Remembrance of Anthony Genot at FNANO 2025
The ISNSCE community was sad to hear of the sudden death of our colleague Anthony Genot in April. Anthony’s career in DNA computation began with his D.Phil. in Oxford and continued at the CNRS Laboratory for Integrated Micro-Mechatronic Systems in Tokyo where he was Directeur de Recherche. His many important contributions to the field of DNA nanoscience include strand displacement mechanisms, reversible computation, droplet microfluidics, and molecular neural networks (see a selected set of papers below). We remembered him at FNANO 2025: Andrew Turberfield, Tom Ouldridge and Erik Winfree gave their personal appreciations of Anthony and of his outstanding and influential research.
Remote toehold: a mechanism for flexible control of DNA hybridization kinetics
Anthony J. Genot, David Yu Zhang, Jonathan Bath, Andrew J. Turberfield
Journal of the American Chemical Society 133, 2177-2182 (2011)
Combinatorial displacement of DNA strands: application to matrix multiplication and weighted sums
Anthony J. Genot, Jonathan Bath, Andrew J. Turberfield
Angewandte Chemie International Edition 52 (2013)
Reversible logic circuits made of DNA
Anthony J. Genot, Jonathan Bath, Andrew J. Turberfield
Journal of the American Chemical Society 133, 20080-20083 (2011)
High-resolution mapping of bifurcations in nonlinear biochemical circuits
A. J. Genot, A. Baccouche, R. Sieskind, N. Aubert-Kato, N. Bredeche, J. F. Bartolo, V. Taly, T. Fujii & Y. Rondelez
Nature Chemistry 8, 760–767 (2016)
Massively parallel and multiparameter titration of biochemical assays with droplet microfluidics
Alexandre Baccouche, Shu Okumura, Rémi Sieskind, Elia Henry, Nathanaël Aubert-Kato, Nicolas Bredeche, Jean-François Bartolo, Valérie Taly, Yannick Rondelez, Teruo Fujii & Anthony J Genot
Nature Protocols 12, 1912-1932 (2017)
Computing with competition in biochemical networks
Anthony J. Genot, Teruo Fujii, and Yannick Rondelez
Physical review letters 109, 208102 (2012)
Scaling down DNA circuits with competitive neural networks
Anthony J. Genot, Teruo Fujii and Yannick Rondelez
Journal of The Royal Society Interface 10, 20130212 (2013)
Nonlinear decision-making with enzymatic neural networks
S. Okumura, G. Gines, N. Lobato-Dauzier, A. Baccouche, R. Deteix, T. Fujii, Y. Rondelez & A. J. Genot
Nature 610, 496-501 (2022)
