Our theoretical work on rate maximisation in metabolism has been published in Plos Computational Biology. In this work, we took a very general approach to ask a very specific question: we included genome-scale metabolic networks, complicated enzyme kinetics, and arbitrary constraints on enzyme expression, and then asked what metabolism looks like for a microorganism that
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In press: Dennis’ extensive characterisation of Fluorescent protein behaviour in yeast is published!
Dennis’ work on the behaviour of fluorescent proteins (FPs) in baker’s yeast has been published! With the help of Daan de Groot and Phillipp Schmidt, a variety of fluorescent proteins were characterised for various properties, including brightness, photobleaching, photochromism, day-to-day variation and monomerism. Many FPs showed different performance in yeast compared to previous characterisations done
Bas recently gave one of his lectures on the campus square as part the ActieWeek ‘WOinActie’ (#WOinActie). This week of protest was an initiative to raise awareness for the workload and lack of funding in Higher Education. Read more about this initiative at https://www.scienceguide.nl/2018/09/een-dure-deken/ (in Dutch) – an opinion piece of AIMMS professor Paola Gori
In the beginning of May we had our yearly lab retreat. This year it was in Blesdijke, all the way up north of the Netherlands, in Friesland. We enjoyed three days of inspiring scientific discussions, great food, swimming in our own pool, live music and exciting games.
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