September 2023

Salk Institute for Biological Studies - September 2023

2023 September Wallpaper


Each month the Salk e-newsletter ends with a stunning photo to take your desktop on a journey into scientific discoveries. Pick your favorite images, and download them as your Zoom background or desktop wallpaper.

Professor Susan Kaech’s lab recently discovered the sympathetic nervous response’s hormones, like noradrenaline, can “exhaust” the immune system’s specialized killer T cells.

This wallpaper shows exhausted killer T cells with higher expression of the noradrenaline receptor ADRB1 (cyan) surround sympathetic nerves (yellow) in a virally infected spleen. Killer T cells without ADRB1 (red) do not surround the sympathetic nerves (yellow). Learn more »

Just choose an image and right click on a link to download the proper image for your screen size.

Desktop Wallpaper/Zoom Background

Installing your wallpaper is easy:

  • Click on the link below.
  • For desktop wallpaper:
    • Right click image to show menu of options.
    • Select “Set as Background” or “Set as Desktop Background”.
  • For Zoom background:
    • Right click image and select “Save Image”.
    • Select “Virtual Background” from your Zoom settings and select the image.

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Tablet Wallpaper

Installing your wallpaper is easy:

  • Click on the “iPad cover photo” link below.
  • Touch and hold the image and select “Save Image”.
  • Navigate to the photo in your photo album.
  • From the “options” menu, select “Use as Wallpaper.”

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Facebook Cover Photos

Setting up your cover photo is easy:

  • Click on the link below for the full-sized version.
  • Right-click and download the image, then upload it to Facebook.
  • Select “use as cover photo” option.

Facebook cover photo »

Smartphone Wallpaper

Installing your wallpaper is easy:

  • Touch the photo you want to use as wallpaper.
  • Touch and hold the image and select “Save Image”.
  • Navigate to the photo in your photo album.
  • From the “options” menu, select “Use as Wallpaper.”

Smartphone cover photo »