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Etch a Cell @etchacell.bsky.social · Jun 24

✨ Thanks for sharing a little about yourself, your research and your beautiful birds Virginie! ✨

Etch a Cell @etchacell.bsky.social · Jun 24

❓Our most important question, do you have a pet?

💬 My two beloved cockatiels, Stuart and Rosie, who have been filling my days with whistles and songs for the past 9 years.

A woman reading a book with two cockatiels perched on her right shoulder

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Etch a Cell @etchacell.bsky.social · Jun 24

❓Tell us more about you

💬 When I am not in front of my computer, I either spend time in the mountains or with my birds.

Alpine mountain scene with a cascade and people walking towards it

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Etch a Cell @etchacell.bsky.social · Jun 24

❓What excites you most about your research?

💬 Although it is effortless to make sense of an image that we see, it is usually ridiculously hard to write a computer program that would do the same...so working on image analysis makes me reflect everyday on how beautifully complex human vision is!

A 3D volumetric rendering of an immune cell segmented from an electron microscopy volume

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Etch a Cell @etchacell.bsky.social · Jun 24

❓How are you involved in Etch A Cell?

💬 I am leading the development of automated image analysis methods that use the annotations you all provide in the Etch A Cell - ImmunoExplorers project!

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Etch a Cell @etchacell.bsky.social · Jun 24

❓Who are you, where do you work and what do you do?

💬 Hello! I'm Dr Virginie Uhlmann. I am a Research Group Leader at EMBL-EBI and the Director of the BioVisionCenter at the University of Zurich. In my work, I develop methods to turn visual information present in microscopy images into numbers

A selfie of a woman with glasses at a desk in front of a computer

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Etch a Cell @etchacell.bsky.social · Jun 24

🔬 Behind the Microscope at Etch A Cell 🔬

This week, meet Virginie, a researcher who works with the Etch A Cell - ImmunoExplorers project, and who focuses on bioimage analysis 🧬🔬🧫

#Zooniverse #CitizenScience #SciComm #ScienceForAll

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Etch a Cell @etchacell.bsky.social · May 15

🔬 Deja would 100% get a piece of cheese from us at Etch A Cell 🙌

Thanks Paolo for sharing your work and your pup with us!

Etch a Cell @etchacell.bsky.social · May 15

❓Our most important question, do you have a pet?

💬 I have a rescue dog. Her name is Deja and she is 3 years old. She is very social and would do anything for a piece of cheese

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Etch a Cell @etchacell.bsky.social · May 15

❓Tell us more about you

💬 When I am not in the lab, I like cycling in the hills around Heidelberg

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Etch a Cell @etchacell.bsky.social · May 15

❓What excites you most about your research?

💬 I love working in a service facility, where every day we are approached by different people with diverse biological questions and we have to find the best way to address them.

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Etch a Cell @etchacell.bsky.social · May 15

❓How are you involved in Etch A Cell?

💬 I have helped with electron microscopy imaging of the samples.

This is the serial block face scanning electron microscope (SBF-SEM) which is producing the volume EM images for the project

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Etch a Cell @etchacell.bsky.social · May 15

❓Who are you, where do you work and what do you do?

💬 I am Paolo Ronchi. I work as a staff scientist in the Electron Microscopy Core Facility of the EMBL in Heidelberg, Germany. My main expertise is volume electron microscopy and correlative imaging.

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Etch a Cell @etchacell.bsky.social · May 15

🔬 Behind the Microscope at Etch A Cell 🔬

This week, meet Paolo, a staff scientist at EMBL in Heidelberg 🧬🔬🧫

#Zooniverse #CitizenScience #SciComm #ScienceForAll

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