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Microscopic farmer ๐Ÿ”ฌ๐ŸŒบ Microscopy core director @UNC Chapel Hill Former plant developmental biologist

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Such an honor to be featured by @focalplane.bsky.social , especially on my favorite day of the week: #FluorescenceFriday! ๐Ÿ”ฌ

Below for reference, a picture of the full hydei testis with the musculature stained (depth-coded) taken together with @saraheclark.bsky.social

#cellbio #devbio #microscopy

18.07.2025 13:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 51    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Happy #MicroscopyMonday! This video, captured by Berta in the @trayon.bsky.social lab in collaboration with our Imaging facility, shows a mouse embryo dividing. This video allows researchers to visualise the events that happen before implantation at an early stage of development.

21.07.2025 15:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The Science Art of Extreme Environments!
#sciart #scicomm #bioart #science

22.07.2025 18:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Elizabeth did some beautiful imaging of shoot apical #meristems on the @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social LSM 980 with Airyscan2 at the Biology Microscopy Core

#microscopy #confocal #plantscience #devbio #flowers #bioimaging

14.07.2025 18:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Canalization of flower production across thermal environments requires Florigen and CLAVATA signaling The maintenance of invariant developmental phenotypes across disparate environments is termed canalization, but few examples of canalization mechanismโ€ฆ

Nice paper by Elizabeth Smith et al from Zach Nimchuck's lab on the canalization of #flower production across thermal environments
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#devbio #plantscience #botany

14.07.2025 17:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿ˜

14.07.2025 16:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Stunning!

11.07.2025 16:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

for a quick second I thought it was a hydra or a coral ๐Ÿ˜…

09.07.2025 15:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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"Squid creatures" by Marko Pende, 2023

This Hawaiian bobtail squid and longfin inshore squid tissue was cleared with the DeepClear method, captured via #lightsheet microscope and 3D rendered using AMIRA.

#microscopymonday #standwithscience #researchmatters #fluorescentproteins ๐Ÿงช ๐Ÿค ๐Ÿ”ฌ

07.07.2025 12:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This postdoc position is still open! Apply if you want to come work with us on asymmetric cell divisions in spiralian embryos! postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...

07.07.2025 20:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 31    ๐Ÿ” 27    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Natmobile* stupid autocorrect ๐Ÿ˜†

07.07.2025 14:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Glad you are ok! Rain dug a canyon in my driveway. Nothing the Batmobile can't handle, but I have a shitton of gravel to shovel before a regular car can get through...

07.07.2025 14:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Danke schoen for sharing!

06.07.2025 03:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Open PhD position in plant regeneration ๐ŸŒฑ
www.muni.cz/en/about-us/...

29.06.2025 08:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 27    ๐Ÿ” 21    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Impressive!

30.06.2025 19:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Goodbye June #MicroscopyMonday

30.06.2025 19:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 33    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Finally plants for #3DThursday!๐ŸŒฝ A maize root tip, imaged using #microCT, from the Topp Roots Lab.

๐Ÿ”ฌ: @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social Versa 520 XRM
๐Ÿฅผ: Keith Duncan @cygnusplantxray.bsky.social
๐Ÿ›๏ธ: Danforth Center @danforthcenter.bsky.social
๐Ÿ“: academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...
๐ŸŽฌ: syGlass.io #syGlass

26.06.2025 16:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 48    ๐Ÿ” 15    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
Euro-BioImaging Euro-BioImagingโ€™s mission is to provide you with imaging services that bridge biological and biomedical imaging and facilitate innovative and world-class research. Whatever the scale of your imagingโ€ฆ

Every time we hear about @eurobioimaging.bsky.social it sounds too good to be true, but itโ€™s real! If you want to enhance your bioimaging skills, check out all the resources and opportunities at:
www.eurobioimaging.eu
#mmc2025

30.06.2025 12:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Of course! Whatโ€™s your email?

28.06.2025 16:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yes, color-coded for depth. And thank you!

27.06.2025 20:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you!

27.06.2025 17:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A Boa Constrictor brain-derived cell expressing a viral glycoprotein (magenta) and stained for actin (yellow) and DNA (white).

#FluorescenceFriday

27.06.2025 11:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 79    ๐Ÿ” 16    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Congratulations to the SciArt feed! Glad to be a part of it and experience everyone's art too #scicomm #sciart

27.06.2025 15:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 45    ๐Ÿ” 18    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Incredible diversity of #pollen grains!

Pollen autofluorescence acquired with @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social #superresolution Airyscan & color-coded for depth

#microscopy #bioimaging #bioart #sciart #botany #plantscience #fluorescencefriday

27.06.2025 16:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 148    ๐Ÿ” 39    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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For today's #FluorescenceFriday I'm thrilled to share that
ScienceAdvances was so nice to pick my picture as this week's featured image!

It's actually a still of a video๐Ÿ˜Š

Check out the paper to learn more
science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#cellbio #devbio #cellmigration #science

Thank you @aaas.org

20.06.2025 16:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 79    ๐Ÿ” 24    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
Our Drosophila testis collage in the Journal "Paper Airplane" that you can purchase by donating a small amount to a non-profit organization.

Our Drosophila testis collage in the Journal "Paper Airplane" that you can purchase by donating a small amount to a non-profit organization.

1/3 Excited to see my #microscopy collage featured in the first issue of ๐๐š๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ ๐€๐ข๐ซ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐ง๐žโ€”a beautiful, hand-crafted non-profit magazine. Thanks so much for including my work!

Check out PaperAirplane.pub, for a small donation to support refugees and immigrants!

#SciArt #SciComm #DevBio #CellBio

24.06.2025 16:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 30    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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So excited to hang the โ€˜Acknowlegement Guidelinesโ€™ poster up in Chapel Hill! Grateful to be part of the community working towards equitable recognition for imaging scientists!!

Read more and download the poster (in 10 languages!): lnkd.in/eSQRugJX

#CreditWhereItsDue
#AcknowledgementGuidelines

24.06.2025 14:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Not his first rodeo. I kept finding the bin open and set up my game camera to find the culprit. I was honestly thinking it was a raccoon

24.06.2025 14:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Tardigrade-obsessed: meet the researchers trying to turn water bears into neuroscience models For water-bear enthusiasts, itโ€™s the creatureโ€™s legs that make it stand out.

Tardigrades are eight-legged, microscopic water-dwellers have survived the vacuum of space, extreme dehydration, and temperatures ranging from near absolute zero to above boiling point.

https://go.nature.com/3ZMeKYa

23.06.2025 17:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 64    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Trench Denizens in Blue
8/2018 20 X 13 inches [50.8 X 33 cm] Colored Pencil on Paper
#sciart #gawoski #plankton

31.05.2025 13:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 113    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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