Talks

  • "Wavefronts and mechanical signaling in early Drosophila embryos"
    • APS March meeting (Boston, MA, March 2012)

  • "Synchronization wavefronts in early Drosophila embryos"
    • TU Delft (November 2011)
    • Leiden University Theoretical physics seminar (Leiden, November 2011)
    • Syracuse physics seminar (Syracuse, NY, December 2011)
    • WAM seminar (Harvard, Cambridge, MA, December 2011)

  • "Of waves and fruit flies"
    • LRSM seminar (UPenn, Philadelphia, PA, June 2011)

  • "Keeping track of embryo development: new insights in the coupling between local and global changes"
    • APS March meeting (Dallas, TX, March 2011)

  • "Bridging biology and physics in syncytial Drosophila embryos"
    • Princeton University biophysics seminar (December 2010)

  • "The math of membranes and motors"
    • University of Pennsylvania Soft Matter MRSEC seminar (April 2010)
    • Carnegie Mellon soft matter seminar (Pittsburgh, April 2010)

  • "Structuur, vorm en dynamica van biologische membranen"
    • PhD defense talk (in Dutch, Leiden University, 19 November 2009)

  • "A new model for contact inhibition and tumorigenesis"
    • This weeks discoveries (Leiden Faculty of Science seminar, November 2009)

  • "Membrane organization - from phase separation to the sorting of large domains"
    • Leiden general physics colloquium (June 2009)

  • "Onverklaarbaar?"
    • Popular lecture in Dutch (Leiden, May 2009)

  • "The magic of membranes - where differential geometry and biology meet"
    • Cambridge DAMTP seminar (Cambridge, UK, May 2009)

  • "The math of membranes - how differential geometry can be useful for biology"
    • UCLA physics/chemistry theory seminar (Los Angeles, California, January 2009)
    • UPenn physics seminar (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 2009)

  • "Life by means of random processes - A story of diffusion, regulation, cooperation and the usefulness of inefficiency"
    • Leiden mathematics seminar (October 2008)

  • "Membrane mediated sorting"
    • FOM Biophysics days (Veldhoven, September 2008)
    • FOM program meeting (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, November 2008)

  • "Ncd pulls along - how nonprocessive motors can contribute by being inefficient"
    • Casimir spring school (Heeg, May 2008)

  • "The maths of membranes - how differential geometry can be useful for biology"
    • Leiden Mathematics Seminar (March 2007)
    • Theory Seminar Institut Curie (Paris, France, January 2008)
    • This weeks discoveries (Leiden Faculty of Science seminar, April 2008)

  • "How molecular motors pull membrane tubes"
    • DRSTP spring school (Driebergen, 2007)

  • "Towards understanding the shape of multi-component bilayer vesicles"
    • Fom@Veldhoven 2007

  • "Barbapapa's at the cellular level - towards understanding the shape of multi-component bilayer vesicles"
    • Casimir spring school (Heeg, 2006)
    • DRSTP spring school (Driebergen, 2006)
    • Universitas Jagellonica (Krakau, Poland, 2006)

  • "Subcritical transitions in the parallel-plate flow of viscoelastic fluids"
    • EU phynecs network meeting (Cargese, Corsica, France, 2004)

Posters

  • "A new perspective on the rich phase behavior of ternary lipid systems"
    • FOM Biophysics days (Veldhoven, September 2009)
  • "The maths of membranes - how differential geometry can be useful for biology"
    • Collective effects in cell biophysics (Les Houches, France, April 2008)
  • "Modeling cell membrane heterogeneity with giant vesicles"
    • 51st meeting of the Biophysical Society (Baltimore, Maryland, USA, March 2007)
    • Casimir Science Days (Eindhoven, May 2007)