Stoked that the project I started as soon as I started my PhD with
@tfadgreef is finally out on
#bioRxiv! 📜
Huge effort. 💪🏼It took a village to raise that baby! 👶 🥰
I came in knowing nothing about synthetic receptors (my background was
#microRNAs). Tom’s idea to add a miRNA negative feedback loop to
#synNotch -the way nature does it-finally became reality with my amazing co-first authors Bryan Nathalia 🦸 and Tom Meuleman 👨🔬.
We built a self-limiting, tunable system where activated synNotch induces its own repressor and autonomously attenuates signaling over time.
Really excited about the bigger picture here: embedding this kind of autonomous control has the potential to make engineered cells more predictable, tunable, and adaptive — exactly what we’ll need for safer, smarter cell therapies.
Huge thanks to Bryan, Tom, and the whole team at TU/e, Utrecht University & MIT.
Preprint 👉
lnkd.in/eWZWh937
#SyntheticBiology #CellEngineering #synNotch
Excited to share our preprint on autonomous feedback control in synthetic receptor systems.
We engineered a miRNA-based negative feedback circuit where synNotch activation drives expression of a synthetic miRNA that represses the receptor itself.
Preprint:
tinyurl.com/52adskww