Happy Holidays from NESM!

For #MicroscopyMonday, we’re excited to welcome Katie Shulenberger as NESM’s newest Director of Physical Sciences! 🎉 An Asst. Prof. of Chemistry at @brandeis.edu, Katie develops spectroscopic methods to study semiconductor nanomaterials and photophysics. #NESM #Spectroscopy #Nanomaterials

Another #MicroscopyMonday intro! Meet Emma Perry, the #NESM Clerk from UMaine @umaine.bsky.social . She manages electron & confocal microscopes at UMaine and studies Maine/NE USA tardigrade biogeography & taxonomy. 📸 Maine tardigrade: Viridiscus perviridis 🔬Amray 1820, CORE #ElectronMicroscopy Lab.

The New England Society for Microscopy is heartbroken by the tragic shooting at Brown University. Academic and research spaces should be safe places to learn, teach, and experiment. We mourn the victims, stand with the Brown community, and are deeply angered by this senseless act of violence.

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

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

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

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

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

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

#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

🥣 #MicroscopyMonday at #NESM! Nano Cheerios (FeO) imaged with a Schottky field emission #SEM (FE-SEM). These rings highlight the clarity and contrast achievable with a high-brightness electron beam. 🔬 JEOL JSM-IT800SHL, www.jeolusa.com/PRODUCTS/Sca... 🥼 Jennifer Misuraca 🏛️ @jeoleurope.bsky.social

Microscopist on vacation: "wait, can I take an image with a phone and binoculars' lens?" ... yes, apparently you can ... 🔭 Not quite #MicroscopyMonday ... #NESM 🔬: Celestron phase coated 8x42 129m, FOV 7.4°, iPhone detector 🐦: Scarlet Tanager 🥼: @brandy-syglass.bsky.social 🏛️: West Marlboro, VT

#MicroscopyMonday: tissue cleared 🐭lung using light sheet microscopy (#LSFM)! 🔬: @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social LIGHTSHEET 7, 5x mag 🥼: Sidrah Ahmed & Carla Kim, PI at BCH 🏛️: @bostonchildrens.bsky.social research.childrenshospital.org/resources/co... 🎬: syglass.io #Microscopy #TissueClearing #NESM

For #MicroscopyMonday: 3D reconstructions of lamprey reticulospinal synapses 🐉: Petromyzon marinus 🥼: Jaqulin Wallace, @mblscience.bsky.social 🔬: JEOL JEM-200CX, MBL’s Central Microscopy Facility 📄: doi.org/10.1091/mbc.... #Neurodegeneration #ElectronMicroscopy #MBL #Microscopy #Parkinsons #NESM

It's #MicroscopyMonday!🔬🌈 An incredible mouse embryo, cleared and imaged on a @the.3i.social LightSheet. #NESM 🔬: @edwardlachica3.bsky.social 🐭: Dharmendra Puri, @harvardmed.bsky.social, @bostonchildrens.bsky.social 🏛️: micron.hms.harvard.edu/tissue-clear... 📩: [email protected]

"Rising from Chaos" #MicroscopyMonday: an active system of microtubules, kinesin motors and actin filaments. 🔬: Resonant Scanning Nikon AX-R Confocal 🥼: Quang Tran of the Fraden Lab, MRSEC, @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social 🏛️: www.brandeis.edu/science/reso... 📩: [email protected]

For #MicroscopyMonday: polymer-drug crystal complexes scanned with a FE-SEM! 🔬: Hitachi's Gemini Field-Emission Scanning Electron Microscope 🥼: Ben Muller, PI Giovanni Traverso, MIT-MechE 📝: www.nature.com/articles/s44... 🏛️: Harvard Center for Nanoscale Systems (CNS) 📩: [email protected] #NESM

For #MicroscopyMonday, Naegleria cells from our Keynote Speaker for the Spring Symposium!🦠 🔬: Nikon Ti2, Plan Apo λ 100x oil obj, Crest spinning disk, Prime 95B CMOS, Spectra III/Celesta source 🥼: @katrinavelle.bsky.social 🏛️: www.umassd.edu 📩: [email protected] #NESM #SciComm #SciArt

For #MicroscopyMonday, the 1st place winner of UMaine's 2025 “Imaging Your Research"! 👑: Aulacoseira pusilla, a diatom from a pond in Maine! 🔬: Zeiss NVision 40 FIB/SEM 🥼: Leonardo Villacís 🏛️: umaine.edu/core/electron-microscopy-laboratory 📩: [email protected] #NESM #SciComm #SciArt

📣 Call for Abstracts 📣 for the Spring Symposium: www.nesmicroscopy.org/2025-spring-... 📍 Virtual - all are invited to attend and submit an abstract, even if you're outside of the NE area! 📆 Friday, April 25th 🕐 9AM - 4PM EST 💲 Free #NESM #SciComm #SciArt #ShareYourScience #Microscopy

For #MicroscopyMonday: Sea Lamprey spinal cord! 🐉: Petromyzon marinus. Axons injected to visualize presynaptic actin. 🔬: Leica Stellaris 8, 40x oil obj. Max z-projection, heat map for fluorescence. 🥼: Jaqulin Wallace, MBL. Johannes Tromm, DZNE. #NESM #SciComm #SciArt www.mbl.edu/research/res...

📣 Registration is now open for our virtual Spring Symposium, April 25th! This is a great opportunity to get submit an abstract and have a chance of being selected to give a talk. Join us! www.nesmicroscopy.org/2025-spring-... #NESM #Microscopy #STEM #SciComm #TalkingScience

🌱 #MicroscopyMonday! 🌱 This award-winning image, "A Sparkling Spot", Keunjung Heo, PhD (Woolf Lab), looks like a flower but is actually a motor neuron spot culture! 🌸 🔬: Leica SP8 Confocal at Boston Children's Hospital CIC. Got an amazing image? 📩 [email protected] to be featured!✨#NESM

Happy #Fluorescence Friday! #microscopy community, mark your calendar and join us for Valeria Piazza’s presentation as part of @bioimagingna.bsky.social's Career Speaker series on Feb 6, free & online! Register here www.bioimagingnorthamerica.org/events/caree...

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