Tim van den Akker
The goal of my project to develop giant unilamelar vesicles (GUVs) with reconstituted Sec-translocons as an ignitor of assisted membrane protein insertion to increase the fidelity of the synthetic cell. The ultimate goal is to generate synthetic cells that efficiently insert membrane proteins and that are capable of protein secretion through the Sec-translocon, providing a productive shell supporting the aforementioned critical processes in a synthetic cell.