Gelens Lab

On March 3, Pedro successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Dynamics of dissipative localized structures in driven nonlinear optical cavities". You can find a copy of his thesis here. Excellent work Pedro!

Pedro published a paper in Physical Review E as a Rapid Communication, in which he reports on a new mechanism for excitability in extended systems without underlying oscillatory dynamics. Well done Pedro!

Alexandra has published two papers based on her PhD work on bacterial toxin-antitoxin CcdB-CcdA systems in the lab of Remy Loris. One paper has been published in JACS, and one in NAR. Additionally, the latter paper has been selected as a breakthrough article, congratulations Alexandra, great stuff!

On Dec 14, Julen Gelens La Greca was born. Being by far the youngest and cutest member, he has a courtesy appointment in the lab as mascotte and frog whisperer.

Jan has joined the lab and will be studying the coordination of biological processes (i.e. the cell cycle) from a more mathematical point of view. Glad to have you in the group!

Our collaboration with the Santos lab at MRC has lead to a first publication in Mol. Cell. We show that positive feedback is crucial in keeping M phase constant and temporally insulated from other cell cycle events.

Welcome to the lab Alexandra, congratz on a great PhD thesis and we're very happy to have you on board to help exploring the regulation of cell cycle processes.

Congratulations to Pedro for publishing his work on localized states and optical frequency combs in normal dispersion cavities. See his Optics Letters and Physics Review A paper here and here .

Goodbye Ferrell lab, Stanford, and California, you were absolutely great and will be missed!

Lendert officially starts the lab "Dynamics in Biological Systems" at the department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, KU Leuven. He will, however, still stay half a year longer at the Ferrell lab at Stanford University to finish ongoing projects.