January 2025
We present the first in vitro system producing the key building blocks of life: DNA, RNA, proteins, and lipids. Read about this work by Ana Restrepo Sierra, et al. on bioRxiv. (link to preprint).
October 2024
We created a Darwinian protocell that supports protein synthesis, DNA self-replication and adaptive evolution. See our recent paper by Zhanar Abil, Ana Restrepo Sierra, et al.
September 2024
We welcome Inés Barros Medina, PhD student in the lab of Prof. Germán Rivas (Madrid), who will stay 3 months in our group.
April 2024
Welcome to the new website of the Danelon group, the Synthetic Cell lab.
March 2024
MOSAIC is available as a preprint on bioRxiv. Great collaboration with Nico Claassens lab at Wageningen University. Congratulations Marijn and Tim!
Jan 2024
We welcome Yannick Bernard-Lapeyre as a new PhD student.
Sep 2023
Laura Sierra Heras started her PhD in the lab, the first one in Toulouse.
July 2023
After 13 wonderful years in the department of Bionanoscience at the TU Delft, I moved back to the 'pink city', Toulouse, where I set up the new Synthetic Cell Lab. The group in Delft is still alive, with four fantastic PhD students