News

2025

April 22th: Meike recommended an article for PCI (Peer Community In) Mathematical and Computational Biology: ‘Goldilocks’-size extensively annotated model for Escherichia coli metabolism 

April 16th: Pietro, Pim and Burak presented at the AMSA meeting (Amsterdam microbiology meeting)

April 15th: We had a lab-outing to the Ig Nobel night in NEMO Science Museum

April 14th: Coen presented at the METAHEALTH consortium meeting

April 8th: Isabel, Pietro, Pim and Burak presented at the NLSEB meeting (Dutch evolutionary biology meeting)

April 1st: Myrthe Dankelman joined the lab for her BSc project on relating C. elegans genetic background with fitness in different environments

March 31st:  Shijia and Pim resented at the KNVM Spring meeting (Dutch microbiology meeting)

March: Registration for the summer school in Economic Principles in Cell Biology is open (deadline March 31st)

February: Meike and Isabel presented at the Concepts in Evolutionary Biology workshop at the Max Plank Institute in Evolutionary Biology

February: Jasper Simons joined the lab for his BSc project on predicting evolution in C. elegans

January: Meike joined the panel discussion in the BetaBreak on Computational Biology

January: Burak Demirbas (Postdoc on HFSP project) and Coen Berns (PhD student on the METAHEALTH project) join the lab!

2024

December: Christmas lunch with the Microbiology groups at the University of Amsterdam

December: The next Economic Principles in Cell Biology summer school will be July 23-26 in Vienna. Check the website for updates!

December: Paper by Luyuan Nong in mbio: "Progression of ampC amplification during de novo amoxicillin resistance development in E. coli" (with contribution form Meike Wortel)

November: Open student project on the modelling of "Assembly and stability of microbial communities". See 'Join the lab'.

September: Open postdoctoral position on Predicting evolution with Multiscale models: Apply before October 1st

August 30th: Labouting with the Microbiology groups at the University of Amsterdam to Maarssen

August 15th: Pietro Gadaleta started as a PhD student in the lab

July: Preprint by Pim van Leeuwen: "Modelling interactions that determine core gut microbiome stability to predict microbiome perturbation by opportunistic pathogens"

June: Abimbola Adekanmbi visits the lab for 5 months

May: Meike presented at the SMEEB conference

Labouting of the 'Predicting Evolution' group joinly supervised with Thomas Blankers to the Oostvaardersplassen:

April: Meike obained a HFSP Research Grant to study the predictability of antifungal evolution of Candida species in communities of varying complexity together with the labs of Michael Manhart and Daniel Charlebois. The lab will soon be looking for a postdoc to work on multi-scale models of Candida, contact me if you are interested!

March: Meike will be presenting in the symposium organized for the PhD defense of Timo van Eldijk

January: Registration for the Summer school on Economic Principles in Cell Biology in Paris is open