Lab news

Lab day out in Arnhem

May 4, 2018

A few weeks ago we had our lab day out and went to Arnhem. We started at Bas’ house for a delicious lunch and enjoyed the beautiful weather in his garden. Then we walked, biked, bussed or drove to the Openluchtmuseum where we spent the afternoon sunbathing, on a tour through the museum, archery and

Two new papers are out

May 4, 2018

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

Two papers published by Lucas

March 27, 2018

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 Nordholt got his PhD

February 2, 2018

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 Hertzberger and Bas Teusink in a podcast on Nick Lane’s ‘The vital question’

January 31, 2018

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

Bas on national TV: ‘de 5 smaken van Joël’

January 15, 2018

Bas Teusink featured in the first episode of ‘de 5 smaken van Joël’. In this series Joël Broekaert investigates the 5 basic tastes and this episode had the theme ‘sweet‘. Bas explains why people are so fond of sweet food. The episode first aired on Jan 2, 2018 and can be seen here (in Dutch,

Bas and Jurgen have joined the management team of AIMMS

January 15, 2018

Since January 1, 2018 Bas has become the director of the Amsterdam Institute for Molecules, Medicines and Systems (AIMMS) and Jurgen has become the managing director. Jurgen has now also become a staff member of the Systems Bioinformatics group. More info on AIMMS can be found here

Our paper on the statistics of single cell bacterial growth is published

November 23, 2017

In this paper we describe a methodology for the prediction, analysis and tests of consistency of single-cell growth and protein expression data from a few basic statistical principles. You can find it here.

We organise a ‘Winter Masterclass’ on modeling microbial growth and metabolism

November 17, 2017

Together with our colleagues of the Theoretical Biology group at the University of Utrecht, we will organise a Winter Masterclass on 15-16 February 2018. As with all good things in research, this masterclass will be focused on quality instead of quantity. It is aimed at providing a thorough understanding of a relatively small number of