What a pleasure and honor to host
@ProfZhaoMIT
in our lab and talk about challenges and opportunities in magnetic control and detection! Looking forward to more exchange in the future.
I‘m grateful to be partially back from my maternity leave to exchange with my team and focus on the most important tasks for our research. Amadea is my sleepy company in the office and already learns lots about magnetism 😅.
Such a delight and honor to host
@DrRituRaman
for her talk on “Biological sensing, processing, and actuation for robots” at the Distinguished Seminar Series in Robotics at
@ETH_en
! She captivated and inspired a fully packed lecture hall!
I'm so thrilled about this opportunity to share our latest work & can't wait to connect with everyone! Bumped I had to cancel my trip last minute, but a little growing human in my belly decided I have to rest. Couldn't imagine a better reason though ;). Yay for online options!
for our FINAL
@hseas
#topicsbioeng
this spring, we e-welcome
@SimoneSchuerle
@ETH_en
for an e-seminar on "engineering microrobots for tissue probing, biosensing, and enhanced drug delivery." please join us on zoom for her public seminar 04/27 12-1pm! don't miss this one🙂🧬🧫⛈️
We did it! 1 year of parenting, while running a start up and young research group, and he survived it! We couldn’t be more grateful for this little joyful boy. Soon he won’t need our hands anymore to walk and I cannot wait to fully understand what he all has to say.
I never had such such a lucky streak before: thrilled to share the news that we got funded by the SNSF for our new work on responsive ultrasound contrast agents for molecular imaging of soluble biomarkers! That being said, we’re hiring!
So much fun to have Gio Traverso from
@MIT
today in our brand new lab for a quick tour and great exchange on ultrasound contrast agents and of course magnets! He’s holding a part of one of our magic spheres for magnetic torque focusing, see more in our latest two preprints!
This is
#Switzerland
: by the time you realize your credit card got lost, your bank was already informed by someone who found it 2 days ago and a new one is on its way. No charges made. Thank you 🙏
Thrilled to announce funding from
@snsf_ch
for our research on magnetically enhanced live therapeutics for cancer treatment! We will collaborate with clinician-scientists at
@UZH_en
and push our technologies toward clinical translation. Interested in joining us? We're hiring :)!
Marveling at the mountains never gets old and is my favorite way to reset and recharge after some busy times. I’m definitely ready for the new week :)!
Exhausted but grateful I could squeeze in 1.5 days at the magnetotactic bacteria meeting in Bayreuth—and celebrate my toddlers 2nd birthday in some (sciency) way with him! And I’m very excited for my team to share and hear more science during the next days!
I had such a fantastic trip to my old scientific home and feel fueled with new ideas for collaborations! Thank you for hosting me,
@stefanispranger
at
@kochinstitute
! I’m forever grateful for my wonderful postdoc time there at the
@snbhatia
lab!
The first edition of
@natrevbioeng
is out and we’re over the moon to be featured as Research Highlight with our recent publication in
@SciRobotics
! Congrats again to my whole team at
@ETH_en
! Stay tuned, more is on the way!
Snap shot of our current team assembly and team spirit — the sky is the limit! Excited to keep pushing with this wonderful team! Together we speak 11 languages and cover 7 distinct disciplines
#Diversity
Seeing my students successfully defend their thesis creates by far my most happy and proud moments! Congratulations, dear Nima Mirkhani! It's been a joy working with you and I look forward to seeing you continue to thrive! And some more fun joint science projects!
Awwww, we got it👇🏼! Exciting boost for our work on magnetically empowered bacteria for cancer therapy!! I’m ready to book the next trip to the mountains, so far having a 100% success rate for grant submissions up there (n=1)🥂
Finished preparing my lecture slides and went off for a short trip: hiking, swimming (cold!!), and planting trees. I’m feeling ready for the new semester to come tomorrow and wish you all a great start.
My little one inspecting our new electromagnets on Friday and cows on Saturday, just before I’m heading out to the GRC on Robotics 2022. Excited to go there but already know I’ll miss him big times!
It’s getting serious!! Ready for 1 week of testing with top notch US imaging equipment. My first and soon-to-be-defending PhD student Dragana is working on the icing of her thesis cake ;)
Congratulations to Daphne (in front) for winning yet another best poster award for her research on mechanical probing of tissue models. This needs to be celebrated 🥳!
Thrilled to see this work out that has been years in the making! Big congrats to the whole team, especially Tino, Nima and Michael! Just today we spent all day in the lab working on the nexts steps of our vision to control living therapeutics for improved safety & efficacy!
Such an honor and pleasure to give a talk in this wonderful session with some
of my favorite robotics fellows
@MarianaMedinaS6
and
@sabinehauert
chaired by
@DrRituRaman
! Women power in robotics full steam ahead!
I can’t believe I made it into the "Top 10 Winners in Engineering and Technology" at the
@Falling_Walls
World Science Summit 2020. Kudos to everyone who supported me on my path and my fabulous team
@ETH_en
! What a boost for us to keep pushing our work!
And this is how these mini tumors looked like after 120h, with 1h exposure to our scalable, magnetic control using rotating magnetic fields (RMF) vs no field! Combing the power of magnetism and autonomous taxis based locomotion! 👇🏼
A new study suggests that using rotating magnetic field can enhance delivery of magnetotactic
#bacteria
to tumors both in vitro and in vivo, with potential to improve targeting and efficacy of therapeutics.
@ETH_en
@SimoneSchuerle
📄:
We got funding for an exciting new project on "Engineering protease responsive ultrasound contrast agents" and are hiring! Are you a talented and motivated chemical engineering student seeking a PhD degree in an interdisciplinary team? Please apply:
Excited to have our work out in "early view"! Using magnetotactic bacteria as a living self-replicating material, we identify a unique magnetic manipulation scheme for selective drug delivery. Stay tuned for the cover ;)!!
Honored and grateful to have been part of this wonderful team with
@ZenobiWongLab
and
@Wuertz_Lab
that got nominated for the ETH KITE award for innovation in teaching. We did not win, but being up there felt already like a big accomplishment!
When I picked up my badge at the registration, I was told “Oh, so nice to see a woman!” You cannot imagine how thrilled I was to see and reconnect with
@MarianaMedinaS6
👇🏼
#womeninSTEM
#microrobots
So honored to be nominated for work that I started during my postdoc and am now continuing with my fabulous team at ETHZ on a new magnetic manipulation scheme to improve targeted drug delivery! Thanks also to all the students who worked with me on this along the way!
We are thrilled to see our study on “3D magnetically controlled spatiotemporal probing and actuation of collagen networks from a single cell perspective” being featured on the front cover! Thank you
@LabonaChip
!
Happy holidays from the Responsive Biomedical Systems Lab! Grateful for a fantastic team, wonderful collaborators, supportive colleagues, and a top notch research environment at
@ETH_en
! Thank you 🙏
Quick lunch break run with the team and view of the alps! Thanks to our newly nominated chief sports officer and protease expert Dr. Rachel Ward we also did “fun” relay intervals!
#Sola2023
we’re coming :)
Thrilled to have hosted our first proper lab tour in our new home for these bright and curious students supported by the Swiss Study Foundation! We got bombarded with questions 😅
Kicking off the new semester! A warm welcome to our new semester students Shashaank, Silas, Nico and Dominique! And good luck to our alumni who are off to new endeavors!
Such an honor to have been nominated along my stellar colleagues! Big congratulations to all of you and especially to
@mssakar
for winning the award! I’m sad I couldn’t be there, but am already looking forward to joining you all at MARSS2024!
It was a great honor for me to be one of the nominees for the Big-on-Small award at MARSS2023 together with outstanding researchers from our community
@SimoneSchuerle
@JunLiu
@abdon_pf
and
@mssakar
. Special Congratulations to Selman for winning the award. Amazing career!
Excited to share new work from our lab, led by Dr. Michael Christiansen, on inductive detection of microrobots via rotating magnetic fields, ultimately to improve efficacy and safety in therapeutic applications! Congrats to the whole team!
Fueled with joy and inspirations after a short but intensive visit to London for
#ICRA2023
! So great to connect and reconnect! It has been and always will be my academic home conference and currently unable to fly doesn’t hold me back to take a long train ride
#GoGreen
😉!
Excited to see our work in the news! Stay tuned for more updates on the abilities of these microorganisms as living therapeutics—of course under magnetic control ;)
I’m on maternity leave and rearranged my office to give the semester students more space— l am thrilled to see how to put it to use :)!
#spaceisprecious
I‘m so excited that we’re with our research part of this art science project with the artist Susanne Winterling! Come drop by and experience an immersive exhibition into the micro world of cancer-fighting bacteria!
Last defense of this year! So proud of Daphne Asgeirsson for successfully defending her thesis! She was recognized with several conference awards for her research on mechanical probing of tissue matrix models and mastered a super interdisciplinary project! Congrats!
So excited to see our collaborative work on engineering and controlling soft microrobots with structural and magnetic anisotropy highlighted in
@CommsEng
! Big congrats to Yimo Yan and Chao Song from
@deMelloGroup
and all co-authors! Check out the microrobots’ swarm behavior.
Time to breathe: forced my kicking 2yold in the dark on my bike to drop him off at daycare, biked across town for a 4h teaching sesh, was ready to deliver at 8AM—just my laptop did not start up ever since. Thanks to my students for loaning one of theirs, and this gorgeous view 🙏
We’re live with our brand new website! Big thanks to
@RachelKathrynW
for taking the lead in realizing this! Check out our latest news on preprints and conference talks. What a productive year so far thanks to our fabulous team and alumni!
#proudPI
@ETH_en
Fully back from maternity leave also means scrambling with stubborn daycare viruses 😫. Thanks to my team and all collaborators for accommodating sudden changes in schedule and switches back to zoom! One seriously needs triple back up support! How do you do it?
We have an exciting new postdoc position opening up in my lab for research and teaching on lab-on-a-chip applications. Teaching involves supporting me in running a new practical course in microfluidics using Augmented Reality tools. Please share!
Another paper alert 📣: congratulations to Nima Mirkhani, Michael Christiansen, Tino Gwisai and Stefano Menghini for publishing our new reserach on spatially selective torque delivery for targeted magnetic microrobot control in
@NatureComms
Such a fantastic workshop on micro/nanorobotics for medicine with these terrific ladies
@noliva77
,
@Kamalylab
and
@florealarissa
! Kudos to the organizers for providing a stage for this convergence of disciplines! We also identified partially some common roots
@kochinstitute
;)
One of my best typos in an e-mail that actually went out: “The electromagnetic system showed higher romance in its assembled state.” Well, I’m for sure in love with magnetism 😆
Juggling work and child care is challenging, especially when your system breaks-> nanny calls in sick and no backup is available. Thankfully I work with wonderful colleagues who understand and don’t mind my (here finally sleeping) little fellow during a swiftly relocated meeting.
Need a teaser to come to your exhibition "The flux under your skin"? We got featured by
@AuftankenT
Come and escape the grey November weather and immerse in bright fluorescent colors in a cozy room
@ETH
@ETH_en
! Only until the end of this month!
So excited to finally see this work from us out! Big congrats to the team! We will apply the established methods in studying the effect of local mechanical stimuli on metastasis.
Check out '3D magnetically controlled spatiotemporal probing and actuation of collagen networks from a single cell perspective' by Simone Schuerle
@SimoneSchuerle
& colleagues. Available below 👇
How does it come that journals send their notifications and requests last thing on Friday? Waking up this morning to proofs and an acceptance w minor revisions notification. Held my breath checking and am so glad I can enjoy this sunny weekend now 🥳
Today we would have had a spring festival in Zurich on which occasion the “Böögg” is burnt. It resembles a snowman and symbolizes the winter, and the shorter it burns, the longer summer will last. We had a mini Böögg at the lab, it took 9s to to burn it -> summer will be great!
Feeling literally pumped to be almost fully back at work 😆. Survived my first 9h committee meeting and am grateful for the availability of nursing rooms on campuses at
@ETH_en
. Best thing on top: at the same time I can help lactation research by sharing samples 😉!
Fantastic article with wonderful insights and perspectives from
@snbhatia
! I’m lucky and incredibly grateful to have been trained and mentored by her!
Ludwig
@MIT
’s
@snbhatia
speaks about childlike curiosity as fuel for a scientific career, her advocacy for women as scientists and entrepreneurs and her emphasis on making science fit her life—not the other way around.
#LudwigWomenLeaders
Got this invitation for a winter school: "It is critical to connect veteran innovators in the field, such as yourself, with younger researchers entering this field." OMG, already?? I'm really not yet feeling like a veteran yet 😅
I think I used up all luck: we had a storm with some flooding. Miraculously, all water puddles formed on the floor and only on one of the few benches without any delicate electronic system. It kindly stopped just behind the dynamic light scattering machine 😅!
Not only the nanoparticles took a fantastic voyage, so did I with a fabulous team of scientists! And the journey continues - more on this with my team
@ETH_en
Thanks to
@AuftankenT
for their coverage on our interactive exhibition about bacteria for cancer therapy by the artist Susanne M Winterling, at
@ETH_en
, supported by
@ScheringStiftg
,
@snsf_ch
and ETH Global! The exhibition runs November with many science talks to come!
Congratulations again to Nima Mirkhani and Dr. Michael Christiansen for their excellent work that just came off the print in AFM and was selected for the cover! Kudos to our one only science illustrator Sonia Monti for the art work
Fantastic work from the Bhatia lab
@snbhatia
is competing at STAT Madness! You can vote for them here (match up 13) and support nano diagnostics to differentiate between bacterial and viral infections
A Bhatia Lab nanoparticle sensor can distinguish between viral and bacterial pneumonia, and could help doctors avoid prescribing antibiotics when they won't help.
Read👉
Vote KI Match 13
#STATMadness
👇
Check out our new review on “Engineering Cell-Based Systems for Smart Cancer Therapy”. Nima Mirkhani and Tino Gwisai took a deep dive and did fabulous job in synthesizing the literature!
Our last submission of 2022, now available as preprint on Research Square! We study apoptotic pathways of a magnetotactic bacteria strain as a potential agent in bacterial cancer therapy (that can be controlled with external magnetic fields, as shown in our other works!)
Big thanks to
@SpeidelStefanie
for welcoming me so warmly to the Hamlyn Medical Robotics community. I had such a fantastic time and look forward to next year’s symposium, with more microrobotics!
We’re hiring! Are you excited about the diagnostic potential of proteases and would like to work with an interdisciplinary research team on developing molecular ultrasound contrast agents to image proteolytic activity? If yes, check out our new opening:
It has been an honor and pleasure to host the artist Prof. Susanne Winterling in our lab. The immersive experience of science through art can be seen (and felt!) until September 19th in Berlin:
@ScheringStiftg
@susanwinterling
@ETH_en
Woohoo, I passed the 5000km mark, almost exclusively in the name of science (ok, supported by an electrical motor). I use this bike mainly to commute to the lab and between campuses for teaching and meetings — today en route to our first visit of the experimental OR!
Proud to share another new piece form our group, led by Dr. Michael Christiansen, on theoretical considerations of the magnitude and time scale of induced electric fields due to the dynamic behavior of individual single domain magnetic nanoparticles:
As expected — blown away by the one and only
@hughherr
@MIT
delivering fantastic plenary talk at
@ieee_ras_icra
with an inspiring outlook towards the fusion of technologies for next generation bionics including magnetomicrometry and optoelectronics!
Some news on our exciting collaboration with the Benini lab at the Institute for Integrated Systems on non-invasive, continuous monitoring of urinary bladder volume to reduce the need for catheterization and potential risk for infections!
And big congratulations to - now officially - Dr. Dragana Dubey who defended with flying colors and is about to start an exciting position in the leading pharmaceutical industry! We will dearly miss you!
@AuftankenT
@ETH
@ETH_en
Come join us Monday, 13th of November at 5:30 PM and learn about your intestinal bacteria jungle and how to control it from my dear colleague and rockstar scientist
@Slack1Emma
! Spread the word! More info here
@eth_new
Found my remarkable and dear colleague
@Slack1Emma
(how does she do it all?) today kneeling on the floor glueing cardboard microbes onto this Pig Pong cart her team prepared😅! Come to
#Scientifica21
and learn about microbiome engineering—and a whole lot more!
Much thanks to
@foodimmunology
for the microbiome upgrade for Pig Pong! Come for the cute pigs. Stay for the microbiome engineering knowledge!
@NCCRMicrobiomes
#Scientifica21
(UZH Lichthof, 4th/5th Sept, )
There is still time to submit papers and workshop proposals for the International Symposium in Medical Robotics at Georgia Tech held in April 2023. See all details here:
Hope to see many medical robotics colleagues there!