[Meet our doctoral candidates 🫧]

Dana Venkert is our DC working at the Heidelberg University under the supervision of @kgoepfrich.bsky.social.

Dana, who completed her M.Sc. in Molecular, Cellular, and Systemic Neuroscience at Tel Aviv University, will now explore the RNA design world in SigSynCell

For our workshop tales, it's shooting time at our WS3. Jonathan Schmidt from the @uniheidelberg.bsky.social gave our DCs a really fun hand-on training on the basics of video-making, shooting and editing.

Thanks Jonathan for the workshop, and thanks our DC Julia for volunteering as model!

Good science communication is a skill of fundamental importance in our times of fast-paced innovation, for the community to understand and not fear change.

Thanks to @nawik.de, that provided our DCs with their basic course of science communication and their trainer Lisa Ringena

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At our WS3, Pil Byriel from Develop Diverse gave us a training on #DEI in the workplace.
Pil raised awareness on our biases as biased beings, showed us the main biases and teached how to indentify and address uncomfortable situations in the workplace.

Thank you Pil!

SigSynCell soars into Bluesky 🦋

From now on you can find our news and updates here and on our LinkedIn account, let's all glide together 🪁

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

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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 @uni_muenster aim to establish light-based signalling between cells, in both living and artificial systems.

[🫧 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

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New member on board 🐉

Eric Bumüller is our DC based in @_amolf under the supervision of @KGanzinger.
He will work on generating a modular toolbox for bio-inspired communication across synthetic membranes

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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.

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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.

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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.

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A new member landed on our shores 🏝️

Julia Breed is our DC at @imperialcollege, under the supervision of @YuvalElani, working on building synthetic cells with long-distance communication capabilities.

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New member spotted at CNRS 🇫🇷

José Fojo-Vazquez started his PhD under the supervision of @LauraAlvarez_F. He will work on creating programmable, motile GUVs with controlled mechanical properties and responsiveness to external stimuli.

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New member spotted 👀

Udith Ghosh started his doctoral education at @WUR under the supervision of dr. Siddharth Deshpande, working on coacervate-based strategy to form communicative membraneless compartments within cell-mimicking vesicles.

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A new member joined our team!
Eleni Kopsini started out her doctorate at CNRS under the supervision of @BaretJc working on harvesting energy through light and chemical control in synthetic cells.

A new MSCA DN emerges from the Horizon Europe.
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