A new MSCA DN emerges from the Horizon Europe. At SigSynCell we aim to develop synthetic cells with the key characteristic function of living systems: the ability to interact with its environment. Follow us up here, on LinkedIn and on sigsyncell.crpp.cnrs.fr

[🫧 Meet our doctoral candidates] A new member joined our team! Eleni Kopsini started out her doctorate at CNRS under the supervision of JCBLab 🇺🇦🕊 working on harvesting energy through light and chemical control in synthetic cells.

[🫧 Meet our doctoral candidates] New member spotted 👀 Udith Ghosh started his doctoral education at Wageningen U&R under the supervision of dr. Siddharth Deshpande, working on coacervate-based strategy to form communicative membraneless compartments within cell-mimicking vesicles.

[🫧 Meet our doctoral candidates] New member spotted at CNRS 🇫🇷 José Fojo-Vazquez started his PhD under the supervision of Laura Alvarez. He will work on creating programmable, motile GUVs with controlled mechanical properties and responsiveness to external stimuli.

[🫧 Meet our doctoral candidates] A new member landed on our shores 🏝️ Julia Breed is our DC at Imperial College London, under the supervision of Yuval Elani, working on building synthetic cells with long-distance communication capabilities.

[🫧 Meet our doctoral candidates] New member on board! Atreyee Saha is one of our DCs at the University of Münster under the supervision of Prof. Seraphine Wegner. She will be working on photosensitive GUVs and their chemical communication.

[🫧 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.

[🫧 Meet our doctoral candidates] Aisha Idiyatullina is our DC based at the University of Ljubljana under the supervision of Prof. Jure Derganc. She will work on developing new methods for high-throughput analysis of giant lipid vesicles in non-equilibrium conditions.

[🫧 Meet our doctoral candidates] New member on board 🐉 Eric Bumüller is our DC based in AMOLF under the supervision of Ganzinger Lab. He will work on generating a modular toolbox for bio-inspired communication across synthetic membranes

[🫧 Meet our doctoral candidates] Esra Baydar is our DC at the CNRS, supervised by Dr. Nicolas Martin. Esra has a master’s degree in chemistry from Boğaziçi University. In SigSynCell, her research fill focus on designing light-responsive coacervates as artificial organelles

We are very happy to celebrate our partner Prof. Seraphine Wegner, who was awarded the ERC grant for her Lighthouse project! With Lighthouse, Seraphine and her team at Universität Münster aim to establish light-based signalling between cells, in both living and artificial systems.

We are very happy to celebrate one more of our partners, Prof. Kerstin Göpfrich for receiving the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation's grant. Congrats Kerstin!