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Hello

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My name is Fernando González Ibáñez.

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I am a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Victoria

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in the lab of Doctor Marie-Ève Tremblay.

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Our research focuses on the study of microglia,

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resident immune cells of the brain.

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They protect the brain from infection,

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they detect and take care of injury,

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and also they have the ability to modify

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brain anatomy by multiple means.

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With electron microscopy,

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we take high resolution images of the cells and their organelles,

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and we can better understand what microglia are doing

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and how they contribute to the healthy or diseased brain.

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With our focused ion beam electron microscope,

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we can produce large sets of sequential images

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which allow us to do

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a 3D reconstruction of microglia,

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their organelles,

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and the cells they are interacting with in high detail.

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In our research

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we produce large amounts of image datasets that we need to store,

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and we are also starting to use the computing power to help us automatize

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our 3D EM reconstructions.