Claudia Contini
@ContiniClau
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Assistant Professor in Bioinspired and Life-like Soft Matter Systems. @BBSRC Fellow / Lecturer @ImperialLifeSci @imperialcollege 📍London 🇬🇧
London, England
Joined February 2018
Are you interested in how #living and #synthetic systems navigate chemical gradients, from #bacteria to #active #colloids? Click here: https://t.co/32YFp4RJfd
#EngineeringBiology #SyntheticBiology #ActiveMatter #SoftMatter
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Chemotaxis is the movement of individual organisms towards or away from a chemical stimulus. This phenomenon is investigated in various disciplines, ranging from biology to physics and even enginee...
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Don’t miss out on the 10th anniversary of Synthetic Biology UK! Themes include Cell Free, Modelling & Control, and Health & Therapeutics. Secure your spot: https://t.co/EJd9voWdij
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Join us at our EngBio Forum on 10 Nov with Claudia Contini @ContiniClau Her lab studies how cells work by rebuilding their processes from the ground up and explores biohybrid systems that could shape the future of synthetic cells 🧫 Don’t miss it! 🎟️🫱 https://t.co/9XqPI8bbNv
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We're extremely excited to welcome Prof Andreas Walther @WaltherLab and Dr Claudia Contini @ContiniClau for our next Forum We'll be exploring #SyntheticCells, #LifeLikeSystems and #EngineeringBiology from the bottom-up Don't miss it - register now! 👉 https://t.co/UwGiXYoTvp
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Excited to share this new extensive review in #Chemical #Society #Review on #nanoparticle - #membrane interaction. Thanks Rashad Kariuki, Aaron Elbourne, Saffron Bryant and Andrew J. Christofferson for leading this work! 💫 https://t.co/3g5nDpjm3B
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Interactions between nanomaterials and biointerfaces are of great interest across many research fields, including chemistry, physics, engineering, and biology, with applications from diagnostics to...
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Link also available on #jobs
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@SynCellEU @buildacell @imperialsynbio
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🚨 I am looking for a motivated #Postdoctoral #Researcher to join my group at Imperial @ImperialLifeSci @imperialcollege. The project will focus on #Antimicrobial #Materials and #Biomimetic #Interfaces. Please apply or repost! @ImperialSci #PDRA
https://t.co/IDivpgCSit
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Please note that job descriptions are not exhaustive, and you may be asked to take on additional duties that align with the key responsibilities ment...
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💫Thrilled to see our work on the front cover of Small! This work explores how #polymers empower #SyntheticCells with programmable dynamics, enabling fusion, contraction and interactions with biological cells. Huge thanks to Michela Vargiolu for the stunning artwork!
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@SynCellEU @fabriCELL_UK @ImperialLifeSci @ImperialSci @imperialcollege @BBSRC
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Polymeric Vesicles Polymers empower synthetic cells with controllable, programmable dynamics, enabling fusion, contraction, and interaction with biological entities. This image captures how polymer...
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💫Thrilled to see our work on the front cover of Small! This work explores how #polymers empower #SyntheticCells with programmable dynamics, enabling fusion, contraction and interactions with biological cells. Huge thanks to Michela Vargiolu for the stunning artwork!
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Secondary schools: are your students passionate about Chemistry, Life Sciences, Maths & Physics? Join the Faculty of Natural Sciences at their Research Showcase! Suited to students at GCSE & above & open to all, scan the QR code to find out more & register to attend sessions!
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New academic faculty posts available at Imperial College London! Assistant/Associate Professors in Life Sciences. Please apply and/or circulate details! https://t.co/mGBOm7KLCT
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New academic faculty posts available at Imperial College London! Assistant/Associate Professors in Life Sciences. Please apply and/or circulate details! https://t.co/mGBOm7KLCT
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Please note that job descriptions are not exhaustive, and you may be asked to take on additional duties that align with the key responsibilities ment...
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Now online: News & Views on the Article by Ke Shi, Peiyong Song, Jianwei Li, Yan Qiao & Yiyang Lin https://t.co/5QUgW0aJOK ($) From light to life-like protocells by @ContiniClau
https://t.co/4ykiuX0bz5 ($)
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Nature Synthesis - Light-driven chemical reactivity enables a synthetic system to give rise to protocells with dynamic, life-like behaviour.
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🚨 New paper out! In my @NatureSynthesis News & Views, I discuss how light-driven #chemistry enables dynamic life-like #protocells, highlighting the outstanding work of Lin and co-workers #SyntheticBiology #SyntheticCells @imperialcollege @ImperialLifeSci
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We have our first speaker Professor Claudia Contini @ContiniClau, from @imperialcollege, she’s presenting on - “Synthetic Cells: Programming Life-Like Behaviours in Minimal Systems.” @StefanoPalagi @ERC_Research @MicroRobotLab
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Join us on July 15 for an afternoon packed with cutting-edge insights, innovation, and inspiration on Microscale robotics and living machines. Don’t miss out—connect, learn, and be part of the future! More information: https://t.co/WIjB1b1VCt
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🎉Just out @ChemCommun! We present a modular strategy to create bacterial #biohybrids with magnetic motility, #biosensing, cargo release. 👏🏻huge congrats to Nina on her first-author paper and thanks to @YuvalElani and Matt for the great collaboration!
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Bacterial biohybrids use bacterial and synthetic components for biotechnological applications. Here, we outline an adaptable and high-throughput microfluidic platform to create microscale biocontai...
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🚨New publication! Led by Talia Shmool, the project explores using ionic liquids to optimise IgG-Gold #nanoparticles for #DrugDelivery , including crossing the BBB with focused ultrasound. Great to have contributed! #drugdelivery @acsnano @imperialcollege
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Ionic liquid (IL) nanotechnology holds significant promise for designing nanoscale materials with tunable viscosity, polarity, and thermal stability for advanced therapeutic applications. However,...
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