Kevin Heinrich KAUB
Research Fellow, Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore
kevin.kaub@nus.edu.sg
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National University of Singapore
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Kevin Heinrich Kaub
Research Fellow
Principal Investigator
Research Areas
Reconstituted Cytoskeletal Networks and Actin Variants
Qualifications
- PhD in Biophysics (passed, pending certification) – Göttingen University, Max Planck School Matter to Life
- MSc in Physics – Saarland University
Biography
Kevin Kaub completed his Bachelor’s degree and Master’s degree in Physics at the Saarland University in Germany in the lab of Prof. Franziska Lautenschläger (2013-2020). There, he researched the polymerization dynamics of cortical actin in mammalian cells. He also completed another Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics in the lab of Prof. Thomas Schuster, where he studied the application of Inverse Problems on cell migration. Kevin then pursued his PhD in Biophysics at Göttingen University in Germany in the lab of Prof. Dr. Andreas Janshoff at the Max Planck School Matter to Life (2020-2024). There, he uncovered how slight variations of the amino acid sequence of actin isoforms and post-translationally modified variants can affect the rheological properties of reconstituted actin networks. In 2025, he joined Dr. Alphée Michelot at the Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, as a Research Fellow. He is currently investigating how actin variants segregate in living systems and how this process can be replicated in reconstituted systems.
Technical Skills
Microrheology, Confocal Microscopy, Polymer Physics
Selected Publications
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Nietmann, P.*, Kaub, K.*, Suchenko, A., Stenz, S., Warnecke, C., Balasubramanian, M. K., Janshoff, A. (2023). Cytosolic actin isoforms form networks with different rheological properties that indicate specific biological function. Nature Communications, 14 (1), 7989. *Shared first-authorship
- Flormann, D. A. D., Kainka, L., Montalvo, G., Anton, C., Rheinlaender, J., Thalla, D., Vesperini, D., Pohland, M. O., Kaub, K., Schu, M., Pezzano, F., Ruprecht, V., Terriac, E., Hawkins, R. J., Lautenschläger, F. (2024). The structure and mechanics of the cell cortex depend on the location and adhesion state. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(31), e2320372121.
- Flormann, D.A.D., Anton, C., Pohland, M.O., Bautz, Y., Kaub, K., Terriac, E., Schäffer, T.E., Rheinlaender, J., Janshoff, A., Ott, A., Lautenschläger, F. (2021). Oscillatory microrheology, creep compliance and stress relaxation of biological cells reveal strong correlations as probed by atomic force microscopy. Frontiers in Physics, 9, 711860.
Other Professional Involvements
Kevin is a part-time consultant at the startup Aster Bioelectronics in Munich, Germany, where he shares his experience into hydrogels and DNA origami for bioelectronic and human-machine interface applications.
