Dear all, Thank you for your previous support for the Aarhus University Network on Artificial Biology (AUNAB). We have worked hard during the last months to get the network started by developing the website and arranging the AUNAB kick-off meeting and the first Interdisciplinary workshop. The kick-off meeting has been arranged for April 4 with a program that tries to cover the interdisciplinary perspectives on the topic (https://projects.au.dk/aunab/events/symposia). The plan is to give an overview at this initial meeting and to have discussions about the topic and find possible synergies and common interests. Please sign up for the kick-off meeting (and suggest colleagues and students to do so) at this link: https://events.au.dk/aunabkick-off/conference The website presents the network, research, publications, news, and events (https://projects.au.dk/aunab). We will be happy to get your input on the presentation and ideas for making it better. Currently the news focus is biased towards the iNANO groups. We strongly encourage you to send research, news or topics that are relevant to artificial biology and the network to Fie (fienoer@inano.au.dk<mailto:fienoer@inano.au.dk>) so that we can add them to the news. We hope you are still interested in contributing to AUNAB and will also suggest others to join (one can sign up on the webpage). Signing out is also easy – just send an email to Fie. As a member of AUNAB you will receive emails (like this one) about the activities of the network. Also feel free to use the AUNAB mailing list for topics/announcements of common interest (aunab@maillist.au.dk<mailto:aunab@maillist.au.dk>). Later it will also be possible to sign up/off for a newsletter to get a bimonthly digest of news and events from the website. In the coming weeks we will announce the network through newsletters at AU and social media. Please help spreading the word about our network and suggest your colleagues and most importantly students with a possible interest to join the network and the kick-off meeting. Best regards, Ebbe & Julian -- Ebbe Sloth Andersen, Associate Professor Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center, Aarhus University ESA-lab<http://bion.au.dk/> | AUNAB<http://projects.au.dk/aunab> | COFOLD<https://inano.au.dk/about/research-centers-and-projects/cofold> | EMBION<https://embion.au.dk/> | iNANO<http://inano.au.dk/> | MBG<http://mbg.au.dk/> AU profile<https://www.au.dk/vis/person/esa@inano.au.dk> | BlueSky<https://bsky.app/profile/esandersen.bsky.social> | LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/in/esandersen/>