February 2020

Sungchul and Luuk sort out how CRISPR memories are acquired and publish in Nature. What a result!

This animation explains the findings beautifully.

February 2020

After 3 years, Cristobal is leaving us. We wish you all the best and please stay in touch.

November 2019

Benjamin defends his PhD in style. Congrats with this well-deserved accomplishment.

November 2019

Patrick publishes his paper on BACON domains in crAssphage. Wow that was fast.

November 2019

Jochem publishes his masterpiece about cellular surveillance by Cascade!

November 2019

Amazing, after 8 years the paper is published showing Cascade can be engineered into a genome nuclease. Thanks everyone at Caribou, Peter and Sam. Also thanks to Tim, Selma, Seb, Emiel, Lieuwe for your early contributions.

June 2019

Sebastian and Cristobal publish a paper on conserved sequence motifs in type I-D CRISPR systems. Nice job and thank you reviewer 3 for taking this part out of an earlier story!

April 2019

Brounslab goes karting.

April 2019

Cristobal publishes his Cas4-Cas fusion protein paper! Selecting a functional PAM by naive spacer acquisition was never found to be so efficient! Nice work!

February 2019

NWO awards a VICI grant to our group and completes the trilogy.

February 2019

Becca, Tobal and Jochem publish their supersensitive method to detect CRISPR spacer acquisition. Great stuff!

February 2019

Fagenbank website online.