Dear AUNAB community, Below you can read about upcoming events and relevant news from AUNAB. ​​​​​​​​​________________________________________________________ Upcoming events Prof. Dieter Braun gives distinguished iNANO lecture Title: “Twelve Dogmas on the Origin of Life tested experimentally” March 13th, 10.15-11.00, iNANO AUD (1593-012) Find more information and read his abstract here.<https://inano.au.dk/about/news-events/news/show/artikel/distinguished-inano-lecture-by-professor-dieter-brau-ludwig-maximilian-university-of-munich-germany> AUNAB Research Meeting on Simulating Life-like systems March 27th, 09.00-14.30, at Department of Mathematics Find the program and register here.<https://projects.au.dk/aunab/events/research-meeting-on-simulating-life-like-systems-1> Registration deadline is March 19th. AUSBI Annual Symposium 2026 April 14th, 09.00-18.00, at AIAS (building 1631) Find the program and register here.<https://projects.au.dk/ausbi/events/ausbi-annual-symposium-2026> Registration deadline is April 7th. ​​​​​​​​​________________________________________________________ AUNAB news The iGEM team 2026 [groupphoto2 copy.jpeg] AUNAB is hosting 11 motivated students across Molecular Biology, Nanoscience, Computer Science and Medicinal Chemistry who will be competing in iGEM (International Genetically Engineered Machine competition) 2026. You can read more about the team and their journey here.<https://projects.au.dk/aunab/news/show/artikel/aunab-is-hosting-igem-team-to-represent-aarhus-university> Bio-Inspired Nanomotors in Artificial Cells [https://aktuelnaturvidenskab.dk/fileadmin/_processed_/6/0/csm_Nano-Forskerne...] Aktuel Naturvidenskab has written a popular science article<https://aktuelnaturvidenskab.dk/find-artikel/nyeste-numre/1-2026/forskere-saetter-nanomotorer-i-bevaegelse-i-kunstige-celler> about the latest work of Miguel Ramos-Docampo and AUNAB steering committee member Brigitte Städler. The article is based on their ACS publication “Actin Polymerizing Motors to Assist Cytoskeleton-like Networks Formation in Artificial Cells” which you can find here.<https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.5c12624> AUNAB hosted a gamified grant writing workshop [IMG_8183.jpeg][IMG_8188.jpeg] On March 4th AUNAB tested a new initiative by hosting a gamified grant writing workshop facilitated by Dr. Rajiv Basaiawmoit. At the event 3 interdisciplinary teams of senior AUNAB researchers participated and the feedback has been very positive. ​​​​​​​​​________________________________________________________ Please feel free to reach out if you have any news or publications, you wish to get highlighted by AUNAB. Have a wonderful weekend. Kind regards, Kalinka _________________________________________________ Kalinka Hansen Research and Network Coordinator Andersen Lab for Biomolecular Design Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO) Aarhus University, Denmark Office: 1590-318