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18 February 2026 - Research news

AUNAB has gathered a strong interdisciplinary team of 11 students across different educations, who will represent Aarhus University at the world's biggest synthetic biology competition, iGEM 2026. Read more about their process here.

16 October 2025 - Research news

AUNAB members Assistant Prof. Miguel Ramos Docampo's and Prof. Brigitte Stadler's effort to engineered artificial cells to form cytoskeleton-like networks using nanomotor-driven actin polymerization is published in ACS Nano. These hybrid vesicles merge active matter with synthetic biology to achieve life-like movement and self-organization inspired by Listeria’s actin-based propulsion.

04 September 2025 - Research news

Steering group member of AUNAB, Prof. Brigitte Städler, has published a collaborative study in Advanced Materials on the successful reconstitution of the Drs2p–Cdc50p lipid flippase in polymer–lipid hybrid vesicles.

13 August 2025 - Research news

Aunab steering group member, Prof. Brigitte Städler, is among 103 authors who contributed to this Mega Review published in ACS Nano on the topic of Micro/Nanorobots, a field that celebrated its 20th anniversary last year.

24 March 2025 - Research news

The design of artificial cells is a focal point of intense research efforts. One characteristic that remains particularly hard to engineer is the responsive behavior in artificial cells. It requires the design of molecular mechanisms to receive, interpret, and react to external environmental or biochemical stimuli. This challenge is specifically addressed herein and the design of artificial cells that respond to the external chemical messenger by the activation of intracellular catalysis is…

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Conzelmann, C., Müller, J. A., Perkhofer, L., Sparrer, K. M. J., Zelikin, A. N., Münch, J. & Kleger, A. (2020). Inhaled and systemic heparin as a repurposed direct antiviral drug for prevention and treatment of COVID-19. Clinical Medicine, 20(6), e218-e221. https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmed.2020-0351

Eskandari, H., Ghanadian, M., Noleto-Dias, C., Lomax, C., Tawfike, A., Christiansen, G., Sutherland, D. S., Ward, J. L., Mohammad-Beigi, H. & Otzen, D. E. (2020). Inhibitors of α-Synuclein fibrillation and oligomer toxicity in Rosa damascena: the all-pervading powers of flavonoids and phenolic glycosides. ACS Chemical Neuroscience, 11(19), 3161–3173. https://doi.org/10.1021/acschemneuro.0c00528

Strecker, C., Bärenfänger, M., Miehe, M., Spillner, E. & Meyer, B. (2020). In Silico Evaluation of the Binding Site of Fucosyltransferase 8 and First Attempts to Synthesize an Inhibitor with Drug-Like Properties. ChemBioChem, 21(13), 1923-1931. https://doi.org/10.1002/cbic.201900289

Sun, D., Zhang, Y., Liu, Y., Wang, Z., Chen, X., Meng, Z., Kang, S., Zheng, Y., Cui, L., Chen, M., Dong, M. & Hu, B. (2020). In-situ homodispersely immobilization of Ag@AgCl on chloridized g-C₃N₄ nanosheets as an ultrastable plasmonic photocatalyst. Chemical Engineering Journal, 384, Article 123259. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2019.123259

Gao, Q., Zhang, J., Chen, C., Chen, M., Sun, P., Du, W., Zhang, S., Liu, Y., Zhang, R., Bai, M., Fan, C., Wu, J., Men, T. & Jiang, X. (2020). In Situ Mannosylated Nanotrinity-Mediated Macrophage Remodeling Combats Candida albicans Infection. ACS Nano, 14(4), 3980-3990. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.9b07896

Moller Sonderskov, S., Hyldgaard Klausen, L., Amland Skaanvik, S., Han, X. & Dong, M. (2020). In situ Surface Charge Density Visualization of Self-assembled DNA Nanostructures after Ion Exchange. ChemPhysChem, 21(13), 1474-1482. https://doi.org/10.1002/cphc.201901168

Paczkowska, M., Barenboim, J., Sintupisut, N., Fox, N. S., Zhu, H., Abd-Rabbo, D., Mee, M. W., Boutros, P. C., PCAWG Drivers and Functional Interpretation Working Group, Reimand, J. & PCAWG Consortium (2020). Integrative pathway enrichment analysis of multivariate omics data. Nature Communications, 11(1), Article 735. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13983-9