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

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

Society emails

There are several email addresses within the society's web domain that may be useful and we would like to make you aware of:

• newsletter@biobrillouin.org - Contact the team handling the Newsletter

• socmedia@biobrillouin.org - Contact the team handling Social Media (Linkedin, X)

• website@biobrillouin.org - Contact the team handling the website (www.biobrillouin.org)

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).

New publications

Articles

• Bevilacqua et al - Full-field Brillouin microscopy based on an imaging Fourier transform spectrometer - link

• Florian P. Lindner et al - Combining Brillouin Light Scattering Spectroscopy and Machine-Learned Interatomic Potentials to Probe Mechanical Properties of Metal-Organic Frameworks - link

• Timon Beck et al - Optical characterization of molecular interaction strength in protein condensates - link

• Timm Landes et al - Micromechanical behavior of the apple fruit cuticle investigated by Brillouin light scattering microscopy - 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

Upcoming events

• Conference - 3-5 April 2025 - Montpellier (France) - International Conference on Biomedical Photonics - link - Abstract submission before March 2 2025

• Conference - 22-26 June 2025 - München (Germany) - European Conference on Biomedical Optics - link - Abstract submission before February 18 2025

• Conference - 30 June - 5 July 2025 - Rome (Italy) - 15th European Biophysical Societies' Association Congress - link - Abstract submission before March 17 2025

• 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 - 27-29 October 2025 - Somerville (USA) - BioBrillouin Conference

New position openings

• 6 months internship followed by PhD position on time-resolved BLS - Institut Lumiere Matiere - Lyon (France) - Thomas Dehoux

• 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-domain Brillouin scattering for Cancer Research - University of Nottingham - Nottingham (England) - Salvatore La Cavera III

• PhD position - Arctic University of Norway - Tromsø (Norway) - link - Florian Ströhl - application deadline: March 9th

• 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 - Michigan State University - Detroit (USA) - link - Jitao Zhang

• Research engineer position - Arctic University of Norway - Tromsø (Norway) - link - Florian Ströhl - application deadline: March 9th

Interesting facts

• What dispersive optical element was used to first observe and report Brillouin Light Scattering in 1930? An Echelle (also called Echelon) Grating!