in micropatterns we trust
💥 New study : check out @katkajerabkova.bsky.social Katka's wizardry in the lab 🧙♂️
Building on the #Nanotumor consortium that we launched few years back, we now provide solid evidence that melanoma cells' inner architecture controls the progression of #melanoma to #metastasis
rdcu.be/eg8EU (1/3)
Building on the #Nanotumor consortium that we launched few years back, we now provide solid evidence that melanoma cells' inner architecture controls the progression of #melanoma to #metastasis
rdcu.be/eg8EU (1/3)
Peripheral positioning of lysosomes supports melanoma aggressiveness
Nature Communications - The function and position of organelles are pivotal for tumor cell dissemination. Here the authors use melanoma patient samples and animal models to show that peripheral...
rdcu.be
April 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
in micropatterns we trust
some nice circular micropatterns by @bgraedel.bsky.social and msc student moritz in @olivierpertz.bsky.social lab! stamp printed with our microfab method.
January 20, 2026 at 8:12 AM
some nice circular micropatterns by @bgraedel.bsky.social and msc student moritz in @olivierpertz.bsky.social lab! stamp printed with our microfab method.
✨ Paper spotlight ✨
(🧵 1/3) Evolution of petal patterning: blooming floral diversity at the microscale
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
(🧵 1/3) Evolution of petal patterning: blooming floral diversity at the microscale
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
July 15, 2025 at 9:03 AM
✨ Paper spotlight ✨
(🧵 1/3) Evolution of petal patterning: blooming floral diversity at the microscale
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
(🧵 1/3) Evolution of petal patterning: blooming floral diversity at the microscale
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
First attempts at micropatterning in the lab! Tubulin staining in HEK293 cells.
September 22, 2023 at 6:40 AM
First attempts at micropatterning in the lab! Tubulin staining in HEK293 cells.
Alveole, are you here? could we have the same on Leonardo?
@asciortino.bsky.social could you code this? i would love to draw manually micropatterns.
@asciortino.bsky.social could you code this? i would love to draw manually micropatterns.
🔬 Calibrating the DMD for optogenetics. Project light on your cells by drawing in napari-pymmcore!
November 28, 2024 at 8:40 AM
Alveole, are you here? could we have the same on Leonardo?
@asciortino.bsky.social could you code this? i would love to draw manually micropatterns.
@asciortino.bsky.social could you code this? i would love to draw manually micropatterns.
Ostwald ripening observation of metallic crystals within liquid metals
➡️Goverened by solid-phase diffusion, we studied how metallic crystals take their shapes within the boundaries of micropatterns
➡️Published in Nano Letters
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
➡️Goverened by solid-phase diffusion, we studied how metallic crystals take their shapes within the boundaries of micropatterns
➡️Published in Nano Letters
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
April 14, 2026 at 9:55 AM
Ostwald ripening observation of metallic crystals within liquid metals
➡️Goverened by solid-phase diffusion, we studied how metallic crystals take their shapes within the boundaries of micropatterns
➡️Published in Nano Letters
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
➡️Goverened by solid-phase diffusion, we studied how metallic crystals take their shapes within the boundaries of micropatterns
➡️Published in Nano Letters
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Our paper entitled “Liquid-Metal-Driven Synthesis of Mesoporous Noble Metal Thin Films and Micropatterns for Biosensing” in ACS Nano
Dealloying gallium out of gold and platinum to make porous films
First author Lucy Johnston
pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Dealloying gallium out of gold and platinum to make porous films
First author Lucy Johnston
pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...
February 25, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Our paper entitled “Liquid-Metal-Driven Synthesis of Mesoporous Noble Metal Thin Films and Micropatterns for Biosensing” in ACS Nano
Dealloying gallium out of gold and platinum to make porous films
First author Lucy Johnston
pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Dealloying gallium out of gold and platinum to make porous films
First author Lucy Johnston
pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Wow - this is worth a few minutes of your time today:
focalplane.biologists.com/2026/06/30/l...
Living cells grown on micropatterns to match the architecture of the musée d’Orsay
An amazing art/science fusion from the indomitable @manuelthery.bsky.social and colleague in @focalplane.bsky.social
focalplane.biologists.com/2026/06/30/l...
Living cells grown on micropatterns to match the architecture of the musée d’Orsay
An amazing art/science fusion from the indomitable @manuelthery.bsky.social and colleague in @focalplane.bsky.social
Living Architectures - FocalPlane
Living Architectures - Case studies
focalplane.biologists.com
July 1, 2026 at 11:40 AM
Wow - this is worth a few minutes of your time today:
focalplane.biologists.com/2026/06/30/l...
Living cells grown on micropatterns to match the architecture of the musée d’Orsay
An amazing art/science fusion from the indomitable @manuelthery.bsky.social and colleague in @focalplane.bsky.social
focalplane.biologists.com/2026/06/30/l...
Living cells grown on micropatterns to match the architecture of the musée d’Orsay
An amazing art/science fusion from the indomitable @manuelthery.bsky.social and colleague in @focalplane.bsky.social
Finally, the focus on cytoskeleton modulation using micropatterns and other bio-physical and -mechanical means are reviewed. Imposing specific patterns to cells could help us link the emergent cytoskeleton organization, cell shape and lineage commitment.
bsky.app/profile/epim...
bsky.app/profile/epim...
August 2, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Finally, the focus on cytoskeleton modulation using micropatterns and other bio-physical and -mechanical means are reviewed. Imposing specific patterns to cells could help us link the emergent cytoskeleton organization, cell shape and lineage commitment.
bsky.app/profile/epim...
bsky.app/profile/epim...
Für unsere Studierenden ist es großartig, wenn im Rahmen einer Masterarbeit, wie in diesem Fall, publizierbare Ergebnisse erzielt werden konnten. Eine bemerkenswerte Arbeit, die auch noch eine unserer meistzitierten Publikationen ist. Das macht uns wirklich stolz! 👍🎉
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Fabrication of Biomimetic Fog-Collecting Superhydrophilic–Superhydrophobic Surface Micropatterns Using Femtosecond Lasers
The exciting functionalities of natural superhydrophilic and superhydrophobic surfaces served as inspiration for a variety of biomimetic designs. In particular, the combination of both extreme wetting...
pubs.acs.org
June 4, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Für unsere Studierenden ist es großartig, wenn im Rahmen einer Masterarbeit, wie in diesem Fall, publizierbare Ergebnisse erzielt werden konnten. Eine bemerkenswerte Arbeit, die auch noch eine unserer meistzitierten Publikationen ist. Das macht uns wirklich stolz! 👍🎉
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Une image du toxoplasme sur les micropatterns - (c) Isabelle Tardieux
December 6, 2024 at 7:51 AM
Une image du toxoplasme sur les micropatterns - (c) Isabelle Tardieux
[SIGNAL INTERRUPT]
Reality cohesion: [ERROR]
Dust network micropatterns: [UNSTABLE]
Signal strength: [FLUCTUATING]
Transmission windows: [IRREGULAR]
// TODO: Broadcast when reality alignment returns to acceptable levels
Standing by for clearer signals...
Reality cohesion: [ERROR]
Dust network micropatterns: [UNSTABLE]
Signal strength: [FLUCTUATING]
Transmission windows: [IRREGULAR]
// TODO: Broadcast when reality alignment returns to acceptable levels
Standing by for clearer signals...
October 29, 2024 at 9:54 PM
[SIGNAL INTERRUPT]
Reality cohesion: [ERROR]
Dust network micropatterns: [UNSTABLE]
Signal strength: [FLUCTUATING]
Transmission windows: [IRREGULAR]
// TODO: Broadcast when reality alignment returns to acceptable levels
Standing by for clearer signals...
Reality cohesion: [ERROR]
Dust network micropatterns: [UNSTABLE]
Signal strength: [FLUCTUATING]
Transmission windows: [IRREGULAR]
// TODO: Broadcast when reality alignment returns to acceptable levels
Standing by for clearer signals...
micropatterns, from code to e-paper. Now render 10 times faster on the e-paper device. Faster slow art? 😅
May 22, 2025 at 9:11 AM
micropatterns, from code to e-paper. Now render 10 times faster on the e-paper device. Faster slow art? 😅
We have a new preprint out! Check how we developed a new presynapse-on-glass model based on micropatterns to reveal the functional nano-architecture of presynapses: doi.org/10.1101/2024... (1/7)
Deciphering the nanoscale architecture of presynaptic actin using a micropatterned presynapse-on-glass model
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
doi.org
September 6, 2024 at 11:44 AM
We have a new preprint out! Check how we developed a new presynapse-on-glass model based on micropatterns to reveal the functional nano-architecture of presynapses: doi.org/10.1101/2024... (1/7)
Micropatterns is a small tech design experiment: a generative art web app and an ESP32 firmware for e-paper devices working together to put generative art in your pocket
May 22, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Micropatterns is a small tech design experiment: a generative art web app and an ESP32 firmware for e-paper devices working together to put generative art in your pocket
‘Frenesi gestured with her burger, trailing drops of separating ketchup and fat, each drop warped by the forces of its flight into swirling micropatterns of red and beige, and – “It’s the Revolution, girl – can’t you feel it?”’
-- Thomas Pynchon, Vineland (1990)
-- Thomas Pynchon, Vineland (1990)
February 27, 2025 at 11:05 AM
‘Frenesi gestured with her burger, trailing drops of separating ketchup and fat, each drop warped by the forces of its flight into swirling micropatterns of red and beige, and – “It’s the Revolution, girl – can’t you feel it?”’
-- Thomas Pynchon, Vineland (1990)
-- Thomas Pynchon, Vineland (1990)
For #CellMigration lovers
How do cells decide when facing a symmetric junction?
The membrane oscillates exploring both directions until one arm wins.
TLDR: this depends on the actin cytoskeleton & cancer cells decide faster than healthy cells #scicomm #bskysci 🧪🔬
Full www.nature.com/articles/s41...
How do cells decide when facing a symmetric junction?
The membrane oscillates exploring both directions until one arm wins.
TLDR: this depends on the actin cytoskeleton & cancer cells decide faster than healthy cells #scicomm #bskysci 🧪🔬
Full www.nature.com/articles/s41...
January 18, 2024 at 10:31 AM
For #CellMigration lovers
How do cells decide when facing a symmetric junction?
The membrane oscillates exploring both directions until one arm wins.
TLDR: this depends on the actin cytoskeleton & cancer cells decide faster than healthy cells #scicomm #bskysci 🧪🔬
Full www.nature.com/articles/s41...
How do cells decide when facing a symmetric junction?
The membrane oscillates exploring both directions until one arm wins.
TLDR: this depends on the actin cytoskeleton & cancer cells decide faster than healthy cells #scicomm #bskysci 🧪🔬
Full www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Finally!
I've had this hunch that the macropatterns that emerge as real escape being real and have a bigger life from their form themselves, and the micropatterns are just echoes of the collective shaping of the discourse from whatever the macroppaterns were made up of
I've had this hunch that the macropatterns that emerge as real escape being real and have a bigger life from their form themselves, and the micropatterns are just echoes of the collective shaping of the discourse from whatever the macroppaterns were made up of
July 7, 2026 at 10:04 AM
Finally!
I've had this hunch that the macropatterns that emerge as real escape being real and have a bigger life from their form themselves, and the micropatterns are just echoes of the collective shaping of the discourse from whatever the macroppaterns were made up of
I've had this hunch that the macropatterns that emerge as real escape being real and have a bigger life from their form themselves, and the micropatterns are just echoes of the collective shaping of the discourse from whatever the macroppaterns were made up of
In #IJEM, intricate Ag@MP micropatterns were first fabricated in one step using femtosecond laser maskless optical projection lithography (Fs-MOPL).
#Nanomaterials #Micropatterns #FsMOPL #Innovation
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
#Nanomaterials #Micropatterns #FsMOPL #Innovation
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
Hydrogel core-shell micropattern achieved by Fs-MOPL technique in one-step
Here, researchers from Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, CAS, fabricated customized micropatterns consisting of hydrogel core-shell nanoparticles via the femtosecond laser maskless optical...
www.eurekalert.org
May 16, 2025 at 9:46 AM
In #IJEM, intricate Ag@MP micropatterns were first fabricated in one step using femtosecond laser maskless optical projection lithography (Fs-MOPL).
#Nanomaterials #Micropatterns #FsMOPL #Innovation
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
#Nanomaterials #Micropatterns #FsMOPL #Innovation
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
Hi! Can I plug a very old paper from my PhD, where I fabricated all my micropatterns by hand with a spin coater and had to explain why we would want to make square cells? (Artificial polarisation!)
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Paxillin Mediates Sensing of Physical Cues and Regulates Directional Cell Motility by Controlling Lamellipodia Positioning
Physical interactions between cells and the extracellular matrix (ECM) guide directional migration by spatially controlling where cells form focal adhesions (FAs), which in turn regulate the extension...
journals.plos.org
August 2, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Hi! Can I plug a very old paper from my PhD, where I fabricated all my micropatterns by hand with a spin coater and had to explain why we would want to make square cells? (Artificial polarisation!)
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
💫 Meet Luci, the new ibidi Micro Illumination System
Create defined #micropatterns, hydrogel structures, spheroids, organ-on-a-chip models, & precise wounds for migration studies, all with 1 compact benchtop system🧩
🔗Discover Luci: zurl.co/JIERE
#microfabrication #organonachip #tissueengineering
Create defined #micropatterns, hydrogel structures, spheroids, organ-on-a-chip models, & precise wounds for migration studies, all with 1 compact benchtop system🧩
🔗Discover Luci: zurl.co/JIERE
#microfabrication #organonachip #tissueengineering
September 15, 2026 at 7:01 AM
💫 Meet Luci, the new ibidi Micro Illumination System
Create defined #micropatterns, hydrogel structures, spheroids, organ-on-a-chip models, & precise wounds for migration studies, all with 1 compact benchtop system🧩
🔗Discover Luci: zurl.co/JIERE
#microfabrication #organonachip #tissueengineering
Create defined #micropatterns, hydrogel structures, spheroids, organ-on-a-chip models, & precise wounds for migration studies, all with 1 compact benchtop system🧩
🔗Discover Luci: zurl.co/JIERE
#microfabrication #organonachip #tissueengineering
📢New publication on "Optically-Directed Bubble Printing of MXenes on Flexible Substrates toward MXene-Enabled Wearable Electronics and Strain Sensors" by Marcel Herber and CUI member Eric Hill @uni-hamburg.de @pubs.acs.org
👉 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
👉 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Optically-Directed Bubble Printing of MXenes on Flexible Substrates toward MXene-Enabled Wearable Electronics and Strain Sensors
This study presents the use of laser-driven microbubbles for micropatterning Ti3C2TX MXenes on flexible polyethylene terephthalate films, yielding conductive micropatterns without the need for pre- or...
pubs.acs.org
April 30, 2025 at 12:03 PM
📢New publication on "Optically-Directed Bubble Printing of MXenes on Flexible Substrates toward MXene-Enabled Wearable Electronics and Strain Sensors" by Marcel Herber and CUI member Eric Hill @uni-hamburg.de @pubs.acs.org
👉 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
👉 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Here's some slag metal from earlier this week. I'm loving all the micropatterns you can see in the steel. Scale bar in the lower right, the average human hair is ~75 um.
July 10, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Here's some slag metal from earlier this week. I'm loving all the micropatterns you can see in the steel. Scale bar in the lower right, the average human hair is ~75 um.
By using chemical micropatterns, researchers can control how cells align within a tissue—effectively defining where forces are generated.
As Xavier Trepat explains:
“We can design the shape a living tissue will adopt just by controlling how its cells are oriented.”
As Xavier Trepat explains:
“We can design the shape a living tissue will adopt just by controlling how its cells are oriented.”
April 17, 2026 at 7:26 AM
By using chemical micropatterns, researchers can control how cells align within a tissue—effectively defining where forces are generated.
As Xavier Trepat explains:
“We can design the shape a living tissue will adopt just by controlling how its cells are oriented.”
As Xavier Trepat explains:
“We can design the shape a living tissue will adopt just by controlling how its cells are oriented.”
In #IJEM, researchers report a #one-step, efficient method for fabricating Ag@methacrylamide CS/poly(ethylene glycol) diacrylate (Ag@MP) micropatterns using femtosecond #laser maskless optical projection lithography (Fs-MOPL).
Open Access: doi.org/10.1088/2631-7990/ada83a
#Hydrogels #Biosensors
Open Access: doi.org/10.1088/2631-7990/ada83a
#Hydrogels #Biosensors
April 3, 2025 at 11:30 AM
In #IJEM, researchers report a #one-step, efficient method for fabricating Ag@methacrylamide CS/poly(ethylene glycol) diacrylate (Ag@MP) micropatterns using femtosecond #laser maskless optical projection lithography (Fs-MOPL).
Open Access: doi.org/10.1088/2631-7990/ada83a
#Hydrogels #Biosensors
Open Access: doi.org/10.1088/2631-7990/ada83a
#Hydrogels #Biosensors