A brief introduction to the model microswimmer Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Raphaël Jeanneret, Matteo Contino and Marco Polin Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics, 225 11-12 (2016) 2141-2156 Published online: 10 November 2016 DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2016-60065-3