Australia Hosted Event
18 September 2025
17:00 - 18:00 AEST (08:00 - 09:00 BST)
Online
The expansion microscopy user group brings together researchers to share experiences to enable rapid uptake of the technology.
At this meeting...
We'll be joined by Virginie Hamel, co-head of the Centriole Architecture Lab in the Molecular and Cellular Biology Department at the University of Geneva, who'll be presenting her talk titled 'Unveiling the molecular architecture of the cell using expansion microscopy'.
Virginie Hamel (previously Hachet) is an expert in Cell Biology and Biochemistry. She completed her PhD under the supervision of Iain Mattaj at EMBL (Heidelberg, Germany, 2004) working on the role of importin alpha in nuclear envelope re-assembly in vitro using Xenopus laevis egg extracts. From 2005 to 2015, she worked as a post-doctoral fellow and then scientist collaborator in the laboratory of Prof. Gönczy at EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland) where she first studied timing of mitotic entry in C. elegans embryos followed by dissecting the mechanisms of centriole assembly both in vitro and in vivo. Since 2015, she is co-heading the Centriole architecture lab with Prof Paul Guichard in the Molecular and Cellular Biology Department at the University of Geneva. Their lab focuses on deciphering the structural mechanisms governing centriole assembly combining the use of cell biology methods, in vitro reconstitution assays, cryo-microscopy/cryo-tomography and expansion microscopy. They have notably jointly received the prestigious Cloëtta Prize (2025), highlighting their groundbreaking contributions to centriole biology and Ultrastructure Expansion Microscopy (U-ExM).
Please visit: https://mocel.unige.ch/research-groups/guichard-hamel/overview for further information.
Organisers:
Gabriela Segal Wasserman
Microscopy Officer at the Imaging Facility, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia.
Dr Segal has a PhD in Tumour Immunology from the Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Melbourne. She has years of experience in sample preparation for confocal and multiphoton microscopy. In her current role as an academic specialist she supports confocal, tissue clearing and Lightsheet applications.
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