I had a lot of fun in at #CellMech2025 in the surprisingly beautiful town of leuven.

Until next time :)

Submitting a paper right before the summer holiday

My first first-author preprint (from my Master’s thesis!) done under the amazing guidance of Claire Valotteau & @felixrico.bsky.social at @dynamo-lab.bsky.social.
Big thanks to Lorenzo, Christian, Oussama and Mauro for their support along the way.

#SMFS #unbinding #AFS #near_to_equlibrium

In our latest preprint, we explored what happens when you gently pull this bond—featuring, 2 new in-situ force calibration strategies, patience and possibly the slowest force ramp in SMFS history.

The curious case of streptavidin–biotin: a non-covalent bond.
Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy: “SA-b bond breaks in 1s at equilibrium”
SA-b at equilibrium: “Not really, More like 1-10 Days.”
(Answer: nobody—we were just pulling way too fast (far from equilibrium))
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Can't believe this was just a week back :(
Probably the only conference in which I wasn't scientifically fatigued even after a whopping 100 talks or nervous to present my own talk.
#throwbackthursday
#TCTeAC

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It was an absolute blast to share my PhD results with the coolest AFM people in an amazing venue as part of #AFMBIOMED25.
I would thank the organizers, and my incredible team @dynamo-lab.bsky.social .

Yogesh Saravanan presents part of his PhD work on viscoelasticity of isolated and clusters of circulating tumour cells #afmbiomed @dynamo-lab.bsky.social

The first session of our #CENTURIDAY chaired by @biancah0406.bsky.social is ending now with the talk of Alexandre Ortega, in @cirm-math.bsky.social