Build-a-Cell seminar series
We meet via Zoom
Monday 11.00AM Central Time.
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Other Build-a-Cell meetings
Whole Build-a-Cell community meets twice a year for a Build-a-Cell workshop.
The in silica cell working group is running modeling tutorials: Build-a-cell Chemical Reaction Network (CRN) modeling tutorials
Most seminars are recorded.
The link to recording is next to each seminar on the schedule, and all recordings can be found on Build-a-Cell Youtube channel.
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Build-a-Cell seminar schedule 2021
2021 International Conference on Engineering Synthetic Cells and Organelles
speaker series, joint with Build-a-Cell seminar series.
For seminar dates March 15 - May 17 Build-a-Cell joins forces with SynCell2021 conference presenting speaker series: 1 senior and 1 trainee talk every week.
March 15, 2021 seminar as part of SynCell 2021,
Cell-free systems for synthetic cells, on-demand biomanufacturing, molecular sensing, and education MICHAEL JEWETT, Northwestern University
DNA-mediated inducible liposome fusion, JUDEE SHARON, University of Minnesota
March 22, 2021 seminar as part of SynCell 2021,
How living matter self-organizes while breaking action-reaction symmetry RAMIN GOLESTANIAN Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization
Controlled division of cell-sized vesicles by low densities of membrane-bound proteins JAN STEINKÜHLER, Max Planck Institute Colloids and Interfaces
March 29, 2021 seminar as part of SynCell 2021,
Essential universal tasks for a minimal living cell CLYDE HUTCHISON J. Craig Venter Institute
Bottom-up assembly of functional fully-synthetic extracellular vesicles OSKAR STAUFER Max Planck Institute for Medical Research
April 5, 2021 seminar as part of SynCell 2021,
Synthonems EBERHARD BODENSCHATZ Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization
Artificial mitochondrion, bottom-up! LADO OTRIN Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems
April 12, 2021 seminar as part of SynCell 2021,
Membraneless and stimuli-responsive organelles FELIPE GARCIA QUIROZ Emory University and Georgia Tech
Superselectivity in synthetic protocells CESAR RODRIGUEZ-EMMENEGGER Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials
April 19, 2021 seminar as part of SynCell 2021,
A synthetic morphogenic perceptory system PHILLIPPE BASTIAENS Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology
Creating Biomimetic Interfaces Using the Cell-Free Synthesis of Transmembrane Proteins ZACHARY MANZER Cornell University
April 26, 2021 seminar as part of SynCell 2021,
Cell free operating systems for diagnostics ANDREW ELLINGTON University of Texas
Controlled linkage of different proteins in Synthetic Cells AMELIE BENK Max Planck Institute for Medical Research
May 4*, 2021 seminar as part of SynCell 2021, *not a Monday!
Designing biomolecular devices and machines HENDRIK DIETZ Technical University of Munich
Proton gradients from light-harvesting E. coli control DNA assemblies for synthetic cells KEVIN JAHNKE Max Planck Institute for Medical Research
May 10, 2021 seminar as part of SynCell 2021,
Lipid sponge droplets as programmable synthetic organelles NEAL DEVARAJ University of California San Diego
Light-driven ATP production promotes mRNA biosynthesis inside hybrid multi-compartment artificial protocells EMILIANO ALTAMURA University of Bari
May 17, 2021 seminar as part of SynCell 2021,
Mechanism in collective organizations of living and synthetic cells JOACHIM SPATZ Max Planck Institute for Medical Research
Microfluidic approaches towards reconstitution of synthetic cells motility ILIA PLATZMAN Max Planck Institute for Medical Research
Build-a-Cell seminar schedule 2020
All meetings, with recording links whenever available
March 23 2020 Alexis Casas Chromosome-free bacterial cells are safe and programmable platforms for synthetic biology
March 26 2020 Nathaniel Gaut In vitro self-replication and multicistronic expression of large synthetic genomes
March 30 2020 Rayane Lima Multifaceted Stoichiometry Control of Bacterial Operons Revealed by Deep Proteome Quantification.
April 6 2020 Orion Venero Lipid Sponge Droplets as Programmable Synthetic Organelles
April 20 2020 Tomasz Zajkowski recording link Molecular, genetic and evolutionary aspects of prions
April 27 2020 Scott Scholz recording link Multiplex transcriptional characterizations across diverse bacterial species using cell‐free systems
May 4 2020 John Glass recording link Construction and analysis of a minimal bacterial cell
May 11 2020 Paul Freemont recording link Cell-Free: a Strategy for Prototyping Parts, Building Biosynthetic Pathways, and Making Novel Xenobiotics
May 18 2020 Elibio Rech recording link Bacteriophages: Genetic switches designed for eukaryotic cells
June 1 2020 John Girgis recording link Light-powered CO2 fixation in a chloroplast mimic with natural and synthetic parts
June 8 2020 Avi Schroeder recording link Synthetic cells as platforms for producing medicines inside the body
June 15 Marileen Dogterom recording link Building minimal cytoskeletal systems for synthetic cells
June 22 Ayush Pandey recording link journal club: Establishing communication between artificial cells
June 29 Lee Cronin Removing creationism from prebiotic chemistry and synthetic life. recording not available due to unpublished data
July 6 2020 Vincent Noireaux (University of Minnesota) Constructive and quantitative biology by cell-free expression; video recording link
July 13 2020 Mark Ditzler (NASA Ames Research Center) Craving continuity from cosmochemistry to cell biology; recording not available due to technical difficulties during the call
July 20 2020 Drew Tack (NIST) Built-to-Spec: Precisely engineering biological function via measurements and automation; video recording link
July 27 2020 Michael Booth (University of Oxford) Controlling synthetic cells and tissues; video recording link
August 3 2020 Eric Wei (Stanford) Collaborative and Standardized Development of Modellable Lineage-Agnostic Cells video recording link
August 10 2020 Hagan Bayley (University of Oxford) Designer tissues: synthetic, living and hybrid materials video recording link
August 17 2020 no seminar that week - Build-a-Cell workshop week! Register for Build-a-Cell workshop 7, virtual event hosted by NIST.
August 24 2020 Lynn Rothschild (NASA Ames Research Center) How extremophiles can aid Build-a-Cell video recording link
August 31 2020 Heath Mills (Rhodium Scientific) Synbio in Space: Refining Biotechnologies in Microgravity for Space and Terrestrial Applications. video recording link
September 7 2020 Patricia Bassereau Institut Curie Building functional biomimetic membranes video recording link
September 14 2020 Gijsje Koenderink (TU Delft) Building artificial cells with a functional cytoskeleton video recording link
September 21 2020 Juliana Artier, Zhanan Zou and Rollin Jones University of Colorado Boulder Genetically Programmable Biopolymer and Biomineral Production for Living Building Materials video recording link
September 28 2020 Allen Liu (University of Michigan) Translationally active cell-free expression for building synthetic cells video recording link
October 5 2020 Aaron Engelhart (University of Minnesota) How to build a cell on Mars; recording not available due to unpublished data
October 12 2020 Cheemeng Tan (University of California, Davis) Towards Artificial Bacteria for Biomedical Applications; recording not available due to unpublished data
October 19 2020 David Deamer (UCSC) Building-A-Cell DIY video recording link
October 26 2020 Duhan Toparlak (University of Trento) A tale of biochemistry: From physiological artificial cells to spontaneously dividing protocells video recording link
November 2 2020 Ben Larson (UCSF) Principles of cellular behavior: gait coordination in a unicellular walker video recording
November 9 2020 Akshay Maheshwari (Stanford) How do physics and chemistry work together to make cells work?
November 16 2020 Loren Williams (Georgia Tech) The Origins and Evolution of the Ribosome video recording
November 23 2020 James Sáenz (TU Dresden) Exploring the minimal design principles of living membranes video recording link
November 30 2020 Rebecca Schulman (Johns Hopkins University) Growing transport networks for synthetic and natural cells - will be rescheduled for later date.
December 7 2020 Elizabeth Strychalski (NIST) Metrology and Meaning in Engineering Biology video recording link
December 14 2020 Eugenia Romantseva (NIST) Engineering with Cell-Free Systems Towards Synthetic Cells, recording not available due to unpublished data
December 21 2020 Siddharth Deshpande (Wageningen University) Drops and Bubbles on Chip video recording link
December 28 2020 No seminar this week. Happy holidays!
The first meeting was Monday March 23 2020.
Zoom meetings
You can join our zoom meeting via computer or via phone. We suggest joining via computer, so you can see presenter sharing their screen. But if you have slow wifi, you can call into the meeting using regular phone.
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