Lab News

7-10-2018 Het NK Duathlon werd vandaag een prooi voor Daan de Groot. De Groot trok tijdens het fietsen de wedstrijd naar zich toe. Bij de mannen ging Wesley Mols na het startschot er direct hard vandoor, om met een ruime marge aan het fietsen te kunnen beginnen. Achter hem maakte De Groot samen met Hellas-ploeggenoot

Two papers about genome-scale reconstruction and analysis were published by Sebastián Mendoza in March 20th and May 23th. These articles are entitled “Mapping the Physiological Response of Oenococcus oeni to Ethanol Stress Using an Extended Genome-Scale Metabolic Model” and “Traceability, reproducibility and wiki-exploration for “à-la-carte” reconstructions of genome-scale metabolic models“, respectively. Both papers were submitted while Sebastián

For those of you who do not know Daan. He is a PhD student in our lab, working on a mathematical theory about optimal metabolism for microbial growth-rate maximisation and its experimental testing. One of the principles underlying his theory is optimal allocation of limited resources for the synthesis of metabolic enzymes. What turns out

Recently two new papers were published:   Low affinity uniporter carrier proteins can increase net substrate uptake rate by reducing efflux by Evert Bosdriesz, Meike T Wortel, Jurgen R Haanstra, Marijke J Wagner, Pilar Torre Cortés and Bas Teusink Metabolite Depletion Affects Flux Profiling of Cell Lines by Avlant Nilsson, Jurgen R.  Haanstra, Bas Teusink

Lucas Patty has yet, after his recent publication in the Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer (dec 2017), published another paper! The new paper is entitled “Imaging linear and circular polarisation features in leaves with complete Mueller matrix polarimetry”. Previously they showed that the photosynthetic apparatus in leaves induces circularisation ofunpolarised light due to

Niclas defended his PhD thesis, titled “Balance on many scales: Growth and gene expression in Bacillus subtilis” on January the 18th 2018. James Locke, Frank Schreiber, Rutger Hermsen, Sander Tans, Leendert Hamoen and Bas Teusink were in the thesis committee. A big thanks to the committee for their efforts, and congrats to you Dr. Niclas!

Rosanne interviewed Bas Teusink for a  podcast to further explain the concepts discussed in the book ‘The vital question’ by Nick Lane. You can listen to the podcast here