# Science Fun: From COVID to the 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 disease specialist and head of the infectious and tropical diseases department at Montpellier University Hospital. In the second part of the program, Christophe Hirtz introduces you to the mass spectrometer.
This week, we embark on a turbulent 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 remained on deck in an unprecedented research effort to explore this new disease and deal with the health, economic, and social tsunami it has caused.
In itsthirteenth issuedevoted exclusively to COVID-19 and its consequences, thepopular science magazine LUM gives a voice to virologists, epidemiologists, clinicians, ecologists, chemists, computer scientists, economists, and anthropologists from Montpellier. Our guest today is Jacques Reynes, an infectious disease specialist and head of the infectious and tropical diseases department at Montpellier University Hospital.
In the second part of the program, the report "En salle des machines" (In the engine room) takes you to the clinical proteomics platform in Montpellier, where Christophe Hirtz, its director, and Sylvain Lehmann, director ofthe Institute of Neurosciences in Montpellier, introduce us to a strange machine: the mass spectrometer.
No Amrin column this week, but instead "A Bottle in the Sea." The concept is simple: we invite researchers to adopt the perspective of their subject of study and send us humans a short message. For this first installment, Valérie Guillard and Nathalie Gontard from Inserm talk to us about fabric masks and plastic masks.
Science is fun, you've got the ticket, let's go!
Production: University of Montpellier and Divergence-fm
Host: Lucie Lecherbonnier
Interview and reporting: Aline Périault
Editing: Lucie Lecherbonnier
Column: Amrin Nagamia
Listen to the program “A LUM LA SCIENCE” on Divergence FM 93.9
