Exploring the microbial savanna: predator-prey interactions in the soil.

Sanchis Pla L, van Gestel J

Molecular systems biology, 2024

doi:10.1038/s44320-024-00033-w.

Pleiotropic hubs drive bacterial surface competition through parallel changes in colony composition and expansion.

van Gestel J, Wagner A, Ackermann M

PLoS biology, 2023

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3002338.

Lineage tracing and single-nucleus multiomics reveal novel features of adaptive and maladaptive repair after acute kidney injury.

Gerhardt LMS, Koppitch K, van Gestel J, Guo J, Cho S, Wu H, Kirita Y, Humphreys BD, McMahon AP

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN, 2023

doi:10.1681/ASN.0000000000000057.

Life cycles as a central organizing theme for studying multicellularity.

Staps M, van Gestel J, Tarnita CE

2022

doi:10.1201/9780429351907-5.

Complex extracellular biology drives surface competition in Bacillus subtilis.

Jautzus T, van Gesten J, Kovács AT

bioRxiv, 2022

doi:10.1101/2022.02.28.482363.

Computational pipeline for designing guide RNAs for mismatch-CRISPRi.

van Gestel J, Hawkins JS, Todor H, Gross CA

STAR protocols, 2021

doi:10.1016/j.xpro.2021.100521.

Cryptic surface-associated multicellularity emerges through cell adhesion and its regulation.

van Gestel J, Wagner A

PLoS biology, 2021

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3001250.

Short-range quorum sensing controls horizontal gene transfer at micron scale in bacterial communities.

van Gestel J, Bareia T, Tenennbaum B, Dal Co A, Guler P, Aframian N, Puyesky S, Grinberg I, D'Souza GG, Erez Z, Ackermann M, Eldar A

Nature communications, 2021

doi:10.1038/s41467-021-22649-4.

Slow lane to collectivity.

van Gestel J

Nature ecology & evolution, 2020

doi:10.1038/s41559-020-1116-7.

A riboswitch gives rise to multi-generational phenotypic heterogeneity in an auxotrophic bacterium.

Hernandez-Valdes JA, van Gestel J, Kuipers OP

Nature communications, 2020

doi:10.1038/s41467-020-15017-1.

Emergence of diverse life cycles and life histories at the origin of multicellularity.

Staps M, van Gestel J, Tarnita CE

Nature ecology & evolution, 2019

doi:10.1038/s41559-019-0940-0.

Microbial life cycles link global modularity in regulation to mosaic evolution.

van Gestel J, Ackermann M, Wagner A

Nature ecology & evolution, 2019

doi:10.1038/s41559-019-0939-6.

When we stop thinking about microbes as cells.

van Gestel J, Kolter R

Journal of molecular biology, 2019

doi:10.1016/j.jmb.2019.05.004.

PolyGlcNAc-containing exopolymers enable surface penetration by non-motile Enterococcus faecalis.

Ramos Y, Rocha J, Hael AL, van Gestel J, Vlamakis H, Cywes-Bentley C, Cubillos-Ruiz JR, Pier GB, Gilmore MS, Kolter R, Morales DK

PLoS pathogens, 2019

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1007571.

Is plasticity caused by single genes?

van Gestel J, Weissing FJ

Nature, 2018

doi:10.1038/nature25495.

On the origin of biological construction, with a focus on multicellularity.

van Gestel J, Tarnita CE

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017

doi:10.1073/pnas.1704631114.

Regulatory mechanisms link phenotypic plasticity to evolvability.

van Gestel J, Weissing FJ

Scientific reports, 2016

doi:10.1038/srep24524.

Phenotypic heterogeneity and the evolution of bacterial life cycles.

van Gestel J, Nowak MA

PLoS computational biology, 2016

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004764.

Division of labor in biofilms: the ecology of cell differentiation.

van Gestel J, Vlamakis H, Kolter R

Microbiology spectrum, 2015

doi:10.1128/microbiolspec.MB-0002-2014.

From cell differentiation to cell collectives: Bacillus subtilis uses division of labor to migrate.

van Gestel J, Vlamakis H, Kolter R

PLoS biology, 2015

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002141.

New tools for comparing microscopy images: quantitative analysis of cell types in Bacillus subtilis.

van Gestel J, Vlamakis H, Kolter R

Journal of bacteriology, 2015

doi:10.1128/JB.02501-14.

Density of founder cells affects spatial pattern formation and cooperation in Bacillus subtilis biofilms.

van Gestel J, Weissing FJ, Kuipers OP, Kovács AT

The ISME journal, 2014

doi:10.1038/ismej.2014.52.

Bet-hedging during bacterial diauxic shift.

Solopova A, van Gestel J, Weissing FJ, Bachmann H, Teusink B, Kok J, Kuipers OP

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2014

doi:10.1073/pnas.1320063111.

The evolution of cell-to-cell communication in a sporulating bacterium.

van Gestel J, Nowak MA, Tarnita CE

PLoS computational biology, 2012

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002818.

The protective layer of biofilm: a repellent function for a new class of amphiphilic proteins.

Kovács AT, van Gestel J, Kuipers OP

Molecular microbiology, 2012

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2958.2012.08101.x.

Associations in male plumage ornamentation and reproductive parameters in the Icelandic Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa islandica.

J Schroeder, M Roodbergen, J van Gestel, V van den Brink, NM Groen, GJ Gerritsen

International Wader Study Group Bulletin, 2010

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