Publication list

Below you can find the scientific publications by Marten Postma.

Peer reviewed publications

1. Daphne S. Bindels, Marten Postma, Lindsay Haarbosch, Laura van Weeren and Theodorus W J Gadella Jr. Multi-parameter screening method for developing optimized fluorescent proteins. Nature Protocols 2020 [pubmed|pdf]
2. Nathalie R. Reinhard, Sanne van der Niet, Anna O. Chertkova, Marten Postma, Peter L. Hordijk, Theodorus W.J. Gadella Jr., Joachim Goedhart. Identification of Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors that increase Cdc42 activity in primary human endothelial cells. Small GTPases, 2019 [pubmed|pdf]
3. M D. Whiteside, G.D.A. Werner, V.E.Caldas,A. van ‘t Padje, S.E. Dupin, B. Elbers, M. Bakker, G.A.K. Wyatt, M. Klein, M.A. Hink, M. Postma, B. Vaitla, R. Noë, T.S. Shimizu, S.A. West and E.T. Kiers. Mycorrhizal fungi respond to resource inequality by moving phosphorus from rich to poor patches across networks. Current Biology, 2019, 29(12): 2043–2050.e8. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.04.06 [pubmed|pdf]
4. M. Postma and J. Goedhart. PlotsOfData—A web app for visualizing data together with their summaries. PLoS Biol 17(3): e3000202, March 27, 2019. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000202. [pubmed|pdf]
5. Jakobus van Unen, Dennis Botman, Taofei Yin, Yi I Wu, Mark A Hink, Theodorus WJ Gadella, Marten Postma, Joachim Goedhart. The C-terminus of the oncoprotein TGAT is necessary for plasma membrane association and efficient RhoA-mediated signaling. BMC Cell Biol. (2018) Jun 7;19(1):6. doi: 10.1186/s12860-018-0155-2. [pubmed|pdf]
6. Marieke Mastop, Daphne S. Bindels, Nathan C. Shaner, Marten Postma, Theodorus W. J. Gadella Jr. & Joachim Goedhart. Characterization of a spectrally diverse set of fluorescent proteins as FRET acceptors for mTurquoise2.Scientific reports (2017) [pubmed|pdf]
7. Anna O Chertkova, Marieke Mastop, Marten Postma, Nikki van Bommel, Sanne van der Niet, Kevin L Batenburg, Linda Joosen, Theodorus WJ Gadella, Yasushi Okada, Joachim Goedhart. Robust and Bright Genetically Encoded Fluorescent Markers for Highlighting Structures and Compartments in Mammalian Cells.bioRxiv (2017) [biorxiv|pdf]
8. Yuchen Long, Yvonne Stahl, Stefanie Weidtkamp-Peters, Marten Postma, Wenkun Zhou, Joachim Goedhart, María-Isabel Sánchez-Pérez, Theodorus W. J. Gadella, Rüdiger Simon, Ben Scheres & Ikram Blilou. ‘In vivo FRET–FLIM reveals cell-type-specific protein interactions in Arabidopsis roots’.Nature (2017) [pubmed|pdf]
9. Daphne S Bindels*, Lindsay Haarbosch*, Laura van Weeren, Marten Postma, Katrin E Wiese, Marieke Mastop, Sylvain Aumonier, Guillaume Gotthard, Antoine Royant, Mark A Hink & Theodorus W J Gadella Jr., mScarlet: a bright monomeric red fluorescent protein for cellular imaging. Nature Methods (2017) [pubmed|pdf]
10. Marten Postma and Peter J.M. van Haastert. Mathematics of experimentally generated chemoattractant gradients. Chemotaxis: Methods and Protocols. Series: Methods in Molecular Biology. Springer New York (2016) [ref|pdf]
11. Jakobus van Unen, Ali Rashidfarrokhi, Eelco Hoogendoorn, Marten Postma, Theodorus W.J. Gadella, Jr., and Joachim Goedhart, Quantitative single cell analysis of signaling pathways activated immediately downstream of histamine receptor subtypes. Mol Pharmacol mol. (2016) [pubmed|pdf]
12. Jakobus van Unen, Nathalie R. Reinhard, Taofei Yin, Yi I. Wu, Marten Postma, Theodorus W.J. Gadella, and Joachim Goedhart. Plasma membrane localization of the catalytic domain from p63RhoGEF is sufficient for RhoA-mediated actin polymerization. Sci Rep. (2015) [pubmed|pdf]
13. Ada A. Dattoli, Mark A. Hink, Timothy Q. DuBuc, Bram J. Teunisse, Joachim Goedhart, Eric Röttinger and Marten Postma Domain analysis of the Nematostella vectensis SNAIL ortholog reveals unique nucleolar localization that depends on the zinc-finger domains Sci Rep. (2015) [pubmed|pdf]
14. Vischer N.O.E., Verheul J, Postma M, van den Berg van Saparoea B, Galli E, Natale P, Gerdes K, Luirink J, Vollmer W, Vicente M, Den Blaauwen T. Cell age dependent concentration of Escherichia coli divisome proteins analyzed with ImageJ and ObjectJ Frontiers in Microbiology (2015) [pubmed|pdf]
15. DuBuc TQ*, Dattoli AA*, Babonis LS, Salinas-Saavedra M, Röttinger E, Martindale MQ, Postma M. In vivo imaging of Nematostella vectensis embryogenesis and late development using fluorescent probes BMC Cell Biol. (2014) [pubmed|pdf]
16. Moling S*, Pietraszewska-Bogiel A*, Postma M, Fedorova E, Hink MA, Limpens E, Gadella TW, Bisseling T. Nod factor receptors form heteromeric complexes and are essential for intracellular infection in medicago nodules. Plant Cell. (2014) [pubmed|pdf]
17. Hoogendoorn E*, Crosby KC*, Leyton-Puig D*, Breedijk RM, Jalink K, Gadella TW,Postma M. The fidelity of stochastic single-molecule super-resolution reconstructions critically depends upon robust background estimation. Sci Rep. (2014) [pubmed|pdf]
18. Ingaramo M, York AG, Hoogendoorn E, Postma M, Shroff H, Patterson GH. Richardson-lucy deconvolution as a general tool for combining images with complementary strengths. Chemphyschem. (2014) 15, 794. [pubmed|pdf]
19. Mark A. Hink and Marten Postma. Monitoring receptor oligomerization by line-scan fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy. Methods Cell Biol. 2013;117:197-212 (2013). [pubmed|pdf]
20. Brian Chu, Marten Postma, Roger C. Hardie. Fractional Ca2+ Currents through TRP and TRPL Channels in Drosophila Photoreceptors. Biophys J. May 7 (2013). [pubmed|pdf]
21. Kevin C. Crosby, Marten Postma, Mark A. Hink, Christiaan H.C. Zeelenberg, Merel J.W. Adjobo-Hermans, Theodorus W.J. Gadella. Quantitative Analysis of Self-Association and Mobility of Annexin A4 at the Plasma Membrane. Biophys J. May 7 (2013). [pubmed|pdf]
22. van der Ploeg R, Verheul J, Vischer NO, Alexeeva S, Hoogendoorn E, Postma M, Banzhaf M, Vollmer W, den Blaauwen T. Colocalization and interaction between elongasome and divisome during a preparative cell division phase in Escherichia coli. Mol Microbiol.. Mar (2013). [pubmed|pdf]
23. Zhuoyi Song, Marten Postma, Stephen Billings, Daniel Coca, Roger Hardie and Mikko Juusola. Stochastic, Adaptive Sampling of Information by Microvilli in Fly Photoreceptors. Current Biology. June 14 (2012). [pubmed|pdf]
24. C.V.T. Tamulonis; M. Postma and J.A. Kaandorp: Modeling Filamentous Cyanobacteria Reveals the Advantages of Long and Fast Trichomes for Optimizing Light Exposure, PLoS One (2011). [pubmed|pdf]
25. Carlos Tamulonis, Marten Postma, Heather Q. Marlow, Craig R. Magie, Johann de Jong and Jaap Kaandorp. A Cell-based Model of Nematostella vectensis Gastrulation including Bottle Cell formation, Invagination and Zippering. Developmental Biology. (2011). [pubmed|pdf]
26. Maxim V. Filatov, Jaap A. Kaandorp, Marten Postma, Robert van Liere, Kris J. Kruszynski, Mark J.A. Vermeij, Geert J. Streekstra and Rolf P.M.Bak. A comparison between coral colonies of the genus Madracis and simulated forms. Proc Biol Sci.. Jun 23 (2010). [pubmed|pdf]
27. Jiehong Huang, Che-Hsiung Liu, Marten Postma, Christof J. Schwiening and Roger C. Hardie.Combinatorial activation of TRP channels by phosphoinositide depletion and protons in Drosophila photoreceptors. Current Biology. Feb 20 (2010). [pubmed|pdf]
28. Fomekong-Nanfack Y*, Postma M*, Kaandorp JA. Inferring Drosophila gap gene regulatory network: pattern analysis of simulated gene expression profiles and stability analysis. BMC Res Notes. (2009) Dec 16;2(1):256. [pubmed|pdf]
29. Fomekong-Nanfack Y, Postma M, Kaandorp JA. Inferring Drosophila gap gene regulatory network: a parameter sensitivity and perturbation analysis. BMC Syst Biol. (2009) Sep 21;3:94. [pubmed|pdf]
30. Marten Postma and Peter J.M. van Haastert. Mathematics of experimentally generated chemoattractant gradients. In: Chemotaxis: Methods and Protocols. Series: Methods in Molecular Biology. The Humana Press Inc (2009) [pubmed|pdf]
31. Liu CH, Satoh AK, Postma M, Huang J, Ready DF, Hardie RC. Ca2+-dependent metarhodopsin inactivation mediated by calmodulin and NINAC myosin III. Neuron. 59(5):778-89. (2008) [pubmed|pdf]
32. Kaandorp JA, Blom JG, Verhoef J, Filatov M, Postma M, Müller WE. Modelling genetic regulation of growth and form in a branching sponge. Proc Biol Sci. 22;275(1651):2569-75. (2008) [pubmed|pdf]
33. Haastert, P. J. and Postma M., Biased random walk by stochastic fluctuations of chemoattractant-receptor interactions at the lower limit of detection. Biophys J. 93 (5):1787-96 (2007). [pubmed|pdf]
34. Liu C-H., Wang, T., Postma, M., Obukhov, A.G., Montell, C. and Hardie, R.C.. In vivo identification and manipulation of the Ca2+ selectivity filter in the Drosophila transient receptor potential channel. J Neurosci. 17;27(3):604-15 (2007). [pubmed|pdf]
35. Thomas RC, Postma M. Dynamic and static calcium gradients inside large snail (Helix aspersa) neurones detected with calcium-sensitive microelectrodes. Cell Calcium. Sep 7; (2007). [pubmed|pdf]
36. Loovers HM, Postma M, Keizer-Gunnink I, Huang YE, Devreotes PN, van Haastert PJ. Distinct roles of PI(3,4,5)P3 during chemoattractant signaling in Dictyostelium: a quantitative in vivo analysis by inhibition of PI3-kinase. Mol Biol Cell. 17 (4), 1503-13 (2006). [pubmed|pdf]
37. Pantazis A, Keegan P, Postma M, Schwiening CJ. The effect of neuronal morphology and membrane-permeant weak acid and base on the dissipation of depolarization-induced pH gradients in snail neurons. Pflugers Arch. 452 (2), 175-87 (2006). [pubmed|pdf]
38. Gu, Y., Oberwinkler, J., Postma, M. & Hardie, R. C. Mechanisms of Ca2+ dependent light adaptation in Drosophila photoreceptors. Current Biology. 15 (13), 1228-1234 (2005). [pubmed|pdf]
39. Postma, M., Bosgraaf, L., Loovers, H. M. & Van Haastert, P. J. Chemotaxis: signalling modules join hands at front and tail. EMBO Rep 5, 35-40 (2004). [pubmed|pdf]
40. Postma, M., Roelofs, J., Goedhart, J., Loovers, H. M., Visser, A. J. & Van Haastert, P. J. Sensitization of Dictyostelium chemotaxis by phosphoinositide-3-kinase-mediated self-organizing signalling patches. J Cell Sci Pt (2004). [pubmed|pdf]
41. Blaauw, M., Knol, J. C., Kortholt, A., Roelofs, J., Ruchira, Postma, M., Visser, A. J. & van Haastert, P. J. Phosducin-like proteins in Dictyostelium discoideum: implications for the phosducin family of proteins. Embo J 22, 5047-57 (2003). [pubmed|pdf]
42. Postma, M., Roelofs, J., Goedhart, J., Gadella, T. W., Visser, A. J. & Van Haastert, P. J. Uniform cAMP stimulation of Dictyostelium cells induces localized patches of signal transduction and pseudopodia. Mol Biol Cell 14, 5019-27 (2003). [pubmed|pdf]
43. Postma, M; Van Haastert. PJM A Diffusion-Translocation Model for Gradient Sensing by Chemotactic Cells. Biophys J. 77: 1811-1823 (2001). [pubmed|pdf]
44. Postma M, Oberwinkler J, and Stavenga DG. Does Ca2+ reach millimolar concentrations after single photon absorption in Drosophila photoreceptor microvilli? Biophys J. 77: 1811-1823 (1999). [pubmed|pdf]
45. J. G. E. M. Fraaije, B. A. C. van Vlimmeren, N. M. Maurits, and M. Postma, O. A. Evers and C. Hoffmann, P. Altevogt and G. Goldbeck-Wood. The dynamic mean-field density functional method and its application to the mesoscopic dynamics of quenched block copolymer melts. J. Chem. Phys. 106(10):4260-4269 (1997). [pdf]
46. Van Vlimmeren BAC, Postma M, Huetz P, Brisson A, Fraaije JG. Functional Langevin models for the mesoscopic dynamics of surfactant aggregation in solution. Phys Rev E Stat Phys Plasmas Fluids Relat Interdiscip Topics 54(5):5836-5839 (1996). [pubmed|pdf]
* Authors contributed equally to this work.

Book/monograph chapters

47. Zhuoyi Song, Daniel Coca, Stephen Billings, Marten Postma, Roger C. Hardie and Mikko Juusola. Biophysical Modeling of a Drosophila Photoreceptor. In: Neural Information Processing. Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Volume 5863/2009. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg (2009). [pdf]
48. Roger C. Hardie and Marten Postma. Phototransduction in microvillar photoreceptors of Drosophila and other invertebrates. Chapter in Handbook of the senses. (2008). [pdf]
49. Stavenga D.G., Oberwinkler J. and Postma M. Modeling Primary Visual Processes in Insect Photoreceptors. Handbook of biological Physics Series vol. 3, editor A.J. Hoff. molecular Mechanisms in Visual Transduction (2000).

Conference proceedings & abstracts

50. Daphne S. Bindels, Dorus Gadella and Marten Postma. Automated lifetime-based screening and characterization of fluorescent proteins. Lambert Instruments (2016).[ref]
51. Lindsay Haarbosch, Daphne Bindels, Marten Postma, Mark Hink, Antoine Royant, Theodorus Gadella. mScarlet, a novel high quantum yield (71%) monomeric red fluorescent protein with enhanced properties for FRET-and super resolution microscopy. European Microscopy Congress 2016: Proceedings (2016).[ref|pdf]
52. Zhuoyi Song, Marten Postma, Weiliang Chen, Daniel Coca, SA Billings, Roger C Hardie, Mikko Juusola and Erik De Schutter. Does calcium diffusional global feedback leads to slow light adaptation in Drosophila photoreceptors? - A 3D biophysical modelling approach. BMC Neuroscience 2011, 12(Suppl 1):P56. (2011).
53. Postma M, Oberwinkler J. and Stavenga D.G. Does calcium reach millimolar concentrations in microvilli of Drosophila photoreceptor cells after single photon absorptions? Meeting abstract in: Goettingen Neurobiology Report 1999, (Elsner, N., Eysel, U., eds). Thieme: Stuttgart New York. [pdf]
54. VanVlimmeren BAC, Postma M, Huetz P, Fraaije JGEM. Computer simulation of mesoscale phenomena: Pattern formation in biomimicking complex fluids. Meeting abstract in: PROG BIOPHYS MOL BIO 65: PD108-PD108 Suppl. 1, (1996). [pdf]

PhD thesis

55. Postma, M. Spatial and temporal aspects in biological signal transduction: diffusion, reaction and geometry in Drosophila phototransduction and Dictyostelium chemotaxis. PhD thesis University of Groningen (2003). [pdf]

Other Publications

As a hobby I also published about local archaeology and history. Although these publications -written in Dutch- have been checked by professionals they are not peer-reviewed with the same rigour as my scientific-publications.

Archaelogy Publications

1. Frans de Vries, Lammert Postma, Marten Postma, Marcel Niekus, Henk Paas, Hans de Kruijk & Jan Timmner. IJzer als echtheidstoets - De omstreden Vermaningartefacten: vervalsingen of niet? Hoofdstuk in A mind set on flint, Studies in honour of Dick Stapert, Edited by M.J.L.Th. Niekus, R.N.E. Barton, M. Street & Th. Terberger. Groningen Archaeological Studies Volume 16. (2012).
2. Frans de Vries, Lammert Postma & Marten Postma. Zeldzame Neandertaler-Bladspits Gevonden Nabij Steenwijk (Ov.). Archeoforum, maart 2008.
3. Frans de Vries, Marten Postma & Bernard Versloot. Een middenpaleolithische schaaf uit Hoogeveen (Dr.). Archeoforum, december 2007.
4. Frans de Vries, Marten Postma en Lammert Postma. De vuistbijl van de Molen van Bels deel 2 - nieuwe argumenten voor een middenpaleolithische datering. Archeoforum, februari 2005.
5. Frans de Vries, Evert Kramer, Lammert Postma & Marten Postma. Een unieke Neanderthalervuistbijl uit Ootmarsum (Ov.) Archeoforum, november 2004.
6. Marten Postma, Frans de Vries, Lammert Postma & Tjeerd de Jong. Een middenpaleolithische kling uit Basse (Ov.). Archeoforum, juli 2004.
7. Marten Postma en Frans de Vries. Een middenpaleolithische schaaf uit Borger (Dr.) (juni 2003).
8. Marten Postma & Frans de Vries . Verslag van de dertiende steentijddag. Archeoforum, maart 2003.
9. Marten Postma en Frans de Vries . Toch geen Lyngbybijl van Wijnjewoude (Frl.). Archeoforum, februari 2003.
10. Lammert Postma en Marten Postma. It Skiere Ferline:Veenwouden in voorhistorische tijden (Hoofdstuk 1). Verschenen in het boek Skiednis fan Feanwalden, de Wâl en Kûkherne, 2002
11. Lammert Postma, Marten Postma en Henk Holsbrink. Ontstaansgeschiedenis van Veenwouden: Eslawâld en Sint Johannuswâld tijdens de Middeleeuwen (Hoofdstuk 2). Verschenen in het boek Skiednis fan Feanwalden, de Wâl en Kûkherne, 2002.
12. Frans de Vries, Lammert Postma en Marten Postma. De vuistbijl van de Molen van Bels: paleolithisch of neolithisch? Archeoforum nr. 2, 1997.
13. Lammert Postma, Marten Postma & Frans de Vries. Een methodologische reconstructie van het Hoogersmilde-artikel van Van der Waals & Waterbolk (1973). Archeoforum nr. 2, 1997.
14. Lammert Postma en Marten Postma. Buitenpost en omgeving tijdens de prehistorie (Hoofdstuk 4). Buitenpost. Halfweg tussen us mem en het peerd van ome Loeks. Jubileumk-uitgave van de Vereniging voor Plaatselijk Belang te Buitenpost, 1995.
15. Lammert Postma en Marten Postma. Overzicht van prehistorische culturen in en rond Tytsjerkstradiel in Pieter Horjus 1887-1962. Leven en werken van een amateur-archeoloog van de twintigste eeuw. Amateur-archeologie in het oosten van de provincie Friesland, 1995.