Maarten Lubbers
PhD candidate
- Name
- M. Lubbers MSc
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 5075
- m.lubbers@biology.leidenuniv.nl
My research focuses on elucidating the divisome using state-of-the-art synthetic biology approaches. What happens when we allow cells to evolve a wall when they cannot make peptidoglycan? With my research, we hope to answer fundamental questions about bacterial evolution and optimize industrial processes.
Short biography
Maarten Lubbers earned his Bachelors and Masters in Biology at Leiden University, where he has worked on, amongst others, bioactive molecules in snake venom. At the University of Ghent, he has worked on the ecology and genetics of Laboulbeniales, a group of parasitic fungi. Besides, he plays an active role in the iGEM Competition. Finally, Maarten is a junior honorary curator at the Natural History Museum of Rotterdam.
PhD candidate
- Science
- Instituut Biologie Leiden
- IBL Microbial Sciences
- Caenegem W. van, Boeken M., Dees A.J., Lubbers M., Moereels L., Schilthuizen M., van Wielink P.S., Zuijlen J.W. van, Vandeputte A., Verbeken A. & Haelewaters D. (2024), New and interesting Laboulbeniales (Fungi, Ascomycota) from the Netherlands, II, Nova Hedwigia : .
- Lubbers M., Wezel G.P. van & Claessen D. (2023), Reproducible switching between a walled and cell wall-deficient lifestyle of actinomycetes using gradient agar plates, Journal of Microbiological Methods 204: 106660.
- Lubbers M., Lamers G.E.M., Kesel A. de, Nedvěd O., Schilthuizen M. & Haelewaters D. (2022), Bacterial biofilms on thalli of Laboulbeniales: a community uncovered, Sydowia 74: 335-342.
- Haelewaters D., Lubbers M. & Kesel A. de (2022), The haustorium as a driving force for speciation in thallus-forming Laboulbeniomycetes, IMA Fungus 13: 1.
- Kaishian P., Lubbers M., de Groot M.D., Schilthuizen M. & Haelewaters D. (2022), Definitions of parasites and pathogens through time. Authorea. [working paper].
- Bhatt D.K., Crooijmans M.E., Coenradij J, Valero A.M., Lubbers M., Asin-Garcia E, Yewdall N.A, D'Adamo S., Claassens N.J. & Billerbeck S. (2022), A SynBio community comes of age: political, academical, industrial, and societal developments in the Netherlands, Biotechnology Notes 3: 62-69.
- Lubbers M., Hovius S.A., Chai R.R., Byng J.W. & Schilthuizen M. (2020), An observation on the ecology and behaviour of Metallyticus splendidus on a dead dipterocarp tree in Sabah, Malaysia (Mantodea, Metallyticidae), Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation 17: 165-170.
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