November 2024
Gunnhild Torgersen’s Wadden Sea creatures are on tour! Visit the Mud Agents at KRAFT in Bergen until 12 January 2025. My accompanying essay on The purposeful and the desolate lives here.
Gunnhild Torgersen’s Wadden Sea creatures are on tour! Visit the Mud Agents at KRAFT in Bergen until 12 January 2025. My accompanying essay on The purposeful and the desolate lives here.
We performed our first large experiment with Parse Biosciences single-cell technology for the SALMOCODE project. Update: looking great after initial sequencing!
I wrote a review (in Dutch) of two books proclaiming the ‘New Biology’: How Life Works, a User’s Guide to the New Biology by Philip Ball and The New Biology: a Battle between Mechanism and Organicism by Michael Reiss and Michael Ruse. Both books argue that we may need to update our world view based on recent developments in biology, but arrive at quite different conclusions regarding humanity's place in nature. Published in The Dutch Review of Books.
I collaborated with artist Gunnhild Torgersen on her exhibition Pathmakers at Krognoshuset in Lund, Sweden. Her sculptures explore the no man's land between inanimate matter and life, and in my short companion essay I draw a few parallels with theoretical biology and science fiction literature.
Have a look at our video explaining the aims of the SALMOCODE project!
I collaborated with Muhammad Royan and Romain Fontaine for a study on the effects of day length on reproduction in medaka, now published in Communications Biology.