Homepage - Max Planck Research Network for Synthetic Biology Events 2020 Symposium Mini Talks Mini Talks Abstracts Mini Talks Abstracts 48 exciting Mini Talks! #01 - Chemistry and Catalysis join forces in prebiotic RNA ligation Saurja DasGupta (Harvard Medical School, Boston) [more] #02 - Controlling synthetic cells and tissues Michael Booth (University of Oxford) [more] #03 - Buds, Necklaces, Tubes - Shape Instabilities of Asymmetric Membranes of Giant Unilamellar Vesicles Tripta Bhatia (Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam) [more] #04 - Functional and Morphological Adaptation in DNA Protocells via Downstream Signal Propagation Avik Samanta (University of Freiburg) [more] #05 - Life at the water-air interface Dieter Braun (Ludwing-Maximilians-University, Munich) [more] #06 - Photocatalytic Synthetic Biology Calum Ferguson (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz) [more] #07 - Bottom‐Up Assembly of Functional Intracellular Synthetic Organelles by Droplet‐Based Microfluidics Oskar Staufer (Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg) [more] #08 - Fast, cost-effective, and high-throughput solutions for Synthetic Biology Tom Speedy (Integrated DNA Technologies, Coralville) [more] #09 - Light-powered reactivation of flagella: towards building an artificial cell Azam Gholami (MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen) [more] #10 - Engineering bacterial membrane mimicking minimal cells Harsha Bajaj (CSIR National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram) [more] #11 - Understanding and engineering bio membranes for fun and reconstitution of cellular functions Jan Steinkühler (Northwestern University, Evanston) [more] #12 - Synthetic biology ethics in the academic and public spheres Brandon Sepulvado (University of Chicago) [more] #13 - Crowdsourced rRNA design discovers superfolder ribosomes Antje Kruger (Northwestern University, Evanston) [more] #14 - Modular and Programable Partitioning of Biomimetic DNA Nanostructures in Lipid Domains Roger Rubio Sanchez (University of Cambridge) [more] #15 - Liquid Crystal Coacervates: Functional Complex Compartments for Synthetic Biology Tommaso Fraccia (ESPCI Paris) [more] #16 - Bottom-Up Construction of a Minimal System for Cellular Respiration and Energy Regeneration Olivier Biner (University of Cambridge) [more] #17 - Building membrane machines to endocytize living bacteria: the battle between adhesion and flexibility Nina Kostina (DWI-Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials) [more] #18 - Silica Nanocapsules as Sub-Compartments in Protocells Lucas Caire da Silva (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz) [more] #19 - Identifying causal mutations that impact cell growth to “de-bug” yeast synthetic chromosomes Bryan Leland (Inscripta) [more] #20 - Building efficient signal decoders out of three-node subgraphs: an information-theoretic framework Ayan Biswas (Bose Institute, Kolkata) [more] #21 - Morphology and mechanics of membrane nanotubes interacting with reconstituted actin networks Clément Campillo (Université d'Evry - Université Paris-Saclay) [more] #22 - Gene expression dynamics and variability in synthetic cell populations David Gonzales (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden) [more] #23 - GUV constriction and motion driven by MinDE Turing-like patterns Meifang Fu (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried) [more] #24 - Prebiotically-relevant low polyion multivalency can improve functionality of membraneless compartments Fatma Pir Cakmak (MIT, Boston) [more] #25 - Silica nanoreactors: enzymatic reactions in confinements Seong-Min Jo (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz) [more] #26 - ML-guided Protein Sequence Design Cuong To (Cinference UG, Berlin) [more] #27 - Evaluating the limitations of heterologous protein synthesis using genomic-scale modelling and multi-omics data in S. cerevisiae Deepti Vipin (University of Hamburg) [more] #28 - Multistimuli sensing adhesion unit for the self-positioning of minimal synthetic cells Seraphine Wegner (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz / University of Münster) [more] #29 - Genetic context effects on gene expression from the E. coli chromosome Scott Scholz (Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg) [more] #30 - Responsive DNA particles destabilise lipid bilayers Michal Walczak (University of Cambridge) [more] #31 - Four-Dimensional Deoxyribonucleic Acid-Gold Nanoparticle Assemblies Philippe Jung (DWI-Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials, Aachen; Max Planck School Matter to Life) [more] #32 - Cell-free protein synthesis in hyaluronan microgels Anika Kaufmann (Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e. V., Dresden) [more] #33 - Microscopic polysaccharide hydrogels loaded in microreactors to perform enzymatic cascades towards polyketide synthesis Carola Graf (Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden) [more] #34 - Artificial tissues from 3D-printed coacervate protocells Alex Mason (Eindhoven University of Technology) [more] #35 - Controlling Optical and Catalytic Activity of Genetically Engineered Proteins by Ultrasound Yu Zhou (DWI - Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials, Aachen) [more] #36 - Spontaneously oscillating synthetic cilia Isabella Guido (Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen) [more] #37 - Directed chemical communication in microfluidic-based protocellular models Sunidhi Chandrakanth Shetty (Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam) [more] #38 - Development of a NAD+ regeneration module for the synthetic cell Minhui Wang (Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Magdeburg) [more] #39 - Protein-free fusion of biomimetic polymer and hybrid compartments and applications in bottom-up synthetic biology Nika Marušič (Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Magdeburg) [more] #40 - Creation of in-vitro actin cortices Kevin Kaub (Georg August University of Göttingen, Göttingen; Max Planck School Matter to Life) [more] #41 - En route to dynamic life processes by SNARE-mediated fusion of polymer and hybrid membranes Lado Otrin (Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Magdeburg) [more] #42 - High-throughput phenotyping of colorectal cancer organoids to understand mechanisms of malignant cell organisation and perturbation Niklas Rindtorff (German Cancer Research Center, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg; Max Planck School Matter to Life) [more] #43 - Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Antimicobrial Human Cathelicidin against Mammalian and Bacteria Model Membranes Mahshid Danesh (Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS), Zanjan) [more] #44 - Physiological artificial cells as smart drug-delivery agents Omer Duhan Toparlak (University of Trento) [more] #45 Reconstitution of contractile actomyosin rings in vesicles Thomas Litschel (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany) [more] #46 Physics of cellular degradation - a paradigm shift triggered by MaxSynBio Roland L. Knorr (Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces / University of Tokyo, Potsdam) [more] #47 Programmable Liposome Fusion Mediated by Membrane Anchored DNA Oligomers Philipp Löffler (University of Southern, Odense) [more] #48 Extrinsic noise of the target gene governs abundance pattern of feed-forward loop motifs Md Sorique Aziz Momin (Bose Institute, Kolkata, India) [more]
