News
2025/07/13 - Call for papers for the satellite workshop "SB-AI 10: Self-organization in (nano and electromechanical) robots. Towards the robosphere", host at the ALIFE-2025 Conference (Kyoto, 6-10 October 2025)
2025/03/09 - Announcement of a Special Issue: "Hypothesis-Driven Artificial Intelligence Approaches for Complex Systems Biology" in MDPI Systems
2024/12/19 - Announcement of a Research Topic: "Neuromorphic Engineering in wetware: achievements and perspectives" in Frontiers in Neuroscience
2024/11/18 - New publication: "Empowering Chemical AI through Systems Chemistry" in ChemSystemsChem
2024/09/27 - Research Stand at "European Researchers' Night 2024" - An organizational approach to synthetic modeling (ORG-SBEAI), Lecce
2024/09/10 - New publication: "Neuromorphic Engineering in Wetware: The State of the Art and Its Perspectives" in Frontiers in Neuroscience
2024/09/01 - New publication: "On the Positive Role of Noise and Error in Complex Systems" in MDPI Systems
2024/08/31 - Announcement of the Special issue "Feature Papers in Synthetic Biology and Systems Biology 2024" in MDPI Life
2024/05/30 - Announcement of the Special Feature "Advances in Synthetic Biology: Artificial Cells and Molecular Communication" in IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications
2024/05/15 - New publication: "Living cells and biological mechanisms as prototypes for developing chemical artificial intelligence" in Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
2024/05/02 - Announcement of the MDPI Topic "Recent Advances in Chemical Artificial Intelligence" for the MDPI journals: AI, Biomimetics, Chemosensors, Life, Molecules, Sci
2024/03/15 - Announcement of the Satellite Workshop "Molecular Communication Approaches for Wetware Artificial Life (2nd edition)". To be hold in Copenhagen, at the conference ALIFE 2024.
2024/03/15 - Announcement of the Satellite Workshop "SB-AI 9. From imitative to biologically plausible synthetic models of natural cognition". To be hold in Copenhagen, at the conference ALIFE 2024.
2023/09/15 - New publication: "Chemical Systems for Wetware Artificial Life: Selected Perspectives in Synthetic Cell Research" in MDPI International Journal of Molecular Sciences
2023/08/17 - New publication: "Explorative Synthetic Biology in AI. Criteria of relevance and a taxonomy for synthetic models of living and cognitive processes." in Artificial Life
2023/07/26 - Satellite Workshop "SB-AI 8. What can Synthetic Biology offer to Artificial Intelligence? Strategies and Perspectives for Embodied Chemical Approaches to AI". 26 July 2023, from 17.10 to 18.30 JST. Hybrid Event. Organizers: P. Stano, L. Damiano, Y. Kuruma. 8th Edition. Hosted @ALIFE2023.
2023/07/25 - Satellite Workshop "Molecular Communication Approaches for Wetware Artificial Life". 25 July 2023, from 17.10 to 18.30 JST. Hybrid Event. Organizers: P. Stano, M. Barros, M. Egan, M. Kuscu, Y. Kuruma, T. Nakano. 1st Edition. Hosted @ALIFE2023.
2023/07/21 - New publication: "A Role for Bottom-Up Synthetic Cells in the Internet of Bio-Nano Things?" in MDPI Molecules
2023/06/21 - New project (PRIN 2022): "Org(SB-EAI) - An Organizational Approach to the Synthetic Modeling of Cognition based on Synthetic Biology and Embodied AI" (project n. 20222HHXAX)
2023/05/31 - New publication: "Recurrent Neural Networks in Synthetic Cells: A Route to Autonomous Molecular Agents?" in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
2023/03/23 - New publication: "Synthetic Cell Research: Is Technical Progress Leaving Theoretical and Epistemological Investigations One Step Behind?" in Frontiers in Robotics and AI.
2023/01/28 - New publication: "Synthetic Cells Extract Semantic Information from their Environment" in IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications.
2023/01/26 - New publication: "Two possible AI-related paths for bottom-up synthetic cell research" in Communications in Computer and Information Science
2023/01/20 - New publication: "Monitoring the Advancements in the Technology of Artificial Cells by determining their Complexity Degree: Hints from Complex Systems Descriptors" in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
2023/01/11 - New publication: "Toward Interdisciplinary Synergies in Molecular Communications: Perspectives from Synthetic Biology, Nanotechnology, Communications Engineering and Philosophy of Science" in MDPI Life
2022/11/30 - Call for papers: Special Issue "Bio-Chem-ICTs: Synergies between Bio/Nanotechnologies and Molecular Communications" organized for the journal IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications
2022/09/29 - New publication: "Commentary: Rapid and Facile Preparation of Giant Vesicles by the Droplet Transfer Method for Artificial Cell Construction" in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
2022/09/17 - New publication: "A Four-Track Perspective for Bottom-up Synthetic Cells" in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
2022/07/22 - Satellite Workshop "SB-AI 7. What can Synthetic Biology offer to Artificial Intelligence? Strategies and Perspectives for Embodied Chemical Approaches to AI". 22 July 2022, from 10.00 to 13.00 CEST. Virtual Event. Organizers: P. Stano, L. Damiano, Y. Kuruma. 7th Edition. Hosted @ALIFE2022.
2022/07/21 - Talk @ALIFE2022 (Special Session: Artificial Perception II): "En route for implanting a minimal chemical perceptron into artificial cells"
2022/07/19 - Talk @Chemaliforms II, satellite workshop of ALIFE 2022: "Synthetic (artificial) cells research: is impressive technical progress leaving important theoretical investigations one step behind? " - with Luisa Damiano
2022/07/14 - New publication: "Exploring Information and Communication Theories for Synthetic Cell Research" in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
2022/06/06 - New publication: "Chemical Neural Networks Inside Synthetic Cells? A Proposal for Their Realization and Modeling" in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
2022/03/16 - Winner of the 2021 Cozzarelli Prize (National Academy of Science, USA) in Class I (Physical and Mathematical Sciences), with the paper: "Chromatophores efficiently promote light-driven ATP synthesis and DNA transcription inside hybrid multicompartment artificial cells" by Emiliano Altamura et al., 2021.
2022/02/11 - 2nd Italian Systems Chemistry Gathering, virtual event, 14.30-18.15.
2022/02/03 - Call for Papers: Workshop @ALIFE2022: "SB-AI 7. What can Synthetic Biology offer to Artificial Intelligence? Strategies and Perspectives for Embodied Chemical Approaches to AIsites.google.com/unisalento.it/sb-ai-7/home-page"
2021/12/02 - Call for Papers: Special Issue: "Autopoiesis: Foundations of Life, Cognition, and Emergence of Self/Other" organized for the journal BioSystems
2021/11/17 - Talk @CIBB2021: "Synthetic cell biotechnology as a useful platform for chemical AI"
2021/09/16 - New publication: "A Wetware Embodied AI? Towards an Autopoietic Organizational Approach grounded in Synthetic Biology" in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
2021/09/15 - Talk @WIVACE2021: "Bottom-up synthetic cells and two next AI-related possible paths"
2021/09/13 - Organization of a Special Issue "Biology in AI. New frontiers in hardware, software and wetware modeling of cognition", for the journal Artificial Life
2021/09/13 - New publication: "Synthetic Cells engaged in Molecular Communication: An opportunity for modelling Shannon- and semantic-information in the chemical domain" in Frontiers in Communications and Networks
2021/09/03 - New publication: "The Rise of the Nested Multicompartment Model in Synthetic Cell Research" in Frontiers in Biomolecular Sciences.
2021/08/04 - Special Session @CIBB2021 (15-17 November 2021, virtual event): "Bio-inspired AI and AI-inspired (bio)chemical intelligence: a viable two-way path?"
2021/07/16 - Commemorative Event (22 July 2021, 19.45-21.00 CET): "1971-2021: 50 Years with Autopoiesis. In memory of Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela", organized for the ALIFE2021 Virtual Conference on Artificial Life, 19-23 July 2021
2021/05/03 - Satellite Workshop (23 July 2021, 12.30-17.00 CET): "Synthetic Approaches to Biology and Artificial Intelligence" organized for the ALIFE2021 Virtual Conference on Artificial Life, 19-23 July 2021
2021/04/21 - Call for Papers: Special Issue: "Fiat Lux! Light-Driven and Light-Controlled Synthetic Biological Parts, Devices, Systems and Processes" organized for the journal Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
2021/03/17 - Call for Papers: Special Issue: "Membranous and Membraneless Interfaces: Origins of Artificial Cell Complexity" organized for the journal Life (MDPI)