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Quick fact check
by Kareem Elsayad Dec. 8, 2025

Dec. 8, 2025

Hi John, Hope all well. We missed you at last BioBrillouin meeting (we had over 100 people!). Next year will be in Exeter – maybe see you then? In the BioBrillouin Newsletter (that goes out to all in our little community), we always put a “fun fact” at the end. Had idea for following fun fact (pasted below) for next one. It involves you (!) and wanted to fact check with you before using and make sure you are okay with – please make any changes/edits however you see fit… All the best, Kareem How is the success of Brillouin Light Scattering spectroscopy connected to the success of Elvis Presley? One of the key enabling commercial technologies that brought Brillouin light scattering to “common” scientific usage (starting in the ~1970-1980’s) was the 6-pass Tandem Fabry Perot spectrometer, developed by John Sandercock. John Sandercock at the time worked for Radio Corporation of America (RCA) – a company founded in 1919 by General Electric with the initial aim of acquiring assets of Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company. RCA are probably most famous for introducing both the black-and-white and colour television to homes around the world. As with other large electronics companies at the time (Bell Labs, Xerox, etc.), investing in basic/applied research was “cool” and well-funded. RCA went through a number of liquidations of its divisions, and changes in ownership. Two assets associated with the brand-name RCA that still remain are NBC and RCA Records. RCA Records famously signed a young Elvis Presley in 1955 from a small Nashville label (Sun Records) for a nominal fee, and released his records to the masses, making him the worlds’ first “Rock Star”. These changes in focus of the RCA company in the 1980’s, also led John Sandercock to start his own company (Table Stable Ltd) which commercialized the first Brillouin Spectrometer. It was a win-win!

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Best poster prize...
by Kareem Elsayad Dec. 8, 2025

Dec. 8, 2025

Dear Mathilde, Hope all well and you got back to Dresden safely after meeting in Berlin. We wanted to congratulate you again on winning the Best Poster Prize. A couple of things.. The prize is (as mentioned at meeting) 300 EUR. Could you provide bank transfer details to Anastasia (anastasia.asvestopoulou(a)meduniwien.ac.at) i.e. IBAN, BIC, Name. It may take several weeks to process, but hopefully we can have it to you by end of year! We would like to announce you winning this prize on our social media accounts as well as in our next newsletter. Would it be possible to send a photo of you we can include in announcement (please email to: socmedia(a)biobrillouin.org and newsletter(a)biobrillouin.org ). If you’d rather we not include a photo, also fine, just let respective mailing lists know so they don’t delay announcement. All the best, Kareem (on behalf of BioBrillouin 2025 Organizers)

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Jochen Guck Prize...
by Kareem Elsayad Dec. 8, 2025

Dec. 8, 2025

Dear Konstantin, Hope all well and you got back to Erlangen safely after meeting in Berlin. We wanted to congratulate you again on winning the Jochen Guck Prize together with your colleague H. Romero Limon. We unfortunately do not have the contact info of H. Romero Limon handy and kindly request that you forward this to them. A couple of things.. The prize is (as mentioned at meeting) 300 EUR. As the prize is shared we propose to award each of you 150 EUR (unless you and H. Romero Limon propose and agree to some other split – in which case please specify). To receive this award, could you and H. Romero Limon please provide bank transfer details to Anastasia (anastasia.asvestopoulou(a)meduniwien.ac.at) i.e. IBAN, BIC, Name. It may take several weeks to process, but hopefully we can have it to you by end of year! We would like to announce you and H. Romero Limon winning this prize on our social media accounts as well as in our next newsletter. Would it be possible to send separate photos of yourselves that we can include in announcement (please email to: socmedia(a)biobrillouin.org and newsletter(a)biobrillouin.org ). If you’d rather we not include a photo, also fine, just let respective mailing lists know so they don’t delay announcement. All the best, Kareem (on behalf of BioBrillouin 2025 Organizers)

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Fun fact
by Kareem Elsayad Dec. 5, 2025

Dec. 5, 2025

Hi Lucie, Pierre, For the fact at the end of newsletter, here is something you can use if you want. Let me fact check with John first though (will put you in cc) How is the success of Brillouin Light Scattering spectroscopy connected to the success of Elvis Presley? One of the key enabling commercial technologies that brought Brillouin light scattering to “common” scientific usage (starting in the ~1970-1980’s) was the 6-pass Tandem Fabry Perot spectrometer, developed by John Sandercock. John Sandercock at the time worked for Radio Corporation of America (RCA) – a company founded in 1919 by General Electric with the initial aim of acquiring assets of Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company. RCA are probably most famous for introducing both the black-and-white and colour television to homes around the world. As with other large electronics companies at the time (Bell Labs, Xerox, etc.), investing in basic/applied research was “cool” and well-funded. RCA went through a number of liquidations of its divisions, and changes in ownership. Two assets associated with the brand-name RCA that still remain are NBC and RCA Records. RCA Records famously signed a young Elvis Presley in 1955 from a small Nashville label (Sun Records) for a nominal fee, and released his records to the masses, making him the worlds’ first “Rock Star”. These changes in focus of the RCA company in the 1980’s, also led John Sandercock to start his own company (Table Stable Ltd) which commercialized the first Brillouin Spectrometer. It was a win-win!

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Obituary for Jochen Guck
by Stephanie Möllmert Dec. 4, 2025

Dec. 4, 2025

Dear Lucie, dear Pierre, It was really nice meeting you both at this year's BioBrillouin conference. I hope you also had an enjoyable and inspiring time. Kareem mentioned that the next newsletter will include an obituary for Jochen, along with a photograph. I’ve drafted a text for this purpose (attached). Please let me know if you’d like to use it in its current form or if you prefer to make any changes. The photo was taken by Stephan Spangenberg in Jochen’s office at the MPL and should be credited accordingly. Please don’t hesitate to let me know if you need any further information. Best wishes, Stephanie On 03.12.25 14:45, Kareem Elsayad wrote: > > Hi Stephanie, > > Would you be able to write short Obituary for Jochen for next > Newsletter? (feel free to also delegate to anyone else formerly in his > lab as you see fit). If so, please send directly to > newsletter(a)biobrillouin.org (together with any pics you would like to > accompany). > > All the best, > > Kareem > -- Dr. Stephanie Möllmert Research Group Leader Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin Cell Physics Division Kussmaulallee 2 91054 Erlangen Germany Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light Cell Physics Division Staudtstr. 2 91058 Erlangen Germany Phone: +49 (0) 9131 8284530 Email:stephanie.moellmert@mpl.mpg.de Homepage:www.gucklab.com

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Re: Call for BioBrillouin Newsletter (September 2025)
by Kareem Elsayad Dec. 3, 2025

Dec. 3, 2025

Sorry for delayed reply, I will try send you text about meeting this afternoon that can be included. I am trying to find info of prize awardees (poster and Jochen Guck prize) and get them to ok using their picture.. as this would also be cool to mention. If ok with you guys would also ask Stephanie to write short obituary to Jochen to include? Worth mentioning is also this Journal of Microscopy Special Issue (deadline June 2026): https://www.rms.org.uk/library/journal-of-microscopy/special-issues/call-fo… I attach for you a history review of BLS someone sent me, that may be useful for getting “fun historical facts” for newsletter (also just fun to read 😊) Some publications/preprints (don’t know if any of these were included in last newsletter, in which case ignore): Bevilacqua C, Hambura S, Bouvet P, La Cavera III S, Elsayad Kc, Prevedel Rc. "A standardized file format and open-source analysis framework for Brillouin microscopy data." (preprint) DOI:10.48550/arXiv.2509.07566 Czibula C, Simoes MG, Ulz MH, Ravanello BB, Elsayad K, Hirn U, Koski KJ. "The potential of Brillouin Spectroscopy for investigating the mechanical properties of hydrogels during dehydration." (preprint) DOI:10.48550/arXiv.2410.10883 Kothmayer M, Laffer S, Widmayer P, Ebner EE, Ugarak F, Martin D, Geyer SH, Elsayad K, Weninger WJ, Lagger S, Weipoltshammer K, Pusch O, Schöfer C. "Aging Reduces Intestinal Stem Cell Activity in Killifish and Intermittent Fasting Reverses Intestinal Gene Expression Patterns." Aging Cell e70229 (2025). DOI:10.1111/acel.70229 From: <newsletter(a)biobrillouin.org> Date: Monday, 1. December 2025 at 16:17 To: <kareem.elsayad(a)meduniwien.ac.at> Subject: Call for BioBrillouin Newsletter (September 2025) Dear Kareem, We hope you're doing well. We are Lucie and Pierre, in charge of editing the BioBrillouin newsletter. We're in the process of writing the society's next newsletter (December 2025 - we're planning to send it on December 15th), and would like to know if you have: News to share with all the society's members. One or more recent publications/preprints (since March 2025) that you'd like to highlight. Planned events to which you would like to invite society members. Job openings (doctorate, post-doctorate, etc.) Other topics you'd like to share with the community We're looking forward to your feedback! Best regards, Lucie Vovard & Pierre Bouvet The International BioBrillouin Society If you don't want to receive this email in the future, please let us know by answering this email.

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Re: Call for BioBrillouin Newsletter (September 2025)
by Sal La Cavera III (staff) Dec. 2, 2025

Dec. 2, 2025

Hi Lucie and Pierre, Great to see you last week and hopefully you got home safely! Nothing to report on my side for any of the news updates; if you have any postdoc/phd availabilities from previous newsletters with my name against them, then feel free to remove as well for the upcoming one. Thanks for your great job on the newsletter! Take care, Best regards, Sal --------------------------------------------------------------- Salvatore La Cavera III Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow Nottingham Research Fellow Optics and Photonics Group University of Nottingham Email: salvatore.lacaveraiii(a)nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:salvatore.lacaveraiii@nottingham.ac.uk> ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0210-3102 [cid:1a177bc6-a819-4e93-b1fa-c14bee6c385f]<https://outlook.office.com/bookwithme/user/6a3f960a8e89429cb6fc693c01d10119…> Book a Coffee and Research chat with me! ________________________________ From: newsletter(a)biobrillouin.org <newsletter(a)biobrillouin.org> Sent: 01 December 2025 16:04 To: Sal La Cavera III (staff) <Salvatore.LaCaveraIII(a)nottingham.ac.uk> Subject: Call for BioBrillouin Newsletter (September 2025) Dear Salvatore, We hope you're doing well. We are Lucie and Pierre, in charge of editing the BioBrillouin newsletter. We're in the process of writing the society's next newsletter (December 2025 - we're planning to send it on December 15th), and would like to know if you have: * News to share with all the society's members. * One or more recent publications/preprints (since March 2025) that you'd like to highlight. * Planned events to which you would like to invite society members. * Job openings (doctorate, post-doctorate, etc.) * Other topics you'd like to share with the community We're looking forward to your feedback! Best regards, Lucie Vovard & Pierre Bouvet The International BioBrillouin Society If you don't want to receive this email in the future, please let us know by answering this email. This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender and delete the email and attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored where permitted by law.

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Re: Call for BioBrillouin Newsletter (September 2025)
by Giuseppe Antonacci Dec. 2, 2025

Dec. 2, 2025

Hi Lucie, Pierre, News to share: Specto’s on-chip Brillouin spectrometer has been officially presented during the 9th International BioBrillouin Conference in Berlin Planned events: Photonics West (San Francisco), BioBrillouin School @EMBL, Analytica (Munich) Many thanks for the great work! Best regards, Giuseppe Giuseppe Antonacci Specto Srl Via Giulio e Corrado Venini 18 | 20127 Milan, Italy E: giuseppe(a)spectophotonics.com<http://www.spectophotonics.com> | M: +39 333 46 27 568 W: www.spectophotonics.com<http://www.spectophotonics.com> P Before printing, think about the environment The content of this email is confidential and intended for the recipient specified in message only. It is strictly forbidden to share any part of this message with any third party, without a written consent of the sender. If you received this message by mistake, please reply to this message and follow with its deletion, so that we can ensure such a mistake does not occur in the future. On 1 Dec 2025, at 16:13, newsletter(a)biobrillouin.org wrote: Dear Giuseppe, We hope you're doing well. We are Lucie and Pierre, in charge of editing the BioBrillouin newsletter. We're in the process of writing the society's next newsletter (December 2025 - we're planning to send it on December 15th), and would like to know if you have: * News to share with all the society's members. * One or more recent publications/preprints (since March 2025) that you'd like to highlight. * Planned events to which you would like to invite society members. * Job openings (doctorate, post-doctorate, etc.) * Other topics you'd like to share with the community We're looking forward to your feedback! Best regards, Lucie Vovard & Pierre Bouvet The International BioBrillouin Society If you don't want to receive this email in the future, please let us know by answering this email.

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Re: Call for BioBrillouin Newsletter (September 2025)
by Robert Prevedel Dec. 1, 2025

Dec. 1, 2025

Dear Lucie and Pierre, thanks for checking! We have a number of preprints that involve our (Brillouin) work: 1. J. Garcia-Baucells, C. Bevilacqua*, M. Rufin*, C. Rumpf-Kienzl*, A. Zampetaki*, O.G. Andriotis, P.J. Thurner, R. Prevedel, S. Fürthauer and A. Dammermann. Centrosome Softening Ensures Mitotic Fidelity Under Microtubule Forces. bioRxiv: 2025.09.09.675178 (2025). 2. K.W. Leong*, Y. Lou*, A. Biswas, J.Y. Kelly Tan, B. Heng Ng, X. Lu, X.P. Joan Teo, T.B. Lu, C. Bevilacqua, I. Bonne, R. Prevedel, T. Hiraiwa and C.J. Chan. Critical phenomenon underlies de novo luminogenesis during mammalian follicle development. bioRxiv: 2025.09.09.674793 (2025). 3. T. Zerin, P. Ruiz-Duarte, A.-K. Schürholz, T. Schlamp, Y. Ma, C. Bevilacqua, N. El Arbi, C. Wenzl, A. Miotk, R. Prevedel, T. Greb, J. Lohmann, S. Wolf. The Cell Wall Controls Stem Cell Fate in the Arabidopsis Shoot Apical Meristem. bioRxiv: 2025.05.19.654883 (2025). Best, Robert -- Dr. Robert Prevedel Group Leader and Senior Scientist Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit European Molecular Biology Laboratory Meyerhofstr. 1 69117 Heidelberg, Germany Phone: +49 6221 387-8722 Email: robert.prevedel(a)embl.de http://www.prevedel.embl.de > On 01.12.2025, at 17:17, newsletter(a)biobrillouin.org wrote: > > Dear Robert, > > We hope you're doing well. > > We are Lucie and Pierre, in charge of editing the BioBrillouin newsletter. We're in the process of writing the society's next newsletter (December 2025 - we're planning to send it on December 15th), and would like to know if you have: > > News to share with all the society's members. > One or more recent publications/preprints (since March 2025) that you'd like to highlight. > Planned events to which you would like to invite society members. > Job openings (doctorate, post-doctorate, etc.) > Other topics you'd like to share with the community > We're looking forward to your feedback! > > Best regards, > > Lucie Vovard & Pierre Bouvet > The International BioBrillouin Society > > If you don't want to receive this email in the future, please let us know by answering this email. >

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Re: Call for BioBrillouin Newsletter (September 2025)
by Palombo, Francesca Dec. 1, 2025

Dec. 1, 2025

Dear Lucie & Pierre, Can you please advertise a 3-year postdoctoral research position in my team on Brillouin-Raman microscopy applied to cancer detection? The advert is not out yet, so I can’t share a link, but it can be mentioned that any interested candidate can email me directly for informal enquiry. Thanks, Francesca Prof. Francesca Palombo Professor of Biomedical Spectroscopy Head of Department of Physics & Astronomy University of Exeter Exeter, UK ________________________________ From: newsletter(a)biobrillouin.org <newsletter(a)biobrillouin.org> Sent: Monday, December 1, 2025 1:17:42 PM To: Palombo, Francesca <F.Palombo(a)exeter.ac.uk> Subject: Call for BioBrillouin Newsletter (September 2025) CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organisation. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognise the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Francesca, We hope you're doing well. We are Lucie and Pierre, in charge of editing the BioBrillouin newsletter. We're in the process of writing the society's next newsletter (December 2025 - we're planning to send it on December 15th), and would like to know if you have: * News to share with all the society's members. * One or more recent publications/preprints (since March 2025) that you'd like to highlight. * Planned events to which you would like to invite society members. * Job openings (doctorate, post-doctorate, etc.) * Other topics you'd like to share with the community We're looking forward to your feedback! Best regards, Lucie Vovard & Pierre Bouvet The International BioBrillouin Society If you don't want to receive this email in the future, please let us know by answering this email.

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