Cees Dekker
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Met plezier het boek 'Het experiment van broeder Juniper' gelezen van theoloog Gijsbert van den Brink. Hij schrijft als altijd heel leesbare en boeiende stukken over de relatie tussen geloof en wetenschap, over evolutie, over theologie. #aanrader
Latest #CDlab paper: a review entitled 'Devising a divisome for synthetic cells' in Nature Reviews Chemistry www.nature.com/articles/s41... Here, 1st authors Joris Dommisse and Rafael Lira review current strategies to mimic division: symmetry breaking, constriction and abscission. Enjoy the read!
Enjoyed the Rotterdam Bluegrass Festival. Not so much for its lineup (way too many punk-folk bands instead of bluegrass) but I had a great time jamming with the new young generation of talented Dutch bluegrass musicians
Today I saw a guy jump off a 3000 m high mountain cliff in a wingsuit - impressive!
I am greatly enjoying the GRC conference on 'Single Molecule Approaches to Biology' in les Diablerets! Great science, great friends, great scenery! grc.org/single-molec... (Here with Wesley Wong and Sonja Schmid on a pic)
Well, look at that! KIPPEN! Our son Niek Dekker (art director and graphics designer at an art company) built an awesome board game called Kippen. Fun to play! Check it out: kippengame.com
Latest #CDlab paper on BioRxiv: 'Charge and steric hindrance in the glycocalyx govern membrane interactions': www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Led by Rafa De Lira, we study how the molecules from the carbohydrate-rich layer that coats cells governs interactions and fusion with charged liposomes.
Mooi nieuws: er komt een zesde druk van ons boek ‘Alle verstand te boven - 22 wetenschappers over hun leven, werk en God ’! Mooi dat hier veel belangstelling voor is. jongbloedmedia.nl/shop/9789033...
Don't miss it: THE meeting on single molecule protein sequencing in Thailand in november: lnkd.in/ecSHZQgq Abstract deadline flor #SMPS5 is June 15!
Pretty cool to hold an actual copy of the French translation 'Le journal top secret de Théo' - a childrens book by Corien Oranje and me for whizkids who want to know about stars, dinosaurs, evolution - explaining how science & christian faith harmonize well. fnac.com/a22963810/Co...
in fact, the diversity of future synthetic cells is quite interesting - cf the display of many different forms of synthetic cells painted by leading scientists in the field.
Just in - glazed and baked: My own personal Delft Blue tile! This is a great souvenir from the SynCell Global Summit Delft 2026, where every participant painted their own vision of a synthetic cell (which in my case is just about to divide, driven by entropically segregating DNA and CDV proteins).
and at last the sun is coming out... Great fun jamming around with incredibly talented young bluegrass musicians. (check out that guitar solo at the end of this...`)
Playing my dobro in nightly jamsessions with all these musical friends at the Flying Caravan Bluegrass Festival in Belgium is great!
Rehearsing a new song (original song, partly AI assisted) with my band Hanny Hill and Blue Night for playing on stage later today at the Flying Caravan Bluegrass festival in Belgium
Had to exit the lab building today for 2 hours, because of a fire in the chemistry department... www.ad.nl/delft/pand-v...
Enjoyed today's PhD defense by Bastiaan Dekker in Utrecht! Unimportant detail: this gathering had 4 formal Dekkers involved: The PhD student, his brother, his promotor (Job Dekker), and myself.
Very cool: 'Le journal top secret de Théo'! This childrens book by Corien Oranje and me now got translated to French: www.fnac.com/a22963810/Co... Wonderful story for whiz kids who want to know all about stars, dinosaurs, evolution - explaining how science and the christian faith harmonize well.
Super exciting - we just started the SynCell Global Summit Delft 2026 - 45 world-leading scientists from Asia, the US and Europe that gather in Delft for a few days to connect and discuss future research towards building a synthetic cell from the bottom up!
Onze kerk Mozaiek010 zoekt een nieuwe voorganger! Klik hier voor meer info: 010.mozaiek.nl/vacatures/va... Stuur deze info vooral door aan mogelijke kandidaten! We hopen ihb op reacties van vrouwen en mensen met een multiculturele achtergrond. RT=👍
Huge congrats to Justas who now is Doctor Ritmejeris after defending his excellent PhD thesis 'Nanopore sequencing of peptides - terminal conjugation and PTM detection' today!!
Boek 'Otto biografie' gelezen van Otto de Bruijne. Wat een heerlijk, inspirerend, ontroerend, en heel origineel verwoord (geheel Otto-stijl) levensverhaal van een man die zo open, creatief, eerlijk, en gelovig door het leven gaat. Van harte aanbevolen!
Latest #CDlab paper on BioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... PhD student Bert van Herck developed a route towards efficiently delivering lipids and proteins to synthetic cells through DNA-driven fusion of SUVs to GUVs. Great collaboration with labs of Gijsje Koendrink & Stefan Vogel.
Gisteravond 'de Dood van de Zoon' gezien - theatraal het verhaal verteld van Jezus' weg naar het kruis, met eigenzinnige live muziek van Leonord Cohen, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Damien Rice,.. Intens en indrukwekkend! Mooie start van de stille week