Great to see the breath of research at the Oxford Brookes HST Postgraduate Research Symposium- including wonderful findings made with our microscope systems 🔬🎓🦠

Finally,congratulations to Carmen Mata Mangas for winning the poster prize

The final talk of the day: Mark Johnston of Syngenta on using microscopy in crop protection research

Sam Caddell from MOA Technology explaining how the GALAXY platform aids novel herbicide discovery and understanding how these new herbicides work

Nikon's Aki Suto demonstrating the @picoquant.bsky.social FLIM system on our AX NSPARC confocal

Flash talks! 📸

Mark Fricker now speaking about quantitative organelle imaging in plants

Secondly, Petra Boevink from The James Hutton Institute on plant pathogens, secreted RXLR effectors and the pitfalls of imaging infected plants

Time for the short talks- first, Joanna Chustecki on imaging the dynamics of plant mitochondria

Larry Griffing of Texas A&M explaining cell autonomous calcium oscillations- the "heartbeat" of plant cells #sparkle ✨️

Post-lunch, @ajcellbio.bsky.social telling us about imaging plant endocytosis using multiple techniques 🔬

AX NSPARC demos underway!

Now speaking is Ho-Wei Wu of @slcuplants.bsky.social about imaging of circadian gene expression in live growing root tips

@obcbioimaging.bsky.social 's very own Charlotte Pain telling us about imaging the very dynamic plant endoplasmic reticulum

Next up Ray Wightman of @slcuplants.bsky.social talking about confocal, FLIM and Raman microscopy of plants🌿🔬

Thank you to @obu-hst-research.bsky.social Pro Vice-Chancellor Prof Astrid Schloerscheidt for opening the conference

First talk at Flora in Focus- Gail Preston @gmpreston.bsky.social of University of Oxford, speaking about metal hyperaccumulation and plant pathogen protection

Not just flurries of snow in Oxford- flurries of activity as we set up for Flora in Focus: A Microscopy Conference for Plant Scientists

Christmas- the time of year you get out the fancy stuff 🔬💎 (The History of Science Museum in Oxford has some nice blingy things)

It's certainly been a busy year at the RMS - and you can read more about what we've been up to over the last 12 months in our special 'Annual Highlights' feature in the latest issue of infocus Magazine #RMSinfocus 🙌 Read more: https://ow.ly/ogpE50XImkl

We’re excited to announce our special guest speaker for Flora in Focus: A Microscopy Conference for Plant Scientists Join us as Dr Alex Johnson, Research Fellow at University of Exeter, presents “Probing plant endocytosis at multiple scales.”

🔬 THREAD: UK Bioimaging User Access Fund is OPEN! Up to £5k for imaging experiments, £2k for image analysis Access world-class facilities at Crick, ESRIC, KCL, Liverpool, Oxford Brookes & York First deadline: 9 Dec 2025 📅 🧵👇

We are pleased to announce the full list of speakers for Flora in Focus: A Microscopy Conference for Plant Scientists. Sign up now to reserve your spot! bit.ly/42fqd3y

🎤 Meet our speaker: Sam Caddell! As a scientist at MOA Technology, he will be sharing "GALAXY a high content imaging platform enabling novel herbicide discovery " - a session you won’t want to miss!

With submissions invited for the 2026 BioImaging Awards, we thought we would share some of the 'comedy' images submitted in previous years #bioimaging #oxfordbrookes #graduateresearchsymposium

Registration is *NOW OPEN* for the 21st International Microscopy Congress, taking place in Liverpool from 31 August - 4 September 2026 🙌 🔬 🙂 Book now: https://www.imc21.org.uk/

#uexm of human airway motile cilia

We are excited to welcome Professor Mark Fricker, Professor of Plant Sciences, Department of Biology at University of Oxford, to our upcoming event! His talk will offer valuable insights into Quantitative organelle imaging ✨

P Duckney @obu-hst-research.bsky.social & colleagues: Functional characterization reveals the importance of Arabidopsis ECA4 & EPSIN3 in clathrin mediated endocytosis & wall structure in apical growing cells (Paywalled: doi.org/10.1111/nph....) FREE #brookes #oa radar.brookes.ac.uk/radar/items/...

We are pleased to announce that Dr Lawrence Griffing, Associate Professor, Director of Microscopy and Imaging Centre, Associate Director of Nikon Center of Excellence, at Texas A&M University, will be presenting at our event in Oxford - Flora in Focus: A Microscopy Conference for Plant Scientists

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Raymond Wightman, Microscopy Core Facility Manager at The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge, will be presenting at our event. Dr. Wightman will be sharing "FLIM-confocal-Raman imaging in all things plant" - a session you won't want to miss!

We are excited to invite Dr. Mark Johnson to present his special talk "From Lens to Field: The Use of Microscopy in Crop Protection Research" at our special microscopy conference for plant scientists 🎉

This is a glimpse of the cytoskeletal structures we found doing U-ExM in more than 200 species, now in Cell🤩: shorturl.at/6oHvi Amazing collaboration between @centriolelab.bsky.social , @dudinlab.bsky.social and @gautamdey.bsky.social labs. I believe last one is a 🕷️ #FluorescenceFriday #Microscopy

In their Review, Olivier Mercey, @marinebrunet.bsky.social, Paul Guichard & Virginie Hamel @centriolelab.bsky.social highlight advances in microscopy that have significantly deepened our understanding of centriolar & ciliary structure & function. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... #OpenAccess

Incoming deadline - 7 November 2025 Apply for a @jcellsci.bsky.social @focalplane.bsky.social Training Grant to support your attendance at a #microscopy or #bioimageanalysis training course. Open to ECRs in #cellbio. For more info: www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-f...

Flora in Focus: A Microscopy Conference for Plant Scientists Date: Wednesday 7th January, 2026 Time: 9:15 – 17:00 Location: Sir Kenneth Wheare Hall, Clerici Building, Oxford Brookes University, Headington, Oxford, OX3 0BP

It's time to give your #microscopy networking a boost with our exciting new ‘Member Directory’ - enabling RMS members to create public profiles and connect with each other directly online 🙂🔬 Find out more and get connected! https://ow.ly/uYlm50XhsvZ

Flora in Focus: A Microscopy Conference for Plant Scientists Date: Wednesday 7th January, 2026 Time: 9:15 – 17:00 Location: Sir Kenneth Wheare Hall, Clerici Building, Oxford Brookes University, Headington, Oxford, OX3 0BP

Flora in Focus: A Microscopy Conference for Plant Scientists Date: Wednesday 7th January, 2026 Time: 9:15 – 17:00 Location: Sir Kenneth Wheare Hall, Clerici Building, Oxford Brookes University, Headington, Oxford, OX3 0BP

Congratulations to Dr Molly Hair on winning the Best Poster prize at the 2025 Cilia and Centrosome UK meeting!

Just casually making a 3-D super-resolution image of an entire Arabidopsis root in a few minutes. As you do.

Fluorescence is in danger of going stale. We're taking marker proteins to strange new places

🔬Exciting MSc by Research Studentship at #OxfordBrookes! Develop cutting-edge #cancer #diagnostics in a partially funded, 1-year program with Dr. Ryan Pink. Make a real impact in early detection! 📆Deadline: June 16, 2025. Application information: t.ly/278uw Our research: t.ly/olLsZ

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Helix pomatia agglutinin bound to surface glycans of small extracellular vesicles in-vitro and in-vivo increases in early and late stage breast cancer link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New paper alert! Congratulations to Barrack Owino on the first publication from his PhD studies- hopefully the first of many! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Did you know that when you image fixed Plasmodium flagella at super-resolution, you can even see where they lie over each other, like strands of spaghetti? I didn't either until this afternoon 🔬 Taken with our Nikon NSPARC confocal, with thanks to Dr Molly Hair and Prof Sue Vaughan for the samples!