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Promoting Light-sheet Microscopy in Chile and South America from U. Mayor @CIBumayor. Support by @cziscience.bsky.social #LightsheetMicroscopy
Aníbal Vargas Ríos presenting on LiSIUM
Aníbal Vargas Ríos updated us on the success of LiSIUM and then discussed differences in engagement when offering webinars in Spanish, highlighting the importance of considering language in democratising access.
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Tobias Wenzel x2; on a screen and behind a lecture. Behind Tobias is a banner from The Company of Biologists.
Our morning session started with talks on the open science ecosystem from Tobias Wenzel & Hernán Grecco. Both speakers emphasised the importance of training. Quote of the day so far, “By democratising science, we strengthen democracy!”
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Check out this interview by @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social with @anvargasr.bsky.social, our initiative's coordinator, on building a South American #lightsheet community and our experience so far.
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🚨 Deadline extended!
You now have until August 8 to apply for the Light-Sheet Image Analysis Workshop (Jan 5–9, 2026) at Universidad Mayor in Santiago de Chile with the support of CZI @cziscience.bsky.social and @lisium-chile.bsky.social
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Light Sheet ❤️
This amazing image obtained in our Light sheet🔬, shows a chick embryo injected by Jesus Juarez with a fluorescent dye to label its vascular network.
CUBIC-based tissue clearing and 3D reconstruction by David Arancibia.
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One of the most relevant challenges in light sheet microscopy is the mounting of samples. Different strategies, creativity and a lot of patience are required to carry out this task!
Would you like to see the final result?
Clarified sample (CUBIC) by Ignacio Casanova (U.Chile)
Light sheet 🤎
We are very pleased to share the experience of light sheet microscopy in EMBO#DevBiol course @devbioquintay.bsky.social
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We will be there!
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And how the community of lightsheet users in 🇨🇱 is growing! How motivating to see posters and talks with results obtained in our microscopy unit. Camila Weiss and Ignacio Casanova, users of our #lightsheet7 were awarded on this occasion! Congratulations!
17.12.2024 00:24 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0What an experience! We were this weekend at the First Congress of the Chilean Society for Developmental Biology at @udeconcepcion.bsky.social, with our stand @lisium-chile.bsky.social of the CIB-U. Mayor, promoting access to the lightsheet #lightsheet7 with support from @cziscience.bsky.social
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Workshop Democratising Microscopy in Latin America: Imaging Across Scales and Regions Date: 12 - 15 October 2025 Location: Samari Spa Resort in Baños de Agua Santa, Ecuador Secure your place alongside leading experts and other early-career researchers. Applicants from diverse scientific backgrounds are encouraged. Deadline: 14 February 2025 Organisers Constadina Arvanitis Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, USA Mario Del Rosario ITQB Nova, Portugal Helena De la Torre Universidad Técnica de Ambato, Ecuador Mariana De Niz Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, USA María Fernanda Latorre Barragán Universidad Regional Autónoma de los Andes, Ecuador Licyel Lenny Paulas Condori Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, UK Speakers Federico Brown Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil Santiago Casado Universidad Técnica de Ambato, Ecuador Teng-Leong Chew HHMI Janelia, USA Benedict Diedrich Open Instrumentation Group, Leibniz-IPHT Jena, Germany Estibaliz Gómez-de-Mariscal Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencias, Portugal Hernán E. Grecco Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina Adán Guerrero Instituto de Biotecnología, UNAM, Mexico Ricardo Henriques ITQB Nova, Portugal Anna Kreshuk EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Federico Lecumberry Universidad de la República, Uruguay Lucía López Centro de Investigaciones en Bionanociencias (CIBION), Argentina Kildare Miranda Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Iván Rey Universidad de los Andes, Colombia Aníbal Vargas Ríos Center of Integrative Biology, Universidad Mayor, Chile Andrés Romero-Carvajal Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE), Ecuador Tobias Wenzel Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile Flavio Zolessi Instituto Pasteur de Montevideo, Uruguay To find outmore or apply online visit workshops.biologists.com
🧪ECRs can now apply for a funded place at our Workshop 'Democratising Microscopy in Latin America: Imaging Across Scales and Regions' taking place in Ecuador in Oct 2025. Find out more at bit.ly/41646g5
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