💫🧬🧫Fluorescent proteins make the holidays!🧫🧬💫 The Roger Y. Tsien lab (UCSD) made the wreaths with fluorescent proteins!🖌️🎨 #FluorescenceFriday #SciArt #AgarArt #MicrobialArt #BioArt #FluorescentProtein #FluorescentProteins

🎄A Fluorescent, Periodic Table Chemistree!🎄 The tree was dyed with strontium aluminate (SrAl₂O₄), decorated with 118 element ornaments, & topped with a periodic table. Happy Holidays! #FluorescenceFriday #SciArt #OChemistree #ChemisTree

🌟🎄A Fluorescent Chemistree for the Holidays!🎄🌟 🥼The tree is perfect for a day in the lab & a night on the town!💃 #Chemistree #FluorescenceFriday #RealTimeChem #SciArt #ChemArt #SciComm

In these times filled with anxiety, let this glow-in-the-dark fidget spinner soothe you. ߷😌 A UV laser pointer produced phosphorescence. #FluorescenceFriday #SciArt #Phosphorescence

🌞🍂❄️🌸 Behold, the four seasons!🌞🍂❄️🌸 🖌️🎨🪨I painted black rocks with fluorescent paint. UV light produced fluorescence.🖌️🎨🪨 #FluorescenceFriday #RockArt #SciArt

🐴Look at that horse!🐴 I painted the horse's face with E. coli expressing the fluorescent protein mCherry. 🧬🦠🧫🎠 #FluorescenceFriday #SciArt #Bacteria #Microbiology #AgarArt #SciComm

🌀🌪️A fluorescent cyclone in a beaker!🌪️🌀 Fluorescein fluorescence visualized the stirred liquid. #FluorescenceFriday #RealTimeChem #Chemistry #SciArt #SciComm

🎃Behold FrankenPumpkin!🎃 I filled a flat-bottom flask with chlorophyll extracted from algae.🦠 UV light produced the red fluorescence. Jordan Tanen drew the pumpkin face.🖊️ #FluorescenceFriday #SciArt #SciComm #RealTimeChem #ChemArt #Halloween2025 #Halloween

🎃A fluorescent turmeric jack-o'-lantern!🎃 I filled a flat-bottom flask with turmeric extract. Jordan Tanen drew the face.🖊️ #FluorescenceFriday #SciArt #SciComm #RealTimeChem #ChemArt

🎃Welcome to my fluorescent pumpkin patch!🎃 Jack-O-Lanterns are pipette tips filled with 😈 lucifer yellow, fluorescein, or rhodamine 101.🎃 🌝 #FluorescenceFriday #PipetteArt #SciArt #ChemArt #SciComm #HappyHalloween #Halloween 🎃

🎃💀Boys & girls of every age. Wouldn't you like to see something strange?💀🎃 🖌️🎨I painted Jack Skellington with E. coli expressing the small Ultra-Red Fluorescent Protein (smURFP).🧬🦠🧫 #TheNightmareBeforeChristmas #JackSkellington #SciArt #AgarArt #SciComm

👁️An eye for dye!👁️ Nadine Lo painted the image using malachite green, fluorescein, & sulforhodamine B. 🥽🧪⚗️🖌️🎨 #FluorescenceFriday #SciArt #SciComm #ChemArt #SciComm #HappyHalloween #Halloween

Phosphorescent sand excited by a UV laser pointer. Phosphorescence is from zinc sulfide (ZnS). Phosphorescence lasts longer than fluorescence. #FluorescenceFriday #Phosphorescence

💜💚🧡An optics demonstration!💚💜🧡 I filled bottles with fluorescein & sulforhodamine B. A UV laser pointer excites the dyes to fluoresce. #FluorescenceFriday #Optics #Photonics #Laser

💧◀️💧Diffusion in reverse!💧◀️💧 I added fluorescein & rhodamine B to a water bath under UV illumination. #FluorescenceFriday #SciArt #SciComm #RealTimeChem #Chemistry #Chemtwitter

🌊🧪Look at this Periodic Table beach towel!🧪🌊 😺⚗️Thank you, ThermoFisher Aspire Program!⚗️😺 #AspireMemberProgram #SciArt #SciComm #RealTimeChem #ChemArt #Chemistry #ChemTwitter

🔬🦠Bacterial chemotaxis!🦠🔬 Students imaged bacteria expressing the small Ultra-Red Fluorescent Protein (smURFP) to follow attraction to sugars & repulsion to glycine.🍬 #FluorescenceFriday #Microbiology #Chemotaxis #FluorescentProtein #SciComm

🌊The beautiful fluorescence of a sea anemone!🌊 #FluorescenceFriday #FluorescentProtein #Coral #Sea #Ocean

Today, I would like to honor the memory of Roger Y. Tsien, who died on August 24, 2016. His legacy lives with all who use his technologies, including calcium sensors, fluorescent proteins, the acetoxymethyl (AM) ester, & many more! #FluorescenceFriday www.nature.com/articles/nme...

✨🌟The 3D printed structure of Discosoma red fluorescent protein (DsRed)!🌟✨ The red chromophore is fluorescent due to rigidification by the white beta-barrel. #FluorescenceFriday #SciArt #FluorescentProtein

😻Happy International Cat Day! 😻 I painted the cat with E. coli expressing the fluorescent protein mTangerine. 🧬🦠🧫🐈🖌️🎨 #InternationalCatDay #SciArt #Bacteria #Microbiology #AgarArt #SciComm

🔬☀️smURFP is extremely photostable!☀️🔬 A comparison of mEGFP & smURFP photostability when fused to lifeact to image F-actin for 7 min on the Nikon SoRa. doi.org/10.1038/s414... doi.org/10.1038/nmet... #FluorescenceFriday #Microscopy #SuperResolution @healthcare.nikon.com

🌪️🌀Fluorescence visualization of stirring!🌀🌪️ I added fluorescein to the water with a stir bar. #FluorescenceFriday #SciArt #RealTimeChem #SciComm #Chemistry

A💲💵Australian dollars are fluorescent!💵A💲 A bird, serial number, & date were printed with fluorescent ink & visualized with UV light. #FluorescenceFriday #SciComm #SciArt

🦠🧬🔬Bacterial aggregate in Potomac River water!🦠🧬🔬 DNA staining imaged the fluorescence of ~1,600 bacteria! The diameter is 1,000 um. Aggregates allow bacteria to survive chemical, physical, & biological stress. #FluorescenceFriday #Microscope #Microbiology #Bacteria

🎇🧨🎆Waterworks for the 4th of July!🎆🧨🎇 Fluorescein in water & rhodamine B in isopropanol were dropped into water to visualize miscibility & diffusion. #FluorescenceFriday #SciArt #SciComm #Chemistry #4thofjuly #4thofJuly2025

🎉🎇Cicadas are fluorescent!🎇🎉 I visualized cicada fluorescence with green & UV light. #FluorescenceFriday #SciArt #SciComm #BioArt #Insects #Bugs #Cicadas

🍸I like my martini sublimed, not stirred.🍸 Fluorescein, sulforhodamine B, & dry ice. 🎂🥂🎉Cheers, it's my Birthday!!! 🎉🥂🎂 #FluorescenceFriday #RealTimeChem #SciArt

😮Have you seen the creation of multinucleated cells?😮 I have & now you have! 🚦The sensor is the far-red (smURFP) & near-infrared (IFP2.0) fluorescent ubiquitination-based cell cycle indicator (FUCCI).🚦 #FluorescenceFriday #SciArt #SciComm

🐚🌊Always have a shell in your pocket & sand in your shoes!🌊🐚 #FluorescenceFriday

🌈💜💙💚💛🧡❤️🏳️‍🌈Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🌈 I imaged black ink with polarization microscopy & a Nomarski prism! #Pride #PrideMonth #LoveIsLove #Scicomm #SciArt #Microscopy

🌈Behold my electromagnetic spectrum!🌈 I made the spectrum by pouring 46 bottles of nail polish & fluorescent acrylic paint.💅🎨🖌️ #FluorescenceFriday #SciArt #SciComm

🎨🖌️🧫🧬🦠Smurfette painted with E. coli expressing EGFP (yellow) or small Ultra-Red Fluorescent Protein (cyan).🦠🧬🧫🖌️🎨 The name smURFP is inspired by the purified protein. #FluorescenceFriday #SciArt #AgarArt #SciComm #FluorescentProtein #FluorescentProteins #smURFP

🌷🌼🌸🌻April showers bring May flowers!🌻🌸🌼🌷 GW undergraduate Sarah Cachula painted the flowers using fluorescent paint.🖌️🎨 #FluorescenceFriday #SciArt

🌷🌼🌸🌻April showers bring May flowers! 🌻🌸🌼🌷 I painted the flowers with E. coli expressing EGFP & mTangerine.🖌️🎨 #FluorescenceFriday #SciArt #Bacteria #Microbiology #AgarArt #SciComm 🧬🦠🧫

🌟🐛A fluorescent millipede!🐛🌟 The glowing millipede was found crawling in our building! #FluorescenceFriday #SciArt #Bugs #Insects

🧬Happy DNA Day!🧬 The structure of DNA! A, T, G, and C are blue, yellow, green, and red, respectively. The movie highlights the difference between the major and minor grooves. I created the movie with 1D65.pdb.🎥 🧬#DNA #DNADay #DNADay25 #NationalDNADay #DNADay2025🧬

🥚Eggshells fluoresce red due to protoporphyrin IX!🥚 Protoporphyrin IX is a precursor of heme.🐣 #FluorescenceFriday #SciArt #SciComm #ChemArt

💎The fluorescence of petroleum inclusions in quartz crystals!💎 💎Petroleum fluoresces yellow-green under UV light. Many inclusions contain gas bubbles.💎 #FluorescenceFriday #SciComm #Rocks #Crystals

My role poly is molting!

What is better than automatically imaging 300,000 cells in a 96-well plate in 40 min? When the cells are automatically analyzed for number, size, area, intensity, total, statistics, & more! Our CellInsight CX5 High-Content Screening Platform is fantastic! #FluorescenceFriday

🦂The haunting scorpion fluorescence! 🦂 The scorpions are embedded in resin. Fluorescence is produced with ultraviolet light, but most wavelengths produce fluorescence. We use them to test animal and wide-field fluorescence imagers. #FluorescenceFriday #SciComm #SciArt #BioArt

🔸🪨Yooperlite fluorescence!🪨🔸 Sulfide (S2-) produces orange and pink fluorescence. The green fluorescence in the lower right is probably uranium. #FluorescenceFriday #SciComm #SciArt #ChemArt #Rocks #RocksRock

🍀Happy St. Patrick's Day!🍀 My favorite green is this fluorescein! See more at youtube.com/@Focal_Focus #FluorescenceFriday #SciArt #SciComm #ChemArt #Chemistry #StPatricksDay

🍀Happy St. Patrick's Day!🍀 My favorite green is this fluorescein! See more at youtube.com/@Focal_Focus #FluorescenceFriday #SciArt #SciComm #ChemArt #Chemistry #StPatricksDay

🔹🔷Fluorite Fluorescence!🔷🔹 George Stokes coined "fluorescence" in 1852 after fluorite, which glows blue under UV light. Fluorite is CaF2. Fluorescence is usually caused by yttrium, europium, or samarium impurities. #FluorescenceFriday #RealTimeChem #SciComm

🔹🔷Crystal blue persuasion!🔷🔹 The brilliant blue fluorescent crystals formed after DNA purification from bacteria & human cells.🧬🦠 #FluorescenceFriday #RealTimeChem #ChemArt #Chemistry #SciArt #SciComm

🌦️On days like these, I miss the sun!🌦️ 🌞Justin Hachey painted the sun with E. coli expressing the small ultra-red fluorescent protein, smURFP. 🧫🦠🧬🌞 #FluorescenceFriday #FluorescentProtein #Microbiology #Bacteria #AgarArt #SciArt

💕💘Happy Valentine’s Day! 💘💕 🎉🥂🎊Cheers to a magical night!🎊🥂🎉 #FluorescenceFriday #ValentinesDay #ChemArt #Chemistry #Science #SciArt #ScienceValentines

🌹Chemists prefer a fluorescent bouquet!🌹 🧪I excited rhodamine B in different solvents with UV light.🧪 💖Happy Valentine's Day!💖 #FluorescenceFriday #SciArt #ChemArt #Chemistry #ValentinesDay