Single molecule biophysicist, Rosalind Franklin Fellow and Associate Professor at the University of Groningen. Enjoys food, bouldering, silliness & science.https://bsky.app/profile/biophysk.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/biophysk.bsky.social/post/3melpmyitp22fHappy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! I'm grateful to work with so many amazing people, and to be able to do my part to support a more inclusive scientific community.11 Feb 2026 14:43 +0000at://did:plc:2vksx77jg4sbvqaucspcfs66/app.bsky.feed.post/3melpmyitp22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/biophysk.bsky.social/post/3m2jndhriuk2dI'm very grateful to have had the opportunity to present my group's work next to the big "biophysics" sign on the main stage at #nwobiophysics (I'm also very happy that I didn't fall down the stairs)06 Oct 2025 12:45 +0000at://did:plc:2vksx77jg4sbvqaucspcfs66/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2jndhriuk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/biophysk.bsky.social/post/3lynaf2lvlk2yGreat to have @thedneva.bsky.social here in Groningen presenting at the GBB symposium! Can't wait to see all that you can do with DNA origami!12 Sep 2025 12:13 +0000at://did:plc:2vksx77jg4sbvqaucspcfs66/app.bsky.feed.post/3lynaf2lvlk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/biophysk.bsky.social/post/3lkob6w25rs2wOut now! Our latest paper where we show a "one-pot" labelling technique which allows for simultaneous mechanical and fluorescent readouts from a protein (Hsp90): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pro.70098 Congratulations to everyone who worked on this, especially Laura!18 Mar 2025 18:08 +0000at://did:plc:2vksx77jg4sbvqaucspcfs66/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkob6w25rs2whttps://bsky.app/profile/biophysk.bsky.social/post/3lizaf7mvwk2uHuge congratulations to Laura for being the first PhD student to graduate from the KT lab! Laura did amazingly well both during her PhD (on Hsp90, of course) and in defending it. Big thanks to our examination and assessment committees and the chair of the session! 🧪25 Feb 2025 16:02 +0000at://did:plc:2vksx77jg4sbvqaucspcfs66/app.bsky.feed.post/3lizaf7mvwk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/biophysk.bsky.social/post/3lgxvdbqcz222Proud to announce Yulia's paper in Nano Letters. We were planning to measure enzyme diffusion rates under different conditions using label-free single-molecule methods, and accidentally uncovered an interesting effect: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c05792 🧪30 Jan 2025 16:21 +0000at://did:plc:2vksx77jg4sbvqaucspcfs66/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgxvdbqcz222https://bsky.app/profile/biophysk.bsky.social/post/3ley5zh3a7c2hHow many times have we had similar conversations but not gone through with systematically collecting the data and writing the manuscript? Full of admiration for this team for getting it done, instead of just collapsing in a food coma after (eating) the first 2 datapoints. [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Jan 2025 08:06 +0000at://did:plc:2vksx77jg4sbvqaucspcfs66/app.bsky.feed.post/3ley5zh3a7c2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/biophysk.bsky.social/post/3leob46lkr223What a way to start 2025! Our review on the Known Unknowns of the Hsp90 Chaperone has been published! Huge thanks to Laura Silbermann and Benjamin Vermeer for all of their efforts, and to @scisonja.bsky.social for the great collaboration :) You can read it here: https://elifesciences.org/articles/10266601 Jan 2025 09:35 +0000at://did:plc:2vksx77jg4sbvqaucspcfs66/app.bsky.feed.post/3leob46lkr223https://bsky.app/profile/biophysk.bsky.social/post/3lcmz6lobtc2sCalling all #SciComm people who specialise in scientific animations. I would like to talk to someone about making some animations to communicate our research in single-molecule biophysics. Please message me if you are interested and share with your networks! 🧪06 Dec 2024 10:50 +0000at://did:plc:2vksx77jg4sbvqaucspcfs66/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcmz6lobtc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/biophysk.bsky.social/post/3kke7jrmnvk2sReally excited to announce my group's latest pre-print on enzyme diffusion studied using mass photometry: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.28.577687v1 Great work from Yulia from the KT lab with Saniye from the Fraaije lab!01 Feb 2024 12:45 +0000at://did:plc:2vksx77jg4sbvqaucspcfs66/app.bsky.feed.post/3kke7jrmnvk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/biophysk.bsky.social/post/3khqo2x7td42oFinally, a possible scientific explanation for why I'm so bad at catching. [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Dec 2023 07:22 +0000at://did:plc:2vksx77jg4sbvqaucspcfs66/app.bsky.feed.post/3khqo2x7td42o