Mathilde is a 3rd-year PhD student working in Florence Besse’s team where she is mainly dedicated to better understand the condensation process of RNP granules upon aging. In parallel, she studies new F-actin rich structures recently discovered by her lab in the aging drosophila brain. Mathilde is currently taking advantage of high and super resolution imaging to better characterize these F-actin structures upon aging at the cellular and ultra-structure levels. During her very pedagogic presentation, Mathilde highlighted an innovative microscopy technic, the Correlative Light Electron Microscopy (CLEM), she carried out in the context of her exciting collaboration with the EMBL microscopy facility in Heidelberg, Germany.

If you are curious about microscopy and are willing to delve into the secrets of CLEM microcopy in particular, don’t hesitate to have a look at Mathilde’s presentation on the common server.

(By Mathilde Solyga and Margot Noguères)