Gijsje H. Koenderink

Department of Bionanoscience,
Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft,
Department of Bionanoscience, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft

Delft University of Technology

BIOGRAPHY

Prof. Gijsje Koenderink is full professor in the Bionanoscience Department of the TU Delft. She studied physical chemistry at Utrecht University (MSc 1998, Ph.D. 2003) and then trained as a Marie Curie postdoctoral Fellow at the VU University Amsterdam (2003-2004) and Harvard University (2004-2006). Between 2006-2019, she headed the Biological Soft Matter group at the AMOLF Institute in Amsterdam, where she also headed the Living Matter Department (2014-2019). In september 2019, she transferred her group to TU Delft. The Koenderink lab is an experimental research group centered around the soft matter physics of living matter. The central aim is to understand the physical mechanisms that enable living matter (cells and tissues) to combine mechanical strength with the ability to actively generate forces and change shape. To this end, the team combines concepts and methods from soft matter physics, biophysics, synthetic biology, and mechanobiology. Through collaborations, the research also extends to food and biomedical materials and research into implications of abnormal cell/tissue mechanics for cancer metastasis and thrombosis. Prof. Koenderink received various distinctions, including an NWO VIDI (2008), ERC Starting Grant (2013), NWO VICI (2019), the P-G. de Gennes Prize (2018), and the Dresden Physics Prize (2020).

PUBLICATIONS

Actin-microtubule coordination at growing microtubule ends.

Nature communications , 2014 | Pubmed ID: 25159196

Actin-microtubule crosstalk in cell biology.

Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology 01, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 30323238

Shape and Size Control of Artificial Cells for Bottom-Up Biology.

ACS nano 05, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 31074603

Response of an actin network in vesicles under electric pulses.

Scientific reports 05, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 31148577

Cytolinker Gas2L1 regulates axon morphology through microtubule-modulated actin stabilization.

EMBO reports 11, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 31486213

Uncovering the dynamic precursors to motor-driven contraction of active gels.

Soft matter Oct, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 31637398

Revealing the assembly of filamentous proteins with scanning transmission electron microscopy.

PloS one , 2019 | Pubmed ID: 31860683

In Vitro Reconstitution of Dynamic Co-organization of Microtubules and Actin Filaments in Emulsion Droplets.

Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) , 2020 | Pubmed ID: 31879898

Colloidal Liquid Crystals Confined to Synthetic Tactoids.

Scientific reports 12, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 31892707

Revealing the molecular origins of fibrin's elastomeric properties by in situ X-ray scattering.

Acta biomaterialia 03, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 31923718

Charge-dependent interactions of monomeric and filamentous actin with lipid bilayers.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 03, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 32123101

Connectivity and plasticity determine collagen network fracture.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 04, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 32238564

Hyaluronan biopolymers release water upon pH-induced gelation.

Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP Apr, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 32270833

Molecular packing structure of fibrin fibers resolved by X-ray scattering and molecular modeling.

Soft matter Sep, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 32935715

Effects of Diabetes Mellitus on Fibrin Clot Structure and Mechanics in a Model of Acute Neutrophil Extracellular Traps (NETs) Formation.

International journal of molecular sciences Sep, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 32993159

Connecting the Stimuli-Responsive Rheology of Biopolymer Hydrogels to Underlying Hydrogen-Bonding Interactions.

Macromolecules Dec, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 33335340

Strong Reduction of the Chain Rigidity of Hyaluronan by Selective Binding of Ca Ions.

Macromolecules Feb, 2021 | Pubmed ID: 33583956

Membrane binding controls ordered self-assembly of animal septins.

eLife 04, 2021 | Pubmed ID: 33847563

Optimized cDICE for Efficient Reconstitution of Biological Systems in Giant Unilamellar Vesicles.

ACS synthetic biology 07, 2021 | Pubmed ID: 34185516

Insights into animal septins using recombinant human septin octamers with distinct SEPT9 isoforms.

Journal of cell science 08, 2021 | Pubmed ID: 34350965

Molecular Structure and Surface Accumulation Dynamics of Hyaluronan at the Water-Air Interface.

Macromolecules Sep, 2021 | Pubmed ID: 34602653

Septin-microtubule association via a motif unique to isoform 1 of septin 9 tunes stress fibers.

Journal of cell science 01, 2022 | Pubmed ID: 34854883

The role of cell-matrix interactions in connective tissue mechanics.

Physical biology 01, 2022 | Pubmed ID: 34902848

Cross-linkers at growing microtubule ends generate forces that drive actin transport.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 03, 2022 | Pubmed ID: 35271394

Intermediate Filaments in Cellular Mechanoresponsiveness: Mediating Cytoskeletal Crosstalk From Membrane to Nucleus and Back.

Frontiers in cell and developmental biology , 2022 | Pubmed ID: 35478961

INSTITUTIONS

Delft University of Technology

JOVE ARTICLES

Purification and Quality Control of Recombinant Septin Complexes for Cell-Free Reconstitution

Gerard Castro-Linares¹,

Jeffrey den Haan¹,

Francois Iv²,

Carla Silva Martins²,

Aurélie Bertin³,

Manos Mavrakis²,

Gijsje H. Koenderink¹

¹Department of Bionanoscience, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft, Delft University of Technology,

²Institut Fresnel, CNRS UMR7249, Aix Marseille Univ, Centrale Marseille,

³Institut Curie, Université PSL, Sorbonne Université

Biochemistry

Bottom-Up In Vitro Methods to Assay the Ultrastructural Organization, Membrane Reshaping, and Curvature Sensitivity Behavior of Septins

Brieuc Chauvin^*,1,

Koyomi Nakazawa^*,1,

Alexandre Beber^1,7,

Aurélie Di Cicco¹,

Bassam Hajj¹,

François Iv²,

Manos Mavrakis²,

Gijsje H. Koenderink³,

João T. Cabral⁴,

Michaël Trichet⁵,

Stéphanie Mangenot^*,6,

Aurélie Bertin^*,1

¹Laboratoire Physico Chimie Curie, Institut Curie, PSL Research University, Sorbonne Université,

²Institut Fresnel, CNRS UMR7249, Aix Marseille Univ, Centrale Marseille,

³Department of Bionanoscience, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft, Delft University of Technology,

⁴Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London,

⁵Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine (IBPS), Service de microscopie électronique (IBPS-SME),

⁶Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes (MSC), Université Paris Cité,

⁷Institute of Biotechnology, Czech Academy of Sciences, BIOCEV

Biology

Quantifying Cytoskeleton Dynamics Using Differential Dynamic Microscopy

Hannah N. Verwei¹,

Gloria Lee²,

Gregor Leech²,

Irene Istúriz Petitjean³,

Gijsje H. Koenderink³,

Rae M. Robertson-Anderson²,

Ryan James McGorty²

¹Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Biophysics, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University,

²Department of Physics and Biophysics, University of San Diego,

³Department of Bionanoscience, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft, Delft University of Technology

Bioengineering

Gijsje H. Koenderink

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Delft University of Technology

Purification and Quality Control of Recombinant Septin Complexes for Cell-Free Reconstitution

Bottom-Up In Vitro Methods to Assay the Ultrastructural Organization, Membrane Reshaping, and Curvature Sensitivity Behavior of Septins

Quantifying Cytoskeleton Dynamics Using Differential Dynamic Microscopy

Department of Bionanoscience,
Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft,
Department of Bionanoscience, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft