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LSC Summer School on Engineered Living Materials 2023

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 Shrikrishnan.sankaran@leibniz-inm.de 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

 

LSC Summer School on Engineered Living Materials 2023

The Leibniz Science Campus Living Therapeutic Materials is organizing a LSC Summer School on Engineered Living Materials taking place from 3rd of July to 5th of July 2023 in Saarbruecken.

Please save the date.

More details and a program will follow soon.

 

Colloquia of the LSC “Living Therapeutic Materials”

Prof. Dr. Tae Seok Moon

Systems and Synthetic Biology: Constructing smart and programmable Microbes to adress Global Problems

Washington University, St. Louis, USA

3rd of April 2023

Hosts: Prof. Dr. Wilfried Weber, Dr. Shrikrishnan Sankaran

 

Colloquia of the LSC “Living Therapeutic Materials”

Dr. Morgan Delarue

Cell Growth under Mechanical Pressure

Universite Toulouse, team MILE, LAAS-CNRS, France

31st of January 2023

Host: Prof. Dr. Aranzazu del Campo

 

Meeting of the Leibniz Science Campus “Living Therapeutic Materials”

Saarbrücken, 13th of October 2022

Lecture series of the LSC “Living Therapeutic Materials”

21st of July 2022 – from 1:00 p.m. on

Prof. Dr. Karin Jacobs / Intermolecular and adhesive forces among bacteria and materials

 

Lecture series of the LSC “Living Therapeutic Materials”

7th of July 2022 – from 1:00 p.m. on

Prof. Dr. Olga Kalinina / AI methods for predicting protein structure and drug interactions

 

Lecture series of the LSC “Living Therapeutic Materials”

9th of June 2022 – from 1:00 p.m. on

Prof. Dr. Robert Bals / New therapies for diseases of the lung: Covid-19, COPD, asthma, pneumonia

 

Lecture series of the LSC “Living Therapeutic Materials”

2nd of June 2022 – from 1:00 p.m. on

Prof. Dr. Matthias Laschke / In vivo analysis of implanted biomaterials, 02.06.2022

 

Lecture series of the LSC “Living Therapeutic Materials”

19th of May 2022 – from 1:00 p.m. on

Dr. Stefan Lohse / The antibacterial activities of neutrophils

 

Lecture series of the LSC “Living Therapeutic Materials”

5th of May 2022 – from 1:00 p.m. on
Dr. Bin Qu / Killing mechanisms of immune killer cells

 

Nachwuchsakademie Engineered Living Materials

The Nachwuchsakademie “Engineered Living Materials” is a DFG workshop for early career investigators in Engineered Living Materials funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation). The workshop will take place from June 17 to 21, 2022.

 

Engineered Living Materials Conference 2022

The Leibniz Science Campus Living Therapeutic Materials is organizing the conference Engineered Living Materials Conference 2022 from 21st of June to 23rd of June.

Lecture series of the LSC “Living Therapeutic Materials”

24th of February 2022 – from 1:00 p.m. on

Prof. Dr. Tobias Kraus / Transport of molecules and heat in living materials

 

Lecture series of the LSC “Living Therapeutic Materials”

3rd of February 2022 – from 1:00 p.m. on

Prof. Dr. Aranzazu del Campo / Materials and processing technologies to fabricate ELMs

 

Prime minister Hans: Materials research important to push forward innovations for structural change in Saarland

2rd of February 2022

During his visit to the INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Saarland Prime Minister Tobias Hans informed himself about a new research project on the subject of lithium recycling, which is to be funded by the state from EU fundings. In addition, Prime Minister Hans visited the Leibniz Science Campus and spoke with the management about the expansion development of the institute financed by the federal and state governments.

 

 

Lecture series of the LSC “Living Therapeutic Materials”

20st of January 2022 – from 1:00 p.m. on

Dr. Shrikrishnan Sankaran / Genetic sensors and switches – Making living materials smart

 

Lecture series of the LSC “Living Therapeutic Materials”

13st of January 2022 – from 1:00 p.m. on

Prof. Dr. Christoph Wittmann / Metabolism – making living materials alive

 

Lecture series of the LSC “Living Therapeutic Materials”

16th of December 2021 – from 1:00 p.m. on

Dr. Marta Rodriguez / Discovering new natural drugs and biosynthetic gene clusters through heterologous expression

 

Lecture series of the LSC “Living Therapeutic Materials”

2nd of December 2021 – from 1:00 p.m. on

Dr. Julian Hegemann / Microbiota-protective features of commensal bacteria producing RiPP natural products

 

Virtual Meeting of the Steering Committee of the LSC “Living Therapeutic Materials”

19th of November 2021 – from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p. m.

An agenda for the Steering Committee Meeting will be send to the attendees shortly.

 

Prizes of the Lifemat-at-a-glance Short Video Contest of the LSC “Living Therapeutic Materials”

15th of October 2021 / M. Quilitz

On October 15th, 2021, the prizes for the winners of the Lifemat-at-a-glance Short Video Contest of the LSC were awarded

during the first face-to-face meeting of the Leibniz Science Campus Living Therapeutic Materials.

The prize honored scientific precision, transparency and the quality of the presentation.

A first, second and third prize was awarded.

The winners were:

First Prize: Priyanka Dhakane, INM

The prize came with €300 in prize money.

Second prize: Carsten Seyfert, Selina Deckarm and Timo Risch, all HIPS

The award was endowed with €200 prize money.

Third Prize: Shardul Bhusari, INM

This prize came with €100 prize money.

 

Meeting of the PIs and groups of the LSC “Living Therapeutic Materials”

15th of October 2021 – from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p. m.

Agenda for the PIs and groups Meeting:

LSC Meeting 211015 Agenda v211013

 

Engineered Living Materials Conference 2021

The Leibniz Science Campus Living Therapeutic Materials is organizing the conference Engineered Living Materials 2021 from 4th of May to 7st of May.

Virtual Meeting of the Steering Committee of the LSC “Living Therapeutic Materials”

Tuesday, 15th of December 2020 – from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p. m.

An agenda for the Steering Committee Meeting will be send to the attendees shortly.

 

Virtual Scientific Meeting of the groups of the LSC “Living Therapeutic Materials”

Friday, 4th of December 2020 – from 2 p.m.

The meeting will contain introductions of the groups, presentations of proposed projects and discussions of future activities.

Virtual Mini-Symposium: “Bioprocessed and Bioinspired Materials”

20. October 2020 – 23. October 2020, Webinars

The INM is organizing a virtual mini-symposium on “Bioprocessed and Bioinspired Materials”. In three lectures, international scientists will examine the topic from their respective perspectives.

Speakers:

13D Printing of Bioinspired Materials
Prof. André R. Studart, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Abstract: 201021 Abstract Studart

2Synthetic Biological Strategies to Design Functional Materials
Prof. Wilfried Weber, University of Freiburg, Germany
Abstract: 201022 Abstract Weber

3Sustainable Materials Potentials through Circular Economy – Why We Need Them Now in Mitigating Climate Change!
Prof. Amar Mohanty, University of Guelph, Canada