About the newsletter

Hello everyone, we're Lucie and Pierre, and we're in charge of the BioBrillouin newsletter. We plan to publish 4 newsletters a year, in which we'll be presenting the essentials:

Society news (joint projects, feedback from conferences, useful information for the community)
New publications from the members of the society
Events planned in the field
Job openings

This newsletter is sent to the widest possible list of researchers and industrials working on Brillouin spectroscopy for biology. However, we plan to send future newsletters only to members of the BioBrillouin Society. Registration to the society will open early 2025. If you want to be notified to register, please send us a mail to newsletter@biobrillouin.org

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

Note: We have chosen to list in this newsletter all the publications and pre-publications you have sent us. However, we plan to keep for the next newsletter only those articles made available online after October 1, 2024, in an effort to control the newsletter's length.

News from the society

8th BioBrillouin Conference in Trondheim

Thank you all for attending the BioBrillouin Conference here in Trondheim, Norway! We are grateful for your participation and for the inspiring presentations that made this event so enriching. A special thanks to our keynote speakers, Henrik Jonsson, Francesca Palombo, Marketa Samalova, and Peter Torok, for their remarkable contributions. We also want to extend our gratitude to Thorsten Hamann and his entire organizing team for their incredible efforts in making this conference a success, as well as to our sponsors for their generous support. We look forward to seeing you all next year in Boston for the next edition of the BioBrillouin Conference!

Northen lights!!!

Visit of the Brillouin spectrometer in NTNU

Francesca Palombo presenting advances in BLS in medical research

Luis Alonso Baez presnting his lastest work

Marketa Samalova during her talk

Thanks to Thorsten's team!

Standardisation of spectra format

We have been working towards developing a new standardized file format for Brillouin microscopy experiments to streamline data sharing and improve consistency across the field. A dedicated BioBrillouin GitHub organization has been created to this end and is accessible at this link. A Python library is in creation together with its documentation. The discussion page of the GitHub project is welcoming all your comments, ideas, critics.

New publications

JPhys Photonics Focus Issue on Brillouin Light Scattering for Biological and Medical Applications - link

Articles

Alunni Cardinali et al - Combining Multiple Spectroscopic Techniques to Reveal the Effects of Staphylococcus aureus Infection on Human Bone Tissues - link
Ambekar et al - Optical coherence tomography-guided Brillouin microscopy highlights regional tissue stiffness differences during anterior neural tube closure in the Mthfd1l murine mutant - link
Antonacci et al - Birefringence-induced phase delay enables Brillouin mechanical imaging in turbid media - link
Bilenca et al - Current state of stimulated Brillouin scattering microscopy for the life sciences - link
Caiaffa et al - Disruption of Fuz in mouse embryos generates hypoplastic hindbrain development and reduced cranial nerve ganglia - link
Chougule et al - Purinergic signaling through the P2Y2 receptor regulates osteocytes’ mechanosensitivity - link
Coraggio et al - Age-progressive interplay of HSP-proteostasis, ECM-cell junctions and biomechanics ensures C. elegans astroglial architecture - link
Handler et al - Advantages of integrating Brillouin microscopy in multimodal mechanical mapping of cells and tissues - link
Hutchins et al - Brillouin spectroscopy via an atomic line monochromator - link
Illibauer et al - Diagnostic potential of blood plasma longitudinal viscosity measured using Brillouin light scattering - link
Kabakova et al - Brillouin microscopy - link
Keshmiri et al - Brillouin light scattering anisotropy microscopy for imaging the viscoelastic anisotropy in living cells - link
La Cavera III et al - Label-free Brillouin endo-microscopy for the quantitative 3D imaging of sub-micrometre biology - link
Mekonnen et al - Dual optical elastography detects TGF-β-induced alterations in the biomechanical properties of skin scaffolds - link
Randleman et al - Subclinical Keratoconus Detection and Characterization Using Motion-Tracking Brillouin Microscopy - link
Rosvold et al - Stimulated Brillouin scattering flow cytometry - link
Shaashoua et al - Brillouin Gain Microscopy - link

Prepublication

Bevilacqua et al - Full-field Brillouin microscopy based on an imaging Fourier transform spectrometer - link
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
Landes et al - Brillouin light scattering microscopy reveals micro-mechanical inhomogeneities of the apple fruit cuticle - link
Linder et al - Combining Brillouin spectroscopy and machine learned interatomic potentials to probe mechanical properties of metal organic frameworks - link

Upcoming events

Conference - 25/26 January 2025 - San Francisco (USA) - Photonics West: Optical Elastography and Tissue Biomechanics XII - link
Conference - 29 January 2025 - San Francisco (USA) - Photonics West: Photonic Technologies in Plant and Agricultural Science II - link
Conference - 3/5 April 2025 - Montpellier (France) - International Conference on Biomedical Photonics - link - Abstract submission before March 2 2025
Summer School - 18-29 August 2025 - Banyuls-sur-mer (Fr) - Son et Lumiere 2025
Conference - 27-29 October 2025 - Somerville (USA) - BioBrillouin Conference

New position openings

M2 Internship followed by PhD position on time-resolved BLS - Institut Lumiere Matiere - Lyon (France) - Thomas Dehoux
PhD position and Post-doctoral position on time-domain Brillouin scattering for Cancer Research - University of Nottingham - Nottingham (England) - Salvatore La Cavera III
PhD position - Norwegian University of Science and Technology - Trondheim (Norway) - link - Thorsten Hamann
Post-doctoral position - Norwegian University of Science and Technology - Trondheim (Norway) - link - Thorsten Hamann
PhD position and Post-doctoral position - Michigan State University - Detroit (USA) - link - Jitao Zhang

Interesting facts

What light source was used to first observe and report Brillouin Light Scattering?

A Mercury Lamp (E. Gross, 1930)

🎄🎆🎅Ho Ho Ho🎅🎆🎄

On behalf of the society, we wish you all a very lovely Christmas and a wonderful new year 🥳🎄