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An interview with Dr. Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan

Posted by Greg Redpath, on 4 November 2024

Dr. Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan is the 2025 recipient of the Royal Microscopical Society Award for Life Sciences. She is the first winner outside of Europe, highlighting the incredible cellular imaging she has led across the world. Dr. Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan is an EMBL Australia Group Leader in the Department of Molecular Medicine at UNSW, Sydney. Vaishnavi received

Interview with Piyush Daga

Posted by Helen Zenner, on 3 September 2024

Piyush was one of the three-minute talk presenters at our recent science communication event, SciCommConnect. At the event, which we co-hosted with the Node and preLights, we were treated to fantastic talks on a range of topics. Piyush’s talk really stood out to us, not least because of the striking microscopy image on his slide.

An interview with Maribel Torres Velázquez

Posted by Mariana De Niz, on 6 August 2024

MiniBio: Maribel Torres Velázquez is a NURTURE postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Prof. Gregory Schwartz at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, where she uses microscopy to study the retina-to-brain circuitry. Specifically, she aims to uncover the retina-brain connectivity map by identifying to which unique brain areas different retinal ganglion cell sub-types

An interview with Lisandra Vila Ellis

Posted by Mariana De Niz, on 23 July 2024

MiniBio: Lisandra Vila-Elis is Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology at Northwestern University, where she studies the role of a newly discovered endothelial cell population in the lungs, and their relevance to gas diffusion and lung health and disease. Lisandra was born in Cuba, and moved to Ecuador at a young age. She then

An interview with Esley Torres

Posted by Mariana De Niz, on 2 July 2024

MiniBio: Esley Torres began his career in Cuba, and is currently a postdoctoral scientist and lecturer at Universidad de la República, in Montevideo, Uruguay. Esley began his undergraduate studies in Chemistry and changed directions to pursue an undergraduate degree in Mathematics at the University of Havana, Cuba. He worked at the Institute of Cybernetics, Mathematics

Interview with Joel Lüthi and Virginie Uhlmann

Posted by Helen Zenner, on 12 June 2024

At the end of 2023, the BioVisionCenter, a new hub for bioimage analysis, was launched with a kick-off symposium in Zurich. We caught up with Joel Lüthi, Head of Research and Development, and Virginie Uhlmann, the center Director, to find out more about the BioVisionCenter, how they each got into bioimage analysis and their advice

An interview on the Traversing European Coastlines (TREC) project with Yannick Schwab

Posted by Helen Zenner, on 5 March 2024

Traversing European Coastlines (TREC) is a flagship project in the planetary biology theme from European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). A consortium of several research organisations under the lead of EMBL has embarked on an expedition to sample the biodiversity in the coastlines of Europe in 2023 and 2024. We caught up with Yannick Schwab, Team

An interview with Estibaliz Gómez de Mariscal

Posted by Helen Zenner, on 27 February 2024

At the end of 2023, DL4MicEverywhere was released. The platform aims to make deep learning methods in bioimage analysis more accessible and more reproducible. We caught up with Estibaliz Gómez de Mariscal (Esti), one of the co-leads of the project, to find out more about the platform, and to chat about Esti’s career so far

An interview with Erick Hernandez Renjifo

Posted by Mariana De Niz, on 5 December 2023

MiniBio: Dr. Erick Hernandez Renjifo leads the Materials Analysis team at the Institute of OMICAS research at Universidad Javeriana de Cali, Colombia. Erick started his career in Materials Sciences at Universidad del Valle. He has had a versatile career in both, academia, and industry, where he worked at a copper steelworks factory and a car

An interview with Laura Daza

Posted by Mariana De Niz, on 28 November 2023

MiniBio: Laura Daza just finished her PhD at CinfonIA, at Universidad de los Andes in Colombia. During her doctorate degree, she has worked in a variety of projects ranging from Computer Vision to image and data analysis. She studied Biomedical Engineering at Universidad de los Andes, where she first found her passion for Image Analysis.

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