Publications & Outreach
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Publications
Updated (Nov 2025)
Green : Staff funded by Frontiers of Life
Blue : PI of Frontiers of Life
Purple : Associated students (from third party funding linked to Frontiers of Life)
- 15 - Coacervate Droplets Drive Organocatalyzed Aqueous C–C Bond Formation via Interfacial Activation
Kevin Peyraud-Vicré, Charline Dechamps, Nicolas Martin, Valérie Desvergnes
JACS 147, 41, 37337–37346 (2025) - doi/10.1021/jacs.5c10731
- 14 - Membrane-Anchored Polyproline Provides Controlled Microdomain Formation and Permeability in Lipid Vesicles
Rosanna Le Scouarnec, Emmanuel Ibarboure, Léna Alembik, Sebastien Lecommandoux, Jeanne Leblond Chain, Colin Bonduelle
JACS 2025, 147, 28, 24213–24219 (2025) - doi/10.1021/jacs.5c06134 - 13 - Characterization of an amyloid-based antiphage defence system in Escherichia coli
Léa Ibarlosa, Sonia Dheur, Corinne Sanchez, Seamoon Deb, Alexandra Granger-Farbos, Virginie Coustou, Mélanie Berbon, Aurélie Massoni-Laporte, Bénédicte Salin, Corinne Blancard, Claire Saragaglia, Xavière Menatong Tene, Nicolas Dufour, Ombeline Rossier, Birgit Habenstein, Laurent Debarbieux, Brice Kauffmann, Antoine Loquet, Sven J. Saupe
Nature Microbiology 10, 2168–2178 (2025) - doi/10.1038/s41564-025-02074-9 - 12 - Enhanced dispersion of active microswimmers in confined flows
Marc Lagoin, Juliette Lacherez, Guirec de Tournemire, Ahmad Badr, Yacine, Amarouchene, Antoine Allard, Thomas Salez
PNAS in press 2025 - arXiv:2507.08369v2 - 11 - Observation of Brownian elastohydrodynamic forces acting on confined soft colloids
Nicolas Fares, Maxime Lavaud, Zaicheng Zhang, Aditya Jha, Yacine Amarouchene, Thomas Salez
PNAS 121 (42) e2411956121 (2024) - doi/10.1073/pnas.2411956121 - 10 - Janus Polymeric Giant Vesicles on Demand: A Predictive Phase Separation Approach for Efficient Formation
Eloise Equy, Emmanuel Ibarboure, Eric Grelet, Sébastien Lecommandoux
JACS 147, 11, 9727–9738 (2025) - doi/10.1021/jacs.4c18003 - 9 - Pheno-Morphological Screening and Acoustic Sorting of 3D Multicellular Aggregates Using Drop Millifluidics
Leon Rembotte, Thomas Beneyton, Lionel Buisson, Amaury Badon, Adeline Boyreau, Camille Douillet, Loic Hermant, Anirban Jana, Pierre Nassoy, Jean-Christophe Baret
Advanced Science 12, 2410677 (2025) - doi/10.1002/advs.202410677 - 8 - Run-and-tumble dynamics of active giant vesicles
Vivien Willems, Alexandre Baron, Daniel Fernandez-Matoz, Gianna Wolfisberg, Jean-Christophe Baret, Eric Dufresne and Laura Alvarez
Soft Matter, 21, 6175-6185 (2025) - doi/10.1039/D5SM00309A
- 7 - Roadmap for animate matter
Giorgio Volpe, Nuno A M Araújo, Maria Guix, Mark Miodownik, Nicolas Martin, Laura Alvarez, Juliane Simmchen, Roberto Di Leonardo, Nicola Pellicciotta, Quentin Martinet, Jérémie Palacci, Wai Kit Ng, Dhruv Saxena, Riccardo Sapienza, Sara Nadine, João F Mano, Reza Mahdavi, Caroline Beck Adiels, Joe Forth, Christian Santangelo, Stefano Palagi, Ji Min Seok, Victoria A Webster-Wood, Shuhong Wang, Lining Yao, Amirreza Aghakhani, Thomas Barois, Hamid Kellay, Corentin Coulais, Martin van Hecke, Christopher J Pierce, Tianyu Wang, Baxi Chong, Daniel I Goldman, Andreagiovanni Reina, Vito Trianni, Giovanni Volpe, Richard Beckett, Sean P Nair and Rachel Armstrong
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 37, 33 (2025) - doi/10.1088/1361-648X/adebd3 - 6 - Light‐Responsive Mononucleotide Coacervates
Edison Rafael, Jimenez Granda, Hedi Karoui, Xavier Brilland, Jean‐Christophe Baret, Nicolas Martin
Chem. Eur. J. 31, e20250110 (2025) - doi/10.1002/chem.202501109 - 5 - Polypeptide-based nanocarriers from aqueous ROPISA: Shape-dependent performance in colorectal and breast cancer models
Hannah Beauseroy, Sabina Quader, Xueying Liu, Colin Bonduelle, Kazunori Kataoka, Sébastien Lecommandoux
Biomaterials 328,123802 (2025) - doi/10.1016/j.biomaterials.2025.123802 - 4 - Aqueous Ring-Opening Polymerization Induced Self-Assembly (ROPISA): Tailoring Anisotropic Nanoparticles Through Amino Acid N-Carboxyanhydrides (NCA) Monomer Selection
Hannah Beauseroy, Fatemeh Salimi, Julien Aujard-Catot, Léna Alembik, Sébastien Lecommandoux Colin Bonduelle
Macromolecules, 58, 13, 6466–6479 (2025) - doi/10.1021/acs.macromol.5c01089 - 3 - New Insights on the Chemical Origin of Life: The Role of Aqueous Polymerization of N‐carboxyanhydrides (NCA)
A. Moreno, C. Bonduelle
ChemPlusChem 89 (7), e202300492 (2024) - doi/10.1002/cplu.202300492 - 2 - Non-enzymatic oligonucleotide ligation in coacervate protocells sustains compartment-content coupling
T.P. Fraccia, N. Martin
Nat. Commun., 14, 2606 (2023) - 1 - Coacervate Droplets for Synthetic Cells
Zi Lin, Thomas Beneyton, Jean-Christophe Baret, Nicolas Martin
Small Methods 7, 2, 2300496 (2023) - doi/10.1002/smtd.202300496
Outreach
- Frontiers of Life and Synthetic cells research is highlighted in a special issue of Le Monde!
>> https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2023/06/12/dans-la-jungle-des-cellules-artificielles-ces-petites-usines-a-repliquer-le-vivant_6177316_1650684.html

- We talk about Synthetic cell research on the French Radio:
>> https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/la-science-cqfd/cellules-artificielles-7519331