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Protein molecular structure dictates the rigidity of amyloid nanofibrils
Researchers from the FOM Institute AMOLF have shown that the mechanical rigidity of amyloid nanofibrils depends on the molecular folding of the protein building block. Fibrils of the same chemical composition become 40 times...read more »
Moleculare machines push and pull cells in shape
Researchers from the FOM Institute AMOLF have discovered together with colleagues from the Vrije Universiteit how molecular machines work in unison to change the shape of biological cells. read more »
Gijsje Koenderink professor at the Faculty of Exact Sciences of the Vrije Universiteit (VU)
AMOLF group leader Gijsje Koenderink has been appointed professor at the Faculty of Exact Sciences of the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam as of 1st of November.read more »
Two new FOM programs honoured with AMOLF research
The executive committee of FOM has honoured five new national research programs.read more »
Molecular machines stiffen soft materials
AMOLF researcher Koenderink et al. in a recent issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) have discovered that cells use molecular machines to tense and stiffen themselves like a muscle.read more »
Two AMOLF proposals within new Industrial Partnership Programme approved
AMOLF group leaders Mischa Bonn (Biosurface Spectroscopy group) and Gijsje Koenderink (Biological Soft Matter group) have received funding for a joint project in the field of amyloid fibrils.read more »
AMOLF group leader receives Human Frontier Young Investigator grant
Dr. Gijsje Koenderink, group leader of the Biological Soft Matter group at AMOLF, has received a Human Frontier Young Investigator grant for research into integrating biochemical and physical mechanisms of actin and major sperm...read more »