Spotted on CellMech2025 in Leuven: our own Konstantinos Giarentis and Willemien Gosselé! This conference, co-organised by SynEry partner Multicellular System Dynamics Lab, focused on the latest research in various aspects of cell mechanics, highlighting new computational and experimental techniques.
Konstantinos showed his computational work on reconstructing the red blood cell’s internal skeleton, with nano-scale DNA bricks – a collaboration with the Lammertyn lab and the Multicellular System Dynamics Labs. He also participated in the CellMech’s science-art contest with his 3D-drawn ‘The river of life’, that shows a blood stream with artificial red blood cells with his own DNA nano-bricks 🖼️👨🏼🎨
Willemien presented a poster on reinforcing artificial cells with self-assembling peptides, a biomaterial engineered by our SynEry partner, the Nanomedicine and Tissue Engineering Unit at IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza (Valentina Corvaglia and Fabrizio Gelain).
This marks an important milestone in the SynEry project.
