Rob Strutt

Postdoctoral researcher 🇬🇧 working at ETH Zürich 🇨🇭 in the field of artifical cells

[Rob Strutt @RobertStrutt]

Happy to see this out - a perspective on how high throughput droplet technologies may be scaled up for chemistry, biology and beyond.💧🧪⚗️https://t.co/b0Y89KOyuR

[Bioanalytics Group at ETH Zürich @BioanalyticsLab]

Have a read of our new perspective article in (@LabonaChip ) on droplet microarrays. We explore droplet generation, manipulation and analysis for high throughput screens. We’re excited about the future of these technologies!💧 @RobertStrutt @bijing_xiong https://t.co/BtvCcRzta3

[Jorge Bravo Abad @bravo_abad]

Molecular intelligence: enzymes that compute

Living matter already processes information — it senses, reacts, and adapts — but doing so with the precision of a computer has long seemed out of reach. What if molecules themselves could perform computation, without any electronics?

Souvik Ghosh and coauthors demonstrate exactly that: a recursive enzymatic network built from just seven immobilized enzymes that can perform reservoir computing. Instead of transistors, the system uses competition between chemical reactions, feedback loops, and non-linear kinetics to classify inputs and respond to changing conditions — all inside a microreactor.

The result is remarkable. With a simple linear readout, the chemical network performs non-linear classification tasks, senses temperature with ~1.3 °C precision, and even detects light-pulse periodicity by coupling to a photoacid dye. The computation happens entirely within wet chemistry, where sensing, processing, and decision-making merge into one process.

Compared to earlier chemical reservoirs, this one operates under mild, bio-compatible conditions — opening the door to soft, autonomous materials that think and act chemically.

Paper: https://t.co/k0Vi7llqoy

[Abakcus @abakcus]

Eshel Ben-Jacob saw bacterial colonies as canvases—and let them paint.

[Niko McCarty. @NikoMcCarty]

I recently learned that the novelist, Cormac McCarthy, spent several years at the Santa Fe Institute helping scientists write papers.

His advice was condensed into a brief Nature column. The first three points, and some of the final points, are really good. (h/t @eryney_ok)

[Rob Strutt @RobertStrutt]

@jwhindley @KingsCollegeLon Congratulations James

[Jin Li @JinLi_AOR]

Our new manuscript reports using microwave resonator to count droplets network formed in 3D-printed microfluidics. Available on Lab on a chip now. https://t.co/tMwauwauvG

[Cees Dekker @cees_dekker]

I’m thrilled to be able to announce that we were granted a NWO Summit grant entitled ‘Evolving Life from Nonlife’ (EVOLF) with 40 million euro for a 10-year project aimed to cross the gap between non-life and life by assembling a living synthetic cell from lifeless biomolecules!

[Ion Ioannou @IonChemBio]

Excited to see one of my PhD projects published in JACS Au today! Co-authored by my amazing PhD supervisors @YuvalElani, Marina Kuimova and @NickBrooks22 within @impchemistry!

Read bellow:
https://t.co/NrQOSmOsXR

[Lab on a Chip @LabonaChip]

We at @LabonaChip are very pleased to present our second-ever annual Reviews issue! 📚🎉

📒 Lab on a Chip 2024 Reviews Issue - FREE TO READ

🔗https://t.co/WoxoNUQ4bZ

[Rob Strutt @RobertStrutt]

Artificial cell themed Basler Leckerly. Love it ! Thanks @NCCR_MSE

[Yuval Elani @YuvalElani]

Pleased to have contributed to this @NatRevMCB paper: Present and future of synthetic cell development. https://t.co/DfGPO26QLz
with @DoraTang5 @MarileenD @KateAdamala @TakinoueLab & Petra Schwille.

@fabriCELL_UK @buildacell @MaxSynBio @BaSyCresearch @ImperialChemEng

[D-BSSE, ETH Zurich @ETH_BSSE]

@ETH_en Public Tour: At today’s fully booked lab tour some 40+ visitors learned about microchips and their great use for medical and diagnostic applications or for biological analyses. Big thanks to the @BioanalyticsLab!
> https://t.co/GGdpZaBjpG

[Alex Mason @AlexanderFMason]

Delighted to receive the best ECR talk for the "World Premiere" of the DIB-BOT, an open-source hardware approach for high throughput droplet interface bilayer deposition!

A quick thread to introduce my robot to the rest of the world... 🤖

[D-BSSE, ETH Zurich @ETH_BSSE]

Big THANK-YOU to all department members for the fantastic retreat! The lightening talks, workshops, rally and party were so much fun!!! 🎉🥂🎈

[Mark Friddin @DrMarkFriddin]

Our new perspectives article, out now in Lab on a Chip, explores how 3D printed artificial tissues could replace the use of ex-vivo animal tissues when screening the safety of cosmetics. https://t.co/ABY1hMVn1j @ImperialDyson @Imperial_IMSE @fabriCELL_UK @imperialcollege

[Rob Strutt @RobertStrutt]

@KingstonUniChem Thank you very much 😁

[Bioanalytics Group at ETH Zürich @BioanalyticsLab]

Congratulations to Dr. Robert Strutt for winning the best talk award at 32nd Swiss Soft Days! Rob gave a talk on artificial cells.
The event was hosted at the Biozentrum in Basel and brought together Swiss researchers in the areas of soft matter, biophysics and nano materials🥇

[Rob Strutt @RobertStrutt]

@ColinMSPilks Thank you mate 💪

[Bioanalytics Group at ETH Zürich @BioanalyticsLab]

Inspiring moments at Euroanalysis XXI in Geneva, August 27th-31st, 2023! The theme of the meeting was 'Analytical Probing of Complex Systems.' Here Prof. Petra Dittrich after an inspiring keynote talk and post doc Robert Strutt after an insightful poster presentation 🌟

[Michael Booth @DrMikeBooth]

Check out this incredible paper, developing a soft, microscale droplet-based power source able to activate neurons!

Just published in @Nature from @bayley_lab @LinnaZhou1 @OxfordChemistry https://t.co/0CgAW4AEcr