Claudia Contini
@ContiniClau
Assistant Professor in Bioinspired and Life-like Soft Matter Systems. @BBSRC Fellow / Lecturer @ImperialLifeSci @imperialcollege 📍London 🇬🇧
🚨 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 nature.com/articles/s4416…
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 #livingmachine
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: sites.google.com/view/lm2025bio… #conference #AcademicTwitter…
🎉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! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…
🚨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 doi.org/10.1021/acsnan…
📢 Applications for the Italy Made Me Prizes 2025 close on 15 August. An excellent opportunity to celebrate UK-based Italian researchers. @ItalyinEDI @ItalyinLDN @ItalyMFA Find out how to apply 👇🏻 #ItalyMadeMe #Research #AcademicExcellence #CallForApplications
🇮🇹“Italy Made Me” 2025🏆 invites early-career Italian researchers across the UK to submit applications for its annual research award programme “Italy Made Me” 📡📡Application deadline: 15 August Info & requirements📷👇amblondra.esteri.it/en/news/dall_a… @ItalyMFA
In celebration of International Women In Engineering Day 🚀 @INWED1919 #INWED25 #WomenInSTEM today we highlight articles by leading women in bioengineering, starting with protein design and optimization for synthetic cells by Petra Schwille and team: go.nature.com/3G6UPfP
Excited to be speaking at #LivingMachines2025 workshop on #Biomimetic #Microrobots as #Microscale Living Machines! See you in Sheffield on July 15!
There is still time to submit your abstract for contributed talks - Deadline: 10 June. Register for the workshop (1 day registration is possible) - we have the following confirmed speakers: 1. Prof. Mahmut Selman Sakar @mssakar 2. Prof. Laura Alvarez @LauraAlvarez_F 3. Prof.…
🇮🇹 Yesterday, we celebrated the Italian Republic surrounded by #Caravaggio ’s masterpieces at the #NationalGallery . A perfect tribute to Italy’s rich heritage! ✨ #FestaDellaRepubblica
AISUK has joined the celebrations for the Italian Republic Day hosted by @ItalyinUK at the @NationalGallery. Buona Festa della #Repubblica a tutti i connazionali all'estero 🇮🇹 #2giugno
Apply now to join my group as a postdoctoral Fellow at @imperialcollege We are supporting applications for: - Imperial College Research Fellowship -Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships Get in touch: continilab.com #SoftMatter, #CellMimicry #polymerchemistry
Talking about vaccines and the future of prevention and public health: thanks to Prof. Andrew Pollard @ajpollard1 and Prof. Mariagrazia Pizza for guiding us on journey through the latest scientific advances @aisuk_info
🎉So proud of Yeyang Sun for winning 1st prize for his poster presentation at the #London #Polymer #Group #Symposium !A fantastic recognition for his hard work. Congratulations 🥳 Thanks the organisers for an amazing day of (polymer) science! #LPG2025
Great to see the UK government's Office for Science release their Engineering Biology aspirations report. Some great examples of future benefits that we can work towards using Engineering Biology in the next few years. gov.uk/government/pub…
Fully funded PhD studentship for Home students in the group! Please RT findaphd.com/phds/project/e…
Can we design polymeric systems that look like cells and have #dynamic #cell-like #behavours ? #YES! 🔥 our vesicles fuse, contract and even trap external objects.