Webinar

Combining stimuli-responsive hydrogels and scaffold-supported microbial biofilms for a self-controlled catalytic activity of a microbial leaf Malabika Bera and Lara Heiser, both PhD students at the University of Leipzig – Malabika in Rohan Karan­de’s group and Lara in Tilo Pompe’s group – report on progress in their joint SPP 2451-funded project. The work focuses on integrating stimuli-responsive hydrogels with […]

Dalia Dranseike (dranseike.com) recently completed her doctoral studies in the Macromolecular Engineering Laboratory of Prof. Mark Tibbitt at ETH Zurich. Her research focused on additive manufacturing technologies that enable living functionalities in materials, exploring how material and process design influence cell behavior for tissue engineering and living materials. As part of her work, she developed […]

Avinash Manjula-Basavanna obtained his PhD on Bioinspired Molecular and Materials Engineering at Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bengaluru, India. He then moved to Harvard University as a Wyss Institute Postdoctoral Fellow to work on Engineered Living Materials, wherein he genetically engineered Microbes to produce sustainable materials with Integrated life-like properties. Subsequently, he […]

Professor Pokorski earned his B.S. in Biochemistry from UCLA in 2002 and a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Northwestern in 2007. While at UCLA, he worked in private industry designing and testing biomedical devices that are currently in use around the world. He conducted postdoctoral research at the Scripps Research Institute, focusing on drug delivery […]

Dr. Tiago Lopes, an experienced research scientist specializing in bioinformatics, artificial intelligence, and data-driven healthcare research. He is the Founder and CEO of Nezu Biotech GmbH, a company that offers AI and bioinformatics services to life science institutions, with a mission to transform complex data into meaningful knowledge. In addition, Dr. Lopes currently works as […]

            Tapa is Assistant Professor at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Bangalore, India and head of the ESoftBio Lab. He will talk about how physical confinement selectively favors bacterial growth based on cell shape. To all interested scientists who are not a member of the […]

Shirish is head of the Bioprogrammable Materials group at the Leibniz Institute for New Materials in Saarbrücken, Germany and Principle Investigator of the SPP2451 project: ContainELMs – Material-centric genetic programming of biocontainment in Engineered Living Materials. He will talk about ‘Biocontainment in Engineered Living Materials,’ starting with a general introduction to ELMs. So, especially for […]