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Super-res, single molecule tracking & optical tweezer microscopist | biological condensates & physics of phase separation | +ve research culture | senior research technical specialist @ York, UK 🧪🌱🧫🫧 🔬
Members of the RMS Early Career Committee smiling at their 2025 symposium!
The Early Career Committee yesterday at our Early Career Symposium 2025! Thank you to all of our speakers and attendees for making it such a great afternoon @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social
#mmc2025uk
M-dashes are amazing—however controversial—in snappy social media contexts as well as prose! So it would seem that some LLMs have better grammatical taste than the average punter!
01.07.2025 17:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Niamh Burke (centre) receives the RMS Early Career Award from Lisa Maria Needham (left) and Michelle Peckham (right)
Massive congratulations to Niamh Burke @niamh-deburca.bsky.social on winning the 2025 @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social Early Career Award, with her talk on the enderscope community project, co-developing accessible imaging tools with the public. 😀🙌🔬👍
@bioimaginguk.bsky.social
A busy exhibition hall at mmc2025. Delegates enjoy their lunch, with the domed roof of Manchester Central featuring prominently in the top half of the image.
A buzzing atmosphere in a grand setting: the exhibition hall at #mmc2025 over lunch 😃🍽️😋
@rmsearlycareer.bsky.social @bioimaginguk.bsky.social @yorkbioimaging.bsky.social
After a quick break to refuel ☕️ we’re back on with Kokila Wickramanayake from Plymouth for a tour de force on how oxidative stress in rice/barley chloroplasts interacts with fungal infection 🌾🌱🍄🟫 #mmc2025uk
30.06.2025 16:05 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Attendees at the Early Career Symposium chat during a coffee break.
Lots of excellent conversations taking place during break-time at the @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social Early Career Symposium 😀
A great way to kick things off at #mmc2025 👏🔬👍
@yorkbioimaging.bsky.social @bioimaginguk.bsky.social
Congratulations and best of luck to all of our Early Career Award Finalists! 👏👏👏
30.06.2025 15:59 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Alessandro Zunino now describes contributions to the Image Scanning Microscope (s^2-ISM) for super-res 3D sectioning much like SIM, and FLIM-capable but with a small confocal photodiode array!
30.06.2025 15:29 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 1
Anthoula Chatzimpinou has concerns about microglia with unusual morphology causing damage in neurodegenerative diseases, and tells us how they can be tracked label-free with X-Ray absorbance and multiplexed fluorescence techniques! 🔬❤️
30.06.2025 15:23 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Niamh Burke joins us from University College Dublin to tell us about a fantastic community-driven open-source endoscope project! ⭐️🔬
30.06.2025 15:18 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Next up we have Emily Woodcock, an expert in melanoma cell mechanics with SICM (scanning ion conductance microscopy).
30.06.2025 14:55 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0For the very important people out of frame in this pic, take unofficial note I will be buying you🍺 later!
30.06.2025 14:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
RMS mascot 'Ruggles the Bear' (a small teddy bear) held by Katie from the RMS events team. Ruggles is wearing a blue cape with the RMS snowflake logo on it. Katie is wearing a stripy top and hi-vis vest.
...New at #mmc2025:
Introducing our official mascot, Ruggles the Bear - pictured here with Katie from the events team. Ruggles will be busy 'volunteering' over the next few days, so keep an eye out for him! 😁🐻🔬
@bioimaginguk.bsky.social @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social @iop-emag.bsky.social
The science talks at #mmc2025uk are go! 🏁our newly inaugurated Committee member, Ross Walsh from Galway, introduces exciting new work on #collagen remodelling in #cancer
30.06.2025 14:39 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Kicking the meeting off is our amazing ECR Committee Chair Katherine Paine who is an alumna of the Award!
30.06.2025 14:31 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We’re gearing up at #mmc2025uk Manchester for the RMS Early Career Symposium and Award …
30.06.2025 14:28 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Been a real privilege to organise this satellite meeting, standing on the shoulders of giants! #mmc2025uk
30.06.2025 14:44 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Super excited for the arrival of our brand new Lumicks C-Trap in Biology at York @yorkbioimaging.bsky.social, funded by @ukri.org BBSRC. This state-of-the-art optical tweezers / confocal microscope will enable us to probe the dynamics of structured viral RNAs, one molecule at a time 🔆🧬🔆
16.04.2025 08:38 — 👍 17 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations to Dr Sarah Graham @york.ac.uk #Physicsoflife group for successfully defending her thesis!
Thanks also to Dr Tara Sabir & @agnesnoy.bsky.social for doing the honours as examiners, @bpsiyork.bsky.social for co-supervising & @chillzaa.bsky.social for all the help along the way!
It's here. The lumicks C-Trap is up and running with real samples from Durham, Hull, Newcastle and York consortium. Thanks @ukri.org #BBSRC for funding.
@chillzaa.bsky.social
RMS staff stand next to a van packed with items to take to mmc2025
...And we're off! All packed and ready for #mmc2025 in Manchester next week 😀🔬🚛
We'll see you there - and if you haven't booked your ticket yet, there's still time! (Exhibition tickets are *FREE*) 👇
www.mmc-series.org.uk/general-info...
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‼️Programme finalised ‼️Check out the Early Career Symposium programme below 👇 🔬 #mmc2025UK
14.05.2025 18:07 — 👍 6 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
A great day of thinking about teaching bioimage analysis and designing courses at the #TrainTheTrainerBIA2025
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@giuliapaci.bsky.social
A well deserved fresh drink!
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The second Review, from Wei Min and colleagues, introduces probes for Raman microscopy and describes how probes can extend the benefits of technology that has traditionally been considered “label-free”.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A huge thank-you to everyone who submitted their work for this year's Open Research Awards. Our judging panel look forward to reading about the variety of projects and initiatives that have been taking place across our depts and schools 👍
Watch this space for the awardee announcement next month 🏆
Two persons welcoming UK biophysicists behind a table laden with educational and marketing materials on dynamic single molecule analysis and the C-Trap.
👋 Biophysicists of the UK, come visit our table at the Physics of Life conference between today and March 27 for exclusive demos of the C-Trap -- the world's first instrument for real-time manipulation and visualization of single-molecule interactions!
📍@physicsoflifeuk.bsky.social
Back in Sheffield and excited to play with an exciting new bit of kit - our new @lumicks.bsky.social c-trap optical tweezers with @mattdnewton.bsky.social
@insigneoinstitute.bsky.social
@mcb-sheffield.bsky.social
Single colored tulips fields that appear orange my at closer look consist of a diversity of red, yellow and pink tulips. In the back we see windmills in blue. A heading says: "Biology is not homogeneous. Study the heterogeneous processes with the C-Trap!"
🌷🌷🌷 Looking at the flowering tulip fields, we biologists realize the heterogeneity in all things. Averaging data can mask vital details, but C-Trap’s single-molecule measurements reveal every unique interaction. Capture the full spectrum of molecular dynamics!
More here:
lumicks.com/products/c-t...
