Aukse Gaizauskaite @aukseg.bsky.social · 13/08/2026'Half-moons' appearing in the shadows during the Solar eclipse in Straubing, Germany🌙 What a marvelous sight to witness this year! ☀️ 010 1
Reposted by Aukse GaizauskaiteEuropean Synthetic Cell Initiative @syncelleu.bsky.social · 13/04/2026PhD position in the Niederholtmeyer Lab (Straubing Germany) on feedback control of dynamic condensate assembly and disassembly edu.nl/7v364 Deadline: 26/04 @hniederho.bsky.social #SynCell #SyntheticCelledu.nlTUM - PhD position in cell-free synthetic biology (m/f/d)Studierenden- und Mitarbeiterportal der Technische Universität München 045 5
Aukse Gaizauskaite @aukseg.bsky.social · 09/04/2026You can also find an audio summary of this paper: sciencecast.org/casts/9admen...sciencecast.orgScience CastIncrease your recognition in the scientific world with short video-casts 020 2
Aukse Gaizauskaite @aukseg.bsky.social · 09/04/2026New preprint from @hniederho.bsky.social lab: 'Tardigrade-Derived Strategy for Low-Cost Storage of Cell-Free Expression Lysates' www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.org 030 3
Aukse Gaizauskaite @aukseg.bsky.social · 09/04/2026#Tardigrades are remarkable organisms! And we were intrigued by the possibility of borrowing their #desiccation-tolerance strategy for #cell-free systems🧪 We tested PrCAHS1 protein as potential protector against drying damage in #lysates. Our goal: make #CFES easier to store and access! Link below: 231 3
Reposted by Aukse GaizauskaiteMagnus Kjærgaard @proteinmagnus.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Why do intrinsically disordered proteins appear larger than they are in SDS-PAGE? We investigate how sequence properties affect SDS-PAGE mobility using synthetic IDRs. Conclusion: We need to consider both SDS binding and the compaction of protein-SDS complexes. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 58124 81
Reposted by Aukse GaizauskaiteTechnische Universität München @tum.de · 25/03/2026The latest QS World #UniversityRankings by Subject place us among the world’s top 20 universities in #engineering & technology, as well as #NaturalSciences: go.tum.de/261445 👏 #QSWUR 📷A.Heddergottgo.tum.deTUM among the top 20 in engineering and natural sciencesTUM has once again been ranked among the top 20 universities worldwide in the QS World University Rankings by Subject for engineering and natural sciences. 072 7
Aukse Gaizauskaite @aukseg.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Never underestimate the value of small discoveries and "happy accidents" in lab! For the Agar success in microbiology we should thank Fanny Angelina Hesse, the little-known hero with brilliant idea which changed the microbiology field forever ✨️ 000 0
Reposted by Aukse GaizauskaiteOmar Saleh @oasaleh.bsky.social · 18/02/2026New from us in @pnas.org : We considered the limits of condensate diversity, and engineered DNA droplets to form 9 distinct, homotypic, coexisting phases. Very hard to do this except with nucleic acids. Probably you can make more than 9. (1/3) 32810 28
Reposted by Aukse GaizauskaiteCarl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 18/02/2026Scientists have seen Asgard archaea crawling for the first time. When it comes to the origin of eukaryotes, this is like seeing a feathered dinosaur in the wild. (Video courtesy of Philipp Ralder) 10469135 469
Reposted by Aukse GaizauskaiteKresten Lindorff-Larsen @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social · 14/02/2024Roses are red Violets are blue If you fall in love with your hypothesis You’ll be biased to prove it true 🧪 36115 61
Aukse Gaizauskaite @aukseg.bsky.social · 12/02/2026I’m always happy to share my experience and discuss exciting scientific topics, especially #synbio and the construction of #syntheticcells 🧪🔬 Last week, I had lots of fun giving a lecture at the @tum.de Winter School for international students. Many thanks to the organisers for the kind invitation! 000 0
Aukse Gaizauskaite @aukseg.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Feeling proud and inspired by all the amazing women I get to work with and learn from. Cheers to more discoveries, more voices, and more brilliance in every lab! 🔬✨ #WomenInSTEM #synbio #LifeSciences #Niederholtmeyerlab 010 1
Aukse Gaizauskaite @aukseg.bsky.social · 27/11/2025What a pleasure it was to return to my Alma Mater, Vilnius University! I was invited to deliver a guest lecture for master’s students in the Systems Biology program at the Faculty of Medicine. We discussed SynBio topics, bottom-up Synthetic Cell research, and my own work on biomolecular condensates! 020 2
Aukse Gaizauskaite @aukseg.bsky.social · 24/11/2025In this review, we highlight the benefits of combining microfluidics with CFE for studying and engineering molecular functions, even from non-living components. We hope that the text and citations are helpful for anyone interested in these powerful tools. Happy reading to everyone! 000 0
Aukse Gaizauskaite @aukseg.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Using CFE in microfluidic setups enables the closer simulation of cell-like environments by providing precise control over reaction settings, spatial organisation and maintenance of non-equilibrium conditions - a feature of life. 110 1
Aukse Gaizauskaite @aukseg.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Droplet microfluidics allows the production of nanoliter to picoliter microreactors for massively parallel, miniaturised assays. Combined with CFE, such droplets commonly serve as cell-like microcompartments for boundary-enclosed cell-free reactions. 100 1
Aukse Gaizauskaite @aukseg.bsky.social · 24/11/2025While cell-free transcription–translation systems (CFE) simplify and open up cellular biochemistry for manipulation, microfluidics enables miniaturisation and precise control over geometries and reaction conditions. 100 1
Aukse Gaizauskaite @aukseg.bsky.social · 24/11/2025I am happy to share that our review on the Controlled Protein Synthesis in Microfluidic Environments has been published 🎉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Thanks to @emmacrean.bsky.social, Imre Banlaki, @jankalkowski.bsky.social, and @hniederho.bsky.social for great teamwork! 1156 15
Reposted by Aukse GaizauskaiteMax Planck Institute of Biochemistry @mpibiochem.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Can we build synthetic cells from de novo designed proteins? Find out more in the latest review @natrevbioeng.nature.com from Bela Frohn, Shunshi Kohyama and Petra Schwille. ❕Publication: doi.org/10.1038/s442... #ProteinDesign #SyntheticBiology @belafrohn.bsky.social 0107 10
Aukse Gaizauskaite @aukseg.bsky.social · 20/05/2025I had the pleasure of giving a talk at the Biomolecular condensates conference in Copenhagen!☀️ Thanks to @proteinmagnus.bsky.social, @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social, and A.K. Buell for creating such an interesting program, and Fida Biosystems for the travel grant award! 👏 events.au.dk/biomolecular... 1121 12
Aukse Gaizauskaite @aukseg.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Very exciting program for the next 3 days! Will talk about microfluidic platform for biomolecular condensates on the second day. See you there! 020 2
Reposted by Aukse GaizauskaiteAlf Soler-Bistué 🦠🔬🧫 @alfmicrobe.bsky.social · 10/04/2025I was waiting two years to see this out!! The genomic location of bacterial genes is not random!!! Congratulation on the authors (Martin Lercher and Team!). www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgMost bacterial gene families are biased toward specific chromosomal positionsThe arrangement of genes along bacterial chromosomes influences their expression through growth rate–dependent gene copy number changes during DNA replication. Although translation- and transcription-... 214662 146
Reposted by Aukse GaizauskaiteAlberti Lab @ TU Dresden @albertilab-tud.bsky.social · 30/01/2025We are looking forward to the workshop "Biomolecular Condensates and Polymer Phase Transitions" which we are organizing together with the IPF Dresden (dpd.ipfdd.de). It will be held from May 25th - 28th, 2025 in Meißen, near Dresden. The registration deadline is May 5th, 2025. 0196 19
Reposted by Aukse GaizauskaiteOlivier Borkowski @oborkowski.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Component library creation and pixel array generation with micromilled droplet microfluidics www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comComponent library creation and pixel array generation with micromilled droplet microfluidics - Microsystems & NanoengineeringMicrosystems & Nanoengineering - Component library creation and pixel array generation with micromilled droplet microfluidics 051 5
Reposted by Aukse GaizauskaiteSam "The Mug Guy" Horrell @drhorrell.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Calling all structural enthusiasts! An accurate depiction of the structure of DNA in #Lego is under 2000 supporters away from being considered to become a real set! It even has Franklin, Watson, and Crick minifigures and a Lego photgraph 51 and Bragg's law! ideas.lego.com/projects/c92...ideas.lego.comLego DNA 2.0: Double Helix HistoryStep into the extraordinary world of Lego DNA 2.0: Double Helix History, a celebration of the 70th anniversary of the landmark DNA structure ... 12916 29
Reposted by Aukse GaizauskaiteCees Dekker @ceesdekker.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Latest #CDlab paper by Nicola De Franceschi ea now in eLife @elife.bsky.social: 'Interaction hierarchy among Cdv proteins drives recruitment to membrane necks', an in vitro study of the fascinating and unique proteins machinery that drives cell division in archaea elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... 1174 17
Reposted by Aukse GaizauskaiteAlex Holehouse @alexholehouse.bsky.social · 17/01/2025New review / perspective with @albertilab-tud.bsky.social on our thoughts on condensate speciality and recruitment, focusing on interplay between site specific and chemically specific interactions www.cell.com/molecular-ce...cell.comMolecular determinants of condensate compositionBiomolecular condensates are non-stochiometric assemblies that organize cellular matter in space and time. Despite much work, many questions remain regarding what determines the recruitment and exclus... 39134 91
Reposted by Aukse GaizauskaiteKeren Lasker @kerenlasker.bsky.social · 30/12/20241/ 🚨We’re thrilled to share our latest study: "Cellular Function of a Biomolecular Condensate Is Determined by Its Ultrastructure" 🌟 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... How do biomolecular condensates achieve their cellular roles? It comes down to their internal structure. 🧵⬇️biorxiv.orgCellular Function of a Biomolecular Condensate Is Determined by Its UltrastructureBiomolecular condensates play key roles in the spatiotemporal regulation of cellular processes. Yet, the relationship between atomic features and condensate function remains poorly understood. We stud... 511153 111
Aukse Gaizauskaite @aukseg.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Yes, we have iDOT in our lab, and it works quite well! It doesn't need so much maintainance as Echo needs (only specific vials to handle liquids), and can work in similar ranges like Echo does :) 120 2