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We have recently been awarded a fellowship with Abeer Ahmed Qaed Ahmed through the pilot fellowship scheme, the SAFE project.
SAFE offers 60 fully-funded fellowships (up to 24 months) for at-risk researchers, for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers of any non-EU nationality to work at a research institution in the EU.
We welcome Iola Duarte of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Aveiro as a new partner in the Bio-HhOST project. We recently won the EIC Pathfinder Hop On which allows research institutions from Widening countries to join already ongoing R&I actions under Horizon Europe Pillar 2 and EIC Pathfinder.
We have recently been awarded the EIC Pathfinder Hop On award and we welcome Cellularis Biomodels from Portugal to the OMICSENS consortium. The Hop On allows research institutions from Widening countries to join already ongoing R&I actions under Horizon Europe Pillar 2 and EIC Pathfinder. Cellularis
Martin is also coordinating a second EIC Pathfinder Open project. Bio-HhOST. 2024-2027. This project aims to develop our artificial cell technology to enhance the development and functionality of organoids. For more info on partners and research, see this website.
Martin is now coordinating an EIC Pathfinder Open project, OMICSENS. 2024-2027. This project aims to develop our artificial cell technology towards applications in lung cancer early diagnosis. For more info on our research and our partners, see the website.
For a paper published in any venue during the previous calendar year (2017) that shows significant potential to advance the field of Artificial Life.
Winner:
Droplets As Liquid Robots
Jitka Čejková, Taisuke Banno, Martin M. Hanczyc and František Štěpánek
Artificial Life, Vol. 23, No. 4 (2017), pp. 528-549
Martin gave an invited keynote lecture at ENABLE, Barcelona, November 2017.
ENABLE is the first European symposium organized solely by PhD students and postdoctoral fellows.
The Evobliss Triple Autumn School took place in Copenhagen on October 2-6, 2017. The participants had the opportunity to learn about different topics of the Evobliss project: liquid handling robots, microbial fuel cells and artificial chemical life.
Martin is in Tokyo in January and February 2017 as visiting professor at the University of Tokyo
Recently we participated in our European project meeting in Venice on Living Architecture. And then again we met in Madrid at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) with a hands-on workshop in synthetic biology.
Jitka Čejková presented a poster titled Shape changing multi-armed droplets by Jitka Cejkova, Martin M. Hanczyc and Frantisek Stepanek at ALIFE 2016 conference and she won the best poster award!
Martin participated in the annual innovation and brainstorming workshop at ECCO leather called Hot Shop.
Pint of Science in Trento (Italy) – Martin Hanczyc had a talk about Artificial Biology .
The fifth EVOBLISS consortium meeting took place on 2nd and 3rd of May 2016 and was hosted by Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, KIT), Germany.
Living Architecture (LIAR) is a modular bioreactor-wall, which is based on the operational principles of microbial fuel cell technology and synthetic ‘consortia’ of microbes. LIAR is conceived as a next-generation selectively-programmable bioreactor and integral component of human dwelling, capable of extracting valuable resources from waste water and air, generation of oxygen and production of proteins and fiber by manipulating consortia performance. Its operational principles are grounded in distributed sensing, decentralized autonomous information processing, high-degree of fault-tolerance and distributed actuation and reconfiguration. Applications within urban systems are examined as a form of customizable micro-agriculture for installation in domestic, public (schools, hospitals) and office environments. Such a system has far reaching impacts on the building performance (resilience, resource recycling) manufacturing and design with ecosystems.
The project establishes:
• Foundational concepts through which ‘designed’ metabolisms can computationally process, recycle, remediate and synthesize valuable compounds from waste water.
• Transferable principles by which synthetic ecosystems can shape the environmental performance of our living spaces to increase our health, productivity and ecosystems impact.
• New standards for synthetic ‘ecosystems’ through consortia design, engineering and optimization.
We currently have a few openings for postdoctoral fellows with expertise in microbial fuel cells and chemical droplets. Applicants from the fields of biology, biophysics, and engineering are encouraged to apply. Please send your current CV and cover letter to the head of the group Martin M. Hanczyc.
We are always looking for motivated students at all levels – from 1st year undergraduate to PhD’s – to join our lab! Interested candidates, please apply directly to Martin M. Hanczyc.