Alexandra Pacureanu
apacureanu.bsky.social
Alexandra Pacureanu
@apacureanu.bsky.social
Scientist at ESRF
Thank you so much @wellcometrust.bsky.social for supporting us to push the the limits of #X-ray #nanoimaging and #connectomics, and to make technology more broadly available to the scientific community! 🙏
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ESRF scientist Alexandra Pacureanu is the recipient of the Wellcome Discovery Award, together with a team at the Francis Crick Institute, to develop X-ray nanoimaging technology to study the mechanisms of information processing in the neural circuits of olfaction.

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October 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
How astrocytes orchestrate ensembles of neurons?

Congrats Lucas for pushing this work to the finish line!
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Thrilled to share that our article has just been published in Cell!
This work is the result of six years of dedication and an incredible team effort.

English version of the INSERM press release : presse.inserm.fr/en/astrocyte...

Article link : www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
September 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
The @linxsinstitute.bsky.social inaugural conference linking 🔗 the importance of phase shift across fields, from coherent X-ray nanoimaging to attosecond physics. 🤓
June 17, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Big congrats @yuxinzhang.bsky.social @carlesbosch.bsky.social @andreas-t-schaefer.bsky.social for completing this adventurous journey 🙌🏅! Three replicas of aligned 3D functional (2P) and structural (X-ray nanotomography) data to peer inside olfactory neural circuits 🐭🧀.
My PhD project is out as a preprint!
We combined 2P and synchrotron X-ray to understand mouse olfactory bulb circuits, linking physiology to structure in 3 animals!
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
🙌 @carlesbosch.bsky.social, @apacureanu.bsky.social, @andreas-t-schaefer.bsky.social, @esrf.fr, @crick.ac.uk
May 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Reposted by Alexandra Pacureanu
Linking function and structure at scale with X-rays - and several times over. Massive congratulations to the team ‪@yuxinzhang.bsky.social‬, @carlesbosch.bsky.social, @apacureanu.bsky.social @esrf.fr, @crick.ac.uk and all our collaborators.
My PhD project is out as a preprint!
We combined 2P and synchrotron X-ray to understand mouse olfactory bulb circuits, linking physiology to structure in 3 animals!
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
🙌 @carlesbosch.bsky.social, @apacureanu.bsky.social, @andreas-t-schaefer.bsky.social, @esrf.fr, @crick.ac.uk
May 1, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Reposted by Alexandra Pacureanu
Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.”
A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...
Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger | CNN
Dr. Ardem Patapoutian says he watches “with deep sadness as the United States’ remarkable scientific enterprise, which took generations of hard work and national investment to build, faces a concerted...
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April 9, 2025 at 11:30 AM
X-ray nanotomography can be your new friend for neuronal imaging. In our new #preprint (tinyurl.com/nanoXneuro) we present advances that push the spatial resolution limit for X-ray holographic nanotomography (XNH). We can now resolve synapses. 🧵
February 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM