SYNCELL2021
Virtual Speaker Series

Join world-renowned experts and up-and-coming scientists in synthetic cells and organelles engineering for a weekly speaker series beginning in March 2021!


Please sign up to participate in the speaker series: SynCell2021 - Speaker Series Registration
Signing up as participant does not mean you’re committing to anything. You can join as many or as few meetings as you want. We will email you only with announcements about upcoming seminars, and any changes to schedule.



Program and Speakers


Program
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April 5

 
Synthonems: building synthetic cilia from the bottom up
EBERHARD BODENSCHATZ
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization
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Artificial mitochondrion, bottom-up!
LADO OTRIN
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems
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April 12

 
Membraneless and stimuli-responsive organelles
FELIPE GARCIA QUIROZ
Emory University and Georgia Tech
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Superselectivity in synthetic protocells
CESAR RODRIGUEZ-EMMENEGGER
Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials
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The series will culminate in the SynCell2021 conference that will take place 18-20 May 2021

Learn more about the conference.


Featured Speakers



Philippe Bastiaens

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology


Eberhard Bodenschatz

Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization


Neal Devaraj

University of California San Diego


Hendrik Dietz

Technical University of Munich


Andrew Ellington

University of Texas


Felipe Garcia Quiroz

Emory University and Georgia Tech


Ramin Golestanian

Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization


Clyde Hutchison

J. Craig Venter Institute


Michael Jewett

Northwestern University


Joachim Spatz

Max Planck Institute for Medical Research




Contributed Speakers



Emiliano Altamura

University of Bari


Amelie Benk

Max Planck Institute for Medical Research


Kevin Jahnke

Max Planck Institute for Medical Research


Zachary Manzer

Cornell University


Lado Otrin

Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems


Ilia Platzman

Max Planck Institute for Medical Research


Cesar Rodriguez- Emmenegger

Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials


Judee Sharon

University of Minnesota


Oskar Staufer

Max Planck Institute for Medical Research


Jan Steinkühler

Max Planck Institute Colloids and Interfaces