Genetic switches
Effects of macromolecular crowding on genetic switches
- M. J. Morelli, R. J. Allen and P. R. ten Wolde,
Biophys. J. 101, 2882-2891 (2011)
DNA looping provides stability and robustness to the bacteriophage lambda switch
- M. J. Morelli, P. R. ten Wolde and R. J. Allen,
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 106, 8101-8106 (2009)
Statistical physics of a model binary genetic switch with linear feedback
- P. Visco, R. J. Allen and M. R. Evans,
Phys. Rev. E 79, 031923 (2009)
- reprinted in
Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research
Exact solution of a model DNA-inversion genetic switch with orientational control
- P. Visco, R. J. Allen and M. R. Evans
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 118104 (2008)
- reprinted in
Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research
Reaction co-ordinates for the flipping of genetic switches
- M. J. Morelli, S. Tanase-Nicola, R. J. Allen and P. R. ten Wolde
Biophys. J. 94, 3413 (2008)
- M. J. Morelli, R. J. Allen, S. Tanase-Nicola and P. R. ten Wolde
J. Chem. Phys. 128, 045105 (2008).
- reprinted in
Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research
Sampling rare switching events in biochemical networks
- R. J. Allen, P. B. Warren and P. R. ten Wolde,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 018104 (2005).
- reprinted in
Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research
01/11/2022
A warm welcome to our new group assistant Mr Moritz Wiegand!
30/10/2022
Congratulations to Nia Verdon who has submitted her PhD thesis!
15/10/2022
We are advertising an experimental postdoc position on biophysics of microbial aggregation in the context of the human gut microbiome. Please publicise it! Deadline is 22nd November.
01/10/2022
Check out our student Patrick Sinclair's paper in Physical Review Letters presenting a model for stochastic initiation of bacterial biofilms - and a commentary on it in Nature Reviews Physics.
30/09/2022
Congratulations to Patrick Sinclair who has successfully defended his PhD thesis!