News

April 2024

Adéla Melcrova won the Van Leeuwenhoek award of the KNVM/NVMM (Koninklijke Nederlandse Vereniging voor Microbiologie & Nederlandse Vereniging voor Medische Microbiologie) for her Nature Communications publication on high speed AFM studies of the antibiotic AMC-109. Congrats Adéla!

February 2024

In a joint research project with the group of Ben Feringa we studied light-triggered supramolecular polymer disassembly by High speed AFM. This month Angewandte Chemie accepted our paper!

October 2023

Our Optical Tweezers paper on Histone-Chaperone interactions is published in Advanced Science . With the group of Irene Díaz-Moreno we here scrutinised nucleosome remodeling and histone eviction at the single-molecule level.

September 2023

In collaboration with the Markus Weingarth lab and colleagues from the US and Europe we studied a new antibiotic from an uncultured bacterium. Read all about it in Cell !

August 2023

Start of the PhD trajectory of Yari Knelissen in our ENW-XL consortium. Welcome Yari!

July 2023

Congratulations to Melissa Piontek who successfully defended her thesis today, well done Melissa! 

July 2023

PAR Foundation grant for Dr. Adela Melcrova to study antibiotics. Adéla will start this work at the end of the year in the lab of Romana Schirhagl at the UMCG and will do the HS-AFM part in our lab. Congrats Adéla!  

June 2023

Publication accepted by Nature Communications on (HS)-AFM studies of the mode of action of the antibiotic AMC-109.   

January 2023

Jennifer Rothe started as a PhD student in a joint project with the Charlotte Uetrecht lab in Hamburg. Jennifer will analyse viral nanoparticles with AFM and native Mass Spectrometry. Welcome Jennifer!   

October 2022

Our Pathfinder grant from the European Innovation Council (EIC) is funded! The VIRUSong consortium consists of partners from France, Spain, Germany and the Netherlands. L'Université de Lyon is coordinator and in Groningen a PhD student and a post-dcos will work on the project.   

September 2022

Livia Presutti started as a PhD student on a joint project with the Feringa lab to, using High speed AFM, decipher the mechanisms behind molecular motors & switches functioning. Welcome Livia!   

August 2022

Our collaborative work on the antibiotic Teixobactin appeared in Nature this month!  

August 2022

Together with Rifka Vlijm from Groningen and researchers from Amsterdam, Delft and Utrecht we were awarded a NWO-XL grant. In this 3 M€ project, led by David Dulin (VU), we will scrutinize coronavirus dynamics using biophysics approaches. 

August 2022

Alumnus Daan Vorselen started as assistant professor in the Cell Biology and Immunology department of Wageningen Universiteit. Congratulations Daan, we wish you a great time in your new job!   

July 2022

Congratulations again Pedro! After Pedro Buzón recently was awarded a Rubicon grant, he now also received a positive outcome of his EMBO grant, great work!  

June 2022

At the biennial Zernike Vlieland Meeting Chris van Ewijk won the Bert de Boer Poster Prize. With over 130 contestants this is an outstanding achievement, congrats Chris!

May 2022

Pedro Buzón successfully defended his thesis In Singulo Biophysics. Congratulations Pedro and enjoy your post-doc in Zürich in the Schuler lab. We will miss you!

May 2022

First prize in the poster presentation contest of the Membrane Biophysics Meeting in Drübeck for Adéla Melcrova. Congrats Adéla, well done!

April 2022

Yuzhen Feng, PhD student in the Molecular Biophysics lab, won bronze at the Young Speaker Contest of the 2022 Fysica meeting. Congratulations Yuzhen! 

April 2022

Post-doc Adéla Melcrová has been awarded an ENW-XS grant, congrats Adéla! She will use the grant to study the dynamics of membrane-active antibiotics.

April 2022

Rubicon grant for PhD student Pedro Buzón! Pedro's proposal for a 2 year post-doctoral position in the lab of Ben Schuler in Zürich has been granted. Congrats Pedro!

February 2022

Post-doc Sourav Maity received a prestigious invitation to speak at the HS-AFM workshop of the Biophysical Society meeting in San Francisco which takes place this month. Enjoy your presentation Sourav!

February 2022

Eddie Sanchez started as a PhD student in a joint programme together with our collaborator Dr. Armando Hernandez Garcia from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Eddie will work on the development and study of antibiotics.

January 2022

Our High Speed Atomic Force Microscopy work on the elevator-like dynamics of the citrate transporter CitS appeared in PNAS . 

November 2021

NWO awarded our Open Technology application! Together with the lab of Ben Feringa and Bruker we will study the nanoscale dynamics of synthetic molecular nanomachines.

October 2021

PhD student Martijn Middelkamp appears in Ukrant describing his research with our High-Speed AFM. (Kraak het virus, Cracking the virus)

September 2021

Science Advances accepted our paper on optical tweezers and HS-AFM studies of self-assembly of hepatitis B virus.

April 2021

Post-doc Adéla Melcrova won silver at the Young Speaker Contest of the 2021 Fysica meeting with her talk: 'No pores: The unexpected physics of a new antibiotic'. Congratulations Adéla!

January 2021

Physical Virology review on dynamics of viruses published in Nature Reviews Physics . Ukrant interviewed Wouter Roos following this publication (EN, NL).

November 2020

Our INFRAIA application MOSBRI has been granted, ranking 1st out of 65 applications! This Institut Pasteur (Paris) led consortium provides access to molecular biophysics research infrastructures all over Europe. From Groningen the Van der Wel, Vlijm and Roos labs are involved.

September 2020

Welcome Sajitha and Sander! Sajitha Sasidharan starts her post-doc as Marie Curie fellow in the oLife consortium and Sander de Weerd starts a PhD under the joint supervision of the Salvati, Schuringa and Roos labs.

August 2020

Our synthetic fiber assembly paper came out in JACS and features as a Spotlight! In the same month PhD student Chris van Ewijk got interviewed by Science LinX (NL)

July 2020

ACS Nano publication on HIV capsid protein self-assembly studied by High Speed AFM. Check out the movies! See also coverage in the Dutch Chemistry bi-weekly C₂W (Live assemblages volgen).

January 2020

Margherita Marchetti successfully defended her thesis. Well done Margherita!
She has started as Investment Analyst at Innovation Industries, an independent venture capital fund.

January 2020

Welcome Chris van Ewijk! Chris starts his PhD on the Out-of-equilibrium chemical systems project focusing on High speed AFM approaches.

December 2019

The second call for our Cofund oLife fellowship programme has been opened.
Eight post-doc positions in diverse fields are available.
Closing deadline 26 January 2020.
http://www.olife-programme.eu/

October 2019

Welcome Yanping Gong and Martijn Middelkamp! Yanping starts as a CSC PhD student focusing on optical tweezers approaches. Martijn starts his PhD on the recently granted ECHO project.

September 2019

Welcome Adéla Melcrova and Laura Dillingh! Adéla received a personal NWO grant to perform post-doctoral research in our lab. Laura starts a PhD under the joint supervision of the Palasantzas, Schuringa and Roos labs on the Physics of Cancer project.

August 2019

Publication in Nano Letters on optical tweezers study of artificial virus self-assembly.

July 2019

Welcome Rafa Lira! Rafa comes from the Max-Planck-Institut in Golm and will study membrane fusion.

April 2019

The EU has awarded our Cofund oLife fellowship programme.
We are hiring 18 post-docs in diverse fields.
http://www.olife-programme.eu/

March 2019

First HS-AFM output accepted: Science Advances publication on ESCRT-III dynamics.

January 2019

The 2019 GRC Physical Virology (20 - 25 January 2019) was a great success, excellent science and networking. See you hopefully in 2021 at the next meeting!