The Claessen Lab
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The Claessen Lab
@ClaessenLAB
Professor of Molecular Microbiology, Education Director @LeidenBiology, Vici Laureate, Morphogenesis, Wall-Deficiency, [email protected], Views=Mine











Join us for @ISBA2025 on Actinomycetes at the lovely beach of Egmond aan Zee (NL), from June 15–19, 2025. Topics include development, drug discovery, ecology and pathogenicity. universiteitleiden.nl/isba2025. Registration and abstract submission here: tinyurl.com/ISBA2025.



Join us in Paris on April 8th-10th for the 2025 Symposium on the Immune System of Bacteria 🥖🍷🦠🧬. Excited to welcome these amazing speakers at @institutpasteur . Registration will open beginning of November. Abstract deadline February 28. Stay tuned.



Bacterial cell wall, biofilm and morphology enthusiasts - our new preprint shows how E. coli manages to survive without its essential cell wall! Check it out 👇#microbiology #bacteria @LeidenBiology @ClaessenLAB @HandeWinde

Enhanced extracellular matrix production provides protection to cell wall-deficient Escherichia coli biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio



Happy to share a chapter of my PhD thesis🐣! We review the diversity of the cell envelope in Terrabacteria which tell us a lot about outer membrane biogenesis and the diderm-to-monoderm transition. Thanks to my co-authors Najwa Taib @ChrisBel70 @SGribaldo nature.com/articles/s4157…





