Publications
Here you can find selected scientific publications from the Dutch synthetic cell community.
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2025
Reinhardt, M.
Quantifying the Flow of Information
13 June 2025, doctoral thesis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
https://doi.org/10.5463/thesis.1092
Ettema, T.
Structural and functional characterization of the antimicrobial peptide transporter SbmA
10 June 2025, doctoral thesis, University of Groningen
https://doi.org/10.33612/diss.1307107299
Marijn van den Brink, Timotheus Y. Althuis, Christophe Danelon and Nico J. Claassens
MOSAIC: A Highly Efficient, One-Step Recombineering Approach to Plasmid Editing and Diversification
5 June 2025, ACS Synthetic Biology
https://doi.org/10.1021/acssynbio.4c00657
Marileen Dogterom
The factory of the future is a synthetic cell
May 2025, Pioneering Tech, TU Delft, issue May 2025
https://www.tudelft.nl/en/innovation-impact/pioneering-tech/articles/the-factory-of-the-future-is-a-synthetic-cell?utm_medium=social&utm_source=tud_linkedin&utm_campaign=pt_mag_mei2025
Bogatyr, V.
Light & Sound: a study on building blocks for bottum-up synthetic cells
10 April 2025, doctoral thesis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
https://doi.org/10.5463/thesis.1042
Caterina Presutti, Edo Vreeker, Sajitha Sasidharan, Zanetta Ferdinando, Marc Stuart, Joanna Juhaniewicz-Dębińska, Giovanni Maglia, Wouter H. Roos and Bert Poolman
Balancing Permeability and Stability: A Study of Hybrid Membranes for Synthetic Cells Using Lipids and PBd-b-PEO Block Copolymers
8 April 2025, Biomacromolecules, 26, 5, 2868-2881
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.4c01651
Simona Della Valle, Enrico Orsi, Sjoerd C.A. Creutzburg, Luc F.M. Jansen, Evangelia-Niki Pentari, Chase L. Beisel, Harrison Steel, Pablo I. Nikel, Raymond H.J. Staals, Nico J. Claassens, John van der Oost, Wei E. Huang and Constantinos Patinios
Streamlined and efficient genome editing in Cupriavidus necator H16 using an optimised SIBR-Cas system
13 March 2025 online, Trends in Biotechnology, 43, 6, 1470-1491
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tibtech.2025.02.006
Olga Rook, Hub Zwart and Marileen Dogterom
Public attitudes to potential synthetic cells applications: Pragmatic support and ethical acceptance
27 February 2025, PLoS ONE, 20(2): e0319337
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0319337
Alex Joesaar, Martin Holub, Leander Lutze, Marco Emanuele, Jacob Kerssemakers, Martin Pabst and Cees Dekker
A microfluidic platform for extraction and analysis of bacterial genomic DNA
23 February 2025, Lab on a chip
https://doi.org/10.1039/d4lc00839a
Roman Barth, Iain F. Davidson, Jaco van der Torre, Michael Taschner, Stephan Gruber, Jan-Michael Peters, Cees Dekker
SMC motor proteins extrude DNA asymmetrically and can switch directions
06 February 2025, Cell, 188, 749-763
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2024.12.020
Nicola De Franceschi, Alberto Blanch-Jover and Cees Dekker
Interaction hierarchy among Cdv proteins drives recruitment to membrane necks
16 January 2025, eLife, 1-19
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.104226.1.sa4
Holub, M.
Single-chromosome biophysics
8 January 2025, doctoral thesis, Delft University of Technology
https://doi.org/10.4233/uuid:08912541-02f4-44af-b8a6-c3b7a3647f17
Vadim G. Bogatyr and Gijs J. L. Wuite
Challenges in observing transcription–translation for bottom-up synthetic biology
3 January 2025, QRB Discovery, 6: e5, 1-9
https://doi.org/10.1017/qrd.2024.27
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