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🔸CELLOIDS UPDATE #1🔸
The #CELLOIDS PROJECT aims at realizing cell-inspired #microrobots that can move inside soft tissues.
Our microrobots will have four features.
@ScuolaSantAnna
@ERC_Research
🇪🇺 GA:948590
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Two new preprints from the Lab! 🚀
⚡ Active Janus Microswimmers: new insights into Pt deposition and self-propulsion
🔬 VesiScope — automated GUV analysis.
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🔗 biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2609.03605
#Microrobotics #GUVs #ActiveMatter #BioRobotics
👩🔬🧑🔬 MEET OUR TEAM 🎉👇
🤝 Valeria is a Master's student in Biomedical Engineering at the @Unipisa, specializing in Biomedical Technologies.
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🧑🔬👩🔬MEET OUR TEAM🎉
🤝Lucrezia Galieni is a #physicsofmatter master's student at @Unipisa.
Having completed a Bachelor's degree in #Physics at @Unipisa, she currently specializing in the #biosystems field.
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membranes at different pHs.
Happy to share our post-doc’s participation at the NWO Dutch Soft Matter Meeting in Nijmegen, presenting her work on #activeparticles and #softmicrorobotics.
A great opportunity for scientific exchange and networking within the Soft Matter community👥
#erc #celloids
Gave my first “soundbite” talk at the NWO Dutch Soft Matter Meeting in Nijmegen!. Loved the inspiring conversations & great networking energy!
Extra special: my very first scientific conference attended together with my husband @yashpalsbrar
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Gave my first “soundbite” talk at the NWO Dutch Soft Matter Meeting in Nijmegen!. Loved the inspiring conversations & great networking energy!
Extra special: my very first scientific conference attended together with my husband @yashpalsbrar
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🚨 Please share this fully-funded #PhD #opportunity within your network!👇 👇
Only two weeks are left to apply!
@imperialcollege
🚨 a fully funded #PhD #opportunity is now open in our group at @imperialcollege
In collaboration with John Tregoning , we will #engineer #synthetic #vesicle platforms for programmable #immune #training and #vaccine #delivery.
imperial.ac.uk/medicine/stud…
We had the pleasure of hosting Dr. @ContiniClau (@imperialcollege) last week for a fascinating seminar on artificial cells with a focus on how soft matter can lead to cell-like behaviour.
Thank you for visiting!
See you soon✨
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🎓✨On February 6, 2026, I defended my PhD thesis, closing an intense and deeply formative journey.
Grateful to my supervisor, Prof. @StefanoPalagi, my co-supervisors Dario Cecchi and @GaiaPetrucci1, and the @MicroRobotLab for their support along the way.
👩🔬🧑🔬MEET OUR TEAM🎉
Chiara Catania holds a Master’s degree in Bioengineering from @unipd, specializing in #biomaterials and #tissueengineering, and has worked as a research fellow at @cafoscari on #biosensors for molecular diagnostics.
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#softinvaders #microrobotics
SOFTINVADERS is the new project carried on at our lab✨
🇪🇺 Funded by @ERC_Research (GA 101213190), it officially started in October 2025 and will end in March 2027.
It aims at further develop celloid micrororobots so that they can penetrate solid tumors.
Stay tuned for more!
We’re heading to #FocusLive in Milan at Leonardo da Vinci museum of science and technology 🔭
Come find us at our stand ❤️🔬🤖
@Focus_it
@SantAnnaPisa
#scicomm #focuslive2025 #science #research #microrobots
🚨Publication alert!👇
If you’re exploring the #droplettransfermethod for the first time to fabricate your #GUVs, or if you’re curious to learn more about this technique, check out our new article just published on @JoVEJournal.
🔗 jove.com/v/68340/using-dropl…
Last week marked the 21st Conference on Complex Systems! 🚀
Our postdoc @jyoti_physics had the opportunity to share heed work on harnessing swarm behaviors of active particles to build intelligent microrobots 🔬🤖
#CCS2025 #microrobots #microrobotics #biorobotics
Check out our last publication❕
We investigated how cholesterol, influences GUVs produced via the widely used droplet transfer method with the phospholipid DOPC.
🔗 open-research-europe.ec.euro…
@A_Elien5
@cecchi_dario
@StefanoPalagi
@ERC_Research
Excited to share our new publication‼️
We developed a novel method to fabricate core-shell capsules with tunable shell thickness and semi-liquid core, designed as carrier systems.
Check it out👇
🔗open-research-europe.ec.euro…
#openscience #openresearcheurope #coreshell #celloid
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We open our workshop titled “Biomimetic microrobots as microscale living machines”
@SantAnnaPisa @StefanoPalagi @ERC_Research @MicroRobotLab
#livingmachine
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Let us meet in the Living machines 2025 edition and talk about microrobots!
Join us on July 15 for an afternoon packed with cutting-edge insights, innovation, and inspiration on Microscale robotics and living machines. Don’t miss out—connect, learn, and be part of the future!
More information: sites.google.com/view/lm2025…
#conference #AcademicTwitter #networking #STEM #Engineering #microrobots
@MicroRobotLab @StefanoPalagi @jyoti_physics @ContiniClau @LauraAlvarez_F @IsabellaFiorel1 @Jones_Firefly @mssakar @SantAnnaPisa @ERC_Research @im_MHDA
