The paper: “Voltage imaging with engineered proton-pumping Rhodopsins: Insights from the proton transfer pathway” by Xin Meng and Vidya Ganapathy et al has been selected to be featured as an ACS Editors' Choice in addition to being published in ACS Physical Chemistry Au. The paper has been selected for this honor because of its potential for broad public interest.

How do we get pupils interested in science, and especially physics? One way is to develop lessons that are relevant to them. Freek Pols published an article for physics teachers in which the physics of Spiderman is investigated.

Net als ballasttanks in onderzeeërs of de zwemblazen van vissen, gebruiken veel waterbacteriën gasblaasjes om hun drijfvermogen te regelen. In een publicatie in Cell hebben wetenschappers van de TU Delft nu voor het eerst de moleculaire structuur van deze blaasjes omschreven. De gasblaasjes zijn onlangs al ingezet als contrastmiddel bij echo's.

Dr. Hamed Abbasi joined ImPhys as Postdoc. He will explore clinical applications of computational scattered light imaging under the supervision of Dr. Miriam Menzel.

Yutong Wang joined ImPhys on February 15th. He will work on 3D super-resolution microscopy under the supervision of Prof. Sjoerd Stallinga and Prof. Bernd Rieger.

Op 20 februari ontving NL-BioImaging (NL-BI) een honorering van 25 miljoen euro, waarvan 15 miljoen euro afkomstig is van de NWO. Deze financiering helpt het consortium om een nationale wetenschappelijke infrastructuur te vormen op het gebied van geavanceerde microscopie, en geeft alle leden toegang tot de beste beeldvormingstechnieken en analyseplatforms.

Ahmed B. Ayoub joined ImPhys per February 1st as postdoctoral researcher. He will work on super-resolution microscopy under supervision of Prof. Sjoerd Stallinga.

Mohammad joined ImPhys as a PhD student in the European doctorate program enabling the next generation of computational physicists and engineers (ENGAGE). He is working under the supervision of Dr. Eric Verschuur.

Freek Pols published a frontline article: Collaborative data collection: shifting focus on meaning making during practical work. In this paper he presents, together with a high school teacher, an approach to practical work in which data collection is minimized freeing time for the more cognitive demanding tasks such as data-analysis and drawing conclusions.

Freek Pols organized the NNV Landelijke practicumdag: An event for and by university physics lab course teachers. It was a great success with 40 people from 12 different institutes from the Netherlands.