Applications are now open for AQLM 2026! Join us @mblscience.bsky.social April 29th-May 8th, 2026 for a comprehensive, hands-on light microscopy course with an amazing roster of faculty who are leading experts in their fields!

AQLM was an intense 9-day dive into advanced microscopy—blending core concepts, cutting-edge methods, and inspiring MBL history. I gained valuable skills and connections to better support LSU researchers and strengthen our imaging community. #AQLM2025 #MBL #LightMicroscopy #LSU #SIF #Microscopy 🔬🦑

And just like that, #AQLM2025 is over. Hopefully we’ll all find ourselves in the same windowless microscope room sometime soon, bead slide in hand.

This year’s esteemed Inoue Lecture was given by French optical physicist Dr. Sophie Brasselet of The Fresnel Institute. Dr. Brasselet spoke of her team’s efforts towards applying 6 degrees of PSF engineering to super resolution polarization microscopy. #AQLM2025

As a final exercise everyone got to build open source microscopes using kits available from UC2 @openuc2.bsky.social #AQLM2025

The machines learned this morning. Dr. Daniel Cortes led a lab on machine learning for image processing.

Closing @aqlm.bsky.social like it started, building a #microscope, with @openuc2.bsky.social #microscopy #aqlm2025 @mblscience.bsky.social

Beautiful plant! Captured with our #lightsheet microsocpe at the #AQLM2025 @mblscience.bsky.social! Curious? openuc2.com/light-sheet-3/

Our last imaging lab was this morning (!) On to analysis and then we build more scopes and celebrate the end 🥲

🔬 Glad to support #AQLM2025 at the #MBL. On our partners’ workstations: ✅ UNO+ – user-friendly & high value ✅ BL3 – with Full Sample Feedback for real-time control of Temp, Humidity & CO₂ at the sample level. 👉 Already using our latest tech? Tell us what u think!

Shinya Inoue’s video #microscope at @mblscience.bsky.social #microscopy #aqlm2025 #bioimaging

The AQLM Queens of Super-res lead evening discussion. Dr. Gustavsson and Dr. Lidke help us figure out how to look REALLY close. #AQLM2025 @gustavssonlab.bsky.social @aqlm.bsky.social

Arabidopsis labeled with EB1b-mNeon in green (microtubule plus end) and tubulin in magenta (microtubules). Timelapse image on the Leica Stellaris 8 laser scanning confocal. @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social @mblscience.bsky.social #AQLM2025

Ooof, those PSFs are looking *a little* asymmetric...sample prep is key here! (AKA keep Cheeto dust out of your bead sample.) #AQLM2025

Tracking #microtubule tips in plant cells on a @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social LSM880 #confocal #microscope 🌱🔬 #aqlm2025 #microscopymonday #microscopy #plantscience #botany #cytoskeleton #cellbio

Dr. Palmer gives an amazing lecture on dyes, fluorescent proteins, and FRET/FLIM. A chemist who makes non-chemists understand the chemistry! #AQLM2025

Arabidopsis with EB1b-mNEON labeling the plus end of microtubules 🌱 Imaged on the Nikon AX-R laser scanning confocal with NSPARC. #AQLM2025

Live cell lab: understanding the trade offs between acquisition time, SNR, spatial resolution, and cell survival on different microscope systems. You can’t have it all, but ideally you can have enough for meaningful analysis. #AQLM2025

The back focal plane! Today Dr. Chris Bjornsson demonstrated Abbe’s theory of resolution by manipulating the light passing through the back focal plane. Here he is using a lens to focus the back focal plane onto the camera for us to see. #AQLM2025

Dr. Shalin Mehta giving a tour of Shinya Inoue’s polarization scope housed in Lillie @mblscience.bsky.social 🔬 #AQLM2025

FRET tonight! This is the Leica Stellaris 8, part of the MBL Imaging Innovation Center. #AQLM2025

Watch how the color shifts as the angle changes. #AQLM2025

Sugar under polarized light 🤩 #AQLM2025

Rabbit muscle fibers under darkfield. Something interesting is happening where two fibers overlap… #AQLM2025

#bryozoa in dark field #microscopy #aqlm2025 #bioimaging #marinebiology

Louise does the #polarization interpretive dance for #aqlm2025 label-free lab 🕺🏼✨ #microscopy #bioimaging @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social @aqlm.bsky.social

Putting the Q into #AQLM2025! Noise and quantification labs 🔬 🧮 #microscopy #bioimaging

Fluorescence lab is upon us. Time to get to know (and love) beads. #AQLM2025

100x 1.49 NA TIRF objective. Quite the lens assembly!

Have you ever seen the black box that is the inside of a microscope objective? Today Dr. Stephen Ross of Nikon gave a fascinating lecture on what goes into the design and manufacturing of an objective.

Exploring polarization en masse! @aqlm.bsky.social #AQLM2025

Our simple microscopes are built and the first data from #AQLM2025 has been generated 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

What do we think? Collimated? #AQLM2025

The wide field microscopes, etc. and their amazing reps are here! @aqlm.bsky.social #AQLM2025

AQLM 2025 is here!

Exciting news! MBL has received a $2.6M gift from an anonymous donor! This generous support fuels our mission of discovery, education, and innovation. Private philanthropy drives groundbreaking research and shapes the future of science. 🌎🔬 #ScienceStartsHere #Philanthropy

🗣️ Procrastinators, rejoice: we have extension announcements! The deadline to apply for the MBL's 2025 Embryology course has been extended to February 5. The deadline for Analytical & Quantitative Light Microscopy has been extended to January 29. Read more: bit.ly/4acDH2V #ScienceStartsHere

Application deadline Jan 15 for the analytical and quantitative light microscopy (AQLM) course at MBL this spring. Get your apps in, there are limited spots still available! @mblscience.bsky.social @aqlm.bsky.social 🔬 www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

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Applications for AQLM 2025 remain open through 1/15! Join us for 10 days of hands on imaging experience across a range of modalities, learning from experts in the field. www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

What a great AQLM @aqlm.bsky.social memory! I was amazed when this came out of storage! 🔬

We are still accepting applications for Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy 2025!! @aqlm.bsky.social @mblscience.bsky.social www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

AQLM continues to accept rolling applications until Jan 15 🔬 @aqlm.bsky.social @mblscience.bsky.social www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

EB3 live imaged with DeepSIM and color-coded for time at AQLM 2022. Join us in 2025 and make your own masterpiece 🔬 AQLM applications due Dec 16! @aqlm.bsky.social @mblscience.bsky.social

AQLM students hard at work constructing microscopes on rails 🔬 @mblscience.bsky.social @aqlm.bsky.social Application deadline Dec 16 www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

AQLM info session happening today at 3pm EST! It's not too late to register to chat with us about attending AQLM 2025 on the beautiful MBL campus. unc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

AQLM 2025 is happening @mblscience.bsky.social from April 30th-May 9th! Applications are open to join us for 10 days of imaging excellence and are due December 16th! We are hosting a Zoom Q&A about the course on Dec. 5th @3pm EST. Register to join here: unc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

AQLM @aqlm.bsky.social is a comprehensive light microscopy microscopy course at MBL @mblscience.bsky.social Wondering what AQLM is like? Thinking about applying? Questions about the process? AQLM is hosting a Zoom Q&A on Dec. 5th @3pm EST. Register here: unc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

A great opportunity for financial help attending a microscopy course, like AQLM at @mblscience.bsky.social www.mbl.edu/aqlm

AQLM 2025 is happening @mblscience.bsky.social from April 30th-May 9th! Applications are open to join us for 10 days of imaging excellence and are due December 16th! We are hosting a Zoom Q&A about the course on Dec. 5th @3pm EST. Register to join here: unc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...