The new Contamination Club calendar is already in my nerd board, together with the usual mess. Looking forward to this 2023 XD

Presented part of the work done with Cécile M. Bidan and Agustín Mangiarotti at the #Webermeeting2023. Thanks you Leonel Malacrida and David Jameson for organizing a meeting filled with inspiring talks and great company. Looking forward to future Weber Symposiums!😊 @BM_MPICI

⚠️ Abstract deadline for #ESBiomech2023 is approaching ⏰

What a great pleasure for our group and the @BM_MPICI to receive the visit of Ilka Bischofs from Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology last week! 🤩Thanks a lot for the inspiring talk and discussions about bacterial spores and biofilms 🦠🧫

This is what you get, when you have an engineer follow a biochemistry protocol. #channellingmyinternalMacGyver

Adrien's stay is getting to an end this week: a good occasion for our group to thank him for his work and congratulate him again on his recent paper on the influence of metal ion on biofilms properties 🧫🦠 pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

📢it is OUT! Our broad review on #Curvature in #Biology is finally out! Many thanks to the 39 co-authors for contributing to this #CurvoBio project. Thanks to Adv. Mat. Advanced Sci News for taking up the challenge. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Lab work always comes with surprises. Yesterday a colleague asked me a question I have never thought I'd hear in my life: "did you leave your blood here?". And yes it was my blood. My defibrinated sheep blood I use as nutrient for bacteria. I swear I am not a vampire, yet.

HapPi day my fellow nerds! 🤓

Here a rare confocal microscope picture of an astonished #Shrek. Thanks to ZEISS Microscopy for making my day magical

A beautiful work by Cécile M. Bidan in ACS Publications. #Induced #mineralization in e. coli #biofilms: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… so glad it is finally out !

Curious about how E.coli induces mineralization in biofilms? We answered this question in the group of Cécile M. Bidan at @BM_MPICI. Check out our paper in Chemistry of Materials ACS Publications ! doi.org/10.1021/acs.ch…

The new Royal Society of Chemistry #Mechanochemistry journal is taking up speed. I am honoured and excited to serve as an editorial board member blogs.rsc.org/mr/2023/09/19/… Hope this is clear sign that we are also interested in forces in biological and bioinspired systems. Submission opening soon!

How can one use flow cytometry to quantify cell traction forces? We have the solution: Tension-activated Cell Tagging (TaCT)! Check it out: rdcu.be/dn8GM #salaitalabnews Emory Chemistry Congratulations Rong salaitalab and colleagues !

Happy Pi-day, my fellow nerds! Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces

Doing research in #biomaterials #materialsscience #biochemistry #biotechnology? There is one more reason for you to visit Berlin.

Are you curious about principles of Biomineralization? Then join Daniel Stein and me at the 2024 #GRS on #Biomineralization on August 3rd and 4th in New Hampshire (USA)! You have until 28th April to submit your abstract for oral presentation (July 7th for poster presentation).

If you are an early career scientist, don't miss the associated #GRS on #Biomineralization chaired by Daniel Stein and me. The program includes a fascinating keynote on #magnetotactic bacteria by Prof. Arash Komeili and a mind-opening mentoring session on #disruptive science.

Encompassing #MPQC's aim to train the next generation of scientists and lead interdisciplinary ECM research, we are proud to announce our new MPQC Pedagogic Platform! Our first series, 'Interdependence of Structure and Mechanical Function in Biological Materials' by MPQC