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Overview

Ard A. Louis is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields, prominently featuring Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Computer Science. Within these areas, the scientist has contributed substantially to subfields such as Molecular Biology, Artificial Intelligence, Genetics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, and Ecology.

Their publications frequently address topics including Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications, and Gene Regulatory Network Analysis.

Among their recent notable papers are:

  • Symmetry and simplicity spontaneously emerge from the algorithmic nature of evolution, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Design of hidden thermodynamic driving for non-equilibrium systems via mismatch elimination during DNA strand displacement, 2020, Nature Communications
  • From genotypes to organisms: State-of-the-art and perspectives of a cornerstone in evolutionary dynamics, 2021, Physics of Life Reviews
  • The structure of genotype-phenotype maps makes fitness landscapes navigable, 2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Phenotype Bias Determines How Natural RNA Structures Occupy the Morphospace of All Possible Shapes, 2021, Molecular Biology and Evolution

They have coauthored multiple works with researchers including Jonathan P. K. Doye, Kamaludin Dingle, Andrew J. Turberfield, Sebastian E. Ahnert, and Petr Šulc.

Their research output appears in a variety of publication venues. Frequent outlets include arXiv (Cornell University), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of The Royal Society Interface, and Nature Communications.

Best Publications

  • On the biophysics and kinetics of toehold-mediated DNA strand displacement

    Niranjan Srinivas;Thomas E. Ouldridge;Petr Šulc;Joseph M. Schaeffer

  • Can polymer coils Be modeled as "Soft colloids"?

    A. A. Louis;P. G. Bolhuis;J. P. Hansen;E. J. Meijer

  • Structural, mechanical, and thermodynamic properties of a coarse-grained DNA model

    Thomas E. Ouldridge;Ard A. Louis;Jonathan P. K. Doye

  • Introducing improved structural properties and salt dependence into a coarse-grained model of DNA

    Benedict E. K. Snodin;Ferdinando Randisi;Majid Mosayebi;Petr Šulc

  • Beware of density dependent pair potentials

    A A Louis

  • Accurate effective pair potentials for polymer solutions

    P. G. Bolhuis;A. A. Louis;J. P. Hansen;E. J. Meijer

  • Sequence-dependent thermodynamics of a coarse-grained DNA model

    Petr Šulc;Flavio Romano;Thomas E. Ouldridge;Lorenzo Rovigatti

  • Representability problems for coarse-grained water potentials.

    Margaret E. Johnson;Teresa Head-Gordon;Ard A. Louis

  • Coarse-graining DNA for simulations of DNA nanotechnology

    Jonathan P. K. Doye;Thomas E. Ouldridge;Ard A. Louis;Flavio Romano

  • DNA Nanotweezers Studied with a Coarse-Grained Model of DNA

    Thomas E. Ouldridge;Ard A. Louis;Jonathan P. K. Doye

  • DNA hybridization kinetics: zippering, internal displacement and sequence dependence

    Thomas E. Ouldridge;Petr Šulc;Flavio Romano;Jonathan P. K. Doye

  • Influence of polymer excluded volume on the phase behavior of colloid--polymer mixtures

    P.G. Bolhuis;A.A. Louis;J.P. Hansen

  • Reversible self-assembly of patchy particles into monodisperse icosahedral clusters

    Alex W. Wilber;Jonathan P. K. Doye;Ard A. Louis;Eva G. Noya

  • Controlling crystallization and its absence: proteins, colloids and patchy models

    Jonathan P. K. Doye;Ard A. Louis;I-Chun Lin;Lucy R. Allen

  • Effective forces in colloidal mixtures: From depletion attraction to accumulation repulsion

    A. A. Louis;E. Allahyarov;H. Löwen;R. Roth

  • A nucleotide-level coarse-grained model of RNA.

    Petr Šulc;Flavio Romano;Thomas E. Ouldridge;Jonathan P. K. Doye

  • Colloid-polymer mixtures in the protein limit.

    Peter G. Bolhuis;Evert Jan Meijer;Ard A. Louis

  • Polymer induced depletion potentials in polymer-colloid mixtures

    A. A. Louis;P. G. Bolhuis;E. J. Meijer;J. P. Hansen

  • Coarse-grained modelling of the structural properties of DNA origami.

    Benedict E K Snodin;John S Schreck;Flavio Romano;Ard A Louis

  • How to derive and parameterize effective potentials in colloid-polymer mixtures

    P. G. Bolhuis;A. A. Louis

  • Effective potentials for polymers and colloids: beyond the van der Waals picture of fluids?

    A. A. Louis

  • The stability of a crystal with diamond structure for patchy particles with tetrahedral symmetry.

    Eva G. Noya;Carlos Vega;Jonathan P. K. Doye;Ard A. Louis

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan P. K. Doye
Jonathan P. K. Doye University of Oxford
Jean-Pierre Hansen
Jean-Pierre Hansen University of Cambridge
Peter G. Bolhuis
Peter G. Bolhuis University of Amsterdam
JT Johan Padding
JT Johan Padding Delft University of Technology
Evert Jan Meijer
Evert Jan Meijer University of Amsterdam
Julia M. Yeomans
Julia M. Yeomans University of Oxford
Hartmut Löwen
Hartmut Löwen Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
N. W. Ashcroft
N. W. Ashcroft Cornell University
Christos N. Likos
Christos N. Likos University of Vienna
Carlos Vega
Carlos Vega Complutense University of Madrid

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