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SUMMARY:Synthetic tissues from communicating droplet networks
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Hagan Bayley\, Department of Chemistry\, University of 
 Oxford\, UK.\nCompared to the bottom-up assembly of minimal cells\, synthe
 tic tissues have so far received limited attention. Bayley's lab has used 
 3D printing to build networks of thousands of picoliter aqueous droplets j
 oined by lipid bilayers\, which can be functionalized with membrane protei
 ns. The networks can fold and conduct electrical signals\, behaving as sim
 ple synthetic tissues. The team aims to interface these droplet networks w
 ith living tissues and control them with external signals\, including ligh
 t and magnetism.\n\nHAGAN BAYLEY is the Professor of Chemical Biology at t
 he University of Oxford. Major interests of his laboratory are the develop
 ment of engineered pores for stochastic sensing\, the study of covalent ch
 emistry at the single molecule level\, ultrarapid DNA sequencing and the f
 abrication of synthetic tissues. He received his B.A. in chemistry from Ox
 ford in 1974\, while at Balliol College\, and his Ph.D. in chemistry from 
 Harvard University in 1979 in the laboratory of Jeremy Knowles. After post
 doctoral work with Gobind Khorana at the Massachusetts Institute of Techno
 logy\, he was on the faculty at Columbia University and the University of 
 Oxford. From 1988 to 1996\, he was at the Worcester Foundation for Experim
 ental Biology in Shrewsbury\, Massachusetts\, and from 1997 to 2003 at Tex
 as A&M University in College Station. In 2005\, Professor Bayley founded O
 xford Nanopore to exploit the potential of stochastic sensing technology. 
 The company has developed the MinION portable DNA sequencer. In 2014\, he 
 founded OxSyBio to build synthetic tissues for regenerative medicine. Both
  his research and entrepreneurial skills have been recognised several time
 s. He has been a recipient of the Royal Society’s Wolfson Research Merit
  Award and was the 2009 Chemistry World Entrepreneur of the Year. In 2011\
 , Professor Bayley was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 2012\, he
  was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry's Interdisciplinary Prize and 
 in 2017\, the Menelaus Medal of the Learned Society of Wales.\n \n\n\n\n
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