Since 2019, the “Cristal collectif” medal rewards teams supporting research with their technical expertise, the collective dimension, their innovation and outreach. Both nationally and internationally recognised, the Bordeaux Imaging Center (BIC) from the France-BioImaging node of Bordeaux received this award for providing access to innovating technologies and for the quality of its training. The BIC was commended for its investment in training, especially for its partnership with the International School of Neurosciences, a unique partnership in Europe. The CNRS also has particularly highlighted the core facility’s activities of research and development in implementing new techniques and image analysis. Among its achievements, the BIC has succeeded to optimize a homemade Lattice Light Sheet, which has the benefit of being a good compromise between resolution, acquisition speed, imaging depth and low phototoxicity.

Laureates :

• Lysiane Brocard, Plant Unit manager
• Fabrice Cordelières, Image analysis manager
• Mathieu Ducros, R&D Lattice Light Sheet Microscopy manager
• Mónica Fernández Monreal, R&D CLEM manager
• Étienne Gontier, Electronic Unit manager
• Sabrina Lacomme, Transmission Electron Microscopy manager
• Florian Levet, R&D software manager
• Sébastien Marais, Confocal and Two-photon Microscopy manager
• Magali Mondin, Super-resolution Microscopy manager
• Melina Petrel, Cryo-preparation and immunomarking manager
• Christel Poujol, Photonic Unit manager
• Isabelle Svahn, Scanning Electron Microscopy manager
• Jérémie Teillon, Clarification and Light-Sheet Microscopy manager

More information: www.cnrs.fr/fr/talent/index