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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR). Microscopy for all of VU and VUMC. Light microscopy and electron microscopy. Image analysis. https://medschool.vanderbilt.edu/cisr/
Today is #WorldDiabetesDay & #FluorescenceFriday! One example from Vanderbilt diabetes research. Image from Darian Carroll's graduate work in Gannon lab. NHP pancreas: insulin (green), mitochondria (magenta), DAPI (blue). @healthcare.nikon.com @betacellbelle.bsky.social @vubasicsciences.bsky.social
14.11.2025 17:38 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A fluorescent embryo on black text, with the words Halfway to I2K: Virtual Tutorials on Image Analysis November 17-19, 2025 Virtual Conference for beginners to developers i2kconference.org Image Credit - "Sweet Embryo",Travis D. Carney, BINA Image Contest 2024
Just 4 days until the start of I2K and its 33 totally free image analysis tutorials and events! Please share with your "home networks", especially early career researchers - the videos will be amazing and high-impact no matter how many people attend live, BUT (1/x)
13.11.2025 14:32 — 👍 49 🔁 48 💬 1 📌 0I think all imaging scientists and microscopy core facility personnel already know we have the greatest jobs in the world, but it's nice to see it written. #microscopy #imaging 🔬😊💯 Vanderbilt friends, come see us to "look at random things through fancy microscopes"!
11.11.2025 21:24 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Great explanation for #MicroscopyMonday on when to use or not use a Maximum Intensity Projection during your image analysis. "Extracting 3D information from 2D projections is akin to estimating the volume, surface, and content properties form a crushed beverage can"
10.11.2025 16:54 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happy #FluorescenceFriday and #HappyHalloween! Spider web or microtubule web? Let's check the scale bar. 5 microns. Great lesson in the importance of a #scalebar. (Microtubules to scale, spider not to scale) 🎃👻🕷️🕸️
31.10.2025 15:53 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Amy Engevik (Image of Distinction). Amy has her own lab now, but we claim her as a former CISR user and Vanderbilt postdoc! @amyengevik.bsky.social
24.10.2025 16:49 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Zach Sanchez (20th) @ento-sanchez.bsky.social
24.10.2025 16:49 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Dylan Burnette (10th) @mag2art.bsky.social
24.10.2025 16:49 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0James's and Dylan's images were acquired with the CISR's Nikon SDC SoRa, funded through an NIMH S10 grant. @healthcare.nikon.com @vubasicsciences.bsky.social
24.10.2025 16:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
We're a week behind, but excited to see so many Vanderbilt and CISR researchers with winning images in the 2025 #NikonSmallWorld contest! Congrats to James Hayes (4th, first image here), Dylan Burnette (10th), Zach Sanchez (20th), and Amy Engevik (IOD)! #FluorescenceFriday www.nikonsmallworld.com
24.10.2025 16:49 — 👍 23 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
The CISR is hosting a webinar and demonstration of the Zeiss LSM910 with Lightfield 4D microscope. Join the webinar next Thursday, Oct. 30 at 11 AM. Then contact Jenny Schafer with CISR or Cumberland Dugan with Zeiss to sign up for a demo time the week of Nov. 10. @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social
22.10.2025 16:06 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Happy #FluorescenceFriday! Trying out a new color combo for today, Friday, October 3. Mitochondria (MitoTracker) in turquoise, nucleus (DAPI) in orange. Confocal Airyscan, tile, MIP. 🧡💚🔬
03.10.2025 15:41 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🌍🎗️ Today is #WorldCancerResearchDay. Cancer impacts millions of people around the world and our scientists are working to tackle cancer from every angle: genes, metabolism, drug discovery, and more. Learn more about cancer research being done at our school 👉 medschool.vanderbilt.edu/basic-scienc...
24.09.2025 19:46 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
#HappyFluorescenceFriday!
#microscopycommunity- want to learn open source image analysis or share your knowledge to help others? We’ve got a FREE virtual workshop Nov 17-19! Now accepting workshop session applications!
Learn more & sign up: buff.ly/esGIotD
Great opportunity for a "Train the Trainer" workshop for light microscopy facility people! Check it out here. #microscopy #cores
02.09.2025 18:23 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Join VI4 for Mega Microbe on September 27! This is always a fun event for kids in the Nashville area. CISR-EM will be showing off some cool EM instruments and will show how beautiful these tiny bacteria can be! 🔬🦠🏫
27.08.2025 15:08 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Looking forward to this joint conference in Montreal! Global BioImaging (GBI) & BioImaging North America (BINA). Registration ends soon! Dr. Jenny Schafer will be representing the CISR. Say hello! #GBIxBINA2025 #BioimagingCommunity #HybridConference #Imaging2025 globalbioimaging.org/exchange-of-...
13.08.2025 21:44 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Drumroll please 🥁 We're excited to announce the winners of the 2nd Annual CISR Life Is Beautiful Image Contest! 🔬🏅
1 - James Hayes, Burnette/Merryman Labs
2 - Rekha Nagarajan, Tyska Lab
3 - James Costanzo, Gama Lab
Read about these researchers, projects, and microscopes here. tinyurl.com/4r6xwe8h
Tomorrow! First Tuesday of the month. CISR Office Hours. 9:00-11:00 AM. Come see us in 704 Light Hall and/or T-2216 MCN, and ask anything microscopy related!
04.08.2025 22:00 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Happy #FluorescenceFriday! Submissions have closed, and NEXT WEEK we will be announcing the WINNERS of the 2nd Annual Life Is Beautiful CISR Image Contest! Stay tuned! To get everyone excited, let's enjoy these 3 beautiful winners from last year! 🔬🎨🏆
01.08.2025 15:30 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Nashville has been under a #HeatAdvisory all week, so how about a #RedHot LUT for #FluorescenceFriday? 🌞😎🥵Might be a cell, might be an artistic representation of what it feels like in Tennessee right now. 🤷
25.07.2025 20:36 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hello #MicroscopyMonday! Second, TEM & SEM from the @tyskalabactual.bsky.social lab and first author @operkins.bsky.social with CISR-EM's Dr. Evan Krystofiak of clathrin-coated pits in intestinal crypts (click for more!). @cp-cellreports.bsky.social @vubasicsciences.bsky.social tinyurl.com/yhue25bv
21.07.2025 22:08 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Hello #MicroscopyMonday! How about 2 new papers with CISR-EM team & Vanderbilt researchers? First, TEM from the @gouldlab.bsky.social with CISR-EM's Dr. Evan Krystofiak to show changes in fungal cell wall architecture. @pnas.org @awillet.bsky.social @vubasicsciences.bsky.social tinyurl.com/23rncw78
21.07.2025 22:00 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Last day to submit your images to our second annual CISR Life Is Beautiful Image Contest! Submit now. Submit more than one. Share with your lab mates. WIN PRIZES. Happy #FluorescenceFriday! 🔬🧬🎨🏅💰
vanderbilt-university.formstack.com/forms/cisr_l...
Four days left! Submit your images today! Win prizes! medschool.vanderbilt.edu/basic-scienc...
15.07.2025 14:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0SAME. See also: writing "fluor" on the grocery list instead of "flour".
11.07.2025 16:26 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Deadline extended! Submit your images to the Second Annual CISR Life is Beautiful Image Contest! New deadline is July 18. Open to anyone with CISR-acquired images. More details here. medschool.vanderbilt.edu/basic-scienc...
09.07.2025 18:28 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We'll be off enjoying the sunshine 😎 and fireworks 🎆 tomorrow, so here is our contribution to #FluorescenceFriday for the #4thofJuly! What do you see? Fireworks? Red and white stripes? Or just some good ol' Fluo cells? Confocal Airyscan on Zeiss LSM980. 🔬❤️🤍💙🗽
03.07.2025 13:47 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The submissions are rolling in for our Second Annual Life Is Beautiful CISR Image Contest! Join in by submitting your beautiful image today in celebration of #FluorescenceFriday! Details here. medschool.vanderbilt.edu/basic-scienc...
13.06.2025 20:12 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Calling all core facilities 🎉- Timely 'Navigating Strategies for Core Facilities 2025: A Town Hall virtual Forum' 16th June.
A joint @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social and @msa-microscopy.bsky.social meeting that welcomes all.
See - www.rms.org.uk/rms-event-ca...
