🧬I was happy to visit my buddy and bandmate, Joep, and take a look at his HeLa cells when visiting the @erasmusmc.bsky.social for a poster session! 🧫

#PhDLife #molecularbiology #tissueculture #TUDelft

🧬I attempted RNA isolation on some grass from outside the faculty and obtained two perfect 18S and 28S rRNA bands...

So, my 10 failed attempts on my own sample were due to improper lysis, after all... I'm happy to figure out it wasn't my dirty RNase-hands...😅

#PhDlife #molecularbiology #TUDelft

🍁🍂🍁 Autumn has arrived at @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social #TUDelft #AerospaceEngineering 🍄🍄‍🟫🍄

🌳 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

🌞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

🌳 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... 🍺🌿

🔬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

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

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

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

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

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

🎄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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🚀Super proud of Wouter, the first master's student I had the pleasure to guide through his master's thesis! He did a really cool thesis on 3D printing of bioinspired, bacteria-embedded ceramic composites. #engineeredlivingmaterials #3Dprinting @kmasania.bsky.social @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social

🎁🎄We had a wonderful Secret 'Saint Nicolas' (the Dutch Santa who comes in the beginning of December) at the @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social. I still haven't figured out which colleague gave me a pair of great books...

With @m-amani.bsky.social in the foreground taking the picture.

🪴A couple of months ago, we received an NWO-XS grant to explore the 3D printing of lab-grown wood. Stuff is cooking in the lab... stay tuned! 🔬🚀 Find out more: t.co/tfvPI0Yqsq @julianverdonk.bsky.social @kmasania.bsky.social @tudelft.bsky.social @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social

🤓🧬I had a fun time explaining the concept of Golden Gate cloning to non-biologists. They had tape and scissors at their disposal instead of restriction enzymes and DNA ligase... Much more fun than pipetting clear liquids; however, you need to find the recognition site yourself! #molecularbiology