Claire Mitchell

Colony of Artists
11am to 6pm
Abbeyhill, Edinburgh
This Saturday and Sunday, 20th and 21st September

19.09.2025 18:28 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?

Me: I was waiting for the Argon laser to warm up

20.12.2024 13:32 — 👍 513    🔁 32    💬 20    📌 39

Advanced CUBIC tissue clearing for whole-organ cell profiling - Nature Protocols Transparent organs are obtained, with retained fluorescent protein signals, upon clearing by immersion in the appropriate CUBIC reagent. The positions of all the cells can be determined using the desc...

The one listed here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It's a mixture of silicone oil and immersion oil, you can also buy it from TCI. It is super viscous and a bit oily though so takes some cleaning (we soak in detergent followed by a lot of water and ethanol) so I would check with Zeiss first

07.03.2025 09:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A group at the CVR do an idisco variant which ends in ethyl cinnamate for a Z1 system. Technically the RI is out of the system's range but it seems to work for them. We have an open-top light sheet, I mainly use CUBIC but transfer the samples to non-hazardous imaging media prior to imaging.

07.03.2025 08:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Excited for the Glasgow Imaging Network meeting in 4th April. Get your abstracts in for a great day of imaging science!

06.03.2025 18:17 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The light in Leith has been really gorgeous recently.
Primary colours. Ocean Terminal. January 2025
Oil on canvas, 50 x 40cm

#leithlife #leith #edinburghart #edinburgh #edinburghartist #oilpainting

28.02.2025 19:02 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

New Volume of Journal of Fluid Mechanics available on Cambridge Core cup.org/41zdo4d
New Volume = New Cover
📸 doi:10.1017/jfm.2024.1188 Yasuda & Lucas Stabilising nonlinear travelling waves in pipe flow using time-delayed feedback

28.02.2025 15:49 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0