News from the society

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

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

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).

Next BioBrillouin Conference

Given the current situation in the US we have come to the conclusion that it is no longer feasible to have the next BioBrillouin meeting in Harvard. Together with the support of a hastily assembled Scientific Organizing Committee, Jochen Guck and his team have kindly offered to host the next BioBrillouin Conference at the official Conference Venue of the Max Planck Society, near Berlin, Germany on the 25-27th November 2025.

Further details on abstract submission, program and registration will follow soon (in the next week or two). Any urgent queries can be directed to SOC25@BioBrillouin.org.

Emails to potentially interested sponsors will also be sent out in the coming week or two, but if you would already like to express interest in sponsoring the event please reach out to the above email address, or encourage any potentially interested parties to do so.

We are really looking forward to seeing you there!

New publications

Articles

Joshua Trapp et al - Dual fiber probe with 3D-printed micro-lens for Brillouin microscopy - link
Mingyuan Zhu et al - Single-cell transcriptomics reveal how root tissues adapt to soil stress - link
Sophie Chagnon-Lessard et al - Spin wave Brillouin measurements in FeCo with a virtually imaged phased array spectrometer - link
Tomasz Skrzypczak et al - The viscoelastic properties of Nicotiana tabacum BY-2 suspension cell lines adapted to high osmolarity - link
Ye Bo et al - Angle dependence of Brillouin scattering intensity in liquids - 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
Jin et al - A Framework for Spontaneous Brillouin Noise: Unveiling Fundamental Limits in Brillouin Metrology - link
Shi et al - Coaxial line-scanning Brillouin microscopy - link
Vovard et al - Probing molecular concentration in cell nuclei with Brillouin microscopy - link

Upcoming events

Conference - 22 - 26 June 2025 - München (Germany) - European Conference on Biomedical Optics - link
Congress - 24 - 27 June 2025 - München (Germany) - Laser World of Photonics - link
Conference - 30 June - 5 July 2025 - Rome (Italy) - 15th European Biophysical Societies' Association Congress - link
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 - 25-27 November 2025 - Berlin (Germany) - BioBrillouin Conference

New position openings

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-resolved BLS - Institut Lumiere Matiere - Lyon (France) - Thomas Dehoux
Optical Engineer/PhD - Specto Photonics - Milan (Italy) - Job description to come - Specto Photonics
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 - Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin - Erlangen (Germany) - link - Jochen Guck
Global Sales Manager - Specto Photonics - Milan (Italy) - Job description to come - Specto Photonics
Project Manager - Specto Photonics - Milan (Italy) - Job description to come - Specto Photonics

Special issues calling for papers

The JBO special issue “Advances in Optical Elastography” is now open for submissions. The deadline for submissions is August 2025.

Interesting facts

Gross, who is credited with the first measurements of Brillouin Light Scattering (BLS), had (according to various accounts) agreed to publish his finding of the first measurement of BLS back-to-back with Leonid Mandelstam who had observed and measured the effect at the same time and with whom he was in regular communication. He however published these before him – why?

Mandelstam insisted on repeating the measurements again to confirm his results and this took too long for Gross who needed to publish them to complete his graduate degree and move on in life.