BetzLab

If you want to literally play with a microscope, try our new LEGO based one: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…. Plans and multi-language guides to teach kids are on GitHub: github.com/tobetz/LegoMic…. Sub-micron resolution thanks to a smartphone lens. Please RT, so that it reaches the kids!

Jochen Guck just passed away. He was not only a brilliant mind, amazing researcher, and outstanding person — he was also one of the best friends one could ever have. Jochen, you will be missed so deeply. Your spirit and laughter will stay in our hearts forever.

After 8 amazing months at the NYU/Center for Soft Matter Research I had to say goodbye😭to a wonderful group of colleagues and students. Thanks for the hospitality and patience in teaching me active swimmers and holographic tweezers🤩. Next thing to do: Setting it up in Germany💪

I am so proud. Dorian's poster was selected for the posterprize at this years spring meeting of the German Physical Society🥳. Well deserved 🫠. Three prizes by my students in three years. I am so lucky that I can call this talented crowd of passionate researchers the BetzLab 🤩

Getting tissue stress from images is tough, and elastic tension sensors are a way to solve this. Still, the analysis is complex. Try our GUI gitlab.gwdg.de/betzlab_public… implementing analytical solutions to obtain surface stresses AND shape parameters of beads and nuclei.