This technique can make small creatures and biopsies transparent. The unique optics developed by PhD candidate Jelle van der Horst can look through 4 mm of tissue with infrared light.

The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded Rik Vos a Vidi grant worth EUR 800,000. A Vidi grant enables the researchers to set up their own research group to develop their own innovative line of research. 

Elizabeth Carroll and colleagues from UC Berkeley have published an article in Nature Chemical Biology which links elemental copper in the brain to regulation of sleep. Copper distributions in the brain of zebrafish were measured using laser-assisted mass spectrometry.

Martin Verweij joined the trade mission to India (May 22-25). Accompanied by Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, the delegation visited Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore. The mission focused on maritime trade, agrifood, ICT, life sciences & health, and smart cities.

Eric Verschuur provided support to the Dutch tv-program "De Proefkeuken". They have visited the anechoic chamber for their program on how to build a speaker.

A recently accepted paper in Nano Letters by ImPhys researchers Robert Moerland, Gerward Weppelman, Marijke Scotuzzi, and Jacob Hoogenboom was mentioned in the news forum of tech-website Tweakers. In the publication our ImPhys colleagues use pulsed beams of electrons instead of photons to probe the light-matter coupling inside nanoscale lasers.

Better insight into white matter (WM) alterations after stroke onset could help to understand the underlying recovery mechanisms and improve future interventions. MR diffusion imaging enables to assess such changes. The goal was to investigate the relation of WM diffusion characteristics derived from diffusion models of increasing complexity with the motor function of the upper limb. Moreover, the researchers aimed to evaluate the variation of such characteristics across different WM structures of chronic stroke patients in comparison to healthy subjects.

On April 23 Sander started his BSc project on MRI Imaging. His supervisor is Frans Vos.

On April 23 Jeffrey Bakker started his BSc project on "DTI MRI tbss ampethamine use". His supervisor is Frans Vos.

Taylor will work on single molecule localisation microscope and build a new setup for imaging. We envision that with this setup he can localise single molecules with less light than the current standard. He will work together with PhD student Ramus Thorsen and as supervisors Sjoerd Stallinga and Bernd Rieger.