Sebastian Maerkl

Nationalité: German

EPFL STI IBI-STI LBNC
BM 1141 (Bâtiment BM)
Station 17
1015 Lausanne

EPFL STI IBI-STI LBNC
BM 1141 (Bâtiment BM)
Station 17
1015 Lausanne

EPFL STI IBI-STI LBNC
BM 1141 (Bâtiment BM)
Station 17
1015 Lausanne

Formation

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2008 – 2008 California Institute of Technology

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2001 – 2001 Fairleigh-Dickinson University

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2001 – 2001 Fairleigh-Dickinson University

Prix et distinctions

Category: Biotechnology

2005

The prize honors annually the best Caltech Ph.D. thesis in the given category.

2008

EPFL prize for dedication to teaching and promotion of EPFL students and the school at large.

2012

2015

European Research Council

2016

2019

2025

PURE system optimization and exploration of self-regeneration for synthetic cell applications

R. Bava Ganesh / S. Maerkl (Dir.)

Lausanne, EPFL, 2025. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-11059.

2024

Nature-inspired recycling of a protein mixture into a green fluorescent protein-based hydrogel

L. Roset JuliàS. J. MaerklF. Stellacci

RSC Sustainability. 2024. DOI : 10.1039/d4su00212a.

Quantitative characterization of the inorganic phosphate gene regulatory networks in S. cerevisiae and bottom up engineering an orthogonal gene network

S. Cheng / S. Maerkl (Dir.)

Lausanne, EPFL, 2024. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10077.

2021

A high-throughput microfluidic nanoimmunoassay for detecting anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in serum or ultralow-volume blood samples

Z. SwankG. MichielinH. M. YipP. CohenD. O. Andrey  et al.

Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America (PNAS). 2021. DOI : 10.1073/pnas.2025289118.

Towards an artificial cell: Development of a system which self-regenerates the protein components of the PURE system in microfluidic reactors

B. Lavickova / S. Maerkl (Dir.)

Lausanne, EPFL, 2021. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8286.

2020

A partially self-regenerating synthetic cell

B. LavickovaN. LaohakunakornS. J. Maerkl

Nature Communications. 2020. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-020-20180-6.

Bottom-Up Construction of Complex Biomolecular Systems With Cell-Free Synthetic Biology

N. LaohakunakornL. GrasemannB. LavickovaG. MichielinA. Shahein  et al.

Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. 2020. DOI : 10.3389/fbioe.2020.00213.

2018

Microfluidic Transfection for High-Throughput Mammalian Protein Expression

K. WoodruffS. J. Maerkl

Methods in Molecular Biology. 2018. DOI : 10.1007/978-1-4939-8730-6_13.

Microfluidic device for real-time formulation of reagents and their subsequent encapsulation into double emulsions

J.-C. ChangZ. N. SwankO. KeiserS. MaerklE. Amstad

Scientific Reports. 2018. DOI : 10.1038/s41598-018-26542-x.

2017

Microfluidic platforms for high-throughput mammalian cell printing, transfection, and dosage-dependent studies

K. P. Woodruff / S. Maerkl (Dir.)

Lausanne, EPFL, 2017. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7889.

A Microfluidic Biodisplay

F. VolpettiE. PetrovaS. J. Maerkl

Acs Synthetic Biology. 2017. DOI : 10.1021/acssynbio.7b00088.

A system, device and method for multiplexed biomarker diagnostics of ultra-low volume whole blood samples

S. J. MaerklF. PirainoF. Volpetti

WO2017102593 . 2017.

2016

A High-Throughput Microfluidic Platform for Mammalian Cell Transfection and Culturing

K. WoodruffS. J. Maerkl

Scientific Reports. 2016. DOI : 10.1038/srep23937.

Integrating Gene Synthesis and MITOMI for Rapid Protein Engineering

M. C. Blackburn / S. Maerkl (Dir.)

Lausanne, EPFL, 2016. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6796.

2015

Rapid cell-free forward engineering of novel genetic ring oscillators

H. NiederholtmeyerZ. Z. SunY. HoriE. YeungA. Verpoorte  et al.

eLife. 2015. DOI : 10.7554/eLife.09771.

2014

A 1024-sample serum analyzer chip for cancer diagnostics

J. L. Garcia-CorderoS. J. Maerkl

Lab On A Chip. 2014. DOI : 10.1039/c31c51153g.

Long-Term Single Cell Analysis of S. pombe on a Microfluidic Microchemostat Array

J.-B. NobsS. J. Maerkl

Plos One. 2014. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0093466.

2013

A high-throughput nanoimmunoassay chip applied to large-scale vaccine adjuvant screening

J. L. Garcia-CorderoC. NembriniA. StanoJ. A. HubbellS. J. Maerkl

Integrative Biology. 2013. DOI : 10.1039/c3ib20263a.

iSLIM: a comprehensive approach to mapping and characterizing gene regulatory networks

S. RockelM. GeertzK. HensB. DeplanckeS. J. Maerkl

Nucleic Acids Research. 2013. DOI : 10.1093/nar/gks1323.

2011

Does Positive Selection Drive Transcription Factor Binding Site Turnover? A Test with Drosophila Cis-Regulatory Modules

B. Z. HeA. K. HollowayS. J. MaerklM. Kreitman

PLoS Genetics. 2011. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002053.

2010

Experimental strategies for studying transcription factor-DNA binding specificities

M. GeertzS. J. Maerkl

Briefings in Functional Genomics. 2010. DOI : 10.1093/bfgp/elq023.

2009

An in vitro microfluidic approach to generating protein-interaction networks

D. GerberS. J. MaerklS. R. Quake

Nature Methods. 2009. DOI : 10.1038/nmeth.1289.

2008

Discovery of a hepatitis C target and its pharmacological inhibitors by microfluidic affinity analysis

S. EinavD. GerberP. BrysonE. SklanM. Elazar  et al.

Nature Biotechnology. 2008. DOI : 10.1038/nbt.1490.

Enseignement et PhD

Doctorant·es actuel·les

Amogh Kumar Baranwal, Pao-Wan Lee, Seyed Saeed Mottaghi, Onur Burak Özdemir

A dirigé les thèses EPFL de

Nicolas Dénervaud, Sylvie Rockel, Jean-Bernard Nobs, Arun Stephen Rajkumar, Henrike Marie Niederholtmeyer, Matthew Christopher Blackburn, Kristina Pan Woodruff, Francesca Volpetti, Ekaterina Emilova Petrova, Zoe Newell Swank, Ivan Istomin, Grégoire Michielin, Fabien Jammes, Barbora Lavickova, Hon Ming Andrew Yip, Amir Shahein, Shiyu Cheng, Laura Grasemann, Ragunathan Bava Ganesh

A co-dirigé les thèses EPFL de

Meltem Elitas, Johannes Becker, Zuzana Tatárová, Amanda Verpoorte, Simone Giaveri

Cours

Introduction to bioengineering

EE-526

Ce cours offre aux étudiants en ingénierie une compréhension fondamentale de la bio-ingénierie, un domaine multidisciplinaire qui intègre les principes de la biologie, de la chimie et de l'ingénierie.

Lab on cell-free synthetic biology

EE-490(j)

Le cours de biologie synthétique acellulaire présente aux ingénieurs les techniques les plus couramment utilisées pour mener des travaux en biotechnologie et en bio-ingénierie. De plus, ce cours est une expérience de démocratisation de l'éducation et de la science ouverte en générant des ressources