News from the society

Hello everyone, we're Lucie and Pierre, and here is the BioBrillouin society's newsletter for the month of March 2025.

Next Newsletter The next newsletter will be sent out on June 1, 2025. We therefore ask you to send us your information before May 20, 2025. Thanks in advance :)

Society emails

There are several email addresses within the society's web domain that may be useful and we would like to make you aware of:

newsletter@biobrillouin.org - Contact the team handling the Newsletter
socmedia@biobrillouin.org - Contact the team handling Social Media (Linkedin, X)
website@biobrillouin.org - Contact the team handling the website (www.biobrillouin.org)

Registration to the society

We are currently waiting for some details on the society status to be formalized by our legal team and authorities before we can send out membership confirmations/information. The bureaucracy is surprisingly remarkable. We thank you for your patience, and will contact you as soon as these are finalized.

As soon as these are sorted, there will be a mailing address (members@biobrillouin.org) that all members can post to. In the mean time, information by the societies board will be relayed via the info-mailing list info@biobrillouin.org (to which this newsletter is sent).

New publications

Articles

Bevilacqua et al - Full-field Brillouin microscopy based on an imaging Fourier transform spectrometer - link
Florian P. Lindner et al - Combining Brillouin Light Scattering Spectroscopy and Machine-Learned Interatomic Potentials to Probe Mechanical Properties of Metal-Organic Frameworks - link
Timon Beck et al - Optical characterization of molecular interaction strength in protein condensates - link
Timm Landes et al - Micromechanical behavior of the apple fruit cuticle investigated by Brillouin light scattering microscopy - link

Prepublication

Bouvet et al - Consensus Statement on Brillouin Light Scattering Microscopy of Biological Materials - link
Gomez et al - Highly dynamic mechanical transitions in embryonic cell populations during Drosophila gastrulation - link

Upcoming events

Conference - 3-5 April 2025 - Montpellier (France) - International Conference on Biomedical Photonics - link - Abstract submission before March 2 2025
Conference - 22-26 June 2025 - München (Germany) - European Conference on Biomedical Optics - link - Abstract submission before February 18 2025
Conference - 30 June - 5 July 2025 - Rome (Italy) - 15th European Biophysical Societies' Association Congress - link - Abstract submission before March 17 2025
Summer School - 6 -10 July 2025 - Perugia (Italy) - Bio-Brillouin School - link
Summer School - 18-29 August 2025 - Banyuls-sur-mer (France) - Son et Lumiere 2025 ("Sound and Light") - link
Conference - 27-29 October 2025 - Somerville (USA) - BioBrillouin Conference

New position openings

6 months internship followed by PhD position on time-resolved BLS - Institut Lumiere Matiere - Lyon (France) - Thomas Dehoux
6 months internship on simulating, designing and potentially building a new Brillouin microscope - European Molecular Biology Laboratory - Heidelberg (Germany) - Robert Prevedel
PhD position on time-domain Brillouin scattering for Cancer Research - University of Nottingham - Nottingham (England) - Salvatore La Cavera III
PhD position - Arctic University of Norway - Tromsø (Norway) - link - Florian Ströhl - application deadline: March 9th
Post-doctoral position on ultrafast time-resolved BLS for microscopy and endoscopy applications - University of Nottingham - Nottingham (England) - Salvatore La Cavera III - beginning summer 2025
Post-doctoral position - Michigan State University - Detroit (USA) - link - Jitao Zhang
Research engineer position - Arctic University of Norway - Tromsø (Norway) - link - Florian Ströhl - application deadline: March 9th

Interesting facts

What dispersive optical element was used to first observe and report Brillouin Light Scattering in 1930?

An echelle grating