Synthetic biology approaches to pattern formation

We are a Max Planck Research Group at the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society in Tübingen, Germany.

Fluorescence microscopy images of prokaryotic protein systems reconstituted in vitro. Top row (first two on the left): MinD and MinE self-organize into traveling waves and quasi-stationary patterns on a supported lipid bilayer. Top row (last two on the right): MinDE self-organization leading to transport of cargo molecules via diffusiophoresis. Bottom row: Various structures formed by the M. xanthus PomXYZ system in vitro.