Interview with Romain Laine
Tell us about yourself!听
French but I have been living in the UK for long enough to have forgotten how real buttery pastries taste like. I did my PhD at Imperial College in biophotonics (throwing lasers and microscopes at cells and molecules!), then moved to Cambridge for PostDoc to develop super-resolution microscopy (throwing more lasers and more microscopes at cells and molecules!). I now joined Ricardo鈥檚 lab and I want to exploit my microscopy skills to study more complex biological systems with my microscopy skills (throwing some cells at my microscope!).
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Do you have any particular reason that made you get into science?
The idea (and ideal) of discovery!
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What鈥檚 keeping you busy in lab these days in the lab?
I am developing more intelligent imaging, especially within super-resolution microscopy, and moving away from fixed cell towards living biological systems.
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How and where do you see yourself in 5 years?
Head of my own lab, working on fast 3D microscopy in multi-cellular biological systems, such as virological synapses.
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Tell us whether you have any hobbies!
Capoeira and cooking ! (a well-balanced system of input and output of calories)
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