Material Minds Ep 5: Alexandra Fischer explains light-controlled cellular organization

Join us in this episode as we dive into the intriguing world of synthetic biology with Alexandra Fischer, a PhD student in the Materials Synthetic Biology research department at INM. Discover how Alexandra's groundbreaking research on creating compartments in living cells using light is revolutionizing our understanding of cellular processes. Learn how she combines optogenetics and liquid-liquid phase separation of achieve biomolecular condensation on-demand in mammalian cells. Finally, find out how these innovations could pave the way for new applications in biotechnology.

To learn more about Alexandra, check out her LinkedIN page -   / alexandra-fischer-phd-944944160  

To learn more about the science she describes, check out these publications:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...
https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202311834

To get to know what our host, Shrikrishnan Sankaran, does, check out his group's webpage - https://www.leibniz-inm.de/en/researc...

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