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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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An interview with Moara Lemos

Posted by , on 3 May 2022

Moara Lemos is currently a permanent researcher at Institut Pasteur in France, where she has helped establish cryo-correlative light and electron microscopy and cellular cryo-tomography for different biological systems. She began her career (BSc and MSc) at the Federal University of Juiz de For a, working on trypanosomes of wild animals. She later did her
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An interview with Aline Araujo

Posted by , on 19 April 2022

Aline Araujo Alves is a postdoctoral fellow at Institut Pasteur in the lab of Philippe Bastin since 2020. She has previously worked as a visiting scientist at University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University. Her research has mostly focused on Trypanosoma cruzi and Trypanosoma brucei cell biology. Aline did her BSc in biology at the
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An interview with Victor Midlej

Posted by , on 12 April 2022

Dr. Victor Midlej is a group leader at Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, working at the interface of microscopy and parasitology, focusing on cell biology, ultrastructure and chemotherapy. He has worked as a microscopist since early in his studies in 2003. Victor began his career (MSc and PhD) at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, in
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An interview with Lia Medeiros

Posted by , on 5 April 2022

Lia Medeiros is an associate staff scientist at Carlos Chagas Institute, Fiocruz (Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Brazil), and is head of the Electron Microscopy Facility at the same institution. She obtained her Ph.D. from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her Ph.D. research involved the ultrastructural characterization of the interactions between Plasmodium parasites and
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