Leonel Malacrida

Congrats Liz and Jorge!

One more @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social
meeting and counting… #BPS2026! Great as usually, meeting old friends and making new ones. This time was my first one with of my students #JessicaRossello postdoc at @IPMontevideo developing new methods for bacterial wall studies 🔬🌈

Check out this new approach to colocalization analysis from @owfpuls.bsky.social along with members of the AIC and Advanced Bioimaging Unit teams, now out in @jcellsci.bsky.social!

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It’s great to see this document supporting colocalization via Phasor analysis of HSI data, now available on confocal microscopes. Thanks to @scopeshifu.bsky.social and @aicjanelia.bsky.social teams for their collaboration starting in 2022 during the Imaging Latinoamérica workshop.

Thanks @digmanlab.bsky.social and the rest of the FLAIR Workshop organizers for the kind invitation to present www.phasorpy.org
Great workshop with amazing lectures and practical activities.

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The Microscopists | Leonel Malacrida (Universidad de la República & Institut Pasteur Montevideo, Uruguay) In this episode of The Microscopists, Peter O’Toole sits down with Leonel Malacrida of Universidad de la República & Institut Pasteur Montevideo, Uruguay.Leonel reflects on his early ambition of be...

Happy to share a chat we had with Peter O’Toole on his podcast “The Microscopists.” I'm extremely honored to be part of this series. We discuss my journey into science, memories, and the recent moment in Uruguay leading the Advanced Bioimaging Unit.

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I am grateful and thoughtful to @biologists.bsky.social for supporting @muktarlawan.bsky.social visit to our lab in 🇺🇾. Muktar has been a wonderful visitor and now an ambassador for HSI and phasor analysis at @BioRTCNig in 🇳🇬 and across Africa. Looking forward to more messages in the bottle!

This project looks ahead a decade or more. The collaborative atmosphere and strategic planning on RI regarding Integrative Structural Biology+Bioimaging are the present and future collaborations for our regions. Looking forward to continuing this fantastic consortium!

@eurobioimaging.bsky.social @latambioimaging.bsky.social @instruct-eric.bsky.social

Over the past days Andres Kamaid and I attended to the closing meeting of the “Regional Hubs project RI_Hubs_EULAC.
Great results and exciting next steps to strengthen EU–LAC cooperation in RI Bioimaging+Structural Biology
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🤝🌎

@LatamBioimaging 2025 meeting started with the aperture by the chairs Kildare Miranda, Lia Pietrasanta, Chris Wood and the one an only “Oliver “
Then our opening keynote lecture by @FerStefaniLab with his fantastic work on Super Resolution Microscopy!

A week ago we installed the new 2P-laser #Insight X3 by @spectraphysics.bsky.social
This laser is now the new heart of our #DIVER microscope.
Expanding our opportunity for spectroscopy #690-1300 #WavelengthMixing #FLIM #CARS #Pump_Probe
We are very excited!!!

Likewise Rumiana! Thanks Antonio Costa-Filho for the invitation!

Many thanks #AntonioCostaFilho for the kind invitation to participate in the pre-meeting #SBBf course “Phase separation at membrane interphases: Biomolecular condensates in Actions”. Happy share session with #RumianaDimova #Condensates #LLPS #Bioimaging #Phasors #DANprobes

Yes, this is great application for bioluminescence that Michelle and other colleagues are developing. I still remember first time Enrico Gratton share with me his idea in Buzios-Brazil!

Thanks Christophe for remembering out discussion in Montevideo. I thought it was a good idea since modulated filters will catch one molecule at a time. I'm glad the authors also saw the potential.

I'm thrilled to share this with the community.
Take a look, feedback is always very much welcome!
Congrats Bruno Pannunzio Marcelo Leomil Zoccoler !

-FLIM calibration, multi-harmonic analysis, filtering/thresholding, Cursors selection, average lifetimes (tau mod, tau phase, tau normal), two components (multi-components coming soon), and FRET module.
-HSI analysis using the same tools, just under a bottom push.
- Sample data for FLIM and HSI.

Extremely excited to share quite an achievement for our group. Two years ago, we started #PhasorPy (www.phasorpy.org, now in our v0.8). In parallel, Bruno Pannunzio, in collaboration with Marcelo Zoccoller, led the hashtag#Napari_Phasors plugin v0.1 for FLIM & HSI phasor analysis.

Thanks to @ipmontevideo.bsky.social #Udelar #HospitaldeClinicas #FMed all my collaborators from #AdvancedBioimagingUnit and across the world and @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social for all the support over the years!

Extremely honored to be included in 2026 #ThePhotonics100 #Electrooptics for “the innovators, the boundary-pushers, the disruptors, the out-of-the-box thinkers and the R&D ‘rock stars’” driving the industry forward.
Happy to represent Uruguay & Latin America
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Big part of #LABI, Latin America grantees and friends reunited at #ImagingTheFuture 2025 @cziscience.bsky.social
Thanks!

Thanks @cziscience.bsky.social
#ImagingTheFuture for reuniting @LatamBioimaging another year. The #UBA participated with a poster Marcela Diaz and a Demo #phasorpy showing all our work in the past years. Intense and stimulating discuss drives us to next steps in shaping the future

#ImagingTheFuture2025 @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social Another year traveling with the one and only “Oliver” Andres Olivera #LABI. Looking forward to stimulating discussions and contributing to shaping “Biology in Action.”

New preprint by @UBA Micaela LopassioMicaela MJGarcia
Quantitative and unbiased lung alveolar septum assessment in a LPS experimental mouse model using 2D-spatial correlation image analysis from hematoxylin and eosin slides. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
🫁🔬💻🟰results

We have a small fellowship bursary, but we strongly support participants from Latin America and around the world to apply for fellowships:
#LABI
labi.lat/2025/06/04/l... Deadline July 7, 2025
#GBI #I4A globalbioimaging.org/i4a Deadline August 15, 2025.

I am happy to announce the open call for our "6th Workshop in Advanced Microscopy and Biophotonics"
It will be held from November 22nd to 28th in Montevideo, Uruguay. It will cover advanced technologies and techniques as usual #FLIM #HSI #Phasors #FCS #SR #SPIM #2P
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The Latin American crew (25 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬👩‍💻👨‍💻) gathered at the #webersymposium2025. Multiple generations celebrated our proud roots 🇧🇷🇦🇷🇨🇱🇺🇾🇨🇺🇧🇴. Thanks @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social, for enabling 13 travel fellowships to attend this great meeting at the beautiful Genoa 🇮🇹

Part of the team #UBA #LeconteLudovic #Marceladiaz and good friend #RamiroTomasina ready to go to #WeberSymposium2025 #Genova 🇮🇹
#Garcia__Majo already in Genoa
I am excited to be accompanied by a great team this time! 🇺🇾

🌍 The 2nd #Imaging4All call is OPEN 🎉
Researchers in LMICs can apply for fully funded visits to access imaging technologies & training worldwide.

🔗 Info: www.globalbioimaging.org/i4a
🧪 Questions? i4a_support@embl.de
🔬 Imaging facilities—please share & host a grantee!

International Weber Symposium The 12th International Weber Symposium on Innovative Fluorescence Methodologies in Biochemistry and Medicine, "Weber Symposium", will be held in Genoa, Italy, on June 15-20, 2024.

📣Abstract submission and registration still open for the 2025 Weber Symposium!
Follow the link: www.webersymposium.com
If you are MSc/PhD/PostDoc based in Latin America, you are eligible for full fellowships.
🚨 Deadline April 30th
🙏 Pass the word!