Projects

In our quest to engineer synthetic cells capable of communicating between themselves and with the environment, triggering appropriate responses, the projects in SigSynCell move of 4 axes: motility & manipulation, signal transduction & remote actuation, cell communication and energy harvesting.

This page is dedicated to the description of the projects our DCs are developing in the labs over the course of the program.

Projects

Harvesting energy through light and the transport of chemicals in synthetic cells
Light-responsive coacervates to regulate biomolecule localization and reactivity
Spatiotemporal control over transport and signalling
Synthetic cells in controlled non-equilibrium conditions
Stimuli responsive signalling of reconfigurable lipid vesicles.
Remote actuation of synthetic cells by external force fields
Intracellular communication through designer membraneless organelles
Communication in tertiary communities of synthetic cells
Remote control of transmembrane signal transduction in synthetic cells
Synthetic exosomes for long-distance cell-cell communication