ERC Starting Grant · 2023
Engineering biological timers and their applications
Living cells are endowed with encoded programs that allow them to execute vital tasks and respond to relevant stimuli. The use of analogous (synthetic) programs has an enormous potential, yet we are highly limited in our ability to program cellular actions over time. We rely on precisely-timed human intervention or on molecular oscillators that control repetitive processes, but we are still unable to program cells to autonomously execute custom actions at desired times. I now intend to make a big leap toward this goal by producing control systems (molecular timers) and associated, ready-to-use applications, for the precise and self-sufficient control of cellular actions over time.…
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