📝 How does fluid flow reshape cyanobacterial blooms?

Experiemnts + Theory + Field work, led by Yuri Sinzato to show when colonies break or stick, and why that matters for bloom dynamics.

eLife: elifesciences.org/articles/103...
Digest: elifesciences.org/digests/1035...

#Cyanobacteria #Ecology

Thanks Ricard! Hope all is going well and to see you soon!

So much light and life in one photo :)

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!!

Optimal disk packing of chloroplasts in plant cells | PNAS Photosynthesis is essential for ecosystem survival, but while plants require light, excessive exposure can damage cells. Chloroplasts, photosynthet...

Hot out of press!!!

Studying chloroplast organisation from the perspective of packing problems in confinement.
chloroplasts show multiple configurations for different purposes (optimal light uptake in dim light vs. light avoidance in strong light for photo protection)🌿

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

💥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! 🧵

Glandular trichome rupture in tomato plants is an ultra-fast and sensitive defense mechanism against insects Glandular trichomes function as ultra-fast biomechanical defense triggers in tomatoes, rupturing upon contact with insects and exposing them to sticky and

The JXB Tomato special edition is out, featuring the first publication of my PhD! We found that glandular trichome head rupture in tomato is an ultra-sensitive defense against insect predation. 🧵on plant biomechanics, fluid dynamics, and plant-insect interactions! 🧪

academic.oup.com/jxb/article/...

a picture of centre for mathematical sciences in cambridge.

Happy to be joining the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk as an associate professor. I’ll continue my work at the Institute of Physics in Amsterdam and am much looking forward to new collaborations and scientific exchange!

Hello! May I be added plz ? Thanks!

Me porfavor 🙏🏽

Hi Steve! May I be added also please? :)