New England Society for Microscopy

Introducing another #NESM board member for #MicroscopyMonday — Ben Muller, Director of Physical Sciences! He works across surface metrology, microfluidics, thin films, and micro/nanofabrication. He just defended his PhD! 🎉
📸 SEM of modified EGaIn sphere contacts (Harvard CNS).
#SEM #Nanotechnology

#NESM team together!

Happy #MicroscopyMonday! Meet our new Director of Biological Sciences, Mark Scimone, a UNH professor whose work spans neuroscience, optics, and image analysis. He brings experience from Boston Children’s and PSI, plus a passion for microscopy education. #NESM #SEM

📸: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Happy #MicroscopyMonday! This week we're spotlighting Brandy Freitas, our Director of Media and Outreach at #NESM.👏 @brandy-syglass.bsky.social
Brandy is the Director of Data Science at #syGlass, and here is a video of #3Ddata from C Wolff the MBL @mblscience.bsky.social 🔬

#BioImaging #SciComm

Happy #MicroscopyMonday! 🧫 This week we're spotlighting Andy Stone, our immediate past-president at #NESM. 👏 @andystoneimaging.bsky.social

Andy leads the Brandeis light microscopy core and is a powerhouse in the imaging community—from BINA to NESM and RMS. 🎥🔬

#LightSheet #BioImaging #STEM

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This gorgeous piece will be displayed during our Fall Symposium at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA on November 6th & 7th. If you are interested in a chance to learn more about 3D printing and how it can be used in your microscopy builds, register now for the Makerspace Workshop on November 6th.

This week's #MicroscopyMonday is a time lapse 3D printing of a mini microscope from the MakerLab at Brandeis University.

🥼 Greg Buckland | Head of Brandeis MakerLab

#MicroscopyMonday #Sciencecommunication #BrandeisUniversity #NESM #Microscopy #Science #3D #3DPrinting

We're up in Gloucester today for the 10th Annual GMGI Science Forum! #NESM #GMGI

Tungsten crystals for #MicroscopyMonday from one of our upcoming keynote speakers! #NESM www.nesmicroscopy.org/2025-fall-sy...

🥼: @gewilli.bsky.social, Microscopist
🏛️: Brown University Leduc Bioimaging
🔬: TFS Apreo 2 VS Scanning Electron Microscope, Horizontal Field Width (HFW) = 49μm

It's #MicroscopyMonday and we are only three weeks away from the #NESM Fall Symposium! We still have opportunities for poster and oral presentations for researchers, vendors and core facilities, link here: www.nesmicroscopy.org/2025-fall-sy...

#Microscopy #LightSheet #3DPrinting #SEM #LSFM #SciComm

For #MicroscopyMonday: “Seeing Every Photon”—a hands-on workshop with Evident Scientific on the FLUOVIEW FV4000 confocal! At the Fall symposium Nov 6-7, learn to capture consistent, quantitative images with SilVIR™ detectors and performance monitoring. #NESM #ConfocalMicroscopy

Stylized graphic of an electron beam, shown as a purple cone with a red bullseye tip, aimed precisely at a single atom in a hexagonal lattice of atoms. The background is a faint atomic-resolution microscopy image, highlighting the idea of targeting individual atoms in atomically thin materials

Excited to welcome MIT’s Julian P. Klein as a keynote at the #NESM Fall Symposium! 🔬 His work uses electron beams to target atoms in 2D materials — here’s a teaser image from his research in quantum engineering.

#MicroscopyMonday #ElectronMicroscopy #QuantumMaterials #Nanotechnology #MIT #SciComm

📣Announcing the Fall Symposium Workshops for #MicroscopyMonday!🎫 Registration is now open here: www.nesmicroscopy.org/2025-fall-sy...

🔬: Hitachi Gemini FE SEM
🥼: Benjamin Muller, PI Giovanni Traverso, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE)
📝: Feig et al, lnkd.in/ea5M7aET

#NESM #SciComm

Announcing one of our Keynote Speakers, Elizabeth Engle, for #MicroscopyMonday! Please join us in November at Brandeis!

🔬: 3i Light Sheet
🐭: Dharmendra Puri, Boston Children's Hospital
🏛️: Harvard Medical School's MicRoN facility
🎬: syGlass.io

#NESM #LightSheetMicroscopy #3DImaging #TissueClearing

Announcing registration for the Fall Symposium at Brandeis for #MicroscopyMonday! #NESM
www.nesmicroscopy.org/2025-fall-sy...

🔬: Bruker TruLive3D @brukerspatial.bsky.social
🥼: Amro Hamdoun @hamdounlab.bsky.social ‬, Tzer Han Tan's @tzerhan29.bsky.social group
🌌: Painted Sea Urchin
📷: syGlass.io

🕷️ A winter tick’s lethal grasp for a late #MicroscopyMonday, captured in stunning SEM by Monica Miles, winner of 3rd place in UMaine’s 2025 Imaging Your Research Contest.

Tiny structures, huge impact on Maine’s moose calves.

#Microscopy #Ecology #Moose #SEM #NESM @umaine.bsky.social

It's #MicroscopyMonday! Today we have a very special confocal dataset that HIGH SCHOOL students were able to label and image themselves at the MBL.

🐟: #Zebrafish
🔬: Nipam Patel, High School Science Discovery Programs
🏛️: @mblscience.bsky.social
🎬: syGlass.io

#NESM #Confocal #SciComm #ScienceEd

Scanning Electron Microscope image of a Daucus carota seed pod. Black line on the bottom of 667 μm long for scale.

Dedicated seed pod of Wild Carrot/Queen Anne's Lace/Daucus carota

📷 (Ok maybe 🔬) Hitachi 2700 SEM

More of the #SciArt side.
(I'll be giving a talk about it all in November at the @nesmicroscopy.bsky.social fall meeting, not this plant as much but related)

Tungsten crystals for #MicroscopyMonday! #NESM

⚗️: Tungsten oxide crystals
🥼: Geoff Williams, @gewilli.bsky.social
🏛️: @brownuresearch.bsky.social , Leduc Bioimaging Facility
🔬: @thermofishersci.bsky.social , Apreo 2 VS Scanning Electron Microscope, HFW 8um

Black and white scanning electron micrograph of a Lily of the Valley flower showing three anthers, each with a textured, folded surface. The anthers are suspended above a cellular platform-like base, revealing intricate tissue structure and fine surface detail at high magnification.

Announcing our first Fall Symposium speaker for #MicroscopyMonday! Geoff Williams, Brown. #NESM

🌾: Lily of the Valley
🥼: Geoff Williams, @gewilli.bsky.social
🏛️: @brownuresearch.bsky.social Leduc Bioimaging Facility
🔬: @thermofishersci.bsky.social Apreo 2 VS Scanning Electron Microscope, HFW 4mm

A #NESM Save the Date for #MicroscopyMonday! We're happy to announce our in-person Fall Symposium will be held at Brandeis University @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social November 6th & 7th. We're looking for #poster and oral presentations and #abstract submission opens soon!
www.nesmicroscopy.org

Are there any other #NESM members heading to Microscopy and Microanalysis in Salt Lake City next week? A few of our board members will be there, would love to meet some fellow microscopists! @brandy-syglass.bsky.social #MM2025

🐙 This Octopus shifts from deep to active rest while "dreaming" for #MicroscopyMonday. REM‑like sleep (color bursts and twitches) filmed in real time by Horst Obenhaus @octoscience.bsky.social‬, currently a 2025 Whitman Fellow at @mblscience.bsky.social. #NESM

#Octopus #Neuro #SleepScience #MBL

@brandeisuniversity.bsky.social has a new lightsheet for #MicroscopyMonday !💡New England microscopy cores - do you have a system you want advertised? Send us an image! #NESM
🧠: TdTomato Mouse Brain
🔬: #LifeCanvas SmartSPIM, 1.6x obj
🥼: @andystoneimaging.bsky.social
🏛️: Brandeis LMCF (RRID:SCR_02589)

For #MicroscopyMonday, we have "The Many Layers of a Squid": Pictured here is a cross-section of the optic lobe from Doryteuthis pealei, the longfin inshore squid. #NESM

🔬: Zeiss @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social Axioscope
📸: Sony DSC-s70
🥼: Jaqulin Wallace, Alan Kuzirian
🏛️: @mblscience.bsky.social

#MicroscopyMonday! Time-lapse fluorescence imaging🧫 live human blood vessel cells expressing GFP fusion protein. #NESM

🔬: @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social Stellaris 8 FALCON
🥼: Sung Hoon Lee, Andre Levchenko
🏛️: Yale West Campus Imaging Core
📝: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lIAk8YyDf...
🏋️: Joerg Nikolaus

Split image comparing confocal and STED microscopy of a cell. The left half (labeled "Confocal") shows a blurrier image with magenta and green signals—magenta representing nuclear pore complexes in the nucleus, and green showing the vimentin cytoskeleton. The right half (labeled "STED") displays the same structures with much sharper definition and finer detail, highlighting the improved resolution of STED microscopy.

#MicroscopyMonday! Vero cells (🟩: intermediate filaments 🟪: nuclear pores), on conventional confocal and STED microscope. #NESM

🔬: ‪Abberior Line 3D STED @abberior.rocks
🥼: Andy Stone @andystoneimaging.bsky.social
🏛️: @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social Light Microscopy Core Facility (RRID:SCR_02589)

Still of a LIVE sea urchin larvae for #MicroscopyMondy from our #NESM trip to the MIT Museum!

🔬: Bruker's TruLive3D @brukercorporation.bsky.social
🥼: Amro Hamdoun @hamdounlab.bsky.social , Tzer Han Tan's @tzerhan29.bsky.social group at UCSD #UCSD
🌌: Painted Sea Urchin
🎥: syGlass.io #syGlass

For #MicroscopyMonday, a 100M year-old 🦟 in amber! Lots of familiar #NESM faces up in Acadia for the #LSFM25 at the MDI @mdibiolab.bsky.social !

🔬: Bruker @brukercorporation.bsky.social, LCS SPIM
🟠: Courtesy the Sims Collection
🥼&🎥: Jan Frankowski @frankowskijc.bsky.social

@lsfm-na.bsky.social