Peter van der Gulik
- Full Name
- Drs. P.T.S. van der Gulik
- Function(s)
- Project member
- Peter.van.der.Gulik@cwi.nl
- Telephone
- +31 20 592 4232
- Room
- L232
- Department(s)
- Algorithms and Complexity, Information & Documentation
Biography
Peter T. S. van der Gulik is a biologist at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam in the research group Algorithms and Complexity. His thesis advisors are Prof. dr. H. M. Buhrman of UvA and Prof. dr. W. D. Hoff of OSU in the USA. The Ph.D. defense will take place on September 18, 2019. The title of the Ph.D. thesis is: Considerations in Evolutionary Biochemistry. Peter van der Gulik is working on problems at the interface of biology and computer science. He is interested in structure and origin of the genetic code, the role in the primordial cell of the first coded oligopeptide, natural selection under intense intraspecific competition, Asgardarchaeal tRNA, and conserved hydrogen bonds and hydrophobic interactions in protein folding. Up to 2020, Peter van der Gulik is co-author of eight peer-reviewed publications: PMID 19761777, PMID 21358008, PMID 22076654, PMID 23877342, PMID 24178388, PMID 25607813, PMID 27454314, and PMID 28927381 and author of peer-reviewed publication PMID 26580656.
Publications
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van der Gulik, P.T.S. (2019, September 18). Considerations in evolutionary biochemistry. ILLC Dissertation Series.
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van der Gulik, P.T.S, Hoff, W.D, & Speijer, D. (2017). In defence of the three-domains of life paradigm. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 17. doi:10.1186/s12862-017-1059-z
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van der Gulik, P.T.S, & Hoff, W.D. (2016). Anticodon modifications in the tRNA set of LUCA and the fundamental regularity in the Standard Genetic Code. PLoS ONE, 11(7). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0158342
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van der Gulik, P.T.S. (2015). On the Origin of Sequence. Life, 5(4), 1629–1637. doi:10.3390/life5041629
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van der Gulik, P.T.S, & Speijer, D. (2015). How Amino Acids and Peptides Shaped the RNA World. Life, 5(1), 230–246.
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Buhrman, H.M, van der Gulik, P.T.S, Klau, G.W, Schaffner, C, Speijer, D, & Stougie, L. (2013). A Realistic Model Under Which the Genetic Code is Optimal. Journal of Molecular Evolution, 77(4), 170–184. doi:10.1007/s00239-013-9571-2
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Buhrman, H.M, van der Gulik, P.T.S, Kelk, S.M, Koolen-Wijkstra, W.M, & Stougie, L. (2011). Some mathematical refinements concerning error minimization in the genetic code. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 11, 1358–1372.
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van der Gulik, P.T.S, & Hoff, W.D. (2011). Unassigned Codons, Nonsense Suppression, and Anticodon Modifications in the Evolution of the Genetic Code. Journal of Molecular Evolution, 73(combined 3-4), 59–69.
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van der Gulik, P.T.S, Massar, S, Gilis, D, Buhrman, H.M, & Rooman, M. (2009). The first peptides: The evolutionary transition between prebiotic amino acids and early proteins. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 261(4), 531–539.