2025

• Dr Francis Repoila (https://www.micalis.fr/membre/francis-repoila/) and I presented our Enterococcus  cell-free system at the annual Micalis symposium. 

• Jean-loup Faulon and I participated in the Special issue Nanobiotechnology of Current opinion in biotechnology as guest editors (https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/10KCPR8J0BK) 

• Léa's sucessfully obtained her PhD on the 11/12/2025 at Micalis (https://www.micalis.fr/fr/lea-wagner-11-12-2025-2/)  🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

• Maud's review "Reconstituting alternative life using the test-bed of cell-free systems" published in the Philosophical Transactions B is online : https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.2024.0293 

• Bilal started working on artificial cells using cell-free systems in the lab on the 03/11/2025 (https://www.micalis.fr/fr/membre/bilal-janati-idrissi-2/)

• Gabin, Léa and I were at SB8.0 in Paris the 30/11/2025  (https://jamboree.igem.org/2025/program/sb8) 

• Jean-Baptiste Lugagne (PI at the University of Oxford)  visited us and presented his work on Cell-Machine Interfaces to Study and Engineer Biology (https://www.micalis.fr/jean-baptiste-lugagne-16-10-2025/)

• Olivier presented his Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (H.D.R.) (https://www.micalis.fr/olivier-borkowski-15-10-2025/)

• Olivier presented Micalis' synthetic biology research at the New Zealand Embassy in Paris (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7381622091575414784/)

• Gabin will start his PhD in the lab on the 01/10/2025 developing genome expression in cell-free systems (https://www.micalis.fr/fr/membre/gabin-derache-2/) 

• Olivier presented cell-free results at Maiage (https://maiage.inrae.fr/seminaires-ext?field_date_du_jour_value=2&sort_by=field_date_du_jour_value&sort_order=ASC)

• Amel finished her internship but will come back as a PhD student in Micalis

• Francesca Ceroni (Imperial College, London) and Luca Ciandrini (CBS, Montpellier) visited us and gave talks about resource competition during the Micalis Seminar on the 19/06/2025 (https://www.micalis.fr/events/seminars/)

• Our work on cell-free transcriptomics with Léa is on biorxiv: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.04.657821v1 

• Léa and Olivier will be at the SEED conference in Houston in June 2025 (https://synbioconference.org/2025)

• Olivier presented cell-free systems approaches at the Microbe symposium at Université Paris-Saclay (https://www.universite-paris-saclay.fr/objets-interdisciplinaires/microbes/microbes-symposia )

• We started a collaboration with Dr Francis Repoila (https://www.micalis.fr/membre/francis-repoila/) on developing an Enterococcus  cell-free system

• Olivier presented the cell-free biofoundry at Workshop ENS-PS INRAE (https://ens-ps-inrae.sciencesconf.org/) 

• Amel presented her work at the "Congrès Junior Pluridisciplinaire " in ENS Paris-Saclay (https://www.universite-paris-saclay.fr/graduate-schools/gs-metiers-de-la-recherche-et-de-lenseignement-superieur/gs-mres-congres-junior) and she won the committee prize 👏👏👏

• Olivier gave an online presentation at SynBYSS organised by Taeseok Moon (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKjs_Eyynls)

• Olivier gave an online presentation at the Alan Turing Institute for the DCB Turing Interest Group: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY9QuIF8fvc

• Amel Abdennour has joined the lab to work on mathematical modeling of cell-free data for a Master 2.

• Léa and Olivier gave a course  https://hal.science/hal-04405950  for the master M1 Plant and Microbial molecular Biology  at Université Paris-Saclay (https://www.universite-paris-saclay.fr/en/education/master/integrative-biology-and-physiology/m1-plant-and-microbial-molecular-biology)

• Olivier gave a course on Cell-Free Systems  at  AgroParisTech 

2024

• Olivier presented at Micalis Symposium (https://www.micalis.fr/2024-micalis-symposium/)

• Olivier gave a course on Cell-Free Systems at AgroParisTech - Université Paris-Saclay  (https://hal.science/hal-04837424 )

• Olivier will give a course at ENS for the PSL Master in Life Sciences - ENS in october (https://www.edu.bio.ens.psl.eu/spip.php?article289 )

• The IWBDA special issue is online https://shorturl.at/UGbu0 

• Léa will be at Doc'Micalis  for PhD  students on the 6th of july at Jouy-en-josas

• Maud will be at BioSynSys in Montpellier on the 5-7 of june (https://biosynsys2024.sciencesconf.org/ )

• Léa presented her work at the "journées Scientifiques du département Sciences de la Vie et Santé " of AgroParisTech. https://sites.google.com/view/svs-scientific-days/ programme

• Olivier presented at UCD-BECKMAN UNIVERSITY Biomanufacturing & Microbiology Symposium and Workshop in Dublin 

• Léa is part of the organising committee of Doc'J annual scientific symposium, which will be held on 16 May 2024 at the Jouy-en-Josas centre. 

https://asij.jouy.hub.inrae.fr/le-colloque-doc-j/colloque-doc-j-2024 

• Joshua Ricouvier (from the Bar-Ziv lab, Weizmann Institute of Science) visited us and gave a presentation during the Micalis Seminar on Thursday April 25

• Léa and I will be at the Microbe symposium at Université Paris-Saclay. https://oi-mic-young-24.sciencesconf.org/ 

• Léa and I gave a course at Université Paris-Saclay. https://hal.science/hal-04405950 

2023

• Olivier Borkowski gave a course on Cell-Free Systems at AgroParisTech - Université Paris-Saclay. https://hal.science/hal-04336158

• Léa Wagner developed a practical course on Cell-Free Systems with Vincent Sauveplane for AgroParisTech - Université Paris-Saclay.

• Léa Wagner and I will be at BioSynSys Symposium in Toulouse. https://biosynsys2023.sciencesconf.org/

• Maud Hofmann successfully obtained a grant at ED sdsv for a PhD on protein cost (co-supervised by Manish Kushwaha and Olivier Borkowski).

• Presentation of cell-free approach at Build-a-Cell seminar series by Olivier Borkowski.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqivq7yNb4Q&ab_channel=Build-a-Cell

• Léa Wagner published a review on cell-free in CSBJ. https://t.co/9YRI1swNSI

2022

• IWBDA conference co-organized by Olivier Borkowski in Paris. https://www.iwbdaconf.org/2022/

• Léa Wagner started a PhD on cell-free systems (co-supervised by Matthieu Jules and Olivier Borkowski).

2021

• Olivier Borkowski started as a permanent researcher at INRAE.