Name: From the smallest sights to the biggest questions
Start: 2026-05-18T19:00:00
End: 2026-05-18T21:15:00
Location: Café De Vergulde Kruik

Enter the unseen world that shapes your life.

From Cells to Self: A Night Inside the Invisible brings science to life with engaging talks on microscopy, philosophy, cancer biology, and radioactivity in health. Discover how the tiniest structures and deepest ideas connect to who we are—inside and out.

Untangling cell division for a healthier future

Joost Willemse (Assistant professo, Microscopy Unit, Institute for Biology, Leiden University)

Multi drug resistant bacteria are on the rise. One genus of bacteria is there to battle them all, but it needs a bit of assistance to create the weaponry needed to fight other bacteria. We try to optimize the growth of this bacterium enhance the antibiotic production.

Philosophy and AI

Kritika Maheshwari (Assistant Professor, TU Delft)

Ethics and Philosophy of Technology

Glycomics

Katarina Madunić (Co-founder, GlycoDiagnostics)

Glycomics in diagnostics

Radioactivity: from hazard to Health

Marouscha Puister (PhD-candidate, Faculty of Applied Sciences, TU Delft)

Radioactive materials are dangerous but also promising for developing new cancer treatments. One specific radioactive element, Holmium-166, is especially suited for this purpose. However, it is unfortunately quite difficult to produce Holmium-166 in sufficient purity for medicinal applications. My research tries to achieve this purification, by combining chemistry and nuclear processes. I would love to tell you more about this superinteresting research interface during the Pint of Science event!

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