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An interview with Luciano Masullo

Posted by , on 6 September 2022

MiniBio: Dr. Luciano Masullo is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Munich, Germany, where he works at the interface of super-resolution microscopy and bionanotechnology in the group of Dr. Ralf Jungmann. He did his Licenciate degree (~ BSc + MSc) and PhD in Physics at the University of

An interview with Victoria Alonso

Posted by , on 30 August 2022

MiniBio: Dr. Victoria Alonso is currently a Researcher at the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Rosario (IBR-CONICET) and an Assistant Professor in the Parasitology Department of the School of Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences (FCByF) of the National University of Rosario. She is starting her own line of work focusing on studying the role

An interview with Ariel Fernández

Posted by , on 26 August 2022

MiniBio: Ariel Fernández is an Assistant Professor at the Physics Department, Engineering Faculty, Universidad de la República, Uruguay and has been an Invited Researcher at the Department of. Electrical & Computational Engineering, University of Connecticut, United States. He completed his BSc, MSc and PhD degrees in Physics at Universidad de la República, Uruguay. He is a researcher

An interview with Lucas Pagura

Posted by , on 23 August 2022

MiniBio: Lucas Pagura is a postdoctoral fellow at the Immunology and Infectious Diseases department at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He has a long-standing interest in parasitology and microscopy. His current work focuses on understanding the metabolic interface of host-pathogen interactions of the intracellular parasite Trypanosoma cruzi in mammalian host cells. He did his PhD at

Microscopy in Africa – an interview with Michael Reiche

Posted by , on 29 July 2022

We talk with Michael Reiche about the recently launched African Microscopy Inititiative and two other imaging-related programmes in Africa that he is overseeing

An interview with Andrés Di Paolo

Posted by , on 27 July 2022

MiniBio: Andrés Di Paolo holds a hybrid position as a postdoctoral researcher and as a member of a microscopy core facility, involving several institutions including Institut Pasteur Montevideo, Hospital de Clínicas from UdelaR and Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable (IIBCE). He is currently  involved in the development of the first super-resolution microscope (based on STORM)

Turbo mini-bios

Posted by , on 19 July 2022

MiniBio: The Electron Microscopy Unit at the Faculty of Sciences in Universidad de la Republica is led by Dr. Gabriela Casanova (see interview in Latin American Microscopists series). In this special issue we include turbo mini-bios highlighting the work and career of unit members and main collaborators, including Dr. Magela Rodao, Gaby Martinez, Ana Laura

Cell Worlds: meet the microscopists

Posted by , on 14 July 2022

February, 2022 saw the world premiere of the Cell Worlds documentary and exhibition. Cell Worlds was created by co-founders Renaud Pourpre and Terence Saulnier to bring microscopy out of the lab and display it in new ways to new audiences. Here, we focus on the team of microscopists who provided the images and movies.

An interview with Omar Trujillo Cenóz

Posted by , on 12 July 2022

MiniBio: Omar Trujillo Cenoz is currently an Emeritus Professor at the department of Cellular and Molecular Neurophysiology at Instituto Clemente Estable. He was head of the Neuroanatomy department at Instituto Clemente Estable from 1973 to 2004, and retired in 2004. He studied under the guidance of Prof. Clemente Estable in Montevideo, Uruguay, and later completed

An interview with Federico Lecumberry

Posted by , on 5 July 2022

MiniBio: Federico Lecumberry is an Associate Professor in Signal Processing and Machine Learning at the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of Universidad de la Republica in Uruguay. He is also an Associate Researcher with the Advanced Bioimaging Unit of Institut Pasteur de Montevideo. He completed his BSc, MSc and PhD degrees