Professor Antoine van Oijen
Professor
NHMRC Leadership Fellow
Faculty of Medicine and Health
Professor van Oijen has led research groups at Harvard Medical School (USA), Groningen University (the Netherlands), and the University of Wollongong (Australia). He was an ARC Laureate Fellow (2015-2020) and is currently an NHMRC Leadership Fellow (L2; 2021-2025). His primary research interests revolve around DNA replication and repair, with a focus on developing imaging approaches and integrating these with molecular biophysical approaches to understand how microbial systems copy and maintain DNA. In Wollongong he founded Molecular Horizons, a molecular life sciences institute, and led the establishment of major core facilities. At the University of Sydney, Professor van Oijen is responsible for the Faculty of Medicine and Health's research portfolio and for achieving its strategic and operational objectives.
Publications
Book Chapters
- Kaur, G., Spenkelink, L., Lewis, J., Jergic, S., Dixon, N., Van Oijen, A. (2022). Production of long linear DNA substrates with site-specific chemical lesions for single-molecule replisome studies. Helicase Enzymes Part A, (pp. 299-315). United States: Academic Press Inc. [More Information]
- Tanner, N., Van Oijen, A. (2010). Visualizing DNA Replication at the Single-Molecule Level. In Not known (Eds.), Methods in Enzymology, (pp. 256-278). Academic Press Inc. [More Information]
- Hamdan, S., Van Oijen, A. (2008). Single Molecule Studies of Nucleic Acid Enzymes. Single Molecule Biology, (pp. 173-193). United States: Elsevier. [More Information]
Journals
- Lewis, J., Van Oijen, A., Spenkelink, L. (2023). Embracing Heterogeneity: Challenging the Paradigm of Replisomes as Deterministic Machines. Chemical Reviews, 123(23), 13419-13440. [More Information]
- Cox, M., Goodman, M., Keck, J., Van Oijen, A., Lovett, S., Robinson, A. (2023). Generation and Repair of Postreplication Gaps in Escherichia coli. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, 87(2). [More Information]
- Mueller, S., Fitschen, L., Shirbini, A., Hamdan, S., Spenkelink, L., Van Oijen, A. (2023). Rapid single-molecule characterisation of enzymes involved in nucleic-acid metabolism. Nucleic Acids Research, 51(1), E5-E5. [More Information]
Conferences
- Van Oijen, A. (2013). Biology at the nanoscale, one molecule at a time. 17th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2013, San Diego, USA: Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society.
- Mashaghi, S., Van Oijen, A. (2013). Towards a high-throughput, droplet-based viral-fusion assay with single-particle sensitivity. 17th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2013, San Diego, USA: Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society.
- Salentijn, G., van Dijk, E., Geertsema, H., Jellema, L., Van Oijen, A., Verpoorte, E. (2011). DNA purification in continuous nanoliter flows using flowinduced electrokinetic trapping: Influence of ionic strength and chip conditioning. 15th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences 2011, MicroTAS 2011, United States: Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society.
2023
- Lewis, J., Van Oijen, A., Spenkelink, L. (2023). Embracing Heterogeneity: Challenging the Paradigm of Replisomes as Deterministic Machines. Chemical Reviews, 123(23), 13419-13440. [More Information]
- Cox, M., Goodman, M., Keck, J., Van Oijen, A., Lovett, S., Robinson, A. (2023). Generation and Repair of Postreplication Gaps in Escherichia coli. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, 87(2). [More Information]
- Mueller, S., Fitschen, L., Shirbini, A., Hamdan, S., Spenkelink, L., Van Oijen, A. (2023). Rapid single-molecule characterisation of enzymes involved in nucleic-acid metabolism. Nucleic Acids Research, 51(1), E5-E5. [More Information]
2022
- Hawkins, O., Scott, A., Montgomery, A., Nicholas, B., Mullan, J., van Oijen, A., Degeling, C. (2022). Comparing public attitudes, knowledge, beliefs and behaviours towards antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance in Australia, United Kingdom, and Sweden (2010-2021): A systematic review, meta-analysis, and comparative policy analysis. PloS One, 17(1 January). [More Information]
- Blijleven, J., Bouma, E., Van Duijl-Richter, M., Smit, J., Van Oijen, A. (2022). Cooperative Chikungunya Virus Membrane Fusion and Its Substoichiometric Inhibition by CHK-152 Antibody. Viruses, 14(2). [More Information]
- Revitt-Mills, S., Wright, E., Vereker, M., O'Flaherty, C., McPherson, F., Dawson, C., van Oijen, A., Robinson, A. (2022). Defects in DNA double-strand break repair resensitize antibiotic-resistant Escherichia coli to multiple bactericidal antibiotics. MicrobiologyOpen, 11(5). [More Information]
2021
- Seinen, A., Spakman, D., Van Oijen, A., Driessen, A. (2021). Cellular dynamics of the SecA ATPase at the single molecule level. Scientific Reports, 11(1). [More Information]
- Spinks, R., Spenkelink, L., Stratmann, S., Xu, Z., Stamford, N., Brown, S., Dixon, N., Jergic, S., Van Oijen, A. (2021). DnaB helicase dynamics in bacterial DNA replication resolved by single-molecule studies. Nucleic Acids Research, 49(12), 6804-6816. [More Information]
- Urbanska, M., Lüdecke, A., Walter, W., Van Oijen, A., Duderstadt, K., Diez, S. (2021). Highly-Parallel Microfluidics-Based Force Spectroscopy on Single Cytoskeletal Motors. Small, 17(18). [More Information]
2020
- Paudel, B., Moye, A., Assi, H., El-Khoury, R., Cohen, J., Holien, J., Birrento, M., Samosorn, S., Intharapichai, K., Tomlinson, C., Bryan, T., et al (2020). A mechanism for the extension and unfolding of parallel telomeric g-quadruplexes by human telomerase at single-molecule resolution. eLife, 9, 1-30. [More Information]
- Monachino, E., Jergic, S., Lewis, J., Xu, Z., Lo, A., O'Shea, V., Berger, J., Dixon, N., Van Oijen, A. (2020). A Primase-Induced Conformational Switch Controls the Stability of the Bacterial Replisome. Molecular Cell, 79(1), 140-154.e7. [More Information]
- Marzano, N., Wray, K., Johnston, C., Paudel, B., Hong, Y., Van Oijen, A., Ecroyd, H. (2020). An α-Cyanostilbene Derivative for the Enhanced Detection and Imaging of Amyloid Fibril Aggregates. ACS Chemical Neuroscience, 11(24), 4191-4202. [More Information]
2019
- Ho, H., Zalami, D., Köhler, J., Van Oijen, A., Ghodke, H. (2019). Identification of Multiple Kinetic Populations of DNA-Binding Proteins in Live Cells. Biophysical Journal, 117(5), 950-961. [More Information]
- Whinn, K., Kaur, G., Lewis, J., Schauer, G., Mueller, S., Jergic, S., Maynard, H., Gan, Z., Naganbabu, M., Bruchez, M., et al (2019). Nuclease dead Cas9 is a programmable roadblock for DNA replication. Scientific Reports, 9(1). [More Information]
- Henrikus, S., Henry, C., Ghodke, H., Wood, E., Mbele, N., Saxena, R., Basu, U., van Oijen, A., Cox, M., Robinson, A. (2019). RecFOR epistasis group: RecF and RecO have distinct localizations and functions in Escherichia coli. Nucleic Acids Research, 47(6), 2946-2965. [More Information]
2018
- Ren, W., Wen, S., Tawfik, S., Su, Q., Lin, G., Ju, A., Ford, M., Ghodke, H., Van Oijen, A., Jin, D. (2018). Anisotropic functionalization of upconversion nanoparticles. Chemical Science, 9(18), 4352-4358. [More Information]
- Monachino, E., Ghodke, H., Spinks, R., Hoatson, B., Jergic, S., Xu, Z., Dixon, N., Van Oijen, A. (2018). Design of DNA rolling-circle templates with controlled fork topology to study mechanisms of DNA replication. Analytical Biochemistry, 557, 42-45. [More Information]
- Hill, F., Van Oijen, A., Duderstadt, K. (2018). Detection of kinetic change points in piece-wise linear single molecule motion. Journal of Chemical Physics, 148(12). [More Information]
2017
- Vallotton, P., Van Oijen, A., Whitchurch, C., Gelfand, V., Yeo, L., Tsiavaliaris, G., Heinrich, S., Dultz, E., Weis, K., Grünwald, D. (2017). Diatrack particle tracking software: Review of applications and performance evaluation. Traffic, 18(12), 840-852. [More Information]
- Van Oijen, A., Goudsmits, J., Slotboom, D. (2017). Single-Molecule Fluorescence Studies of Membrane Transporters Using Total Internal Reflection Microscopy. Methods in Enzymology, 594, 101-121. [More Information]
- Goudsmits, J., Slotboom, D., Van Oijen, A. (2017). Single-molecule visualization of conformational changes and substrate transport in the Vitamin B
12 ABC importer BtuCD-F. Nature Communications, 8(1). [More Information]
2016
- Goudsmits, J., Van Oijen, A., Robinson, A. (2016). A tool for alignment and averaging of sparse fluorescence signals in rod-shaped bacteria. Biophysical Journal, 110(8), 1708-1715. [More Information]
- Kalkman, G., Zhang, Y., Monachino, E., Mathwig, K., Kamminga, M., Pourhossein, P., Oomen, P., Stratmann, S., Zhao, Z., Van Oijen, A., et al (2016). Bisecting Microfluidic Channels with Metallic Nanowires Fabricated by Nanoskiving. ACS Nano, 10(2), 2852-2859. [More Information]
- Mashaghi, S., Van Oijen, A. (2016). Droplet microfluidics for kinetic studies of viral fusion. Applied Physics Reviews, 10(2). [More Information]
2015
- Van Duijl-Richter, M., Blijleven, J., Van Oijen, A., Smit, J. (2015). Chikungunya virus fusion properties elucidated by single-particle and bulk approaches. Journal of General Virology, 96(8), 2122-2132. [More Information]
- Mashaghi, S., Van Oijen, A. (2015). External control of reactions in microdroplets. Scientific Reports, 5. [More Information]
- Caldas, V., Punter, C., Ghodke, H., Robinson, A., Van Oijen, A. (2015). ISBatch: A batch-processing platform for data analysis and exploration of live-cell single-molecule microscopy images and other hierarchical datasets. Molecular BioSystems, 11(10), 2699-2708. [More Information]
2014
- Mashaghi, S., Van Oijen, A. (2014). A versatile approach to the generation of fluid supported lipid bilayers and its applications. Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 111(10), 2076-2081. [More Information]
- Stratmann, S., Van Oijen, A. (2014). DNA replication at the single-molecule level. Chemical Society Reviews, 43(4), 1201-1220. [More Information]
- Kusters, I., Van Oijen, A., Driessen, A. (2014). Membrane-on-a-chip: Microstructured silicon/silicon-dioxide chips for high-throughput screening of membrane transport and viral membrane fusion. ACS Nano, 8(4), 3380-3392. [More Information]
2013
- Jergic, S., Horan, N., Elshenawy, M., Mason, C., Urathamakul, T., Ozawa, K., Robinson, A., Goudsmits, J., Wang, Y., Pan, X., et al (2013). A direct proofreader-clamp interaction stabilizes the Pol III replicase in the polymerization mode. EMBO Journal, 32(9), 1322-1333. [More Information]
- Geertsema, H., Van Oijen, A. (2013). A single-molecule view of DNA replication: The dynamic nature of multi-protein complexes revealed. Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 23(5), 788-793. [More Information]
- Robinson, A., Van Oijen, A. (2013). Bacterial replication, transcription and translation: Mechanistic insights from single-molecule biochemical studies. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 11(5), 303-315. [More Information]
2012
- Yardimci, H., Wang, X., Kochaniak, A., Tappin, I., Rudner, D., Hurwitz, J., Van Oijen, A., Walter, J. (2012). Bypass of a protein barrier by a replicative DNA helicase. Nature, 492(7428), 205-209. [More Information]
- Leith, J., Tafvizi, A., Huang, F., Uspal, W., Doyle, P., Fersht, A., Mirny, L., Van Oijen, A. (2012). Sequence-dependent sliding kinetics of p53. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109(41), 16552-16557. [More Information]
- Yardimci, H., Kochaniak, A., Van Oijen, A., Walter, J. (2012). Single-molecule analysis of DNA replication in Xenopus egg extracts. Methods, 57(2), 179-186. [More Information]
2011
- Williams, K., Grafe, B., Burke, K., Tanner, N., Van Oijen, A., Loparo, J., Price, A. (2011). A single molecule DNA flow stretching microscope for undergraduates. American Journal of Physics, 79(11), 1112-1120. [More Information]
- Lebofsky, R., Van Oijen, A., Walter, J. (2011). DNA is a co-factor for its own replication in Xenopus egg extracts. Nucleic Acids Research, 39(2), 545-555. [More Information]
- Salentijn, G., van Dijk, E., Geertsema, H., Jellema, L., Van Oijen, A., Verpoorte, E. (2011). DNA purification in continuous nanoliter flows using flowinduced electrokinetic trapping: Influence of ionic strength and chip conditioning. 15th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences 2011, MicroTAS 2011, United States: Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society.
2010
- Van Oijen, A., Loparo, J. (2010). Single-molecule studies of the replisome. Annual Review of Biophysics, 39, 429-448. [More Information]
- Tanner, N., Van Oijen, A. (2010). Visualizing DNA Replication at the Single-Molecule Level. In Not known (Eds.), Methods in Enzymology, (pp. 256-278). Academic Press Inc. [More Information]
- Floyd, D., Otterstrom, J., Skehel, J., Harrison, S., Van Oijen, A. (2010). Visualizing viral fusion at the single-particle level in microchannels. 14th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences 2010, MicroTAS 2010, United States: Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society.
2008
- Hamdan, S., Van Oijen, A. (2008). Single Molecule Studies of Nucleic Acid Enzymes. Single Molecule Biology, (pp. 173-193). United States: Elsevier. [More Information]
2005
- Kirchhausen, T., Boll, W., Van Oijen, A., Ehrlich, M. (2005). Single-molecule live-cell imaging of clathrin-based endocytosis. Biochemical Society Symposium, 72, 71-76. [More Information]
1999
- Brakenhoff, R., van Oijen, A., Kohler, J., Muller, M., Schmidt, J. (1999). Three-dimensional super-resolution imaging of single molecules by spectrally selective confocal microscopy. 1999 Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Washingtion: Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers.
Selected Grants
2024
- Single-molecule Manipulation and Interaction Facility (SMIF), Ju A, Kabakova I, Van Oijen A, Baker M, Wickham S, Spenkelink L, Gu Z, Su Q, Shen Y, Qiao R, Cheng W, Davis T, Yong K, Eggleton B, Morsch M, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF)
2023
- USYD-Glasgow Biomedical Engineering Alliance: Revolutionising Cancer Immunotherapy with Triboelectric Nanogenerator (TENG)-Based Sensor Systems and zMovi High-throughput Cell Avidity Analyser Platform, Ju A, Jing Q, Rasko J, Vassali M, Van Oijen A, Mulvihill D, McGuire H, Li G, Wang Y, He Z, Yeo D, Silavnieks U, Office of Global Engagement/Ignition Grants