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Light Microscopy Facility @mdibiolab.bsky.social https://lmf.mdibl.org/
Congratulations to Frederic Bonnet and the @mdibl-lmf.bsky.social on these amazing achievements!! 🎉
17.10.2025 19:17 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
I love Frederic Bonnet's compound eye image that got first place 😍
14.10.2025 16:03 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Grateful to see one my #superresolution #pollen images won 2nd place at the 2025 @bioimagingna.bsky.social image contest!
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#microscopy #confocal #botany #plantscience #allergies #bioimaging
This #microscopymonday image of a planarian regenerating its head 7 days after decapitation is from MDI Bio Lab's Disney lab. The translucent area at the top is the blastema—a mass of stem cells that gives rise to new tissues during regeneration. MDIBL Light Microscopy Facility
🧪 🤝 🌎 #microscopy
🎉 🔬 We’re thrilled to announce the winners of this year’s #NikonSmallWorld in Motion video #Microscopy competition: bit.ly/4mtjUk7
🥇 1st place goes to Jay McClellan of Saranac, Michigan (USA) for his video capturing self-pollination in a thymeleaf speedwell flower.
#Microscope #SciArt #SciComm
Thanks go out to MDI Bio Lab Digital Image Analyst @hsomers.bsky.social for this #microscopymonday view of an adult #zebrafish (brain vasculature) from the MesoSPIM.
#standwithscience #researchmatters 🧪 🤝 🐟🎸 #microscopy #fluorescentproteins #lightsheet
Speaking with BioImaging North America about the Maine Microscopy Course! @bioimagingna.bsky.social @mdibiolab.bsky.social
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#science #education #microscopy #EoE
One of the people I'm indebted the most for creating stunningly beautiful #mesoSPIM samples was Martina Schaettin - who tragically passed away in March this year. To honor her memory, Elkhan Yusifov created an award - submit your best #microscopy images & videos! www.linkedin.com/company/mart...
22.08.2025 17:32 — 👍 63 🔁 16 💬 2 📌 2
microscope image of fribroblast cell
This mouse fibroblast cell captured by @mdibl-lmf.bsky.social in 2022 is labeled with a #fluorescence to visualize the actin cytoskeleton—a network of actin filaments & proteins that maintains cell shape, enables movement & supports key processes.
#researchmatters #microscopymonday #lightsheet 🧪 🤝
Hi Dr. Lachie,
I use the AI voice over due to my strong accent. I agree, it doesn't always sound the best. But your data analysis is great.
Do you see chromatic aberration in your images? www.youtube.com/shorts/9lyix...
#science #microscopy #bioimaging #microscopymonday #chromaticaberration #bluesci #mdibl
What is Köhler Illumination?
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#microscopy #microscopymonday #Köhler #Köhlerillumination #brightfield #science
star fish under a microscope
A beautiful #microscopymonday sea star captured by @hsomers.bsky.social in 2022.
Sample: Asterias amurensis (Northern Sea Star)
Label: Nuclear staining with DAPI in Cyan and auto-fluorescence in green
#standwithscience #researchmatters #microscopy #fluorescentproteins #lightsheet 🧪 🤝 #wildlife
Reminder! Application Deadline: August 8, 2025
From mastering iPSC culture to directed differentiation and organoid creation, participants will gain skills they can immediately apply to their own research workflows.
#standwithscience #researchmatters 🧪 🤝 🐟🎸 🍎 👩🔬 🖥️🧬
GFP+ stem cells moving through the complex environment of a zebrafish kidney.
This #microscopymonday image shows GFP+ stem cells moving through the complex environment of a #zebrafish kidney.
It was captured in 2023 by Senior Research Scientist Caramai Kamei.
#standwithscience #researchmatters #microscopy #fluorescentproteins #lightsheet 🧪 🤝 🐟🎸
This #microscopymonday image is of a #Drosophila male reproductive system: paired coiled testes, seminal vesicles & accessory glands, and a single ejaculatory duct. Each coiled testis is about 1.5mm. Image captured by MDI Bio Lab Sr. Scientist Travis Carney.
#standwithscience #researchmatters 🧪 🤝
What is Numerical Aperture?
#microscopy #na #numericalaperture #microscopymonday #science #bioimaging
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This image from 2024 is by MDI Bio Lab Senior Scientist Travis Carney. It shows the neurons in the brain of a #Drosophila fruit fly larva. The images are color-coded projections, so different focal planes are in different colors.
#standwithscience #researchmatters #microscopymonday #lightsheet 🧪 🤝
Do you know the PSF of your microscope?
#PSF #Pointspreadfunction #microscopy #microscopymonday #introduction #science #biology
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This colorized #microscopymonday image from 2023 by Frederic Bonnet shows kidney cells of a pig: the nuclei in yellow, the cytoplasmic vesicle in green and the membrane in magenta.
#standwithscience #researchmatters @mdibl-lmf.bsky.social
#microscopy #fluorescentproteins #lightsheet 🧪 🤝 🐟🎸 🍎 👩🔬
Do you follow best practices for visualizing microscopy images?
#microscopy #microscopymonday #imaging #visualization #science
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SGLT2 Inhibition Ameliorates Age-Dependent Renovascular Rarefaction https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.27.654312v1
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Deadline Approaching! July 7, 2025
Maine #Microscopy: Foundations and Fundamentals 2025, August 5-13 at MDI Bio Lab!
Optimize your experiment planning, imaging and analysis skills to strengthen your research and accelerate discoveries in your field.
#standwithscience #researchmatters 🧪 🤝 🍎 👩🔬
Maine #Microscopy: Foundations & Fundamentals 2025, August 5-13
For Maine grad students, postdoc trainees, research assistants & junior faculty. Understand current technology and how technical decisions impact final image products.
Application Deadline: July 7. Register today!
🧪 🤝 🍎 👩🔬 🖥️ 🧬
Happy #MicroscopyMonday!
#microscopycommunity - join @bioimagingna.bsky.social May 28, to hear Fredric Bonnet of @MDIBL_LMF speak on “Maine Microscopy: Democratizing Microscopy Education for Local Scientists” as part of the BINA EoE Virtual Group
Learn more and register here: buff.ly/F3rZzx7
Looking forward to the @mesospim.bsky.social #lightsheet #Microscopy anniversary symposium in October with @preibischs.bsky.social @adamkglaser.bsky.social @christellelangevin.bsky.social & many more! And to the next mesoSPIM decade! 🔬 Thanks @nvladimus.bsky.social & Co for organizing it!
16.05.2025 12:15 — 👍 19 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
A leading Light Microscopy Facility in Maine, the goal of MDI Bio Lab's @mdibl-lmf.bsky.social is excellence in research support & training with a strong emphasis on #education.
For instance, this #microscopymonday #zebrafish image is an example of a practice sample.
#standwithscience 🧪 🤝 🐟🎸 🍎 👩🔬
New chapter from Iain Drummond (MDI Bio Lab) and Heiko Schenk (Hannover Medical School) in Current Topics in Developmental Biology (@elsevierconnect.bsky.social): "Kidney development, injury and regeneration—Zebrafish"
#standwithscience 🧪 🤝 🐟🎸 #SciencePublishing
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Happy #MicroscopyMonday!
Nominate an academic @bioimagingna.bsky.social member for the 2025 Michael W. Davidson Memorial Award!
2025 submissions are now being accepted through May 23, 2025 & details are available here buff.ly/Bh9qo5r .
Have you been thinking of enrolling the MDI Bio Lab's #LightSheet Fluorescence Microscopy course?
Registration has been lowered to $1,000 — down from $3,500!
This is a great opportunity for researchers/students to enhance their knowledge & skills in cutting-edge #microscopy techniques. 🧪 🤝 🍎 👩🔬
