|
|
|
Louis research group news
|
|
- publicity for our paper: Coarse-grained modelling of DNA-RNA hybrids,
Eryk J. Ratajczyk, Petr Sulc, Andrew J. Turberfield, Jonathan P.K. Doye, Ard A. Louis,
J. Chem. Phys. 160, 115101 (2024)
- Publicity for our paper
Maximum Mutational Robustness in Genotype-Phenotype Maps Follows a Self-similar Blancmange-like Curve
OB
Vaibhav Mohanty, Sam F Greenbury, Tasmin Sarkany, Shyam Narayanan, Kamaludin Dingle, Sebastian E Ahnert, Ard A Louis
J. Roy. Soc. Interface 20, 20230169 (2023).
- Publicity for our paper Symmetry and simplicity spontaneously emerge from the algorithmic nature of evolution
PNAS 119, e2113883119 (2022).
|
|
-
The Physics of Evolution
8-10 July 2019 at the Crick Institute in London -Organisers:
Bhavin Khatri, Ard Louis and Tom McLeish FRS
|
|
|
-
Stehanie Owen won both the 2015 Winton Capital Prize for the Best MPhys Research Project in the department and the 2015 Rolls-Royce Prize for Innovation in an MPhys Project. Her project on modelling evolution was called "GPU Accelerated Exploration of HP model GP map"
- Our paper
Introducing Improved Structural Properties and Salt Dependence into a Coarse-Grained Model of DNA
Benedict E. K. Snodin, Ferdinando Randisi, Majid Mosayebi, Petr Sulc, John S. Schreck, Flavio Romano, Thomas E. Ouldridge, Roman Tsukanov, Eyal Nir, Ard A. Louis, Jonathan P. K. Doye
J. Chem. Phys. 142, 234901 (2015)was selected as a
featured article and also for the
journal cover
- Our paper
Characterizing the bending and flexibility induced by bulges in DNA duplexes
John S. Schreck, Thomas E. Ouldridge, Flavio Romano, Ard A. Louis, Jonathan P. K. Doye
J. Chem. Phys. 142, 165101 (2015)
| arxiv abstract
| pdf
reprint |
paper was selected for the
journal cover
 .
-
Our paper
A tractable genotype-phenotype map for the self-assembly of protein quaternary structure
Sam F. Greenbury, Iain G. Johnston, Ard A. Louis, Sebastian E. Ahnert
J. R. Soc. Interface 11, 20140249 (2014)
was one of the top ten most cited papers in 2014 for Royal Society Interface.
- our paper:
Modelling toehold-mediated RNA strand displacement
Petr Šulc, Thomas E. Ouldridge, Flavio Romano, Jonathan P. K. Doye, Ard A. Louis
< br> Biophys. J. 108, 1238 (2015)
was selected for the journal cover
 and the subject of a Biophysical Society blog post .
-
Our paper,
A nucleotide-level coarse-grained model of RNA
Petr Sulc, Flavio Romano, Thomas E. Ouldridge, Jonathan P. K. Doye, Ard A. Louis
J. Chem. Phys.140, 235102 (2014)
was selected for the journal cover
 .
- Our paper,
The arrival of the frequent: how bias in genotype-phenotype maps can steer populations to local optima
,
Steffen Schaper and Ard A. Louis, PLoS ONE 9(2): e86635 (2014)
was discussed in an
Oxford Science Blogpost
-
our paper,
Coarse-graining DNA for simulations of DNA nanotechnology
Jonathan P.K. Doye, Thomas E. Ouldridge, Ard A. Louis, Flavio Romano, Petr Sulc, Christian Matek, Benedict E.K. Snodin, Lorenzo Rovigatti, John S. Schreck, Ryan M. Harrison, William P.J. Smith,
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 15 20395 (2013)
on the PCCP cover  and
was highlighted as a Hot Article by Soft Matter
- Our paper,
Sequence-dependent thermodynamics of a coarse-grained DNA model
Petr Sulc, Flavio Romano, Thomas E. Ouldridge, Lorenzo Rovigatti, Jonathan P. K. Doye, Ard A. Louis
J. Chem. Phys. 137, 135101 (2012)
was selected for the journal cover  .
- Christian Schroeder won the 2012 Tessela prize for best use of software in an MPhys project for his thesis on the physics of evolution.
- Tom Ouldridge won the 2011 IOP Computational Physics Group annual PhD Thesis Prize for his DPhil thesis "Coarse-grained modelling of DNA and DNA self-assembly".
- conference we are co-organising
The organisers of ESFCB 2012 are inviting scientists from biology, physics, mathematics,
computer science, and related fields to participate in the first conference on the
Evolution of Structural and Functional Complexity in Biology, to be held at King's College, Cambridge from 17-19 September 2012.
- hot paper:
Our paper
Templated self-assembly of patchy particles
Alexander J. Williamson, Alex W. Wilber, Jonathan P. K. Doye, and Ard A. Louis
Soft Matter 7, 3423 (2011).
was highlighted as a Hot Article by Soft Matter
-
On the cover: Our paper,
Structural and thermodynamic properties of a coarse-grained model of DNA
Thomas E. Ouldridge, Ard A. Louis, Jonathan P.K. Doye, J. Chem. Phys. 134, 085101 (2011)
(this paper was a featured article on the journal cover  ).
- On the cover: Our paper
Modelling the Self-Assembly of Virus Capsids ,
Iain G. Johnston, Ard A. Louis and Jonathan P.K. Doye,
J. Phys.:
Condensed Matter, 22 , 104101 (2010)
was selected for journal cover and as one of the journal's Highlights of 2010  )
- Editor's Suggestion:
The effects of inter-particle attractions on colloidal sedimentation
A. Moncho Jorda', Ard. A. Louis and Johan Padding
Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 068301 (2010)
was selected as an  Editor's Suggestion in PRL)
- Blogged: our paper
DNA nanotweezers studied with a coarse-grained model of DNA
Thomas E. Ouldridge, Ard A. Louis, Jonathan P.K. Doye
Phys. Rev. Lett. 104 178101 (2010)
was blogged about at the: Equilibrium Blog
- On the cover: Our article entitled Self-assembly of monodisperse clusters: Dependence on target geometry Alex W. Wilber, Jonathan P. K. Doye, Ard A. Louis, J. Chem. Phys. 131, 175101 (2009)
is featured
on the front cover of the 7 November 2009 issue and was one of the most downloaded papers for November 2009.
- Editor's Suggestion:
Our paper:
Knot controlled ejection of a polymer from a virus capsid
Richard Matthews, Ard A. Louis and Julia M. Yeomans
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 088101 (2009)
was selected as an " Editor's Suggestion" in Physical Review Letters.
- On the cover:
An article (with Jonathan
Doye ) for Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics on
Controlling
Crystallization and its Absence: Proteins, colloids and patchy models
is featured on the front cover of the 14 May 2007 issue.
It was also the
most downloaded PCCP article for May 2007.
- Prizes
-
Stehanie Owen won both the 2015 Winton Capital Prize for the Best MPhys Research Project in the department and the 2015 Rolls-Royce Prize for Innovation in an MPhys Project. Her project on modelling evolution was called "GPU Accelerated Exploration of HP model GP map"
- Christian Schroeder won the 2012 Tessela Prize for the best use of software in an MPhys project.
- Tom Ouldridge won the 2011 IOP Computational Physics Group annual PhD Thesis Prize for his DPhil thesis "Coarse-grained modelling of DNA and DNA self-assembly".
- Adam Levy won the 2009 Data Connection
Prize for the best use of software in an MPhys project.
- Gabriel Villar won the 2008 Data Connection
Prize for the best use of software in an MPhys project.
- Anna Lewis won the 2007 BP prize for best MPhys
project in Theoretical Physics.
- Tom Ouldridge won the 2007 Scott Prize for best
performance in the MPhys examination
- Iain Johnston won the 2006
Tessela prize for the best computational project
in Cambridge Physics.
- Alex Wilber won the 2005
ICI prize for the best theoretical project in
Cambridge Chemistry.
- Ainsley Mayhew-Seers
won the 2005 Tessela prize for the best
computational project in Cambridge Physics.
- I-Chun Lin won the 2004
ICI prize for the best theoretical project in
Cambridge Chemistry.
-
Cambridge Templeton Consortium
- Cirocco, a local
Cambridge startup, lent us a water-cooled cluster appropriately named
ice
- Upcoming conferences we are helping to organize:
- Past conferences we helped organise:
-
 We are co-organising, with Marjolein Dijkstra and Erik Luijten, a workshop on Mesoscale methods for colloidal hydrodynamics
July 19, 2009 to July 21, 2010 Location : CECAM-HQ-EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
-
 With Jonathan Doye and Thanos Panagiotopoulos, a workshop on Computer Simulation Approaches to Study Self-Assembly: From Patchy Nano-Colloids to Virus Capsids
July 13, 2009 to July 15, 2009
Location : CECAM-HQ-EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
-
Evolvability, the Evolution of Evolution Varenna,
Italy, 15-18 April 2007
-
Thermodynamics
2005
-
Isaac Newton Institute workshop:
Protein-protein interactions in vitro and in vivo
-
CECAM workshop:
Effective many-body interactions and correlations
in soft matter
-
Thermodynamics 2003
(in Cambridge!)
- Cambridge Colloids Workshop (1999)
|
|
|
Scilight article highlighting our work 
Group shot
