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PostDoc: Jaap van Buul medicalbiochemistry.nl (AMC) Physics PhD Fluidlab.nl (UniAmsterdam) Endothelial Cells - Chloroplast motion - Biofluids - Bioluminescence - Active Matter - Living Glasses 🧫 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9TZXohoAAAAJ&hl=d

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Nico Schramma @nicoschramma.bsky.social · Nov 19

💥Beyond happy 💥 Our work is now published in PNAS!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

With Gloria Canales & @mazi1.bsky.social we studied how the single celled alga Pyrocystis lunula 🌙 move their chloroplast in response to strong light.

Get ready for some fun mechanics, signals and organelle motion! 🧵

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Nico Schramma @nicoschramma.bsky.social · 1d

Just won the best poster award for our new work on Chloroplast Packing at the Dutch Biophysics meeting (NWO, BioPM). It was a great collab with Eric Weeks and @mazi1.bsky.social
The Paper is also accepted now, so double good news :)
Stay tuned!!

Nico Schramma @nicoschramma.bsky.social · 9d

Of course!!! :)

Nico Schramma @nicoschramma.bsky.social · 9d

The Bioluminescent garment is now in Kunsthal Rotterdam in the big Iris van Herpen exhibition
< SCULPTING THE SENSES >
www.kunsthal.nl/nl/plan-je-b...

Extremely happy to have been there at the premiere and opening!
I recommend everyone interested in science or fashion design to visit!!
🩵👗

Nico Schramma @nicoschramma.bsky.social · 20d

Thank you so much! 😁😊

Nico Schramma @nicoschramma.bsky.social · 21d

Beyond happy!
Yesterday I obtained my 🔥PhD🔥 cum laude🔥(highest award) with my work "On Light and Life - Physics of Chloroplast Motion and Bioluminescence"🌿✨

Thanks to so so so many people involved in the work and that have been a huge support to me during this time - especially @mazi1.bsky.social

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Karen Alim @karenalim.bsky.social · Aug 31

Join my team for a PhD in Learning in living adaptive networks (Theory). Apply by October 7th through www.portal.graduatecenter.lmu.de/ocgc/qmb

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Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · Aug 28

Our science photo book The Radiant Sea is out Sept 2nd!!
30 years of research, 10 years of "we should", and a year of collating pix and writing.
Sönke and I show (mostly for the first time) images of how organisms produce, use, and interact with light in the sea. #bioluminescence #fluorescence 🦑🧪🌊

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Nico Schramma @nicoschramma.bsky.social · Aug 22

Upcoming Symposium!

Physics of Adaptation and Decision making in Biology!

When: September 16
Where: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Join us here: www.fluidlab.nl/padm25

Speakers:
Ray Goldstein, Sujit Datta, @thomasshimizu.bsky.social, @mirnakramar.bsky.social, @blarson.bsky.social, me

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Talley Lambert @talley.codes · Jul 5

it was already fun to look around the documentation for cmap (cmap-docs.readthedocs.io)

but @grosoane.bsky.social just added a very cool feature to toggle between color vision deficiencies. Watch your perceptually uniform color maps gain some kinks 😂

as a mild deutan myself, I appreciate it! 🙏

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Lucien Hinderling @lhinderling.bsky.social · Aug 21

Automated optogenetic control of hundreds of cells in parallel. Each cell is individually steered, collectively acting as a "tissue printer". Preprint & code out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Andy Moore @aaandmoore.bsky.social · Aug 18

This is an airyscan confocal movie of mitochondria (white) moving around in a mouse astrocyte. Actin filaments are in orange and microtubules are in blue.

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Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium @cbias.bsky.social · Aug 11

📢 After #CBIAS2025, join our hands-on 2-day napari training by @crick.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk @liverpooluni.bsky.social
From conda to plugins to Jupyter, practicals on real data with expert guidance.
For Python/ImageJ coders. Apply by 1 Sept – limited to 30! crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cbias-napari-workshop-2025

CBIAS napari workshop 2025

crick.ac.uk

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Julia Eckert @juliaeckert.bsky.social · Aug 15

Now published in @natcomms.nature.com! 🥳

👉 rdcu.be/eATn3

We developed image analysis tools to capture the nematic orientation field of 3D tissue surfaces. Tested on epithelial aggregates, zebrafish hearts, myoblasts on spheres & micro-vessels, we combined soft matter physics with exp. biology.

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Nico Schramma @nicoschramma.bsky.social · Jul 25

Ow this is exactly the hashtag I should have used :))

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Nico Schramma @nicoschramma.bsky.social · Jul 24

Exactly! That's the idea: the dress however is already a month old and the cells do not glow as much anymore, unfortunately. We try to keep it as comfy for the algse as possible and the gel is mostly salt water.
But still if you move it or deform it enough then the cells will respond and emit light.

Nico Schramma @nicoschramma.bsky.social · Jul 24

Yay! My first short TV interview (in Dutch)...

Featuring our work on bioluminescence in dinoflagellates and our collaboration with fashion designer Iris van Herpen and Biodesigner Chris Bellamy for Paris Haute Couture week!

youtube.com/shorts/Wg2tI...

Iris van Herpen ontwierp een lichtgevende jurk van miljoenen levende algen | RTL Nieuws

YouTube video by RTL Nieuws

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Rakyan Lab @rakyanlab.bsky.social · Jul 17

Paper in Nature 150 years ago. Beats reading any single-cell experiment…

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Sebastián Palacios Martínez @spalaciosm.bsky.social · Jun 28

A very late #FluorescenceFriday.

Reposting one of my favorite timelapses from the past year: EB3-mScarlet3 in a HeLa cell, look at those microtubules grow!

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Nico Schramma @nicoschramma.bsky.social · Jul 17

Nice congrats Claire 😊

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Claire Dessalles @clairedessalles.bsky.social · Jul 17

Our study on endothelial mechanics made the news! 🤩

Super nice and clear article on our findings and their implications.
www.snexplores.org/article/how-...

Here’s why your blood vessels don’t burst under pressure

Cells lining the blood vessels reorganize their inner structures to handle stressful boosts in pressure.

www.snexplores.org

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Nico Schramma @nicoschramma.bsky.social · Jul 14

Thank you so much!!! 😊

Nico Schramma @nicoschramma.bsky.social · Jul 14

😂 this is amazing!

Nico Schramma @nicoschramma.bsky.social · Jul 13

And also Chris Bellamy's work is absolutely worth checking out - the Biodesigner works with a multitude of different materials and topics and especially refined the use of bioluminescent algae in his recent projects.

biocrafted.com

Bio Crafted

Bio Crafted - the design portfolio of Christopher Bellamy - a biodesigner and engineer based in London and France.

biocrafted.com

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Nico Schramma @nicoschramma.bsky.social · Jul 13

I must say the fashion from Iris van Herpen is absolutely stunning and one should definitely check out her work. Especially as it's so much driven from a deep inspiration by nature.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Science on the catwalk: Iris van Herpen gives gowns a glow up

Microorganisms, materials and movement inspire high-fashion dress designs.

www.nature.com

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Nico Schramma @nicoschramma.bsky.social · Jul 13

It's even more crazy to find some of your research data being displayed in VOGUE magazine!
Which scientist doesn't hope to appear once there?! 😁☺️

www.vogue.com/article/iris...

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