Matilde Lucioli wins BSSE microscopy image contest!

Congratulations to our doctoral student and artist Matilde Lucioli on winning the first prize of the SCF’s image award 2024! Here’s what Matilde says about her artwork:

Fluorescence microscopy is a powerful tool for investigating protein organization in multicellular systems. By tagging proteins with fluorescent markers, we can visualize their distribution and changes in health and disease.

Recent advances, like MINimal emission FLUXes nanoscopy, allow us to study protein domains with nanometer precision and track molecular movements in milliseconds.

I apply these techniques to study healthy and cancerous pancreas tissues—mapping protein organization at the microscale to uncover patient-specific differences and zooming into the nanoscale to analyze the details of protein domains and their alterations in cancer.

These methods reveal intricate patterns, much like exploring the universe: each protein, like a star, shapes the vast cosmos of cellular life.