Exploring life at the nanoscale
Upcoming! The 1st BaSyC seminar in the @buildacell seminar series. Nicola De Franceschi “Towards a synthetic divisome: Dynamin A and the Synthetic Membrane Shaper” Monday 6 December at 11AM Central Time (= 6 PM CET) https://t.co/1PjOskvx3z #CDlab #syntheticcells @SynCellEU
Our latest preprint: https://t.co/tn2jykKI7m Here, @LWuerthner & Fridtjof Brauns from @PhysOfLifeLMU develop a model for multiscale patterns in spatially heterogeneous geometries. And Greg Pawlik from our #CDlab confirmed this with experiments on Min protein patterns in a wedge https://t.co/nGtwzjJPj3 
Nice to see the OLA giant unilamellar vesicle production method, that we developed in our #CDlab when @SiddhuLab was a postdoc here, getting commercialised https://t.co/OiKmYNJ1BF
@cees_dekker @ScienceMagazine @aksimentievLab This is awesome! Congrats @cees_dekker #CDlab
Today we publish a paper in @ScienceMagazine that expands nanopore readings to the proteome:
a nanopore-based scanner to read off PROTEINS at the single-molecule level! 🤩 Awesome experiments by postdoc Henry Brinkerhoff of our #CDlab, with MD simulations of @aksimentievLab 1/x https://t.co/NU7oKQuNgN 
New #CDlab @biorxivpreprint: https://t.co/70Os03I44l Here, 1st author @TismaMilos discovered a new mechanism of how the bacterial chromosome-partitioning protein ParB can recruit new ParB on DNA, independently of parS. Great collaboration with @Gruber_Lausanne & @Dmichiel1 https://t.co/a4PC1JoCsx 
We significantly updated our #CDlab preprint paper about the step size of SMC proteins in DNA loop extrusion – see here for the new version on @biorxivpreprint: https://t.co/oLTkq9sb5y https://t.co/Y2EZDJzr29 
What is that #CDlab about? Our Bionanoscience department made a brief item introducing our group – including interviews with PhD students Sabrina Meindlhumer, @RomanBarth2, and @AlessioFragasso : https://t.co/AdZTA8GGhv
Cool paper out in @NatureComms by #BerndRieger/@SjoerdStallinga labs, to which our #CDlab also contributed: https://t.co/F3whWcUri4 Phase plate 2D imaging allows to determine both 3D position ànd orientation of a single fluorophore. Used this to optically image DNA supercoils! https://t.co/hzwaF15f7Y 
Latest paper #CDlab online:
‘FIB-milled plasmonic nanoapertures allow for long trapping times of individual proteins’ https://t.co/U8s8MopCdp Here, 1st author @Wayne_YangWW reports a FIB technique to make arrays of plasmonic nanopores that can hold single proteins for long times https://t.co/YHjx64TsdX 
New preprint of our #CDlab: “The archaeal division protein CdvB1 assembles into polymers that are depolymerized by CdvC” https://t.co/vP7lZnSZVX Here, we investigated some of the unique cell division machinery of archaea in vitro. Congrats to 1st author @abejota94 and coworkers https://t.co/2swmAw1Lis 
Latest #CDlab paper online: https://t.co/LNlhnljw9m In this perspective entitled “The NEOtrap – en route with a new single-molecule technique”, @sciSonja and me sketch many future directions and applications of the NEOtrap technique to trap and study a single protein. https://t.co/3KrKrTb7SF 
Probing nanomotion of single bacteria with graphene drums! Latest preprint from #CDlab in a great collaboration led by Farbod Alijani: https://t.co/mR9CPIDVzW Congrats to first authors Irek Roslon and @AleksandreJapa for a great job done https://t.co/fqFebO3V3f 
I wrote a personal ‘behind-the-paper blogpost’ about our #NEOtrap paper👇, with the aim to fight the ‘iceberg effect’ in academic publishing: https://t.co/jRqAc49HTe Maybe unusual. Curious to hear your comments. As a bonus: my original eureka-moment screenshots from #CDlab 🙂. https://t.co/W3m6IpDjGw
Thankful to @hendrik_dietz & Pierre for iterating with us through several designs, and for great discussions with @cees_dekker & the entire #CDlab #Nanoporito crew!
Our latest paper in @NatureNano: https://t.co/Diq1xqeJzs We developed a new type of single-molecule trap that can hold and study a single unlabeled protein for very long times. Superb work by @sciSonja (then a postdoc in our #CDlab, now PI at WUR), with @hendrik_dietz lab 1/ https://t.co/wwCgKtqaNL 
And here’s another #CDlab graduate who is starting her own lab as a PI! Make sure you’ll check out @DrJorine if you’re interested in live-cell chromosome biology! https://t.co/adYv21eJuI
Now on stage at @ebsa_in: @eugene_kim__, now a PI of her own group at MPI Frankfurt but today presenting her exciting postdoc work on SMC-driven DNA loops at our #CDlab https://t.co/jkYloh4UTU 
