MaxSynBio (Max Planck)

Synthetic chloroplasts, vesicle chassis — Bottom-up cell assembly with photosynthetic energy generation.

Country: Germany

Research consortium

Coverage

	CN	EU	US
genome-engineering	✓	✓	✓

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Verifiable facts

Fact	Value	Source
Affiliation	Max Planck Society and German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)	renewable-carbon.eu · maxsynbio.mpg.de
Research focus	Bottom-up synthetic biology, construction of minimal cells/protocells, synthetic chloroplasts, metabolic cascades, artificial photosynthesis, CO2 capture and conversion, vesicle/droplet microcompartments	renewable-carbon.eu · maxsynbio.mpg.de
Facility	Microfluidic Systems Facility (Göttingen), Facility for Cell-Free Protein Expression (Martinsried), Dortmund Protein Facility	maxsynbio.mpg.de
Grant	Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG) and Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)	renewable-carbon.eu · maxsynbio.mpg.de
Principal staff	Kai Sundmacher (Chief Coordinator), Petra Schwille (Chief Coordinator), Tobias Erb, Joachim P. Spatz, Katharina Landfester, Eberhard Bodenschatz, Stephan Herminghaus, Peter Dabrock	pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov · mpi-magdeburg.mpg.de
Publications	High, including papers in Nature Materials (e.g., Weiss et al., 2017) medium confidence	pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Independent sources: mpi-magdeburg.mpg.de · pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov · renewable-carbon.eu

Technologies

Name	Cluster	Risk
Minimal genomes & synthetic cells	genome-engineering	High	→

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