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…who joined the group for an 6 week internship (Andreas) and a short capita selecta (Hans). Andreas will try unifying some fragmented software packages for in vivo single particle tracking. Hans will push the limits of our ultrafast pSMLM algorithm for super-resolution microscopy.

Good news! The proposal “LocalBioFood: Localisation of bio-macromolecules in food matrices” submitted by Ilja Voets (TU/e) and our lab has been granted by the NWO innovation fund for chemistry [link].

Within the project, the three appointed PhD students will image different components in food, like proteins and carbohydrates, on a sub 100nm length scale using advanced fluorescence microscopy. The project is a collaboration between Eindhoven University of Technology, Wageningen University, Confocal.nl, Unilever and DSM.

…who joins the group for his MSc thesis. In collaboration with Dr. Klaus Mathwig (Pharmacy, Groningen), Dr. Peter van Baarlen (Host-Microbe Interactions, Wageningen) and Simon van der Els (NIZO food research and HMI, Wageningen), he will work towards monitoring bacterial conjugation in real time and at the single-cell level.

Good news! The proposal “Lipid Oxidation Control in Food Emulsions Enabled by Natural Strategies” submitted by Harry Gruppen (WUR) has been awarded a CHIPP grant by The Innovation Fund for Chemistry [link].

Our lab will head the work package titled “Localising oxidation: interfaces and transport” and a PhD position will be available in 2018.

Good news! Our proposal “Towards visualizing gene transfer at the single cell level using microfluidic devices” has been granted by the Innovation Program Microbiology, an initiative from the Laboratory of Microbiology at Wageningen University and Research.

In collaboration with Dr. Klaus Mathwig (Pharmacy, Groningen), Dr. Peter van Baarlen (Host-Microbe Interactions, Wageningen) and Simon van der Els (NIZO food research and HMI, Wageningen), we aim to monitor bacterial conjugation, in which DNA is transferred from a donor cell to a recipient cell either via conjugative plasmids or via integrative conjugative elements, in real time and at the single-cell level.

Congratulations to Shazia Farooq forsuccessfully defending her PhD thesis titled “Studying fast dynamics in biological complexes: from photosynthesis in vivo to single DNA molecules in vitro” [link]. Well done and thanks to all the helpers for the great party afterwards!

Already a few weeks ago, Sander Baas joined our lab for his Master’s thesis to set up three-dimensional super-resolution microscopy. Looks very promising!

…who joins the group for her MSc thesis. In collaboration with the group of Food Process Engineering (Prof. Atze Jan van der Groot), Charlotte will explore a variety of fluorescence based techniques to image meat replacers.

…who joins the group for his MSc thesis. In collaboration with the group of Stan Brouns (now Delft, previously WUR) he will enzymatically modify DNA to allow the labelling with fluorescent dyes and then image the labelled DNA in vivo and in vitro using super-resolution microscopy.

…who joins the group for his PhD thesis. In collaboration with the groups of John van Duynhoven (Unilever and Laboratory of Biophysics), Aldrik Velders (Laboratory of Bionanotechnology) and Atze Jan van der Groot (Food Process Engineering) he will study anisotropic food structures using single-particle diffusometry.