Siddharth Deshpande

Our actinosome story is now online in @ACSSynBio pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… Look at these cuties express GFP in a flash! Excellent work by the first author @ketanganar; worth mentioning that the idea was sparked serendipitously with a BSc student doing a thesis with us 😀 @PCC_WUR

A three-dimensional container capable of orchestrating biochemical reactions is a prerequisite for engineering #synthetic #cells Researchers at Wageningen University have developed a simple technique for making them. syntheticcell.eu/2022/11/14/a-s… @SiddhuLab @ketanganar

Very happy to contribute to '3D-printed PDMS barriers for flexible flow control in paper microfluidics', now published in @ACS_AMI pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.102… Congrats to the team and Chang Chen, currently doing a PhD with us! blue 0 barriers fast flow, red 6 barriers slow flow

And of course I should not forget @sylvia_brugman who added further excitement to the story through zebrafish experiments!

Our work on liquid crystals as biosensors is now online in @ACS_AMI! Look at these beauties rapidly switch their colour in response to amphiphiles. We show lipid and fatty acid sensing both in vitro and in live zebrafish! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… Great work by @lwhonaker @PCC_WUR

See below for a nice postdoc opportunity to do interdisciplinary research involving micro(scopy + fluidics + biome)!

Open Post-doc position in our group in Bordeaux ! Physical Assembly of Life-like systems Apply here: bit.ly/3BvrHrL #Emploi via @EmploiCnrs @SynCellEU @MaxSynBio @univbordeaux @CNRSAquitaine @BxFrontiers

We have a postdoc position available, on the exciting topic of condensates and phase separation! Great opportunity to work at @PCC_WUR and the beautiful green campus of Wageningen! Feel free to email me for further details wur.nl/en/vacancy/pos… RT appreciated!

Really nice glimpse into our department!

We are hiring!💡We're looking for a creative PhD student to join our #ERC SIMPHONICS team, focusing on #nanodevices and #nanopore platforms for single-molecule transport and detection. Interested? Apply here tinyurl.com/bdhw63j6 Please RT 🙂

A new twist on using the biopolymer actin and condensates to form biocompatible synthetic cell containers. A nice news article on the recent actinosome pre-print by @SiddhuLab and @ketanganar. drugdiscoverynews.com/researchers-us…

@fabaiwu @NatureMicrobiol Congrats Fabai!!

1) Really excited to see our paper online at @NatureMicrobiol nature.com/articles/s4156… where we gained new insights into the process of prokaryote-eukaryote transition by constructing complete genomes of Asgard archaea from the deep sea rocks that we cultivate in the lab.

@SabinaCaneva @ERC_Research Awesome news Sabina!! Congrats!

Great news!! 🤩 We have been awarded an #ERCStG for our proposal SIMPHONICS (Single-Molecule Acousto-Photonic Nanofluidics) 🥳🇪🇺 Big thank you to @ERC_Research, colleagues and friends 🧡 Excited to expand the team in 2022, stay tuned!

@DrMikeBooth Thanks!

@SiddhuLab @NWO_Science Congratulations!

Very happy to receive the NWO-XS grant! A nice end-of-the-year bonus for the lab and a great way to start the vacation! We want to sub-compartmentalize synthetic cells, which is not a bad idea I think 😉 Thank you @NWO_Science nwo.nl/en/news/twenty…

@cees_dekker @NWO_Science Thank you Cees!

@SiddhuLab @NWO_Science Congrats Siddharth, well done

Our January issue is online! Microbial soil inoculants (@DrMicroWill), lab evolution on a chip (@SiddhuLab @MIB_WUR), adipose tissue engineering (@Khoonono @Tim_WoodfieldNZ), bioelectronic sensing (@_annamariapappa @biochemist_hero) and more: cell.com/trends/biotech…

@WiekePot @WUR Was really fun indeed! 🙂

Check out our work on building biosensors using pretty liquid crystal droplets! We detect amphiphile-specific color response and even tested it in vivo! Fantastic work by @lwhonaker and special thanks to @sylvia_brugman for feeding zebrafish our sensors! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

@AlessioFragasso @cees_dekker Fantastic finish! Congrats!