# La Science s'aMuse: From covid to mass spectrometer
Welcome to the program co-produced by the University of Montpellier and Divergence-FM, which takes you on a cruise through the laboratories of the Muse archipelago. Our guest today is Jacques Reynes, infectious diseases physician and head of the infectious and tropical diseases department at Montpellier University Hospital. In the second half of the program, Christophe Hirtz introduces you to the mass spectrometer.
This week, we embark on an eventful journey into the heart of the Covid-19 storm. Eight months after the start of the epidemic, France is still holding its breath in anticipation of a possible second wave. Eight months during which the entire scientific community has been on deck in an unprecedented research effort to explore this new disease and cope with the health, economic and social tsunami it has caused.
In a thirteenth issue devoted exclusively to Covid-19 and its consequences, the popular science magazine LUM gives the floor to virologists, epidemiologists, clinicians, ecologists, chemists, computer scientists, economists and anthropologists from Montpellier. Our guest today is Jacques Reynes, infectious diseases physician and head of the infectious and tropical diseases department at Montpellier University Hospital.
In the second half of the program, the report "In the engine room" takes you to the Montpellier clinical proteomics platform, where Christophe Hirtz, its director, and Sylvain Lehmann, director of theMontpellier Neuroscience Institute, show us a strange machine: the mass spectrometer.
No Amrin column this week, but "A Bottle in the Sea". The principle is simple: we invite researchers to adopt the point of view of their object of study, and to send us humans a little message. And for this first launch, it's Valérie Guillard and Nathalie Gontard from Inserm who talk to us about fabric masks and plastic masks.
La science s'aMuse, you've got the map, let's get on board!
Production : Université de Montpellier and Divergence-fm
Animation : Lucie Lecherbonnier
Interview and report: Aline Périault
Editing : Lucie Lecherbonnier
Feature: Amrin Nagamia
Listen to the "A LUM LA SCIENCE" program on Divergence FM 93.9