What a pleasure it was to return to my Alma Mater, Vilnius University! I was invited to deliver a guest lecture for master’s students in the Systems Biology program at the Faculty of Medicine. We discussed SynBio topics, bottom-up Synthetic Cell research, and my own work on biomolecular condensates!

Using CFE in microfluidic setups enables the closer simulation of cell-like environments by providing precise control over reaction settings, spatial organisation and maintenance of non-equilibrium conditions - a feature of life.

Droplet microfluidics allows the production of nanoliter to picoliter microreactors for massively parallel, miniaturised assays. Combined with CFE, such droplets commonly serve as cell-like microcompartments for boundary-enclosed cell-free reactions.

I am happy to share that our review on the Controlled Protein Synthesis in Microfluidic Environments has been published 🎉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Thanks to @emmacrean.bsky.social, Imre Banlaki, @jankalkowski.bsky.social, and @hniederho.bsky.social for great teamwork!

I had the pleasure of giving a talk at the Biomolecular condensates conference in Copenhagen!☀️

Thanks to @proteinmagnus.bsky.social, @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social, and A.K. Buell for creating such an interesting program, and Fida Biosystems for the travel grant award! 👏

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