Schwille Lab

Congratulations Viktoriia 👏 for winning the best poster prize at @SynCell2026

🧵2/2 Our latest Review by @BelaFrohn and Shunshi Kohyama explores how Protein Design and Optimization can contribute to synthetic cell science, and outlines how we envision the future of the field. nature.com/articles/s4422…

New Review Out! Can we truly build life from the bottom up by encapsulating proteins we find in nature? Or should we instead also bottom-up design the proteins we utilize? 🧵1/2

👩‍🔬Our new paper is out in Chem! @FeringaLab. We unveil how light-driven rotary motors behave in lipid membranes—and why system-specific characterization is crucial. Structure & polarity shape membrane interaction and function. Read (or see comments): doi.org/10.1016/j.chem…

Upcoming Joint IMPRS Lecture with Petra Schwille @SchwilleLab from the @MPI_Biochem this Thursday, 20 February at 4 pm CET🗓️! The talk is free for everyone, on campus or via Zoom. ↪️More info: imprs-ml.mpg.de/38279/Joint-IM… @MPI_Biochem @MPIforBI @LMU_Muenchen @TU_Muenchen

The candidate will use Synthetic Cell models and DNA nanotechnology to study interactions between lipid membranes and condensates. The project involves exciting training opportunities across Europe and placements with @SchwilleLab in Munich and @ContiniClau in London

Mutual Dependence between Membrane Phase Separation and Bacterial Division Protein Dynamics in Synthetic Cell Models (Petra Schwille and co-workers) @SchwilleLab #openaccess 🔓 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Keynote #1 for our #NGSB24 conference is Petra Schwille

🤓Do you want to explore how and whether different kinds of #BiologicalCondensates can be actively targeted to #membrane surfaces and within #protocell vesicles? Join the @SchwilleLab at the @MPI_Biochem! check out our #PhDposition: comeincell.org/dc03-active-sp…

🤩 Exciting milestone for the #MSCA Doctoral Network #ComeInCell! Today we held our kickoff meeting to drive this groundbreaking project forward. Stay tuned for insights into #SyntheticBiology, #MembraneCondensates, #NeurodegenerativeDiseases, #MembraneTrafficking & more! 🔬✨

📣PhD Opportunity in Synthetic Cell Engineering! Become part of the @ComeInCell Marie Curie International Training Network and dive into research at the intersection of biophysics, biomedicine, membranes, condensates and caner immunology. @Leibniz_INM comeincell.org/dc04-synthetic…

Excited by the launch of @ComeInCell, aiming to train future biomedical and biotechnology researchers to explore cellular mechanisms with advanced synthetic models. This is the second network we facilitated after the launch of @SigSynCell last year. syntheticcell.eu/comeincell-lau…

📢Hiring for a PhD position as part of #MSCA network of 17 students @ComeInCell Want to manipulate #condensates💧& membranes with light🌈? Check out/apply: 👉bit.ly/4feLT4u The project includes secondments at @KGanzinger, Rossi Lab bit.ly/4hrJYel & @NatureComms

Petra Schwille @MPI_Biochem together with Bert Poolman @univgroningen receives an #ERCSynergy Grant for the MetaDivide project. Congratulations and all the best. ❕Press release: biochem.mpg.de/erc-synergy-gr… ❕ERC announcement: erc.europa.eu/news-events/ne… #minimalcell #synbio

Bert Poolman (@ScienceLinX) receives an @ERC_Research Synergy Grant of €5mln 👏 With @SchwilleLab, he will design reaction networks for recycling of metabolic energy, produce cell building blocks and construct a minimal cell division system 👇 rug.nl/fse/news/award…

#pictureofthemonth shows tiny objects on the #nanoscale, created by a method to design #proteins and their compositions of whatever shape and geometry. ❕ ❕@SchwilleLab: biochem.mpg.de/schwille November – institute calendar of @MPI_Biochem and @MPIforBI

We're hiring for a MSCA PhD position! @ComeInCell We're curious about how biological condensates can be actively targeted to membrane surfaces with the thoroughly mastered self-assembling protein machinery. Check out the project at comeincell.org/dc03-active-sp…

And we’re off! Global Summit on Synthetic Cells at SIAT. With global leaders from US, Europe and Asia together in fabulous Shenzhen. I am amped! @KateAdamala @cees_dekker @SchwilleLab #SynCell

📣There’s only one week left until our application deadline‼️ ➡️You still have the chance to throw your hat in the ring and grab one of the 13 super exciting PhD positions😎 qbm.genzentrum.lmu.de/application/ @SchwilleLab @TheJaeLab @BenediktSabass @PhysOfLifeLMU @karen_alim @LFMilles

Happy to announce that Petra will be a speaker at the TEDxTUM 2024: Still Charging @TEDxTUM. Go to tedxtum.com/events/tedxtum… to find out how you can hear Petra on the important question "Can we create life? Should we?"