we show that engineered heat patterns are super effective in manipulating fluid flows & particles.
If you work in microfluidics, or need reconfigurable environments in your experiments, give it a read!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪💡

DNA-Programmable Protein Degradation: Dynamic Control of Proteolysis-Targeting Chimera Activity via DNA Hybridization and Strand Displacement Targeted protein degradation is a powerful therapeutic approach: expanding the druggable proteome, providing enhanced selectivity, and having the ability to overcome conventional resistance mechanisms...

We have developed a dynamic ‘off’ switch for PROTAC activity by using DNA linkers and toehold mediated strand displacement!

Published in JACS Au @pubs.acs.org

Led by Disha Kashyap, with @shozebhaider.bsky.social + Tom Milne

@uclchemistry.bsky.social #chemsky 🧪🧬
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Preprint by @towalther.bsky.social at al! We design DNA hydrogel microparticles with sequence-controlled stiffness from 30 Pa to 6.5 kPa. They are remodelled in fibroblast spheroids www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thanks @ibecbarcelona.eu @xaviertrepat.bsky.social @pcusachs.bsky.social

🎨🔬 In our lab, science meets art! From vibrant colors to stunning shapes, our experiments are as beautiful as they are fascinating. Because science is art!

✨ Check out our gallery of images captured by the team:
www.softbiocoll.com

#SciArt #SoftMatter #Microscopy #SyntheticCells #ActiveMatter

Haptotactic Motion of Multivalent Vesicles Along Ligand-Density Gradients Multivalent adhesion between cell-membrane receptors and surface- or particle-anchored ligands underpins a range of active cellular processes, such as cell crawling and pathogen invasion. In these cir...

Publication by Yuval Elani's lab on lipid vesicles that can crawl up surface concentration gradients using DNA receptors. Collaboration with @dimichelelab1.bsky.social

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New publication from our group @softbiocol.bsky.social
led by Vivien Willems.
Check the group Twitter thread about it below👇
A step forward on active soft microsystems
Thanks to all the colleagues who made this happen!
@crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social
@univbordeaux.bsky.social

Publication Alert!📢
Check our new article by José in collab with C. Fernandez-Rico, L. Rodriguez-Arco M. Dijkstra R. Subert & M. Lopez.
We engineering reversible 2D rod percolated networks!
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
#SoftMatter #Colloids
@crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social

[🫧 Meet our doctoral candidates]

New DC sighted!

Pablo Moreno Reolid is our DC based at the University of Granada under the supervision of Dr. Laura Rodriguez-Arco. He will work on the designing of bioinspired microcompartments that harness energy from external force fields.

Synetic Cell MC Doctoral Network PhD offer alert!📌 at @kgoepfrich.bsky.social
group in Heidelberg!
If you are interested in RNA origami, synthetic cells, & membranes, contact Kerstin with a CV and a transcript of your records!
More info goepfrichgroup.de
& sigsyncell.crpp.cnrs.fr

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Please RT📢 #Fullyfunded #PhD opportunity for #International Student 📢

Are you interested in designing #SyntheticCells with life-like functions? Join my group to explore how condensates interact with polymeric membranes to induce dynamic behaviours.

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