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

❓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.

❓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.

❓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!

❓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!

❓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

🔬 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!

❓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

❓Tell us more about you

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

❓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.

❓How are you involved in Etch A Cell?

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

❓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.

🔬 That’s a wrap - many thanks to Alana for sharing her insights, work and Panda the cat with us! 🙌

❓We love pets! Tell us more about Panda

💬This is Panda, she was terrified of life when we first adopted her from a shelter but has blossomed into a very loving, cuddly, cat who believes that she should be treated like a queen.

❓Tell us more about you

💬 I love animals and nature. One of my favourite pastimes is growing plants in my garden accompanied by my rescue cat named Panda

❓What excites you most about your research?

💬 I love being part of such an enthusiastic team, from multiple countries, all working together to develop new workflows for multimodal imaging and to increase understanding of cellular interactions which contribute to diseases of transplanted kidneys

❓How are you involved in Etch A Cell?

💬 I work on a few areas of this project: providing chemicals to fix the biopsies, cataloging and slicing the biopsies, performing light microscopy imaging and analysis, preparing samples for electron microscopy, and aligning the electron microscopy data

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

💬 My name is Alana Burrell. I work in the Electron Microscopy Platform at the Francis Crick Institute. I image cells and tissues using light and electron microscopes

Be a part of groundbreaking research!

🔬 Help us study immune cells & fight transplant rejection:

www.zooniverse.org/projects/h-s...

Together, we can make a difference! 💪 #CitizenScience #KidneyHealth #Zooniverse

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