#ImageOfTheMonth March 2026 Dividing Arabidopsis epidermal cells imaged by confocal microscopy after expansion. Microtubules guided cell plate formation revealed in 3D with depth-code. Image: Magali Grison @lbm-bordeaux.bsky.social @gtexm.bsky.social #Microscopy #PlantScience #CellBiology

I found this immune cell (🔴) prying open the junction between the ectoderm cells from underneath. You can see its protrusions probing (yellow arrow) and threading through between the other cells before the whole cell body is squeezed through in 1 sweeping motion. So cool! #FluorescenceFriday

It’s #FluorescentFriday! This Maximum Intensity Projection of LUHMES-derived neurons shows: 🟦 Vimentin (@proteintech.bsky.social Cat No. 10366-1-AP) 🩷 Tubulin 🧡 Actin 🤍 DNA Explore the antibody: www.ptglab.com/products/VIM... #Proteintech #Neuroscience

Have you produced beautiful images as part of your cell biology research? Then enter our image competition! bscb.org/competitions... Deadline 31st March Check out last year's winner 'Brainbow' by Alvaro Castano

✨ CELLIM Best Microscopy Image Competition 2025 🌟 Honorary award 🌟 💙🔬Awarded to Denisa Belisová from @masarykuniversity.bsky.social 6th edition, and our CELLIM community keeps creating stunning microscopy every day. Some images come so close to the finals, again and again. #Microscopy #BioImage

An actin-labeled cell line happily dividing courtesy of NeuroCyto CRISPR wizard @nicolasjullien.bsky.social (🔬 multi-point 20-hour acquisition, 5 min framerate) 🧪

Cellular study in black and white 🖤🤍 ​I inverted the LUTs on these Mouse Embryonic Fibroblasts (MEF) to reveal the texture of the cytoskeleton. ​Proof that you don't always need neon to make a statement! ​🔬 @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social LSM980 + Airyscan 2.

Excited to share this collaborative work with @sarathomasy.bsky.social- spearheaded by Raneesh Ramarapu and William Stoehr- where we visualized the unique spatial localization of tubulin isotopes in neural crest-derived corneal tissues during development. 🤩

Fluorescence Friday - DNA-PAINT imaging of axon initial segment TRIM46 ('cyan') and bIV spectrin ('red') by the incomparable Allison Melton in my laboratory. Just spectacular!

I had the most amazing mortadella, pistachio, mascarpone, arugula sandwich, squeezed between two slices of fluffy focaccia for lunch. Didn’t last long enough for a pic. Thought I should share for no apparent reason. Oh and here’s my #FluorescenceFriday image of a neonatal cerebellar lobe. 🧪

Final results - 3rd place winner: 🥉Lucia Tomovicova from @hejatko.bsky.social lab 🔬Zeiss #LSM800 🖼️Color-coded orthogonal projection over z dimension 🥳Congratulations and thank you for sharing your science with #microscopy community!

Indirect immunostaining of a rat hippocampus neuron with PSD95 🟣, Synapsin1 🟡 and MAP2 🟢. #FluorescenceFriday

A menagerie of COS cells for #MicroscopyMonday 🧪

Intruder waving #Fluorescentfriday #Actin #neurons #astrocyte

Experimental #FluorescenceFriday today : This is the head of a tiny fig wasp imaged in 3D with confocal microscopy, color gradient indicates depth. Cross your eyes and let the images overlap for a cool 3D effect! #Sciart

It's been a while , but back in the bluest of skies :) ! here's some late #microscopymonday pic

An intracellular meteor shower. EB3 comets tracking growing microtubule plus-ends in a cultured cell.

Peeking inside a cellular galaxy #cellfie 🧪

#FluorescenceFriday with a transgenic zebrafish labeling descendant lineages of the lateral plate mesoderm. (Ventral view, tmem88a:EGFP, pic cred Marycruz Flores Flores @cudevbio.bsky.social). ❤️🫀🐟🧬 #devbio #cardiacdevbio #zebrafish #MakeMoreTransgenics

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! This micrograph of SHH-expressing cells in the developing 🐭 spinal cord are giving aurora borealis vibes 🌄. Notice the thin extensions reaching out from the cells at the top of the image - signaling protrusions! 🔬 by 👩‍🔬 @christinaadaly.bsky.social

This developing quail embryo looks like it's thinking fiery thoughts for #FluorescenceFriday 🐣🔥🧪. Imaged by the fantastic @vanderspuy.bsky.social

Version 1.5 is live in the Image_Viewer update site 😁 Visible changes are expained there : forum.image.sc/t/looking-fo... enjoy!

Really excited to share our new paper in @nature.com! We uncovered how a physical instability of the cytoplasm coupled with the cell cycle drives cytoplasmic partitioning in early embryos #zebrafish #drosophila. Read more in this🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🤩 @poldresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de

This poses an intriguing question: how is cytoplasm robustly and accurately organized in absence of physical barriers, and how is cytoplasmic partitioning achieved within the constrained time window of rapid embryonic divisions? (2/9)

Going back to 2015 data for an artistic project #TeaserTuesday

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/JAIVZX... Excited to share my latest work in @newphyt.bsky.social. Here, we used TurboID proximity labeling with CLAVATA receptors FEA3 and BAM1D in maize meristems to better understand the signaling pathways important for meristem regulation. #PlantScience

Version 1.5 is live in the Image_Viewer update site 😁 Visible changes are expained there : forum.image.sc/t/looking-fo... enjoy!

A few seconds of eternity: From microscope to museum❣️ It was truly delightful to be part of this project, celebrating life as a continuous dance of creation, collapse, and renewal. 🔄 Kudos to @manuelthery.bsky.social @lblanchoin.bsky.social #cytomorpholab members, and @museeorsay.bsky.social

Learn more about the basic physical principles that underlie the behaviour of living cells in the EMBO Workshop "#Physics of Cells: PhysCell2026" in Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands, 7–11 September 2026. Deadline: 8 May https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-physcell#Physics#EMBOphysCell26 #meeting #EMBOevents 🧪

Old school markers, still strong 🟣 Calbindin labels double cone photoreceptors, bipolar cells, and ganglion cells. 🟢 Calretinin highlights horizontal cells, bipolar cells, and IPL stratification. Avian retina circuitry, clearly written in layers. #FluorescenceFriday #Neuroscience #Retina #Imaging

The Gold Standard. ​These are Vero E6 cells (African Green Monkey kidney), the workhorses of virology. They lack interferon, making them the perfect host for viral research. ​Today, they are just pristine jewels. ​💛 Gold: Actin 🩵 Sapphire: Nuclei #SciArt #Virology #FluorescenceFriday

#fluorescencefriday microglia distribution in a cleared brain imaged with lightsheet microscopy

A cell undergoing cell division photographed through a microscope. #CellBiology

Cricket embryo for #FluorescenceFriday ! (macroH2A in magenta, neurons in yellow and F-Actin in cyan)

Some belated contribution to #FluorescenceFriday Reminded me of a painting... is it only in my mind ? 🔬💫🤩

The first image I took of 2026 #FluorescentFriday

Another pine pollen for #FluorescenceFriday! It seems that this year too, I still won't get tired of colour coding my microscopy 🧡💜💙💚❤️

640KB you say? RETVRN

​ At first glance, chaos. Looking closer at this human fibroblast however, angles, parallels, and geometric stars appear. Order in biology is often disguised as chaos. Beautiful chaos. A golden web spun from the fabric of life. ​💛 Gold: Actin 🩵 Cyan: Septin 7 🩶 Grey: DNA #SciArt #Microscopy

#Mitochondria or Alien script? 🧪🔬👽

Accidentally festive #Celegans gonad while trying out some awesome LUTs by @kwolbachia.bsky.social for #FluorescenceFriday 🧪🔬

Glowing proof that discovery can be beautiful — #FluorescenceFriday! 🔬

I don't always get pretty, isolated, AND transfected primary neurons in culture, but when I do I take advantage.... Rat hippocampal neuron overexpressing ThymosinB4-mScarlet and imaged for 16hr on a @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social LSM880 with Airyscan. #FluorescenceFriday #Microscopy

*New preprint alert* uncovering a mechanical pacemaker that synchronizes nephron formation with branching of the kidney's epithelial tubule tree. Read below to learn about this twisty journey lead by Sam Grindel and Sachin Davis in the lab. [Movie by Nils Lindstrom] www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This movie shows lysosomes (orange) and keratin (gray) in a cultured cell over 10 minutes.

A favorite recent image of some busy microglia, lovingly named the Rat King (yellow CD68, pink Iba1, blue DAPI) for my first #FluorescenceFriday

A glittery, festive #FluorescenceFriday today, spent playing with some fun samples 🪩🕺

Back in 2016, I spent some time centrifuging chambers containing a kinesin/microtubule -based active gel so that all the material ended up on one side of the chamber. Then recorded how long it took to expand.

Frog eye, frog eye. Can I have a confocal microscope to play on for 12 hrs a day again please? 👉👈🥺 🐸