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LOCATION:Physiology Seminar Room, Nuffield Wing, 
SUMMARY:Professor Henrike Niederholtmeyer - 'Engineering life-like systems from the bottom up'
DESCRIPTION:Henrike Niederholtmeyer is a professor at the Technical University of Munich. At the Campus Straubing for Biotechnology and Sustainability, she leads a research group in the field of cell-free synthetic biology. Her approach uses biochemical reaction systems that isolate fundamental cellular processes in a test tube, for example cell-free transcription and translation. This allows rapid characterisation of new genetic constructs and proteins in high throughput. Another goal of Niederholtmeyer's research program is to build life-like systems from scratch, from simple non-living components. Her group engineer spatiotemporal biochemical systems, and aims to develop minaturised compartments to improve biochemical processes.Professor Niederholtmeyer studied biotechnology at the University of Munster, with a research stay abroad at Harvard Medical School, where she first cam e into contact with syntehtci biology in Pam Silver's lab. She then completed her PhD at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) with Sebastian Maerkl, using microfluidics and cell-free transcription and translation to characterise oscillating gene networks. After completing her PhD she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) from 2015 - 2020 in Neal Devaraj's lab, where she became excited about engineering synthetic compartments. In 2020, she started her intendent career as an Emmy Noether Research Group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg. In 2022, her lab moved to Bavaria when she joined the Technical University of Munich (TUM) as an assistant professor for synthetic biology.A selection of sandwiches, tea & coffee will be available between 1:30 – 2pm in the Physiology Board Room. To support sustainability, cups will be limited, so please bring your own cup. If you would like to meet with Henrike, please contact the host Luning Liu lnliu@liverpool.ac.uk.
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