The field of Living Therapeutic Materials combines synthetic biology, materials science and medicine to develop self-regulated and self-replenishing drug delivery systems for long-term and personalized administration of biopharmaceuticals. This Summer School will provide training to early career scientists working in this field, covering the following four broad topics – (i) Programming the living, (ii) Microbe-material interactions, (iii) Therapeutic application scenarios and (iv) Biosafety. The program will include lecturers from leading scientists in the field. The participants will also share their achievements in poster sessions.
The Summer School is organized within the Leibniz ScienceCampus (LSC) Living Therapeutic Materials (www.lsclifemat.com) and is open to students of the LSC and also to students from other groups working in this topic. Don’t miss out on this opportunity and apply to [email protected] with an email confirming that you will join.
Venue:
Europäische Akademie Otzenhausen gGmbH
Europahausstraße 35
66620 Nonnweiler
Deutschland
Lectures:
Tae Seok Moon, Washington University, USA
- Systems and synthetic biology: constructing smart and programmable microbes to address global problems
Anton Igorevich Kan, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- A platform to engineer probiotic coli
- Light-based printing of responsive living materials
Aleixandre Rodrigo-Navarro, University of Glasgow, UK
- Engineered living materials to control stem cell fate and its applications in tissue engineering
Leibniz Science Campus – Shrikrishnan Sankaran, Aránzazu del Campo, Sara Trujillo Munoz, Leibniz INM, Germany
- Engineering therapeutic bacteria, encapsulating them as LTMs and unravelling their host responses
Karine Glinel, UCLouvaine, France
- Bacterial encapsulation for therapeutic applications
- Macromolecular materials to control bacterial and mammalian cell processes
Cécile Bidan, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany
- Methods for biofilm material characterization at different scales
- Structure – live microscopy, wrinkling analysis, stainings + cross sections, FIB-SEM on mineralized biofilms
- Properties- particle tracking, (rheology), microindentation, osmotic sensors
CCBio, UK
- The Synthetic biology start-up space and their approach towards engineering microbiome therapies
Zack Abbott, ZBiotics, USA
- Beyond Containment: Designing Safe Genetically Engineered Microbes (GEMs) for Coexistence
- Building and commercializing the world’s first Genetically engineered probiotic