This was a great sample to check out -- who knew 100M year old amber would be so close to Ethyl Cinnamate in RI? Huge shout out to @brukercorporation.bsky.social for the fleet of lightsheets at @lsfm-na.bsky.social last week!

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

And with that, #lsfm25 comes to a close! We want to thank everyone who helped make this possible - the faculty, course directors, TAs, vendors, and sponsors. But most importantly the many wonderful people at MDIBL. See you all next year!

Preparation for the final event of the course: a boat tour of Acadia!

Now that the students have had several days to learn sample preparation and image acquisition, we are wrapping up day five with a crash course called "Now what do you do with your data?" Led by @dpshepherd.bsky.social and Carsten Wolff. #lsfm25 #microscopy #science #education

Spending some time at #lsfm25 cleaning up code. It now has distributed GPU gradient-consensus RL decon (@jamesdmanton.bsky.social @andrewgyork.bsky.social) our fast orthogonal deskew, and stitching/fusion to ome-ngff v0.5. Example AO-OPM data on uncleared mouse brain slice github.com/QI2lab/opm-p...

Up in Acadia at the @mdibiolab.bsky.social for #LSFM25! Here's a cleared whole mouse head on the SmartSPIM, 3.6X objective for #3DThursday. 🔎 @jtakatoh.bsky.social, now at @stonybrooku.bsky.social 🔬 LifeCanvas Technologies, lifecanvastech.com/products/sma... 🥽 syGlass.io @lsfm-na.bsky.social

We are so excited to start day four with a wonderful talk from Kara Cerveny! #lsfm25 #science #microscopy #education @mdibiolab.bsky.social @kara-cerveny.bsky.social

It's day three and we are starting our morning off with an excellent intro to clearing by Doug Richardson. #lsfm25 #microscopy #science #education @mdibiolab.bsky.social

And it begins....

The calm before the storm indeed! In just a half an hour, this board will be bombarded by 25 students rushing to grab a spot on their instrument of choice. 11 systems. Only 9 labs. May the odds be ever in their favor... #lsfm25 #microscopy #science #education @mdibiolab.bsky.social

We are back from lunch with a talk from Raghav Chhetri telling us all about using light sheet microscopy for neuroscience imaging! #lsfm25 #microscopy #science #education @mdibiolab.bsky.social @rchhmiscope.bsky.social

It's day two! We're starting off a day filled with science with a talk from Anna-Karin Gustavsson from Rice University. #lsfm25 #microscopy #science #education @mdibiolab.bsky.social @riceuniversity.bsky.social @gustavssonlab.bsky.social

Morning in Bar Harbor doesn’t suck.

Step 8: In @lsfm-na.bsky.social 2025 at @mdibiolab.bsky.social‬ organized by @glaevsky.bsky.social. Well day one done worth a sunset!

Step @lsfm-na.bsky.social 2025 at @mdibiolab.bsky.social‬ organized by @glaevsky.bsky.social. Went to collect some samples... Here is a pink tunic ate!

Reto Fiolka and OPM for the Keynote!

With the end of our first round of vendor talks behind us, we are excited to welcome Reto Fiolka as our keynote speaker this year. #lsfm25 #microscopy #science #education @mdibiolab.bsky.social

Holly Gibbs discussing the logistics of image processing and analysis

While we are on our lunch break, the students are enjoying some beautiful weather here at @mdibiolab.bsky.social. #lsfm25 #microscopy #science #education

We now have Vera Morales from Nikon telling us all about objectives: the why, when, and how! #lsfm25 #microscopy #science #education

Claudette St Croix from CBI kicks off LSFM 2025 at @mdibiolab.bsky.social

@lsfm-na.bsky.social Is this heaven, or am I just currently surrounded by ELEVEN DIFFERENT LIGHT SHEET MICROSCOPES? So thrilled to be out here in Acadia chatting about microscopy!

LSFM 2025 has kicked off with an introduction from the one and only, @glaevsky.bsky.social, our course director. #lsfm25 #microscopy #science #education

Calm before the storm…

Time to sheet!

Why no swim?!

Step 2 : On my way to @lsfm-na.bsky.social 2025 at @mdibiolab.bsky.social‬ organized by @glaevsky.bsky.social. Queueing and sterile halls is next at Charles de Gaulle Airport !

See you soon!

Registration prices are going down but quality will be the same!

12 systems will be there, Bruker x3!, 3i, Leica, ASI, MBF, LiT, LifeCanvas x2!, and Miltenyi! Amazing cutting-edge technology, accessible instructors, and Bar Harbor! Please re-bluesky (what do you call it here:))!

And join a community, ready to share, to help and to support you... Already 5th course in Europe and 4th in the US ( @lsfm-na.bsky.social )...

Join us at MDI Bio Lab (@mdibl-lmf.bsky.social) for an exciting 2025 lineup of #microscopy courses designed for researchers & professionals — May 16-23, June 1-7, and Aug 5-13! #microscopymonday #fluorescentproteins #lightsheet 🧪 🤝 🧬 🐟🎸 🍎 Learn more & enroll now! mdibl.org/education/co...

Registration for LSFM at @mdibl-lmf.bsky.social 6/1-6/7 is now open! This is an amazing academic environment, and is unique that all the major vendors will be there and students are ENCOURAGED to bring their own samples! mdibl.org/course/lsfm-...

If you are interested in an immersive week imaging on AxL CTLS, you should sign up for #LSFM2025 @lsfm-na.bsky.social. A great course with a fantastic new location @mdibiolab.bsky.social for 2025. #microscopy #clearedtissue #lightsheet 🌎 mdibl.org/course/lsfm-... 🔬 www.intelligent-imaging.com/AxL

Registration for LSFM at @mdibl-lmf.bsky.social 6/1-6/7 is now open! This is an amazing academic environment, and is unique that all the major vendors will be there and students are ENCOURAGED to bring their own samples! mdibl.org/course/lsfm-...

@ritastrack.bsky.social how does this ban on NIH comms affect you and yours?

Now that I have settled here quietly, here is a new serie on microscope #microscopefoot and no it is not a fetishist nerd post but an exploration of the shape of the microscope foot. Let's start with Episode 1: "The round one". From Hooke supported microscope to Nachet, Vollensak ...

Thanks Ed. Here is the link to the course on this side of the pond @LSFM-na.bsky.social mdibl.org/course/lsfm-...

in 2021, I was a member of the team @the.3i.social that described, for the first time, using a #lightsheet #microscope, the full nervous system of a mouse. I don't know if this has ever been duplicated. Sample from CIBR, Dr. Hu Zhao. Happy #FluorescenceFriday Nerds. BB-PEG. 6.5X/0.25NA

Congratulations to Marko Pende and Hannah Somers! Marko’s image of a tissue-cleared ladybug won 1st place in the Evident 5th Annual Image of the Year Contest, and Hannah's green crab was awarded honorable mention. Both were created at our #LightMicroscopy #CoreFacility! 🧪🤝 mdibl.org/mdi-bio-lab-...

MDI Biological Laboratory was recently mentioned in a @mainepublic.org story on seagrass restoration efforts in Maine. Read how scientists are banding together to save these important #eelgrass habitats and battling this alarming trend 🧪🤝🖥️: www.mainepublic.org/climate/2024...

Hope I'm the first to post this all time classic on this platform

Excited to have our work on a Multimodal illumination platform for 3D single-molecule super-resolution imaging throughout mammalian cells featured on the cover of Biomedical Optics Express! doi.org/10.1364/BOE....

Should I make a lightsheet microscopy starter pack? Who wants to join? @retof.bsky.social @edwardlachica3.bsky.social @astormic.bsky.social @olu-gh.bsky.social @adamkglaser.bsky.social @glaevsky.bsky.social

Hey nerds, you know about this, right? Spots are filling up. You can still register using the QR code. And I’ll be there with my lightsheet microscope. 🤸‍♀️🤸‍♀️🤸‍♀️

Here we are! @ereynaud.bsky.social