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SPATIAL BIOLOGY EXPLORERS TODAY is open office hours! Bring your specific questions and meet with us and the Vizgen Team to fast track your Merfish experiment. @vizgen.bsky.social @umasschan.bsky.social

Spatial Biology Explorers logo with the Vizgen Mascot Merfy the fish icon. With text reading “open office hours with the teams from SCOPE (logo) & Vizgen (official logo). July 28th 2025, SCOPE Data Lab, S5-220, Noon - 1pm

Join us next week for Spatial Biology Explorers for Open office hours with our local @vizgen.bsky.social team. Get help with data analysis, experiment planning or to say hi. #SpatialBiology #Microscopy #Data #DataAnalysis #SpatialBiologyExplorers

Large Merfish slides with 300mm2 selectable area and up to 10 regions! Thank you @vizgen.bsky.social, time for even more data! #Merscope #Microscopy #BiggerIsBetter #GiveMeMore Contact SCOPE @umasschan.bsky.social for your next Merfish project

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The SCOPE is supported and funded by these basic science grants and initiatives, as is much research @umasschan.bsky.social. Repost from: @sciencewhizliz.bsky.social instagram

This 4th of July we celebrate the history of American science & innovation. We honor the past accomplishments & ongoing efforts of scientists today for a smarter, healthier & more advanced tomorrow #4thofJuly #STEM #fluorescencefriday #microscopes #microscopy

Congratulations to the McDougall, Wang and Silverman labs for their recent publication! The SCOPE is proud to help with your research @umasschan.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social #microscope #microscopy #covidresearch #UserHighlight

Connect + Activate: MLSC 3.0 in Spotlight at MA Pavilion The power of partnership and vision for MLSC 3.0 was on full display during the BIO International Convention. Thank you to MassBio and partners across the ecosystem for showcasing why...

Our own Director Baer was honored to attend the BIO International Convention to participate in @malifesciences.bsky.social amazing programing. Learn more: www.masslifesciences.com/connect-acti...

#MLSC @umasschan.bsky.social

Screenshot of the title and authors from the title page of the recent publication of "Suppression of binge alcohol drinking by an inhibitory neuronal ensemble in the mouse medial orbitofrontal cortex" in Nature Neuroscience. Lead author is Dr. Pablo Gimenez-Gomez and the corresponding author is Dr. Gilles E. Martin. Banner across the top reads " SCOPE User Highlight" and bottom banner reads: "Congratulations to the Martin Lab for your Nature Neuroscience Publication

Figure 6 images of light sheet microscopy and corresponding data analysis

Congratulation to the Martin Lab & Collaborators for your recent paper in @natureportfolio.nature.com Nature Neuroscience. The SCOPE is always happy to help make your publication a reality #microscopy #publication #BestUsers

Happy Pride Month! Everyone is welcome at the SCOPE. #PrideMonth #Pride #microscopyart #microscope #Microscopy @umasschan.bsky.social

Spatial Biology Explorers Data Club is HERE!!! If you want to learn more about Spatial Biology or how to analyze your data - COME JOIN US ON June 23. For full info email: scope@umassmed.edu. @umasschan.bsky.social @vizgen.bsky.social @brukerspatial.bsky.social @10xgenomics.bsky.social

Images show the new Dr. Sun-Young Lim, Ph.D. presenting at her defense and an image with Sun and her advisor Dr. Jennifer Wang PhD holding a cake at the post defense party!

Congratulations to the new Dr. Sun-Young Lim, Ph.D. on your defense. It has been a pleasure to work with you and the whole Wang lab. We wish you the best in all your future endeavors. @umasschan.bsky.social #PhD #microscopy #Congratulations #Graduate

SCOPE TEAM has completed 20 @vizgen.bsky.social Merscope 2.0 chemistry runs!!! #spatialbiology #swedishfish #vizgen #Merfish Check out the new chemistry - we love it!

#FluorescenceFriday

Happy International Day of Light!! #InternationalDayofLight @umasschan.bsky.social #lightmicroscopy #microscopy #microscope

Director Dr. Christina Baer assists a user on a Nikon widefield microscope.

One of the great parts of working with a core facility is the ability to compare multiple systems to see which is best to image your samples. #microscopy #CoreFacility @umasschan.bsky.social @healthcare.nikon.com

We are proud of our partnership with Astellas Gene Therapies funded by @malifesciences.bsky.social through the Bits to Bytes program in 2024. Read full article below.

We welcome @scope-umasschan.bsky.social as a Vizgen Certified Service Provider! 🎉

As a long-time collaborator & early adopter of #MERFISH, SCOPE now provides full-service spatial genomics solutions to accelerate biomedical research using #MERSCOPE Ultra™.

Learn more: vizgen.com/certified-se...

An amazing and a fun team to work with :)

We serve 250 scientists annually. Research cores rely on institutional support and NIH Indirects to support skilled staff and keep our doors open. We STAND UP FOR SCIENCE due to the huge impact funding losses will have. We cannot advance together without the research cores. @umasschan.bsky.social

Investing in our Future Governor Healey’s BRIGHT Act The students, alumni, staff, and faculty at the University of Massachusetts are shaping the future of our state. As the Commonwealth’s public research university, our impa...

Thak you @govmaurahealey.bsky.social for supporting and investing in the University of Massachusetts! The BRIGHT ACT truly shows commitment for research, education and science. @martymeehan.bsky.social @umasschan.bsky.social @malifesciences.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/pulse/invest...

Title text reads " SCOPE USER highlight" with "Congratulatiosn to the Wen Xue Lab on your recent publication" at the bottom. There is a screenshot of the top of the article from the journal website, nature biotechnology in the middle displaying the journal title "The reverse transcriptase domain of prime editors contributes to DNA repair in mammalian cells"

Title text reads "Thank you for acknowledging us!" with a screenshot of the acknowledgements section of the paper in the middle

Screenshot of Figure 2 from the publication in nature biotechnology which shows the microscopy images taken on the Leica Stellaris 8 in the SCOPE facility and graphs of the quantification done

Congratulations to the Wen Xue Lab @rti-umasschan.bsky.social on your recent paper! We are so happy the SCOPE was able to help you with your microscopy data, thank you for acknowledging us!!! @naturebiotech.bsky.social @umasschan.bsky.social #Publication @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social

Microscopy image of a heart stained with H&E. Text reads "Like light illuminates the microscopic details, SCOPE users always brighten our day!" at the top. With the test "Happy Valentine's Day. Love, the SCOPE" at the bottom. Everything is surrounded by heart icons in multiple shades of pink

#HappyValentinesDay #Microscopy #Microscopes @umasschan.bsky.social

Black background slide with Thank you and acknowledgment to the CZI and many BINA sponsors for 2025

Happy #Fluorescence Friday!

@bioimagingna.bsky.social is extremely grateful to have support from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and so many great members of our corporate #microscopy community!

Thank you to @malifesciences.bsky.social for helping us advance the science and research @umasschan.bsky.social. We are thrilled to have a new @vizgen.bsky.social Merscope Ultra in our facility #Microscope #SpatialBiology #MLSC #MassachusettsLifeSciencesCenter

Notebook page displaying a letter to santa from the Merscope Generation 1 in the SCOPE facility. The letter reads: "The SCOPE has become a Vizgen Certified Service Provider, and I am going to need help! There is a new Merscope Ultra and we would be best friends. Together we can run so many samples and do incredible breakthrough science here at the UMass Chan Medical School. Pretty please, all I want this year is a Merscope Ultra"

Merscope Ultra equipment with a big green present bow on top.

From left to right, Vizgen engineer Nick wearing and elf hat, Dr. Christina Baer in a christmas tree hat, Jill McConnell program manager in a santa hat, Molly Martin post doc in an elf hat all in front of the new Merscope Ultra.

From left to right, Vizgen engineer Nick wearing and elf hat, Dr. Christina Baer in a christmas tree hat, Jill McConnell program manager in a santa hat, Molly Martin post doc in an elf hat all in front of the Merscope room door decorated with the CSP logo and portholes with sea creatures in party hats.

The instruments at the SCOPE @umasschan.bsky.social are happy to welcome a new piece of equipment. The SCOPE staff is also quite excited about the new #MerscopeUltra. Contact us for more information if Merfish will help expand your research program. @vizgen.bsky.social #micrscopy #newtoys #dearsanta

Happy New Year!! The SCOPE is excited about your 2025 projects. You are always welcome to book a microscopy consultation through the contact us page our website.
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Stellaris STED 8 at @umasschan.bsky.social

Happy Holidays from the SCOPE!!! Share any cool images to be highlighted or artfully used on our website/social media in 2025. We love to show off our amazing users. #Happyholidays

Parody of Twas the Night Before Christmas Poem by Clement Clarke Moore over an image of a sunset on a snowy day. Text reads: "’Twas the night before break, when all through the SCOPE core Not a workstation was stirring, not even a snore; The reagents were away in the fridges with care In hopes that the staff soon would be there; The microscopes were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of fluorphores danced in their heads; And slides in their boxes, instruments off for facility close, Had just settled our brains for a long winter’s doze,"

TissueGnostics Slide scanner instrument with cartoon closed eyes with a thought bubble filled with "z"s as if sleeping

Merscope with cartoon sleeping eyes with thought bubbles of "z"s as if sleeping.

The SCOPE core services are shut down for a holiday break and will return January 2, 2025. Trained users are welcome to reserve and use equipment during this time. Badge swipes and computer logs are used to confirm instrument use. See you in 2025