What do Zn, hydroxyapatite and bacteria have in common? They can all be found in E. coli biofilm! 🧫🦠
Check out my latest paper in the group of @cmbidan.bsky.social at @mpici.bsky.social in collaboration with Ioanna Mantouvalou and Leona Bauer at @tuberlin.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New opportunity via #EuroCurvoBioNet!
Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSMs) are open!
💶 Up to €4,000 in travel funding
🧳 For PhDs, postdocs & researchers
🌱 > 5 days
🌍 Visit another lab in a COST country
📅 Deadline: March 31, 2026
🔗 Must be completed by April 30, 2026
www.curvobio.com/stsm
🎉 Happy NY #CurvoBio friends! We’re back w/ fresh curvature & a brand new webinar!
Nan Ma (Freie Universität Berlin 🇩🇪)
📅 Wed, 7 Jan 2026, 13:30 CET (o/ Teams)
“Blastocyst Curvature Resets Pluripotency”
Stick around for details on our new "Curvature in Biology" course and how you can help shape it!
Our network isn't just about sharing knowledge and building scientific bridges. It's also about supporting each other’s careers and collaborations. That’s why we’re excited to reshare this great opportunity from one of our own! 🚨 A new position is open in the group of @javierbuceta.bsky.social
🚨JOB ALERT
Dr. Buceta at @i2sysbio.es welcome applications for 36-month postdocs on:
👉 Mechanical markers of tissue dysfunction due to ageing – digital twins & machine learning
Details here: fgcsic.es/convocatoria...
📩 Contact javier.buceta@csic.es to shape your proposal!
@epimechfc.bsky.social
Shorter days? Perfect excuse for a #museum visit.
Meet #mucus —winter’s nemesis & a versatile natural material.
📍 Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum
📅 until Sep 2026
Explore 3D #biofilm & snail-mucus models and find out how scientists turn them into #biomaterials.
bmm-charite.de/ausstellunge...
🚨 New Episode of the CurvoBio podcast!!
Find out how butterflies got a vibrant green in their wings using gyroids!!
@eurocurvobionet.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/27Xh...
☕ Feeling the November chill? Warm up with some cutting-edge science, straight from Australia to your screen!
🎙️ Pascal Buenzli (Queensland University of Technology 🇦🇺)
🗓️ Wed, 5 Nov 2025
🕧 12:30 CET
📍 Live on Microsoft Teams, no passport needed.
This marks another step in taking EuroCurvoBio global 🌏
If you know me, I have probably told you how E.coli 🦠 can accumulate hydroxyapatite.
In this preprint, I show that Zinc is colocalized with the mineral accumulation www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
Thanks to @cmbidan.bsky.social and all the other co-authors and to @mpici.bsky.social
1/3 🎉 Season 3 of EuroCurvoBioNet Webinars is officially underway! We’ve moved to Microsoft Teams – but kept the winning formula:
🗓️ First Wednesday of the month
🕜 13:30 CET (except 5 Nov at 12:30CET)
🎥 Recordings = members-only (unlisted)
📌 3 Sept – Tiago Pires 🇵🇹 (Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon)
The #CurvoBio Outreach workshop was great fun! Can't wait to implement the ideas at the next science fair 🤩
New episodes at the CurvoBio podcast! 🔊🤓👩🔬
@eurocurvobionet.bsky.social
@cmbidan.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/show/7rwWsQD...
Really happy to see this work finally published! An achievement that results from a real group effort over the past 7 years. Many thanks and congratulations to all the people involved 🥳
It was great fun and very much inspiring for the future EuroCurvoBioNet events across Europe. 🤗
Dem Schneckenschleim auf der Spur 🐌
Franziska Jehle war live bei Radio 1 und sprach über ihre Forschung.
Bunt gefärbte Proben vom Schechenschleim unter dem Mikroskop waren eines der Mitmach-Experimente beim #PTDW25.
tinyurl.com/ssy7mpth
🎙️ The EUROCURVOBIO PODCAST is here!
Now on Spotify — where physics, math & biology meet through the lens of curvature. From cell behavior to tissue shape, we break down frontier science in simple terms.
🎧 Listen now: rb.gy/ukjbkn
curated by @javierbuceta.bsky.social
#CurvoBio #Podcast #Curvature
💡Got inspired by our webinar today?
Now’s your chance to turn that spark into a scientific journey
The Call for Short-Term Scientific Missions is OPEN!
🧳 Visit a lab in another COST country
💶 Expenses< €2k travel & stay
📅 Sept 30 — or before the € runs out!
📝 www.curvobio.com/stsm
👋 Hello Bluesky! This is our first post 🌐
We’re launching our presence here with
EuroCurvoBioNet Monthly Webinars:
🧪 Anupam Sengupta (University of Luxembourg)
🗓️ 7 May 2025 – 13:30 CET – Zoom
Curvo-hydrodynamics: Flow-curvature interactions and feedback in biological fluids
Perfectly at the intersection of fluid dynamics and curvature in biology — join us to explore how geometry shapes flow and function in living systems!
🔗 Full schedule: curvobio.com/webinars#Cur... #Biophysics #Curvature #Webinar #ScientificCommunity #BlueskyScience
E.coli strain and fluorescent stains. ©Laura Zorzetto, Cécile Bidan
#Bakterien bilden Schleimfilme als Schutz & passen ihre Struktur an, um auf jeder Oberfläche zu überleben.
Wie verhalten sie sich auf unebenen, kurvigen Flächen? Erforsche es mit uns–& lass dich zu neuen #Materialien inspirieren
📅 10. Mai
📍 @potsdamsciencepark.bsky.social
👉 www.ptdw.de
#chemsky
Wie können wir von der Natur – Insekten, Bakterien, Pflanzen – lernen, farbstofffreie Farben herzustellen?
Und wie können Schnecken, Baumrinde oder Wachteleier uns zu nachhaltigen Materialien inspirieren?
Experimentiere mit uns am #PotsdamerTagderWissenschaften & finde die Antworten! #PTDW25
We are hiring, please RT! #Postdoc in the @ERC_Research project #DORMATRIX, developing #advanced #3Dimaging of #cancer dormancy & #metastasis. Bioengineers, biophysicists, biologists, computer scientists or similar. @biogipuzkoa @Ikerbasque. More info👉 bit.ly/4gXLP96
Meet @laurazorzetto.bsky.social, a #biomaterials #WomanInStem in @cmbidan.bsky.social's group.
She learns from #bacterial #mineralization how to craft functional materials... even if they are sticky & stinky!
Here you can see the intricate structures that the #bacterium #E.coli can grow
#ChemSky
How can we learn from microbial #biofilms to engineer functional #biomaterials?
@cmbidan.bsky.social cstudies how #biofilms form as #bacteria get embedded in their fibrous #ExtracellularMatrix ( #proteins & #polysaccharides) under different physical challenges
#chemsky
tinyurl.com/4j4vtu46
scanning electron microscope picture of an E.coli biofilm
Snug as a bug in a E.Coli #biofilm (as seen in this scanning electron microscope pic)
Laura Zorzetto & colleagues studied microbial #tissue growth & #mineralization on solid substrates in humid environments
#ChemSky #InVitroModel #WomenInStem
➡️ Read more:
tinyurl.com/fexr8zr8
🌟 Excited to share our latest research on #Bacterial #Cellulose: Enhancing Productivity and Material Properties Through Repeated Harvest! 🧫
📄 full preprint on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
#BacterialCellulose #biofilm #MaterialScience #Bioengineering #Research #Innovation
Relocating is part of academics life so ... hello Bluesky! 🦋