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Materials scientist staring at cells while they grow tissue and at bacteria while they grow slime
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Cécile M. Bidan
Euro Curvo Bio Net COST Network
4 days ago
🎉 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!
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Cécile M. Bidan
Euro Curvo Bio Net COST Network
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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
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3 months ago
🚨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
[email protected]
to shape your proposal!
@epimechfc.bsky.social
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ComFuturo Fourth Edition: ComFuturo iAGE Call - FGCSIC
The Fundación General CSIC (FGCSIC) launches the fourth edition of its ComFuturo programme: ComFuturo iAGE, a postdoctoral initiative co-financed by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions COFUND scheme of...
https://fgcsic.es/convocatoria-evento/comfuturo-iage-iv-edicion-comfuturo/
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Cécile M. Bidan
Max Planck Institute of Colloids & Interfaces (MPICI)
about 2 months ago
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...
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Ausstellung Schleim - Geheimnisse einer unterschätzten Körperflüssigkeit
Ohne Schleim könnten wir nicht Überleben. Er ist essenziell für viele Körperfunktionen. Dennoch hat er ein schlechtes Image. Das BMM widmet dieser unterschätzten Körperflüssigkeit nun eine eigene Auss...
https://bmm-charite.de/ausstellungen/schleim
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2 months ago
🚨 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...
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The Butterfly's Secret Weave: Unraveling the True Blueprint for Natural Color
https://open.spotify.com/episode/27XhJaSENhxSRBmdD0b8GG?si=c947e4290db248e1
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Cécile M. Bidan
Euro Curvo Bio Net COST Network
2 months ago
☕ 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 🌏
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Laura Zorzetto
2 months ago
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
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Accumulation of zinc during E. coli biofilm mineralization: within or surrounding the hydroxyapatite?
Biofilms are biological materials that form as bacteria secrete extracellular matrix to protect themselves from environmental challenges. Specific conditions lead to biofilm mineralization, like in de...
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7658792/v1
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Cécile M. Bidan
Euro Curvo Bio Net COST Network
4 months ago
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)
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The
#CurvoBio
Outreach workshop was great fun! Can't wait to implement the ideas at the next science fair 🤩
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6 months ago
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6 months ago
New episodes at the CurvoBio podcast! 🔊🤓👩🔬
@eurocurvobionet.bsky.social
@cmbidan.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/show/7rwWsQD...
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CurvoBio
Podcast · EU COST Action CA22153 (EuroCurvoBioNet); Podcast Developer: Javier Buceta · CurvoBio Podcast is the outreach voice of the European Curvature and Biology Network (EuroCurvoBioNet), a EU COST...
https://open.spotify.com/show/7rwWsQDYeJjmfNZpCOdWQ9?si=GhyCZOsmQX2RI4r6zciGgQ
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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 🥳
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7 months ago
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It was great fun and very much inspiring for the future EuroCurvoBioNet events across Europe. 🤗
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8 months ago
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Cécile M. Bidan
Max Planck Institute of Colloids & Interfaces (MPICI)
8 months ago
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
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Podcast: Über die Vielseitigkeit von Schneckenschleim
Auf den ersten Blick scheint Schleim eher ungeeignet als Material zu sein. Allerdings setzt die Natur ihren Schleim vielseitig ein - ob Korallenschleim als UV-Schutz oder als Abwehrsystem, um Raubtier...
https://tinyurl.com/ssy7mpth
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Cécile M. Bidan
Euro Curvo Bio Net COST Network
8 months ago
🎙️ 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
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CurvoBio
Podcast · EU COST Action CA22153 (EuroCurvoBioNet); Podcast Developer: Javier Buceta · CurvoBio Podcast is the outreach voice of the European Curvature and Biology Network (EuroCurvoBioNet), a EU COST...
https://rb.gy/ukjbkn
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Cécile M. Bidan
Euro Curvo Bio Net COST Network
8 months ago
💡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
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e-COST
https://e-services.cost.eu/stsm
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Cécile M. Bidan
Euro Curvo Bio Net COST Network
8 months ago
👋 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
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Cécile M. Bidan
Euro Curvo Bio Net COST Network
8 months ago
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
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http://curvobio.com/webinars#CurvoBio
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Cécile M. Bidan
Max Planck Institute of Colloids & Interfaces (MPICI)
9 months ago
#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
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Cécile M. Bidan
Max Planck Institute of Colloids & Interfaces (MPICI)
9 months ago
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
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Cécile M. Bidan
Amaia Cipitria
11 months ago
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
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Cécile M. Bidan
Max Planck Institute of Colloids & Interfaces (MPICI)
11 months ago
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
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Cécile M. Bidan
Max Planck Institute of Colloids & Interfaces (MPICI)
12 months ago
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
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Biofilm-based Materials
https://tinyurl.com/4j4vtu46
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Cécile M. Bidan
Max Planck Institute of Colloids & Interfaces (MPICI)
12 months ago
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
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Cécile M. Bidan
12 months ago
🌟 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
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Relocating is part of academics life so ... hello Bluesky! 🦋
12 months ago
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