Virginia Silio
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Confocal tech at UCL CCMD š¬
https://www.uclccmd.co.uk/
Marathon runner Cat owner
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Hi everyone! I'm excited to introduce myself: Background ā PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology, focusing on PI3K in mitosis (1/n)
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Is it for me is it for my daughter?⦠š«£
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My shirt is cooler than yours
22 days ago
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One of my fav races ā¤ļø
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Julia Sero
29 days ago
If you or your trainees are just getting started with image analysis of cells & are
#CellProfiler
-curious, here is a fairly thorough walk-through demo I did recently. Loading files, extracting metadata (fun with Regex!), identifying objects, measuring, filtering, QC, exporting:
youtu.be/fO5nJdhj_7I
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Introduction to CellProfiler - by a biologist, for biologists!
YouTube video by CellMorphoJSero
https://youtu.be/fO5nJdhj_7I
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Managed a Christmassy pic of Osaka, worthy of sharing
30 days ago
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Development
about 1 month ago
Apply for our Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, supporting postdocs in
#devbio
and
#stemcell
research during the transition to their first group leader position:
www.biologists.com/grants/devel...
Application deadline: 2 February 2026.
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I had so much fun showing microscopy to kids today, thanks to Native Scientist, and all in my own language! Already looking forward to the next one.
about 1 month ago
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Stunning
@anhhle2702.bsky.social
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about 1 month ago
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is someone here using Opal 690? Pic not related as it's
#FluorescenceFriday
star-protocols.cell.com/protocols/37...
about 1 month ago
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Back to reality after
#CBIAS2025
: two trainings today, a pile of analysis requests waiting in my inbox, and an experiment in a rush thanks to the pre-Christmas panic...
about 1 month ago
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Damian Dalle Nogare
about 1 month ago
Enjoying my new sticker courtesy of
@helenajambor.bsky.social
, who also gave an amazing talk today at cbias
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BioImagingUK
about 1 month ago
š¬There are 2 weeks left for applications in this round! š¬Next deadlines are 31 March, 31 July and 30 November 2026! š¬DM us for any queries!
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Dave Barry
about 1 month ago
BIOIMAGE ANALYSTS ASSEMBLE!!!
#CBIAS2025
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David Gaboriau
about 1 month ago
Topical conclusion from
@helenajambor.bsky.social
Scientists have tools to fight and make life better
#CBiAS2025
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Had a brilliant time at
#CBIAS2025
. Still not sure if Iām an intruder or a red panda, but Iāve definitely come back with lots of ideas for my users⦠and awesome stickers.
about 1 month ago
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This is scary (although those ācellsā look nothing like HeLa) butā¦
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Jean-Yves Tinevez
about 1 month ago
We just released a new major version of TrackMate (v8), the cell and organelle tracking plugin of Fiji. It ships many new features, detailed below, but that are articulated around the following:
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Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium
about 1 month ago
Less than a week to go for
#CBIAS2025
! A few hours left to register, in person in London or online over Zoom (registration deadline on Nov 20th) Find out all the information at the link below:
www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cri...
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Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium 2025
https://www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/crick-bioimage-analysis-symposium-2025
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about 2 months ago
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Alice Leavey
about 2 months ago
Full chameleon cranial atlas article out now in
@anatrecord.bsky.social
!
doi.org/10.1002/ar.7...
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3D anatomical atlas of the heads of male and female adult Chamaeleo calyptratus
The veiled chameleon is a model organism in reptile development research. Utilizing contrast-enhanced microCT and deep learning segmentation models, we have generated the first digital atlases of the...
http://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70077
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Two great talks today at 12pm UK time. (ZOOM, Meeting ID: 982 1434 7242 / Passcode: 952497)
@biig-ucl.bsky.social
about 2 months ago
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Niko Sirmpilatze
about 2 months ago
Join us tomorrow at the
@biig-ucl.bsky.social
monthly hybrid seminar, to hear
@leaveylab.bsky.social
speak on: "From chameleons to sea urchins: Using AI-driven digital dissection tools to study development and evolution".
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BioImagingUK
2 months ago
š¬ THREAD: UK Bioimaging User Access Fund is OPEN! Up to Ā£5k for imaging experiments, Ā£2k for image analysis Access world-class facilities at Crick, ESRIC, KCL, Liverpool, Oxford Brookes & York First deadline: 9 Dec 2025 š š§µš
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As someone born in a country with national healthcare and living in another one with the same, this is against humanity.
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about 2 months ago
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Sharing this, quite relevant this week.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Remembering my sister Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin died of ovarian cancer in 1958 aged 37 years. Sympathy and feminism have combined to give us her familiar image as a downtrodden woman scientist, brilliant but neglected, a heroine t...
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(12)60452-8/fulltext
about 2 months ago
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Chris Toseland
about 2 months ago
Please repost - Multiple PhDs available
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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BioImagingUK
2 months ago
š¬ UK Researchers: Up to Ā£5K for bioimaging access now available! Access state-of-the-art facilities at 6 leading UK sites: š¬ Francis Crick Institute š¬ ESRIC Edinburgh š¬ King's š¬ Liverpool š¬ Oxford Brookes š¬ York First deadline: 9 Dec 2025 š Apply:
www.rms.org.uk/user-access-fund
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Love a demo..
#leica
2 months ago
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Beth Cimini š¬š»š
3 months ago
Big news! Our week-long
#bioimageanalysis
bootcamp is BACK! Learn how to think about bioimage analysis like the pros do, learn what corrections you should (and shouldn't!) apply to your images, learn open source tools, and more. Apply NOW at
broad.io/BAB3
for our January 2026 course!
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You can decrease the speed so I talk a normal pace!
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3 months ago
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Had a great visit to KCL for my second Euro-BioImaging Node interview ā and really nice to meet Andreas! The MIC renovation looks fantastic. Hope the interview shines a bit more light on all the brilliant technical work happening across the Nodes!
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3 months ago
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Alex Fedorec
3 months ago
The advert for the second (wetlab) postdoc is now live
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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Beth Cimini š¬š»š
3 months ago
Halfway to I2K is BACK, friends of all kinds! Last year, 650 people attended 30+ TOTALLY FREE image analysis workshops of all kinds, across many timezones. If you make image analysis software and want to teach it, workshop submissions are open now! We'd love to have your tool highlighted.
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Siân Culley
3 months ago
BioImage analysis friends - King's are recruiting for a full-time, permanent facility position! Come and work with fun microscopes and fun people (and me!) - please share!
www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/126345-...
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Bioimage Analysis Specialist | King's College London
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/126345-bioimage-analysis-specialist
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eurobioimaging.bsky.social
3 months ago
It's TODAY! Join us at 13:00 CEST for an exciting talk by Virginia Silio, our Scientific Ambassador, on "From Microscopes to Workflows: Supporting Research Through Imaging and Analysis."
@virsicas.bsky.social
All are welcome! Registerš½
www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/title...
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Iām speaking at the Euro-BioImaging Virtual Pub! Iāll share my journey into microscopy support, introduce UCLās Light Microscopy facility, and show how we help researchers from planning to analysis ā plus reproducible workflows & community building.
www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/title...
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From Microscopes to Workflows: Supporting Research Through Imaging and Analysis
Please join us for the Virtual Pub on September 26, 2025 at 13:00 CEST. We welcome Virginia Silio, University College London (one of Euro-BioImagingās Scientific Ambassadors!), for a talk entitledā¦
https://www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/title-tbd-8/
3 months ago
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Itās out! It was a pleasure to talk to Rob, and learn how amazing Octopus is!
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4 months ago
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UCL BioImage Interest Group
4 months ago
BIIG seminars are back! š 12-1pm on 12th September: - Kaixiang Shuai (LMCB, UCL): Creating the first Drosophila imaginal wing disc atlas - Aikta Sharma (UCL Mechanical Engineering): Predicting Osteoarthritis in the Tibial Epiphysis with Synchrotron X-ray CT and Digital Volume Correlation
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Giulia Paci
5 months ago
Courtney
@courtneyl7a7.bsky.social
has written a lovely piece on this wonderful community initiative weāve been running for 5 years at UCL - have a read! And follow
@biig-ucl.bsky.social
!
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Do you even work in microscopy if your camera roll isnāt 50% laser bed glamour shots?
#fluorescencefriday
#kindof
5 months ago
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Iām a bit biased but I love how it looks!
#uclccmd
6 months ago
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How I feel after the Festival of Digital Research, Innovation & Scholarship, workshops, keynotes, talks, networkingā¦
#ucldigifest
6 months ago
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The video Pairing time-lapse super-resolution microscopy with deep learning to track chromosome dynamics is now available on YouTube from the Virtual Pub Euro-BioImaging. Definitely worth watchingāmicroscopy, analysis, and nice chromosome segregation (I know Iām a bit biased).
lnkd.in/e--RRckJ
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6 months ago
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Guillaume Jacquemet
6 months ago
- A postdoc to work on cancer extravasation (4-year project). - A postdoc help in completing Filopodia-related lab projects (2-year). - Multiple Marie Curie postdoc positions that will open in the fall. - We will open a 5-year position to cover my teaching (70% research and 30% teaching).
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eurobioimaging.bsky.social
6 months ago
#EuroBioImaging
, represented by
@jojobischof.bsky.social
, is delighted to be at
#mmc2025
this week with UK Node colleagues, Scientific Ambassador, Virginia Silio
@virsicas.bsky.social
& more! Great place to catch up on the state-of-the-art in microscopy, imaging & cytometry.š¬
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Really enjoyed the talk from
@zuninoale.bsky.social
ā super insightful! Fingers crossed that Nikon release the raw SPAD data
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6 months ago
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eurobioimaging.bsky.social
6 months ago
Delighted to share this article from
@ucl.ac.uk
⬠highlighting Virginia Silio,
@virsicas.bsky.social
ā¬, one of our 2025 Scientific Ambassadors!
www.ucl.ac.uk/biosciences/...
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Dr Virginia Silió of the UCL CDB has been selected to be Euro-BioImaging Ambassador 2025
A UCL Research Technician, specialising in confocal imaging, has been selected to be Euro-BioImaging Ambassador for the 25/26 academic year. Virginia Silió works in UCL's Centre for Molecular & Cell D...
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/biosciences/news/2025/may/dr-virginia-silio-ucl-cdb-has-been-selected-be-euro-bioimaging-ambassador-2025
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Journal of Cell Science
7 months ago
Cyril Andrieu, Bren Hunyi Lee & Anna Franz find that cell deformations generated by stochastic actomyosin waves drive random-walk swimming migration in Drosophila adipocytes. Highlight:
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Article:
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
#OpenAccess
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