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…who both joined our lab for their BSc theses. Stan and Rebecca are both studying Molecular Life Sciences in Wageningen. Rebecca will work on detecting DNA polymerisation with fluorescently labelled DNA polymerases and Stan will update our software framework for super-resolution microscopy and single particle tracking.

…who both joined our lab for an internship (Lonneke) and a BSc thesis (Ebru). Lonneke, who studies Chemistry at the Hogeschool Leiden, is going to work on single-particle tracking  in food-related biopolymers. Ebru, who studies Biotechnologie at Hogeschool Van Hall Larenstein in Leeuwarden, will support Carel and develop new dynamic DNA binding assays.

Gea van de Kerkhof joined our lab for her Master’s thesis. In cooperation with the Laboratory of Biochemistry (Prof. Dr. Dolf Weijers), she will study transcriptional regulators on the single-molecule level continuing the work of Chris.

Congratulations to Shazia Farooq for winning the poster prize at the conference on Quantitative BioImaging (Delft, 2016, [link])! As a prize, Shazia received an invitation for a 30 minute talk at the next conference on Quantitative BioImaging in 2017.

Jochem Vink started his PhD thesis in the group of Dr. Stan Brouns (Laboratory of Microbiology). Jochem will be a frequent user of our super-resolution microscope.

…who joined our lab for his Bachelor thesis. In cooperation with the Laboratory of Biochemistry (Prof. Dr. Dolf Weijers), he will study transcriptional regulators on the single-molecule level.

…who joined our lab for his Master thesis. Mattia is a student at the University of Bologna and, supported by an Erasmus fellowship, he will spend six months in Wageningen to work on the combination of single-molecule detection and novel microfluidic devices.

…who successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “Structural and kinetic characterization of DNA polymerases I and III from Escherichia coli” at the Spanish College in Bologna.

Koen joined our group for his Bachelor thesis. He will study the dynamics of DNA hairpins using smFRET. Jochem Vink started his Master thesis in the group of Dr. Stan Brouns (Laboratory of Microbiology). Jochem will be a frequent user of our super-resolution microscope.

…who is a PhD student at the University of Bologna working on DNA polymerases. He received an Erasmus fellowship to spend three months in our lab. He will study his favourite DNA polymerases using single-molecule FRET assays.

Good news! Our proposal “Nanofluidic devices for high-throughput single-molecule fluorescence detection (Nanofluidic-SMFD)” has been granted by the European Commission (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-CIG, #630992). The proposed work aims at utilising nanofluidic devices to overcome current limitations in single-molecule-fluorescence detection. Specifically, we are hoping to monitor enzymatic reactions such as DNA polymerisation in real time without immobilising any of the involved molecules to a surface as it is currently necessary.  For this project, we will continue our collaboration with Klaus Mathwig (www.kmathwig.com).