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2025

• November: Mike gave a Build-A-Cell webinar on the group’s synthetic cell research, which you can watch on YouTube
• November: Welcome to Beth Langford, who is undertaking a rotation project in the group as part of the CDT in Accelerated Medicines Design and Development
• October: Congratulations to Ellen for passing her DPhil viva – we’re excited that Ellen is staying in the group as a Postdoc on an EPSRC Postdoctoral Pathway Fellowship!
• September: Also, welcome to our new Master’s students Jing, Tianyi, and Yifan!
• September: Welcome to Ann-Céline Clabout, a new PhD student in the group from the Engineering Solutions for AMR CDT!
• September: Ellen’s paper on “Magnetic activation of spherical nucleic acids enables the remote control of synthetic cells” has been published in Nature Chemistry! Along with a Times article 🙂
• August: Charlie worked on a collaborative paper with the group of Allen Liu on “Strategies and applications of synthetic cell communication“, just published in Nature Chemical Biology!
• August: Disha’s paper on “Harnessing BET-Bromodomain Assisted Nuclear Import for Targeted Subcellular Localization and Enhanced Efficacy of Antisense Oligonucleotides” has been published in JACS!
• July: Disha’s paper on “DNA-Programmable Protein Degradation: Dynamic Control of Proteolysis-Targeting Chimera Activity via DNA Hybridization and Strand Displacement” has been published in JACS Au!
• July: Mike was invited to contribute to the USA National Academies committee meeting on the “Environmental, Biosafety, and Biosecurity Considerations for Synthetic Cell Research and Development“
• June: Disha’s paper on “Engineering antisense oligonucleotides for targeted mRNA degradation through lysosomal trafficking” has been published in Chemical Science!
• April: Mike has been highlighted as a 2024 Rising Star in Biological, Medicinal, and Pharmaceutical Chemistry by ACS Bio & Med Chem Au
• March: Welcome to visiting students Leo (PhD, Italy) and Rosario (Master’s, Spain)!
• March: A third preprint led by Disha is now online: “DNA-programmable Protein Degradation: Dynamic Control of PROTAC Activity via DNA Hybridization and Strand Displacement“
• March: Here’s a new preprint from the group on “Engineering antisense oligonucleotides for targeted mRNA degradation through lysosomal trafficking” (Led by Disha)!