SyMoCADS

🥳 Teena tom Dieck wins #VDE #Bayern #Award 2024! 🥳 Teena tom Dieck (Project P3, RTG 2950 SyMoCADS) was awarded the VDE Bayern Award 2024 for her Master’s Thesis titled “Optical-to-Chemical Signal Modulation with Functionalized Nanodevices” supervised by Dr. Maximilian Schäfer, Lukas Brand, Prof. Dr. Kathrin Castiglione, and Prof. Dr. Robert Schober. The thesis was conducted at the Institute for Digital Communications (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) in cooperation with the Institute of Bioprocess Engineering (Lehrstuhl Bioverfahrenstechnik, FAU Erlangen) and entailed the mathematical modelling of vesicle-based nanodevices in the context of #MolecularCommunication. The award honours excellent theses and dissertations at Bavarian universities in the field of #ElectricalEngineering. The VDE (Verband der Elektrotechnik Elektronik Informationstechnik e.V.) Bayern is committed to innovation and knowledge transfer, standardisation and safety, and promoting young talents and networking partners from industry and academia. Congratulations Teena! 🎉

✨ 1st SyMoCADS Seminar ✨   What exciting days! Our first seminar took place last Friday (November 15, 2024). Thanks to the hospitality of Prof. Dietmar Drummer and his team, we could enjoy the talks and lots of many stimulating discussions at the great facility of the Lehrstuhl für Kunststofftechnik (LKT). SyMoCADS young researchers  (projects P1 to P10) presented the progress and results of the first months of their research and answered question from the audience. In addition to researchers and associates from FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, we were very happy to welcome several guests from the field of Molecular Communication from the Technical University of Munich (Technische Universität München), the Technical University of Berlin (Technische Universität Berlin) and the Technical University of Dresden (Technische Universität Dresden). Moreover, two of the prominent members of our Advisory Board – Prof. Andreani Odysseos   (CEO and Director of Biomedical Research of EPOS-IASIS  ) and Prof. Andrew Eckford  (Lassonde School of Engineering, York University, Toronto ) – also joined us and gave very interesting and inspiring guest lectures on the eve of the seminar. Despite her busy schedule, Prof. Andreani Odysseos found time to talk and share her story and experiences with young female researchers of SyMoCADS during the round table discussion that took place on Wednesday, November 13. All in all, we had a lot of exciting and inspiring discussions and look forward to the next months of SyMoCADS and the upcoming meetings.

#GuestLectures We are very pleased to announce guest lectures by two members of our advisory bord – Prof. Andreani Odysseos and Prof. Andrew Eckford– on the day before the 1st SyMoCADS Seminar, Thursday, November 14. (4 p.m., seminar room 00.030, Konrad-Zuse-Str. 3/5, Erlangen). Flyers with all details available here: https://lnkd.in/eFxSa3Um Don't miss the chance!

#GuestLectures We are very pleased to announce guest lectures by two members of our advisory bord – Prof. Andreani Odysseos and Prof. Andrew Eckford– on the day before the 1st SyMoCADS Seminar, Thursday, November 14. (4 p.m., seminar room 00.030, Konrad-Zuse-Str. 3/5, Erlangen). Flyers with all details available here: https://lnkd.in/eFxSa3Um Don't miss the chance!

New SyMoCADS #Paper Accepted In their latest journal publication, SyMoCADS researchers address the implementation gap in #MolecularCommunications (MC), which describes the large discrepancy between theoretical vision and practical implementation in MC. Typically, communication engineers can assume that sufficient compute power is available to reliably implement the algorithms they develop. However, this is usually not the case for nanoscale MC, such as for the communication between genetically engineered cells, as they perform computations chemically. Such chemical computations are noisy and cannot directly implement complex digital functions. To remedy this, Bastian Heinlein, Lukas Brand, Maximilian Schäfer, Robert Schober, and Sebastian Lotter from the Institute for Digital Communications, together with Malcolm Egan from Inria, Lyon, France, have developed the first model for a fully chemical implementation of receiver functionality including detection, synchronization, and training using pilot symbols. The paper has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications and is already available as early acces publication: https://lnkd.in/e3xc7XnG.

We were there! 💪 SyMoCADS representation joined today hundreds of runners to support the fight against cancer at the charity run against cancer #laufgegenkrebs. 🏃🏼♀️🏃🏃🏼♀️🏃🏃🏼♀️🏃🏃🏼♀️🏃 Great job SyMoCATS*! 👏 (*SyMoCADS Run Club) #fau #charityrun #supportresearch #support

Two SyMoCADS’ #ConferencePapers accepted! 🎉 This year’s #ACMNanoCom will take place on October 28-30 in Milan, Italy, and two papers from our ranks have recently been accepted. Teena tom DIeck (Project P3), together with other SyMoCADS’ members, published her first paper, introducing a novel optically controllable molecular communication transmitter design employing cooperative transmembrane transport proteins (preprint available at https://lnkd.in/eeMYBJBr). Maximilian Schäfer et al. described their work on the chorioallantoic membrane model as a versatile 3D in vivo testbed for molecular communication (link to the preprint: https://lnkd.in/eqJm9Qne). Congratulations to all authors! 🎉

Two SyMoCADS’ #ConferencePapers accepted! 🎉 This year’s #ACMNanoCom will take place on October 28-30 in Milan, Italy, and two papers from our ranks have recently been accepted. Teena tom DIeck (Project P3), together with other SyMoCADS’ members, published her first paper, introducing a novel optically controllable molecular communication transmitter design employing cooperative transmembrane transport proteins (preprint available at https://lnkd.in/eeMYBJBr). Maximilian Schäfer et al. described their work on the chorioallantoic membrane model as a versatile 3D in vivo testbed for molecular communication (link to the preprint: https://lnkd.in/eqJm9Qne). Congratulations to all authors! 🎉

1st SyMoCADS #Retreat What a great start! 😊 Our first retreat took place on July 15th and 16th in Waischenfeld. The first day of the retreat was filled with talks introducing the Research Training Group 2950 and the individual projects. After the poster session, during which SyMoCADS associates presented their research, our young researchers elected their own speakers (Bastian Heinlein and Daniel Fleischhauer) and the gender representative (Silvana Zurmühl). Monday evening was full of nice and interesting conversations and the night was perhaps a bit too short for some of us. 😉 The second day of the retreat started with the outline of our research data management strategy, followed by some team building activities, which included a spaghetti bridge building competition. And because many of us are engineers and very good planners 😎, most of the constructions held not just required one kilogram, but two, and only gave up only under five kilo heavy dumbbell 💪. Fortunately, the weather was mild on the second day of the retreat and the hike in the beautiful landscape of Franconian Switzerland was very pleasant. I think I can say we are all really looking forward to the next SyMoCADS retreat. 😊 #kickoff #retreat #rtg #symocads #molecularcommunication #teambuilding

Start of the SyMoCADS #QualificationProgram On Wednesday, July 10, our young researchers completed the first, mandatory key skills course from our qualification program - "Introduction to #ResearchDataManagement. Our lecturers – Dr. Jürgen Rohrwild and Dr. Marcus Walther – did a very good job explaining the basics and importance of RDM and gave an interesting talk full of good examples from everyday life of scientists. An interactive group work during the course not only emphasized the content, but was also a good opportunity to get to know each other better. Thank you Dr. Rohrwild and Dr. Walther, we are already looking forward to the next course on Electronic Lab Notebooks on July 31.. #SyMoCADS #MolecularCommunication #RTG #Courses #RDM