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Maerkl Lab

@maerkl-lab.bsky.social
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We are a research laboratory at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland focusing on cell-free synthetic biology, synthetic cell engineering and microfluidics.

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Maerkl Lab @maerkl-lab.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Jiami and Laura's paper is out now! In collaboration with the Reddy lab at ETHZ! www.cell.com/cell-systems...
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High-throughput cell-free profiling of SARS-CoV-2 RBD variants enables rapid and quantitative in vitro affinity landscape mapping
The team developed a high-throughput platform to rapidly measure how hundreds of viral mutation combinations affect antibody binding, generating 31,740 quantitative affinity data points. The resulting...
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Maerkl Lab @maerkl-lab.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Pao-Wan and co's paper is published now as well ! "A T7 RNAP regulatory toolbox for cell-free network engineering and biosensing applications" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A T7 RNAP regulatory toolbox for cell-free network engineering and biosensing applications - Nature Communications
T7 RNA polymerase is widely used in synthetic biology, but tools to precisely regulate it are limited. Here, authors engineer a modular T7 RNAP regulatory toolbox for programmable repression, activati...
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Maerkl Lab @maerkl-lab.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Saeed's paper is now published: "PURE makes PURE: reconstitution of the PURE cell-free system from self-synthesized proteins" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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PURE makes PURE: reconstitution of the PURE cell-free system from self-synthesized proteins - Nature Communications
Building a self-replicating biochemical system remains a challenge in synthetic biology. Here the authors demonstrate that the cell-free protein synthesis PURE system can be reconstituted from protein...
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Maerkl Lab @maerkl-lab.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Maria's paper on characterizing trans-properties of transcription factors and how they affect gene expression is out now! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Maerkl Lab @maerkl-lab.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Saeed's latest paper is now out on bioRxiv: "PURE makes PURE: reconstitution of the PURE cell-free system from self-synthesized non-ribosomal proteins" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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PURE makes PURE: reconstitution of the PURE cell-free system from self-synthesized non-ribosomal proteins
Building a universal biochemical constructor, an autonomously self-replicating biochemical system, is a major challenge in synthetic biology. The PURE cell-free system is an ideal starting point for e...
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Maerkl Lab @maerkl-lab.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Check out Amogh's latest review: "Microfluidics meets cell-free systems: from molecular engineering to synthetic cells" now published in Current Opinion in Biotechnology. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Microfluidics meets cell-free systems: from molecular engineering to synthetic cells
Cell-free systems have emerged as a powerful platform for protein production, characterization, and bottom-up construction of artificial cells, offeri…
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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
High-throughput cell-free profiling of SARS-CoV-2 RBD variants enables rapid and quantitative in vitro affinity landscape mapping www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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bioRxiv SysBio @biorxiv-sysbio.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
High-throughput cell-free profiling of SARS-CoV-2 RBD variants enables rapid and quantitative in vitro affinity landscape mapping www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Maerkl Lab @maerkl-lab.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Laura and Jiami's paper is out now on BioRxiv! Nice collaboration with the Reddy lab at ETHZ: "High-throughput cell-free profiling of SARS-CoV-2 RBD variants enables rapid and quantitative in vitro affinity landscape mapping." www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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High-throughput cell-free profiling of SARS-CoV-2 RBD variants enables rapid and quantitative in vitro affinity landscape mapping
SARS-CoV-2 variants continue to threaten public health, necessitating the study of cumulative and epistatic effects of receptor-binding domain (RBD) mutations on antibody evasion. We present a high-th...
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Maerkl Lab @maerkl-lab.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Hello World !! The Maerkl Lab is now on Bluesky... #syntheticbiology #cellfree #microfluidics #transcriptinalregulation
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