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An interview with Francisco Barrantes

Posted by , on 20 September 2022

MiniBio: Prof. Francisco Barrantes got his MD and Ph.D. at the University of Buenos Aires. He is a former joint head of Membrane Biophysics Unit (1978-1983) with Erwin Neher and Bert Sakmann (Nobel awardees Med. & Physiol. 1999), at Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany. During his career, he established collaborations in Germany
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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
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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
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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.
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Microscopya – A New Science Video Game Exploring the Beauty of the Molecular World

Posted by , on 8 July 2022

Beata Science Art is offering a fresh take on science communication by announcing the release of Microscopya on July 8, 2022
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An interview with Flavio Zolessi

Posted by , on 28 June 2022

Dr. Flavio Zolessi is a group leader and head of the Cell Biology Unit at the Faculty of Science at Universidad de la República in Montevideo, Uruguay. He is also an Associate Researcher at Institut Pasteur Montevideo, Researcher Grade 4 of Programa de Desarrollo de las Ciencias Básicas (PEDECIBA) and Reseacrher Level II at the
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EMBL Imaging Centre: Enabling imaging across scales

Posted by , on 17 June 2022

With its first symposium, the EMBL Imaging Centre introduced its services, aims, and missions to the scientific community, celebrated advancements in imaging, and provided a sneak-peek into the cutting-edge technologies and advanced training it will make accessible to researchers all over the world.
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An interview with Maria Eugenia Francia

Posted by , on 31 May 2022

Maria Eugenia Francia is a group leader at Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, focusing on Apicomplexan biology. Maria did her early studies (BSc and MSc) at the University of Idaho, where she started working on Apicomplexan biology. She then moved as a PhD student to the University of Georgia, where she continued this work. She later
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An interview with Carolina Catta-Preta

Posted by , on 17 May 2022

Carolina Catta-Preta is currently a postdoc at Dr. David Sacks’ lab at the NIH (Bethesda, USA), where she is investigating Leishmania interactions with its insect vector, the sandfly. She started her career in Rio de Janeiro in 2007 at Carlos Chagas Filho Institute (UFRJ), in the Hertha Meyer lab under the supervision of Dr.
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An interview with Kildare Miranda

Posted by , on 10 May 2022

Kildare Miranda is the director of the Advanced Microscopy Unit and vice-director of the National Centre for Structural Biology and Bioimaging (CENABIO), Professor of Biophysics and Cell Biology and Head of the Cell Biology and Parasitology Department of the Biophysics Institute at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and holds several CNPq fellowships. He
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