Latest #CDlab paper now in Nature Nano: nature.com/articles/s4156… Here 1st author Nicola De Franceschi showed that the protein Dynamin A can act as (single-component!) division machine to split a dumbbell-shaped liposome into two daughter vesicles!

BaSyC PhD thesis defense coming up: Melanie König on 30 Jan 11:00 AM in Groningen! Title of her thesis: 'From lipid to life: using simulations to connect molecular structure and membrane function'. Good luck Melanie! University of Groningen Siewert-Jan Marrink hdl.handle.net/11370/3a84029f…

BaSyC PhD thesis defense coming up: Lorenzo Olivi on Friday 22 March in Wageningen at 11am. Title of his thesis: To Rebehold the Cell: Natural and Synthetic Cell Cycles Through the Lenses of Macromolecular Motion wur.nl/en/calendar-1/… via Wageningen U&R

BaSyC PhD thesis defense coming up: Ana Restrepo Sierra on 11 April 10:00 AM in Delft! Title of her thesis: 'Engineering Synthetic Cells through Module Integration and Evolution'. Good luck Ana! TU Delft Gijsje Koenderink Biosoft/Koenderink Lab Danelon Lab

Another BaSyC PhD thesis defense coming up: Giulia Bergamaschi on 3 May 11:45 AM in Amsterdam! Title of her thesis: 'Making waves: active microrheology of complex systems'. Good luck Giulia! vu.nl/nl/agenda/2024… Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Gijs Wuite

Soon after Giulia, another BaSyC PhD thesis defense is coming up: Marco van den Noort on 14 May 14:30 PM in Groningen! Title of his thesis: 'It is all under control: Tuning the activity of the osmoregulatory ABC-importer OpuA'. Good luck Marco! doi.org/10.33612/diss.…

Congratulations Roman🥳on your Schmidt Science Fellowship, on behalf of the BaSyC consortium, well done 👍

BaSyC postdoc Roman Barth was awarded a Schmidt Science Fellowship to support his postdoctoral work! Well done Roman! 🥳

🎉 Roman Barth was named member of the 2024 cohort of Schmidt Science Fellows. Congratulations! He will use powerful deep learning-based algorithms to design new candidates for a promising, but difficult to identify, class of drugs 👉 edu.nl/rnfx7

I am stunned and truly honored that I am the recipient of the 2024 Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Biophysics - together with Leonid Mirny and Schwille Lab! english.tau.ac.il/sackler_biophy… What an incredible honor to receive this prestigious prize! #humbled #thankful

Nice article Leonardo and co-authors!

Our BaSyC PI Gijsje Koenderink Gijsje Koenderink is now a member of the KNAW, congrats! 🥳

Wow, this is great news, congratulations cees dekker and Gijsje Koenderink

Another BaSyC PhD thesis defense coming up: Roman Barth on 21 June 12:30 PM in Delft! Title of his thesis: 'Exploring SMC motor proteins and how to stop them'. Good luck Roman! tudelft.nl/en/evenementen… Roman Barth cees dekker Marileen Dogterom #cdlab

We are so happy to announce that Wilhelm Huck together with 6 co-applicants were awarded an NWO Summit grant for a 10-year EVOLF programme!🥳 Congratulations to all!!! Radboud University @[email protected] cees dekker Gijsje Koenderink Ganzinger Lab Siewert-Jan Marrink Marileen Dogterom Jeroen van den hoven nwo.nl/en/news/from-q…

Today we celebrated our great new grant at our Afdeling/Department of Bionanoscience Bionanoscience department at TU Delft, the EVOLF project co-led by Gijsje Koenderink and myself : x.com/cees_dekker/st…

The substrate-binding domains of the osmoregulatory ABC importer OpuA transiently interact pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38695350/

Construction of Out-of-Equilibrium Metabolic Networks in Nano- and Micrometer-Sized Vesicles pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38682922/

🚀 cees dekker's #CDlab is hiring! 🚀 They have openings for ambitious young scientists interested in postdoc or PhD positions in biophysics. Apply here: ceesdekkerlab.nl/come-join-us🌟

BaSyC PhD thesis defense coming up: Sabrina Meindlhumer on 11 Sept at 5 PM in Delft! Title of her thesis: 'Spiraling Towards Understanding In Vitro Min Protein Surface Patterns'. Good luck Sabrina! TU Delft CDLab. Marileen Dogterom tudelft.nl/en/evenementen…