Johan R. C. van der MAAREL
PhD, Leiden University, The Netherlands (1987)
Associate Professor
Email: johan-maarel@nus.edu.sg
Office: S16-07-08
Tel: +65 6516 4396
Current Research
- My main interest is the dynamic assembly, complexity and emergence of complex fluids with a relevance for biology and/or nanobiotechnology. My methodology includes molecular and microbiology, nanofluidics, microrheology, light, neutron and x-ray scattering, nuclear magnetic resonance, optical, fluorescence, scanning probe and electron microscopy, and computer simulation.
Selected Publications
- R. Basak, W. Rosencrans, I. Yadav, P. Yan, N. V. Berezhnoy, Q. Chen, J. A. van Kan, L. Nordenskiold, A. Zinchenko, and J. R. C. van der Maarel, “Internal Motion of Chromatin Fibers is Governed by Dynamics of Uncompressed Linker Strands”, Biophys. J. 119, 2326 (2020).
- I. Yadav, R. Basak, P. Yan, J. A. van Kan, V. Arluison, and J.R.C. van der Maarel, “Role of DNA Internal Motion on the Mobility of a Nucleoid Associated Protein”, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 11, 8424 (2020).
- I. Yadav, W. Rosencrans, R. Basak, J. A. van Kan, and J. R.C. van der Maarel “Intramolecular Dynamics of dsDNA Confined to a Quasi-One-Dimensional Nanochannel”, Phys. Rev. Res. 2, 013294 (2020).
- R. Basak, F. Liu, S. Qureshi, N. Gupta, C. Zhang, R. de Vries, J. A. van Kan, S. T. Dheen, and J. R. C. van der Maarel, “Linearisation and Labelling of Single-Stranded DNA for Optical Sequence Analysis” J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 10, 316 (2019).
- A. Malabirade, K. Jiang, K. Kubiak, A. Diaz-Mendoza, F. Liu, J. A. van Kan, J.-F. Berret, V. Arluison, and J. R. C. van der Maarel, “Compaction and Condensation of DNA Mediated by the C-terminal Domain of Hfq”, Nucleic Acids Res. 45, 7299 (2017).
- A. N. Gupta and J. R. C. van der Maarel, “Compaction of Plasmid DNA by Macromolecular Crowding”, Macromolecules 50, 1666 (2017).
- A. Hernandez-Garcia, N. A. Estrich, M. W. T. Werten, J. R. C. van der Maarel, T. H. LaBean, F. A. de Wolf, M. A. Cohen Stuart, and R. de Vries, “Precise Coating of a Wide Range of DNA Templates by a Protein Polymer with a DNA Binding Domain”, ACS Nano 11, 144 (2017).
- J. R. C. van der Maarel, D. Guttula, V. Arluison, S. U. Egelhaaf, I. Grillo, and V. T. Forsyth, “Structure of the H-NS-DNA Nucleoprotein Complex”, Soft Matter 12, 3636 (2016).
- K. Jiang, C. Zhang, D. Guttula, F. Liu, J. A. van Kan, C. Lavelle, K. Kubiak, A. Malabirade, A. Lapp, V. Arluison, and J. R. C. van der Maarel, “Effects of Hfq on the Conformation and Compaction of DNA”, Nucleic Acids Res. 43, 4332 (2015).
- J. R. C. van der Maarel, C. Zhang, and J. A. van Kan, “A Nanochannel Platform for Single DNA Studies: from Crowding, Protein DNA Interaction, to Sequencing of Genomic Information”, Isr. J. Chem. 54, 1573 (2014).