Talk by Colin Ingham at Bio Blue City (Rotterdam)
On how structural colour in bacteria can be used within the design community.
20th September 2019
18th-21st September 2019
London Design Week
Hoekmine will contribute coloured materials based around structural colour in bacteria to the Material Studio with 100% Design.
September 2019
NWO Grant "Coloured by Flavo" Funded.
A consortium of scientists (Wageningen University Dept. Microbiology lead by Professor Hauke Smidt), fabricators (Protospace), designers (lead by Prof Elvin Karana, Dept Industrial Design, Delft University), educators (Hogeschool Utrecht) and industry (Hoekmine BV) have obtained funding for a project that allows artists and scientists to create new processes and materials based around structurally coloured bacteria that form the basis of the Hoekmine technology.
1st August 2019
Hoekmine awarded Marie Curie ITN studentship to develop high performance photonic structures.
This is part of the BEEP ITN consortium lead by Silvia Vignolini (Cambridge University, UK).
29 July 2019
Material Insight: Paint Grown From Bacteria
14 May 2019
Hoekmine participated in ‘Paint the Future’ accelerator organized by Akzo Nobel, a fascinating insight into the colour business.
14 May 2019
Hoekmine participated with a pitch during the ‘Coatings Innovatiedag’ in Naarden.
18 November 2018
Radi Hamidjaja of Hoekmine a winner in Blue Bio Value Accelerator business competition organised by the Blue Bio Network, Lisbon, Portugal.
10 July 2018
Hoekmine awarded Phase I Take Off (SIA, NL) to develop biosensors using a structural colour as a read-out.
2 March 2018
Image of structurally coloured bacteria featured in Nature (UK) as a ‘picture of the week’.
22 Feb. 2018
Paper published demonstrating first extensive investigation of the genes underlying structural colour. Joint between Hoekmine BV and Cambridge.
Johansen, V.E., Catón, L., Hamidjaja, R., Oosterink, E., Wilts, B.D., Rasmussen, T.S., Sherlock, M.M., Ingham, C.J. and Vignolini, S., 2018. Genetic manipulation of structural color in bacterial colonies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, p.201716214.