Searching for structural colour in fungi
We are searching for structural colour in fungi. Please see Journal of Fungi for details.
21 February 2021
26 November 2020
Hoekmine one of the finalists during the Ocean Pitching Sessions, Tech Tour Ocean 2020
23 November 2020
Colaboration with iGEM Athens 2020 team
Congratulation to the iGEM Athens 2020 team for receiving the Silver medal award for the first phase of the competition and for the Best Undergraduate Project Promotion Video award.
2 September 2020
Paper published by Hoekmine demonstrating the cell organization underlying structural colour is involved in Flavobacterium IR1 predation
The cell organization underlying structural colour is involved in Flavobacterium IR1 predation.
Hamidjaja R, Capoulade J, Catón L, Ingham CJ. ISME J. 2020 Sep 1. doi: 10.1038/s41396-020-00760-6.14 March - 14 June 2020
Olafur Eliasson: Sometimes the river is the bridge
Studio Olafur Eliasson and Hoekmine collaborated to produce works of art that will be on display during Olafur Eliasson’s upcoming solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo.
1 March 2020
NWO "Coloured by Flavo" Project initiated.
With Prof H. Smidt, WUR; Prof Elvin Karana, Delft University; Protospace; Hogeschool Utrecht; Hoekmine BV. This project facilitates the integration of Structural Colour into art and design processes and is intended to make creative use of new colours accessible to all.
31 January 2020
BBC NEWS ‘Making beautiful colours without toxic chemicals.’
30 January 2020
BEEP Marie Curie ITN Network initiated with Kick Off meeting at Cambridge University.
This project develops the photonic properties of life in academic and industrial fields. Alvaro Escobar Doncel has joined Hoekmine to develop sustainable, structurally coloured materials from bacteria.
1 December 2019
Marie Sklodowska-Curie PhD studentship available
PhD studentship position available starting early 2020 to work on the molecular genetics of structural colour in Flavobacteria (and biotech applications) within the ITN Marie Sklodowska-Curie network BEEP. Interested candidates should send an application before December 1st, 2019. For informal inquiries please contact hoekmine@gmail.com
19-27 October 2019
Dutch Design Week 2019, VEEM building (Eindhoven)
Hoekmine will contribute structural coloured materials with Lab in Progress exhibit of one of our collaborator an independent designer Emma van der Leest.
4 October 2019
Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London newsletter
Hoekmine and our structural colour are featured in Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London newsletter
20 September 2019
Talk by Colin Ingham at Bio Blue City (Rotterdam)
On how structural colour in bacteria can be used within the design community.
18-21 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.
1 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 February 2018
Paper published demonstrating first extensive investigation of the genes underlying structural colour. Joint between Hoekmine BV and Cambridge.