Viroscope

Thrilled to share that the French journal "Virologie" has chosen my work as the official 2026 cover!🔬 It shows primary boa constrictor brain cells infected for 1h with VSV. ➡️To see the original black-and-white capture. Thank you to @SFV_France and @SEBNisole! #SciArt

Imaged with a @zeiss_micro LSM980 + Airyscan 2.

A solar flare erupting on a glass coverslip☀️ This mouse cell has broken symmetry, erupting to drive itself across the surface. 🧡 Actin: Sweeping golden kinetic energy 🩵 Septin 7: Swirling regulation 🩷 Lipids: Metabolic fuel 💙 DNA: Anchored core #SciArt #FluorescenceFriday

🔬Imaged with a @zeiss_micro LSM980 + Airyscan 2 confocal microscope.

Glimpse of an alien shoreline Not a topographical map of a distant planet, but the extreme boundary of a fibroblast cell! 🟣Actin: Structural cables 🟢Septin7: Dynamic scaffolds 🔵Lipids: Metabolic pools An entire universe of complexity right under the objective lens. #SciArt

This one surprised us : deltaviruses don’t just borrow a helper virus. They can travel inside it. A literal Trojan Horse “virus-in-a-virus” route into cells. 🤯 Kudos to 1st author Joe McKellar and all co-authors ! published in Cell sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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Special thanks to @Aurélien Fouillen, who was there since the initial observations and who was essential for all the EM data of the paper, and of course Karim, who was extremely supportive in my pursual of what was originally an anecdotal, unexpected, observation!

The Trojan Horse is real, and it’s microscopic! 🐴🦠 Our paper with @KarimMajzoub is out today in @CellCellPress! We discovered that deltaviruses hide INSIDE helper viruses to enter new cells. And to prove it, we had to image them from every angle. 🧵👇 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…