Interviewing Fabienne

Brain slices of older tissues prepared with ice-cold (blue) and warm (red) preparation methods, as demonstrated by Shiwei Huang and Marylka Yoe Uusisaari in a paper in Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. The asterisks (*) indicate visible neurons. While no healthy neurons are visible in the left image, seven are visible in the right. Abbreviations: PN, Purkinje neuron layer; ML, molecular layer; GrC, granular cell layer.

Professor Sugawara, head of the Advanced Medical Instrumentation Unit at OIST.

Professor Evan Economo and researchers in the Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit compared genetic sequences from hundreds species of Pheidole, a group of ants with mysteriously high diversity. They used these sequences to construct a Pheidole evolutionary tree that suggests Pheidole evolved the same way twice, to take over the New World and then the Old World.

OIST researcher Emi Furukawa, center; Jorge Moll, second from left; Patricia Bado, middle; Paulo Mattos, right with colleagues at IDOR in Rio de Janeiro.

Professor Amy Shen holds a microfluidic platform, a tool she uses to transform soapy mixtures into gels.