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Jan-Willem Veening

Jan-Willem Veening

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
52
Citations
11599
World Ranking
16567
National Ranking
310

Overview

Jan-Willem Veening is affiliated with the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a considerable focus also on Medicine. Within these broad fields, their work covers subfields such as Molecular Biology, Epidemiology, Microbiology, Infectious Diseases, and Genetics.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections
  • Bacterial Infections and Vaccines
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria

Jan-Willem Veening has contributed to several recent papers, which include:

  • "Exploration of Bacterial Bottlenecks and Streptococcus pneumoniae Pathogenesis by CRISPRi-Seq", 2020, published in Cell Host & Microbe
  • "CRISPRi-seq for genome-wide fitness quantification in bacteria", 2022, published in Nature Protocols
  • "Proton Motive Force Disruptors Block Bacterial Competence and Horizontal Gene Transfer", 2020, published in Cell Host & Microbe
  • "Resisting disinfectants", 2022, published in Communications Medicine
  • "Functional vulnerability of liver macrophages to capsules defines virulence of blood-borne bacteria", 2022, published in The Journal of Experimental Medicine

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Vincent de Bakker, Xue Liu, Clément Gallay, Julien Dénéréaz, and Axel B. Janssen. Their collaborative works have been published multiple times in various prominent venues.

Jan-Willem Veening's publications appear predominantly in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Microbiology, Nature Communications, Cell Host & Microbe, and Nucleic Acids Research.

Best Publications

  • Bistability, epigenetics, and bet-hedging in bacteria.

    Jan-Willem Veening;Wiep Klaas Smits;Oscar P. Kuipers

  • The iturin and fengycin families of lipopeptides are key factors in antagonism of Bacillus subtilis toward Podosphaera fusca

    Diego Romero;Antonio de Vicente;Rivo H. Rakotoaly;Samuel E. Dufour

  • Phenotypic variation in bacteria: the role of feedback regulation

    Wiep Klaas Smits;Oscar P. Kuipers;Jan-Willem Veening

  • Bet-hedging and epigenetic inheritance in bacterial cell development

    Jan Willem Veening;Eric J. Stewart;Eric J. Stewart;Thomas W. Berngruber;François Taddei;François Taddei

  • How to get (a)round: mechanisms controlling growth and division of coccoid bacteria

    Mariana G. Pinho;Morten Kjos;Jan-Willem Veening

  • Time-resolved dual RNA-seq reveals extensive rewiring of lung epithelial and pneumococcal transcriptomes during early infection

    Rieza Aprianto;Jelle Slager;Siger Holsappel;Jan-Willem Veening;Jan-Willem Veening

  • Infection of zebrafish embryos with live fluorescent Streptococcus pneumoniae as a real-time pneumococcal meningitis model

    Kin Ki Jim;Kin Ki Jim;Joo Yeon Engelen-Lee;Astrid M. van der Sar;Wilbert Bitter

  • Antibiotic-induced replication stress triggers bacterial competence by increasing gene dosage near the origin

    Jelle Slager;Morten Kjos;Laetitia Attaiech;Jan-Willem Veening

  • High-throughput CRISPRi phenotyping identifies new essential genes in Streptococcus pneumoniae.

    Xue Liu;Xue Liu;Clement Gallay;Morten Kjos;Morten Kjos;Arnau Domenech

  • Transient heterogeneity in extracellular protease production by Bacillus subtilis

    Jan-Willem Veening;Jan-Willem Veening;Oleg A Igoshin;Robyn T Eijlander;Reindert Nijland

  • Two-step assembly dynamics of the Bacillus subtilis divisome.

    Pamela Gamba;Jan Willem Veening;Nigel J. Saunders;Leendert W. Hamoen

  • Phosphatases modulate the bistable sporulation gene expression pattern in Bacillus subtilis.

    Jan-Willem Veening;Leendert W. Hamoen;Oscar P. Kuipers

  • Control of cell division in Streptococcus pneumoniae by the conserved Ser/Thr protein kinase StkP

    Katrin Beilharz;Linda Nováková;Daniela Fadda;Pavel Branny

  • A mechanism for cell cycle regulation of sporulation initiation in Bacillus subtilis

    Jan-Willem Veening;Heath Murray;Jeff Errington

  • SMC is recruited to oriC by ParB and promotes chromosome segregation in Streptococcus pneumoniae.

    Anita Minnen;Laetitia Attaiech;Maria Thon;Stephan Gruber

  • Live Cell Imaging of Bacillus subtilis and Streptococcus pneumoniae using Automated Time-lapse Microscopy

    Imke G. de Jong;Katrin Beilharz;Oscar P. Kuipers;Jan Willem Veening

  • Collective Resistance in Microbial Communities by Intracellular Antibiotic Deactivation.

    Robin A. Sorg;Leo Lin;G. Sander van Doorn;Moritz Sorg

  • The extracellular proteome of Bacillus subtilis under secretion stress conditions

    Haike Antelmann;Elise Darmon;David Noone;Jan-Willem Veening

  • Development and Characterization of a Subtilin-Regulated Expression System in Bacillus subtilis: Strict Control of Gene Expression by Addition of Subtilin

    Roger S. Bongers;Jan-Willem Veening;Maarten Van Wieringen;Oscar P. Kuipers

  • Self-organization of parS centromeres by the ParB CTP hydrolase.

    Young-Min Soh;Iain Finley Davidson;Stefano Zamuner;Jérôme Basquin

Frequent Co-Authors

Oscar P. Kuipers
Oscar P. Kuipers University of Groningen
Leendert W. Hamoen
Leendert W. Hamoen University of Amsterdam
Jeff Errington
Jeff Errington University of Sydney
Birgitta Henriques-Normark
Birgitta Henriques-Normark Karolinska Institute
Victor Nizet
Victor Nizet University of California, San Diego
Ian Roberts
Ian Roberts London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Aaron P. Mitchell
Aaron P. Mitchell University of Georgia
Sierd Bron
Sierd Bron University of Groningen
Mariana G. Pinho
Mariana G. Pinho Universidade Nova de Lisboa

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