We were represented well at the first edition of the multidisciplinary congress for life scientists: NWO Life 2019. Coco presented the three different methods that she developed to measure bacterial responses to antibiotics. Checkerboards, fermentors and droplets: Coco uses all of them to distinguish who invades, who resides, and who persists. Given that similar bacteria
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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.