Jan won the best poster award at our local departmental mixer event. Here, PhD students present their work, which aims at increasing interaction between the 14 research labs in our department. Well done Jan and enjoy the goodies that you got!
Joint work with Graham Anderson from Jim Ferrell’s lab just got published in Cell Reports and featured on the cover. In this work, we applied strong temperature differences across young frog embryos to desynchronize the regular cell division timing. We found that all cells behave as independent oscillators. Moreover, we saw that although mesoderm induction …
Jan and Jolan both received a FWO doctoral fellowship to pursue their research these next 4 years, while Alexandra and Pedro received a one-year postdoctoral grant from KU Leuven. Pedro was also awarded a three year grant from the FNRS. So happy for everyone and proud to have such talented researchers in the lab!
From June 5-8, the IFISC institute (Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems – UIB-CSIC, Spain) celebrated their 10th anniversary by organizing the conference “Crossroads in Complex Systems”. This wonderful meeting ended on a high with Stefan winning the best poster award for his work “Modeling the dynamics of a small community of interacting human …
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In the PRA paper, we show that bright and dark solitons can coexist in normal dispersion optical resonators in the presence of third order dispersion. In the EPJD work, which is part of a special issue on the Lugiato-Lefever equation, we study how solitons interact with one another.
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!
