Nico Schramma

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!!

Of course!!! :)

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!!
🩵👗

Thank you so much! 😁😊

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

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

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 🦑🧪🌊

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

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! 🙏

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...

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.

CBIAS napari workshop 2025

📢 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

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.

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

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.

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

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...

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

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!

Nice congrats Claire 😊

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.

Our study on endothelial mechanics made the news! 🤩

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

Thank you so much!!! 😊

😂 this is amazing!

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

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

Science on the catwalk: Iris van Herpen gives gowns a glow up Microorganisms, materials and movement inspire high-fashion dress designs.

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...

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...

It's absolutely crazy how well this bio hybrid material worked. Two years ago I helped modeling the mechanochemical response of the material which embeds single celled algae in a gel matrix developed in the lab of Shengqiang Cai at UCSD and refined by Chris Bellamy.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Physics meets fashion: a bioluminescent dress A very special look was presented earlier this week by fashion designer Iris van Herpen at the Paris Haute Couture Week. The garment: a bioluminescent dress, created from 125 million living algae. Bio...

In the last couple of months I helped biodesigner Chris Bellamy in a collaboration with fashion designer Iris van Herpen to make a bioluminescent dress for Paris Haute Couture week.

And the outcome was absolutely stunning!!!!

www.uva.nl/en/shared-co...

1/27 We have a new paper out! Turns out that snowflake yeast have been hiding a secret from us - they've evolved a (very!) crude circulatory system. Not with blood vessels or a heart, but through spontaneous fluid flows powered by their metabolism. 🧪🔬

www.science.org/doi/full/10....

PSA: around 5-8% of the population has a color vision impairment for red/green.

Many talks at #2025ICDB still use red-green LUTs on slides that are not accessible to everyone.

Changing to more accessible colors is doable and easy.

We can do better.
#devbio
#ICDB2025 #WeTheColorBlind

Wow! Congrats Claire :) and congrats to everyone else involved :)