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Ingo Nettersheim @ingonettersheim.bsky.social · Jul 11

🌳 Check out these two happy faces! Kimon and Elijah finished their bachelor's theses last week! 🌿

It was a lot of fun to guide them in the process and to have them working on my project. All the best with the next step, guys! 🪴

#PhDlife #plantscience #engineeredlivingmaterials

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Ingo Nettersheim @ingonettersheim.bsky.social · Jul 4

🌞Went out with @alexluijten.bsky.social to get some biomimicry inspiration from the famous Strandbeesten by Theo Jansen.

Apparently the 'Strandbeesten mortuary' is right across the river from the @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social! 🤖🪁

#biodesign #robotics #PhDlife #TUDelft

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Ingo Nettersheim @ingonettersheim.bsky.social · Jun 17

🌳 A big shout-out to @bertderybel.bsky.social and the team at @psb-vib.bsky.social for organising the Vasculature Development Meeting, a satellite of #ICAR2025 in Ghent! 🌳

Added benefit of conferences in Belgium is that they have your favourite beer on stock... 🍺🌿

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Julian Verdonk @julianverdonk.bsky.social · May 27

Planning Arabidopsis genetics in the postharvest group! Horticulture and Product physiology @wurplant.bsky.social #plantscience

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Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · May 26

SML'ers won the Lustrum Photo Challenge for the Aerospace Faculty's 85th Anniversary! We 3D printed fungi for this super fun challenge. Here's some behind the scenes action as well. 📸🍾🎉🍄

@kmasania.bsky.social #AerospaceEngineering

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Neil Shubin @neilshubin.bsky.social · May 21

New paper from the lab: Our teeth arose as sensory organs on the outside of the body of ancient jawless fish.!! Congrats to Yara Haridy and the team!
Background and video: phys.org/news/2025-05...
Open Access Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
News and Views: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Teeth first evolved as sensory tissue in the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish, fossil scans find

Anyone who has ever squirmed through a dental cleaning can tell you how sensitive teeth can be. This sensitivity gives important feedback about temperature, pressure—and yes, pain—as we bite and chew ...

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Ingo Nettersheim @ingonettersheim.bsky.social · Apr 30

🔬Always nice to help out a fellow scientist... I suspect that the tensile testing of some of Gonçalo's homemade TPU filament with Kimon will not end up in a figure...

#3Dprinting #PhDlife #AdditiveManufacturing

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Ingo Nettersheim @ingonettersheim.bsky.social · Apr 22

I'm really happy my officemate @alexluijten.bsky.social will be around for some years to come at the @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social! 🚀

Please don't fill the office to the brim with lattice cells, Alex... 🤖

Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · Apr 22

Last week, @alexluijten.bsky.social passed his go/no-go moment of his PhD! 🏆 This means we can expect more cool work in discrete lattice fabrication and more cool videos of robots doing stuff! 🤖

@kmasania.bsky.social #robotics #science #PhDlife #additivemanufacturing ~IN

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Ingo Nettersheim @ingonettersheim.bsky.social · Apr 15

Had a great time with Jasper last week running the Building Blocks of Life workshop for #TUDelft Girls' Day 💥

The high school girls got to isolate their own DNA and even took it home in a little test tube. Hopefully, we sparked some curiosity for a future in #STEM 💡🧬

@shapingmatterlab.bsky.social

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Ingo Nettersheim @ingonettersheim.bsky.social · Apr 14

It was fun to pitch my work on 3D printing of lab-grown wood at the EPS Annual Meeting!

The people from @epsgraduateschool.bsky.social are an amazing brainy bunch with a lot of great input and ideas. 🌱

Thanks for the support @julianverdonk.bsky.social @kmasania.bsky.social! #plantscience

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Julian Verdonk @julianverdonk.bsky.social · Apr 7

Very proud that our work has been published in Plant Physiology and Biochemistry. The paper is part of Jordan van Brenks thesis, who will defend his PhD very soon 🤩 #cae #verticalfarming #plantscience
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Blue Light Sonata: Dynamic variation of red:blue ratio during the photoperiod differentially affects leaf photosynthesis, pigments, and growth in lettuce

Vertical farming (VF) has unparalleled capacity to highly customize plant growth environments. In VF, red and blue LED lights are predominantly used a…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Ingo Nettersheim @ingonettersheim.bsky.social · Apr 3

Check out this super cool paper from Caroline! #AdditiveManufacturing #BioInspired #PlantScience

Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · Apr 3

🌳How do trees ensure their branches are not blown off by the wind, and can we harness this for 3D-printed structures?

Caroline's paper explores how wavy fibre patterns inspired by trees can toughen 3D-printed materials.🪴

Check it out! #3DPrinting #Bioinspired #MaterialsScience #PlantScience ~IN

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Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · Apr 1

Sourav, Silvan, and Jimmy had a great time trying out our new Shaper Origin hand-held CNC mill.

Of course, we divided the work like true #academics!

#CNC #milling #woodworking #PhDlife ~IN

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Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · Mar 25

Just another day at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at TU Delft...

We're sad to see our garden piece go, but the @koninklijkemarine.bsky.social apparently want their Westland Lynx back. #aerospace #tudelft ~IN

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Ingo Nettersheim @ingonettersheim.bsky.social · Mar 17

Super proud of Cid, my high school buddy, who defended his PhD thesis on 'The Pre-Roman Elements of The Sardinian Language'.

You can spot me looking very sly in the background, playing paranymph, as Dutch tradition requires.

#phddefence #paranymph #linguistics @unileiden.bsky.social

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Ingo Nettersheim @ingonettersheim.bsky.social · Mar 14

Thanks for saving the tree in front of my office window, guys!

It did get me wondering whether we could have made living rope-tree #composites. Time to write a grant @kmasania.bsky.social...?

#plantscience #engineeredlivingmaterials

Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · Mar 14

🌳Mu and Alex saved the tree outside our office window from slow strangulation, just in time for the spring! 🌴

Great job guys, saving this #engineeredlivingmaterial!

@m-amani.bsky.social @alexluijten.bsky.social @tudelft.bsky.social #plantscience #ELMs

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Ingo Nettersheim @ingonettersheim.bsky.social · Mar 12

I love the smell of miniprep in the morning... #microbiology #dna #plasmidisolation #plantscience @w-u-r.bsky.social @julianverdonk.bsky.social

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Kunal Masania @kmasania.bsky.social · Feb 7

We have two new vacancies to join our research team at TU Delft! @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social

1. postdoc on 🐝 insect inspired 3D printing! lnkd.in/eDigGhRY
2. phd/postdoc to develop a new sustainable bio-inspired material based on 🦠 bacteria & 🧬 protein.
lnkd.in/enK8-UKj
lnkd.in/eS3USYxX

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Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · Feb 4

LICHEN-BLADES consortia members have transformed wind turbine blade sections into a bike pump track! 🚴‍♂️😮It was on display at the IDE faculty square last few weeks.
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@DenizSayinbas, also a project member, had a great day at work thanks to it. 🍃

@kmasania.bsky.social #windenergy #circulareconomy

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Ingo Nettersheim @ingonettersheim.bsky.social · Jan 28

I think the lab ghosts are definitely haunting me, but what is the condensation owl trying to tell me...?

Maybe it is time for a vacation...

@shapingmatterlab.bsky.social #plantscience #microbiology #labwork #agarplates

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Ingo Nettersheim @ingonettersheim.bsky.social · Jan 24

It was great to show you the way around the lab Napat, I hope you have a safe trip home! 🚀 @kmasania.bsky.social @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social

Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · Jan 24

✈️Safe trip home Napat! 🚀Napat visited our group for the past six months to 3D print emulsions all the way from Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.

It was great having you around! We figure you will not miss the Dutch winter weather... ⛈️ #3dprinting #emulsions

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Ingo Nettersheim @ingonettersheim.bsky.social · Jan 24

🥳 A big congrats to Caroline; I think her work on 3D printing with liquid crystal polymers is super inspiring; make sure to check it out! 👩‍🎨🚀

I will miss her around the lab, but I'm sure we can expect a lot more cool work from her!

#3Dprinting @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social @kmasania.bsky.social

Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · Jan 17

November 11,2024 was a day of celebration 🎉 for SML as it's first ever PhD candidate defended her thesis with a cum laude and is now officially Dr. Caroline Houriet🥂.Read her thesis on 'Shaping Anisotropy of Liquid Crystal Polymers' here: resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d59312f...

@kmasania.bsky.social

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Kunal Masania @kmasania.bsky.social · Jan 6

Thanks to @ec.europa.eu Horizon magazine for this cool article about our work! projects.research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/en/horizon-m... @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social

From brain maps to living bridges: the innovations set to reshape life in 2025

Whoever thinks research is not exciting might be in for a surprise. In 2025, we could witness genetic decoding of the human brain, collect solar energy in space, and walk across a bridge built of elec...

projects.research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu

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Ingo Nettersheim @ingonettersheim.bsky.social · Dec 19

Written together with @kmasania.bsky.social and @julianverdonk.bsky.social!

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Ingo Nettersheim @ingonettersheim.bsky.social · Dec 19

🎄If you're looking for reading material for the Christmas break, check out my review paper on how living organisms can be used to make #composite materials! 🪴🧬

I promise you will see your Christmas tree differently after reading!🎄

#additivemanufacturing #plantscience #ELM

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