Evangelos Gioukakis is a new PhD candidate in the lab, co-supervised with Dr. Karen Peronnet at ENS-Paris Saclay (France) through the LighInParis European training network. He will be working on (+)RNA virus capsid formation and genome packaging using single-molecule force and fluorescence techniques. Welcome and all the best, Evangelos!

David Dulin got awarded an NWO-M1 grant to study yeast Pol I transcription initiation in collaboration with Dr. Anssi Malinen (Turku, Finland). We are very much looking forward to starting this new exciting adventure!

Jonathan Hilgendorf just started his PhD with us to investigate RNA synthesis and proofreading activity of the SARS-CoV-2 replication-transcription complex. A warm welcome and good luck Jonathan!

Ezgi is a new postdoc in the lab, who has started in September. Ezgi did her PhD in the Van Rij lab in Nijmegen and will work on viral RNA translation. We wish you a great start!

The Dulin lab warmly welcomes a new member, Zainab Rashid, who has started her PhD with us in July 2023. Zainab works on mammalian innate immunity. All the best for your PhD, Zainab!

Congrats to our former lab member Mona Seifert for another article published during her PhD thesis! We reveal here how dsRNA twist depends on temperature. This work was a great collaboration between the Lipfert lab from Utrecht University and the Lankas Lab from Prague University.

Link to the preprint here.

The current complete lab!

We have three new members: Asif Rakib, Arnab Das and Luca Buccolieri who joined us recently for their PhD thesis. Welcome to you all!

The Dulin lab wishes a very warm welcome to our new colleagues Quinte, Jelmer and Nico! Looking forward to doing exciting science together!

We have been awarded a NWO-M1 grant by the Dutch Research Council to investigate the mechanism by which MDA5 recognizes viral dsRNA and triggers the host immune response. This work will be done in collaboration with Yorgo Modis lab at MRC-LMB Cambridge. Thank you NWO for entrusting us again! New PhD position to open soon.