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Cécile M. Bidan

@cmbidan.bsky.social
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Materials scientist staring at cells while they grow tissue and at bacteria while they grow slime

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Laura Zorzetto @laurazorzetto.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
What do Zn, hydroxyapatite and bacteria have in common? They can all be found in E. coli biofilm! 🧫🦠 Check out my latest paper in the group of @cmbidan.bsky.social at @mpici.bsky.social in collaboration with Ioanna Mantouvalou and Leona Bauer at @tuberlin.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Zinc and hydroxyapatite co-localize during in vitro E. coli biofilms mineralization - Scientific Reports
Biofilms are biological materials that form as bacteria protect themselves from environmental challenges secreting extracellular matrix and accumulating minerals under specific conditions. To understa...
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Euro Curvo Bio Net COST Network @eurocurvobionet.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
New opportunity via #EuroCurvoBioNet! Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSMs) are open! 💶 Up to €4,000 in travel funding 🧳 For PhDs, postdocs & researchers 🌱 > 5 days 🌍 Visit another lab in a COST country 📅 Deadline: March 31, 2026 🔗 Must be completed by April 30, 2026 www.curvobio.com/stsm
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Euro Curvo Bio Net COST Network @eurocurvobionet.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
🎉 Happy NY #CurvoBio friends! We’re back w/ fresh curvature & a brand new webinar! Nan Ma (Freie Universität Berlin 🇩🇪) 📅 Wed, 7 Jan 2026, 13:30 CET (o/ Teams) “Blastocyst Curvature Resets Pluripotency” Stick around for details on our new "Curvature in Biology" course and how you can help shape it!
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Euro Curvo Bio Net COST Network @eurocurvobionet.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Our network isn't just about sharing knowledge and building scientific bridges. It's also about supporting each other’s careers and collaborations. That’s why we’re excited to reshare this great opportunity from one of our own! 🚨 A new position is open in the group of @javierbuceta.bsky.social
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Ⓙⓐⓥⓘⓔⓡ🇵🇸🍉 Ⓑⓤⓒⓔⓣⓐ🇺🇦🇪🇺 @javierbuceta.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
🚨JOB ALERT Dr. Buceta at @i2sysbio.es welcome applications for 36-month postdocs on: 👉 Mechanical markers of tissue dysfunction due to ageing – digital twins & machine learning Details here: fgcsic.es/convocatoria... 📩 Contact javier.buceta@csic.es to shape your proposal! @epimechfc.bsky.social
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ComFuturo Fourth Edition: ComFuturo iAGE Call - FGCSIC
The Fundación General CSIC (FGCSIC) launches the fourth edition of its ComFuturo programme: ComFuturo iAGE, a postdoctoral initiative co-financed by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions COFUND scheme of...
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Max Planck Institute of Colloids & Interfaces (MPICI) @mpici.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Shorter days? Perfect excuse for a #museum visit. Meet #mucus —winter’s nemesis & a versatile natural material. 📍 Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum 📅 until Sep 2026 Explore 3D #biofilm & snail-mucus models and find out how scientists turn them into #biomaterials. bmm-charite.de/ausstellunge...
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Ausstellung Schleim - Geheimnisse einer unterschätzten Körperflüssigkeit
Ohne Schleim könnten wir nicht Überleben. Er ist essenziell für viele Körperfunktionen. Dennoch hat er ein schlechtes Image. Das BMM widmet dieser unterschätzten Körperflüssigkeit nun eine eigene Auss...
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Ⓙⓐⓥⓘⓔⓡ🇵🇸🍉 Ⓑⓤⓒⓔⓣⓐ🇺🇦🇪🇺 @javierbuceta.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
🚨 New Episode of the CurvoBio podcast!! Find out how butterflies got a vibrant green in their wings using gyroids!! @eurocurvobionet.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/27Xh...
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The Butterfly's Secret Weave: Unraveling the True Blueprint for Natural Color
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Euro Curvo Bio Net COST Network @eurocurvobionet.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
☕ Feeling the November chill? Warm up with some cutting-edge science, straight from Australia to your screen! 🎙️ Pascal Buenzli (Queensland University of Technology 🇦🇺) 🗓️ Wed, 5 Nov 2025 🕧 12:30 CET 📍 Live on Microsoft Teams, no passport needed. This marks another step in taking EuroCurvoBio global 🌏
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Laura Zorzetto @laurazorzetto.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
If you know me, I have probably told you how E.coli 🦠 can accumulate hydroxyapatite. In this preprint, I show that Zinc is colocalized with the mineral accumulation www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7... Thanks to @cmbidan.bsky.social and all the other co-authors and to @mpici.bsky.social
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Accumulation of zinc during E. coli biofilm mineralization: within or surrounding the hydroxyapatite?
Biofilms are biological materials that form as bacteria secrete extracellular matrix to protect themselves from environmental challenges. Specific conditions lead to biofilm mineralization, like in de...
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Euro Curvo Bio Net COST Network @eurocurvobionet.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
1/3 🎉 Season 3 of EuroCurvoBioNet Webinars is officially underway! We’ve moved to Microsoft Teams – but kept the winning formula: 🗓️ First Wednesday of the month 🕜 13:30 CET (except 5 Nov at 12:30CET) 🎥 Recordings = members-only (unlisted) 📌 3 Sept – Tiago Pires 🇵🇹 (Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon)
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Cécile M. Bidan @cmbidan.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
The #CurvoBio Outreach workshop was great fun! Can't wait to implement the ideas at the next science fair 🤩
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Ⓙⓐⓥⓘⓔⓡ🇵🇸🍉 Ⓑⓤⓒⓔⓣⓐ🇺🇦🇪🇺 @javierbuceta.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
New episodes at the CurvoBio podcast! 🔊🤓👩‍🔬 @eurocurvobionet.bsky.social @cmbidan.bsky.social open.spotify.com/show/7rwWsQD...
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Podcast · EU COST Action CA22153 (EuroCurvoBioNet); Podcast Developer: Javier Buceta · CurvoBio Podcast is the outreach voice of the European Curvature and Biology Network (EuroCurvoBioNet), a EU COST...
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Cécile M. Bidan @cmbidan.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Really happy to see this work finally published! An achievement that results from a real group effort over the past 7 years. Many thanks and congratulations to all the people involved 🥳
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Cécile M. Bidan @cmbidan.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
It was great fun and very much inspiring for the future EuroCurvoBioNet events across Europe. 🤗
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Max Planck Institute of Colloids & Interfaces (MPICI) @mpici.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Dem Schneckenschleim auf der Spur 🐌 Franziska Jehle war live bei Radio 1 und sprach über ihre Forschung. Bunt gefärbte Proben vom Schechenschleim unter dem Mikroskop waren eines der Mitmach-Experimente beim #PTDW25. tinyurl.com/ssy7mpth
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Podcast: Über die Vielseitigkeit von Schneckenschleim
Auf den ersten Blick scheint Schleim eher ungeeignet als Material zu sein. Allerdings setzt die Natur ihren Schleim vielseitig ein - ob Korallenschleim als UV-Schutz oder als Abwehrsystem, um Raubtier...
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Euro Curvo Bio Net COST Network @eurocurvobionet.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
🎙️ The EUROCURVOBIO PODCAST is here! Now on Spotify — where physics, math & biology meet through the lens of curvature. From cell behavior to tissue shape, we break down frontier science in simple terms. 🎧 Listen now: rb.gy/ukjbkn curated by @javierbuceta.bsky.social #CurvoBio #Podcast #Curvature
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Podcast · EU COST Action CA22153 (EuroCurvoBioNet); Podcast Developer: Javier Buceta · CurvoBio Podcast is the outreach voice of the European Curvature and Biology Network (EuroCurvoBioNet), a EU COST...
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Euro Curvo Bio Net COST Network @eurocurvobionet.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
💡Got inspired by our webinar today? Now’s your chance to turn that spark into a scientific journey The Call for Short-Term Scientific Missions is OPEN! 🧳 Visit a lab in another COST country 💶 Expenses< €2k travel & stay 📅 Sept 30 — or before the € runs out! 📝 www.curvobio.com/stsm
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Euro Curvo Bio Net COST Network @eurocurvobionet.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
👋 Hello Bluesky! This is our first post 🌐 We’re launching our presence here with EuroCurvoBioNet Monthly Webinars: 🧪 Anupam Sengupta (University of Luxembourg) 🗓️ 7 May 2025 – 13:30 CET – Zoom Curvo-hydrodynamics: Flow-curvature interactions and feedback in biological fluids
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Euro Curvo Bio Net COST Network @eurocurvobionet.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Perfectly at the intersection of fluid dynamics and curvature in biology — join us to explore how geometry shapes flow and function in living systems! 🔗 Full schedule: curvobio.com/webinars#Cur... #Biophysics #Curvature #Webinar #ScientificCommunity #BlueskyScience
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Max Planck Institute of Colloids & Interfaces (MPICI) @mpici.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
#Bakterien bilden Schleimfilme als Schutz & passen ihre Struktur an, um auf jeder Oberfläche zu überleben. Wie verhalten sie sich auf unebenen, kurvigen Flächen? Erforsche es mit uns–& lass dich zu neuen #Materialien inspirieren 📅 10. Mai 📍 @potsdamsciencepark.bsky.social 👉 www.ptdw.de #chemsky
E.coli strain and fluorescent stains.
©Laura Zorzetto, Cécile Bidan
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Max Planck Institute of Colloids & Interfaces (MPICI) @mpici.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Wie können wir von der Natur – Insekten, Bakterien, Pflanzen – lernen, farbstofffreie Farben herzustellen? Und wie können Schnecken, Baumrinde oder Wachteleier uns zu nachhaltigen Materialien inspirieren? Experimentiere mit uns am #PotsdamerTagderWissenschaften & finde die Antworten! #PTDW25
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Amaia Cipitria @amaiacipitria.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
We are hiring, please RT! #Postdoc in the @ERC_Research project #DORMATRIX, developing #advanced #3Dimaging of #cancer dormancy & #metastasis. Bioengineers, biophysicists, biologists, computer scientists or similar. @biogipuzkoa @Ikerbasque. More info👉 bit.ly/4gXLP96
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Max Planck Institute of Colloids & Interfaces (MPICI) @mpici.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Meet @laurazorzetto.bsky.social, a #biomaterials #WomanInStem in @cmbidan.bsky.social's group. She learns from #bacterial #mineralization how to craft functional materials... even if they are sticky & stinky! Here you can see the intricate structures that the #bacterium #E.coli can grow #ChemSky
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Max Planck Institute of Colloids & Interfaces (MPICI) @mpici.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
How can we learn from microbial #biofilms to engineer functional #biomaterials? @cmbidan.bsky.social cstudies how #biofilms form as #bacteria get embedded in their fibrous #ExtracellularMatrix ( #proteins & #polysaccharides) under different physical challenges #chemsky tinyurl.com/4j4vtu46
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Biofilm-based Materials
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Max Planck Institute of Colloids & Interfaces (MPICI) @mpici.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Snug as a bug in a E.Coli #biofilm (as seen in this scanning electron microscope pic) Laura Zorzetto & colleagues studied microbial #tissue growth & #mineralization on solid substrates in humid environments #ChemSky #InVitroModel #WomenInStem ➡️ Read more: tinyurl.com/fexr8zr8
scanning electron microscope picture of an E.coli biofilm
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biofilmman.bsky.social @biofilmman.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
🌟 Excited to share our latest research on #Bacterial #Cellulose: Enhancing Productivity and Material Properties Through Repeated Harvest! 🧫 📄 full preprint on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #BacterialCellulose #biofilm #MaterialScience #Bioengineering #Research #Innovation
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Cécile M. Bidan @cmbidan.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Relocating is part of academics life so ... hello Bluesky! 🦋
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