Exploring life at the nanoscale

Postdoc and co-1st author @KevinDWhitley sketches the background story of our latest paper on the role of FtsZ treadmlling (https://t.co/AOnNDGudYl ) by @seamus_holden lab and our #CDlab: https://t.co/AlVQmwv6bx Artwork by @LizahvdA https://t.co/3e83eQ5F7j

So why is FtsZ actually treadmilling in bacterial cell division? @KevinDWhitley, a joint postdoc with @seamus_holden & our #CDlab, sorted it out: This is essential for Z-ring condensation and septal constriction initiation. Great work, now at @BioRxiv: https://t.co/AOnNDGudYl https://t.co/tW1SD4tTCH

Nice: @AnneMirabella, senior editor of @NatureComms, selected our paper on imaging the circular chromosome of a bacterium (https://t.co/8fE0vXvn8o ) as a highlight of the past year: https://t.co/mrhw2kDjka Work led by postdocs @fabaiwu and Sandro Japaridze at our #CDlab https://t.co/YsovBMem2x

Latest paper online: “A Mechanically Tunable Quantum Dot in a Graphene Break Junction” https://t.co/qhqf9ShcXo Great work by postdoc Sabina Caneva (now PI at Delft) where our #CDlab contributed in a collaboration with het labs of Herre van der Zant and Jaime Ferrer https://t.co/74SkAk6HGc

Great! Our latest #CDlab paper out today in @NatureComms: https://t.co/Qbi7imBqvV Postdoc Alexandre Japaridze visualized DNA replication and segregation in shape-manipulated bacteria, providing direct support for the train-track model with independent replication bubbles. https://t.co/7clsDZyjUk

Science is an international enterprise without borders. Here’s our #CDlab with and without foreign immigrants. https://t.co/9VStjwXZRa

Exciting finding: The cohesin SMC complex is not only a DNA-loop extruder but can also induce phase separation! Now at @biorxivpreprint: https://t.co/7uWBzkJeE7 Check out this major surprise! Great work of postdoc @JeKyungRyu1 at #CDlab together with #Uhlmann & @Dmichiel1 labs. https://t.co/Ieb7nincD5

Our latest #CDlab paper online now in @acsnano! pH-Controlled Coacervate-Membrane Interactions within Liposomes https://t.co/7Y60w5HVtk We show a new way to control phase condensation and study their interaction to membranes. Great work by master student #MartLast & @SiddhuLab. https://t.co/XqZaezbI65

Hoogleraar @cees_dekker van de @tudelft ontving onlangs zijn derde @ERC_Research grant. Met de subsidie is hij van plan bottom-up een #chromosoom te bouwen. https://t.co/RbJUxVRTEt #genomeinabox #biophysics #CDlab https://t.co/sRSFkmIwv7

Repeated news (since I forgot to include #CDlab hashtag to get it on the lab website) I got awarded a 3rd ERC Advanced Grant! This allows us to work on SMC proteins & chromosome biophysics in the next 5 years. With a ‘genome in a box’ approach we’ll build a chromosome bottom up! https://t.co/Fv3BwLoiRi

Hey, a non-corona tweet! Here’s our latest paper ‘Interplay between Confinement and Drag Forces Determine the Fate of Amyloid Fibrils’ in @PhysRevLett, nice work of Raffaele Mezzenga lab where our #CDlab contributed microstructuring by Sandro Japaridze: https://t.co/fYVYg8bGpg https://t.co/xrK1ySzQy4

This afternoon we ate cakes at our #CDlab brought by postdoc Sabina Caneva who accepted an offer to start as an independent assistant professor at @tudelft3mE Congrats Sabina! #OntotheCanevaLab https://t.co/HCAD4bV9S9

This website provides nice background info on the paper that our #CDlab published today in @Nature : https://t.co/cjVi1D3UJ4 and the attached animation sketches a cartoon view of the formation of Z loops (or check this for over-the-top dramatic sound: https://t.co/8OwZcjHpgW ) https://t.co/RfOBhiDwAl

Many surprises on SMC proteins in this @Nature #CDlab paper: https://t.co/groBGv2QYz : – DNA loops can mutually exchange size. – Condensins can pass one another! – to form totally new type of ‘Z-loops’ – that can fill DNA gaps – and can form a symmetric DNA-pulling dimer motor https://t.co/cJJfYVC8kO

Just released: Our latest #CDlab paper in @Nature! “DNA-loop extruding condensin complexes can traverse one another” https://t.co/groBGv2QYz We’re proud on this cool discovery of a new type of DNA loops (Z loops) by postdoc @eugene_kim__, in this collaboration with #HaeringLab https://t.co/YwhP61j0Ig

Our latest paper on @biorxivpreprint solves a long-standing question: How do in vitro Min-protein Turing patterns relate to the in vivo pole-to-pole Min oscillations in cells? https://t.co/kOhISDyjlU Great collaboration of #CDlab with @PhysOfLifeLMU https://t.co/IA7gHCrlZm

Yes! Federico is Dr. Fanalista now. Here’s the proud young doctor with the committee, right after his excellent defence. A great day for the #CDlab. https://t.co/DLZCE4xWvh

Quiet nice: Since 2015, our very international #CDlab group maintains a ‘Dutch word of the week’ which is featured in our office corner. A tradition started by @DrJorine and maintained by @jacobkers https://t.co/Hg53gDYGaG

“Comparing Current Noise in Biological and Solid-State Nanopores” Our latest #CDlab paper out now in @acsnano: https://t.co/Dhx3Obe4He We review the types of noise in nanopores and how to optimise signal-to-noise ratio. By @AlessioFragasso and @sciSonja and yours truly. https://t.co/KQjlR5G5rh

As promised, here is a thread on the simulations in our preprint on the artificial FG-Nucleoporin “NupX”. Together with @AlessioFragasso & @cees_dekker from #CDLab (1/n) https://t.co/j0ZionJRYZ