Congratulations Marnix! A role that will suit you well.

www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/f... Become our new colleague (and next door neighbor) and lead a chair/group/department of Biophysics at Wageningen University. Reach out to me for info and please spread!!!

Nicest view from the attic window this year!

Latest #CDlab paper on nanopore protein sequencing now published in JACS: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.... Here, Justas Ritmejeris, Xiuqi Chen, collaborator Bauke Albada, and me developed a conjugation chemistry strategy for nanopore sequencing of natural peptides!

"Novel Covalent Inhibitors and Where to Find Them" I was very excited that Madeline Kavanagh, Marc Baggelaar, Rita Petracca and I were awarded a focus session at #NWOCHAINS. We had an amazing program with talks by Marta Artola, Kevin Neumann and Dieuwertje Streefkerkand a panel discussion. (1/3)

Insightful talk by Dieuwertje Streefkerk at #NWOCHAINS. She talked about their synthetic work on stereochemically defined sulfur(VI) electrophiles and their use as #CovalentInhibitors on the example of chymotrypsin inhibition. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #ChemSky #ChemBio #Electrophiles

Breakthrough paper deposited as preprint on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social! Another major boundary removed on the path to achieve nanopore sequencing on biological proteins. Very happy with this collaboration with the lab of @ceesdekker.bsky.social!! Go check it out.

#paperalert Very happy to share our new paper in Chemical Science @chemicalscience.rsc.org Great work by Yuri Damen (now at BioChem in Oss), @joresfu.bsky.social, Judith Firet, and Han Zuilhof @w-u-r.bsky.social Especially for those of you who use strained alkynes in their click reactions!

#BCN #SPAAC #SPOCQ #teaser

#DBCO #SPAAC #teaser

Eerste beflijsters weer gezien in de uiterwaarden. Elk jaar trekken deze noordelijke (niet in NL) broedvogels weer door, in het voorjaar in april, in het najaar in en rond oktober (piek rond 11-10). Als je in halfopen landschap twee stukken hout tegen elkaar hoort slaan, kijk dan goed rond!

WORK! I currently have 5 (!) open positions for postdocs/PhD students in our CDlab for projects: - Nanopore protein sequencing - Archaeal CDV cell division - Microfluidics for synthetic cells - Nuclear Pore Complex - Origami mimics of peroxisomes Please apply! ceesdekkerlab.nl/come-join-us/ RT=👍

Great opportunities in the lab of Steven Verhelst in Leuven, Belgium. A fantastic lab and place to start your career!

Geschokt door het overlijden van Jonnie Boer van #DeLibrije. Heb er nooit gegeten, maar toen mijn moeder op jacht ging voor broodjes voor lunch van de voedselbank medewerkers, en ze als antwoord op haar schietgebedje Jonnie zag lopen, schoot ze hem aan met de vraag of hij niet iets kon regelen…

So happy the Simon Olivier lecture series was inaugurated with these two fantastic chemists: Ilan Marek from Technion and Ahmad Masarwa from HUJI. More details via Han’s LinkedIn post.

We have 3 openings for ambitious postdocs or PhD students in our #CDlab - for exciting single-molecule biophysics research on nuclear pores, peroxisomes, or archaeal divisomes. Check it out and apply: ceesdekkerlab.nl/come-join-us/ RT=nice!

Great to be at the annual Biotech Booster event. Happy to be among the 50 PoPs, looking forward to connect with potential users of our technology. #biotechbooster #sandwich4nanopore #WUR

Time to leave Bolzano, and I do that with a sense of great admiration for the field of single molecule protein sequencing #SMPS2025. A superfast moving field, and I’m asked looking forward to the next edition in Thailand. Hopefully I can present our contributions then as well!

Thanks Cees! Was a pleasure to present our innovative technology to the SMPS community! Hope it helps to advance the field forward and allow it to connect to biological peptides and proteins.

Bauke Albada from Wageningen University & Research presented on 'An Orthogonal Click Approach to Convert Biological Proteins into Peptide-DNA Conjugates for Nanopore Reading. #SMPS4

The single molecule protein sequencing conference SMPS2025 has been opened by organizers @chancao.bsky.social and Denis Garoli! www.smps2025.com #SMPS4

Come join our vibrant interdisciplinary team in the middle of the Netherlands in Wageningen! We're looking for a strong female candidate. www.wur.nl/nl/en/vacatu...

We only met once, in Wageningen, but your interaction with us made a lasting impression. Many of my students still wear their labcoat with your signature with pride. It was a great honor to have dined with you, and to share our scientific work. Rest in peace, Fraser!

The final version of our Nature Chemistry paper on the first artificial catch bond system is out! We've finally been able to do what nature has implemented throughout living systems: bonds that strengthen under external applied tension. Great work from Wageningen @w-u-r.bsky.social. rdcu.be/d2hi8