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Happy Graduation Day at Vanderbilt! #VU2026 We celebrate with the undergraduate and graduate students, especially those who have come through the CISR on their academic journey. Hats off to you! And enjoy this brain image for #FluorescenceFriday! Scale bar = 1500 microns 👩‍🎓🎓👨‍🎓🧠🔬

Last day to submit to the #NikonSmallWorld competition for 2026! We love to see all the beautiful microscopy images, and we would love to see some Vanderbilt winners again! #microscopy

Great topic and great lineup including Zanic lab graduate student Anna Cassidy! @annacassidy.bsky.social @zaniclab.bsky.social

#FluorescenceFriday highlight from Burkewitz Lab. "ER remodelling is a feature of ageing and depends on ER-phagy" @natcellbio.nature.com Super-resolution (Airyscan) of C. elegans hypodermis w/ ER tubules & sheets. Scale=2 microns. @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41629400/

We're only 30 minutes into the NIH ORIP S10 Symposium (day 1 of 2), and I've already learned so much. Thank you for all this information! We are always thinking toward our new NIH S10 submission. And glad to hear this will be an annual symposium. #cores #equipment #NIH

This is a fantastic video on the importance, value, and general awesomeness of scientific shared resources/cores. Thanks to ABRF @abrf.bsky.social! Reach out to your local cores and ask them how they can help with your research projects. They are experts and they want to help! f.io/1cgVqnLm

#FluorescenceFriday! Kindlins regulate integrin- and growth factor-dependent ureteric bud formation from Zent Lab @cp-devcell.bsky.social. Beautiful imaging & 3D rendering of ureteric bud cultures, tubulogenesis, & cells. @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social LSM980 confocal. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! April is time for the Nikon Small World contest. Last year was great for Vanderbilt & CISR! James Hayes 4th; Dylan Burnette 10th; Zachary Sanchez 20th! CISR users, submit by April 30! @ento-sanchez.bsky.social @mag2art.bsky.social www.nikonsmallworld.com

Great review from the Hinton Lab!

For #FluorescenceFriday, a recent publication highlight from first author Duby Okonkwo from the Schoenecker lab. Great bone imaging with CISR widefield, 3D rendering, and analysis help from Oleg Kovtun. Thanks for using and acknowledging the CISR! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41651294/

Excited for the first full day of #ABRF2026! Jenny Schafer will present a Lightning Talk on maintaining publications, Monday 12:50. Sean Schaffer will participate in the Monday 2:45 panel, "How AI Can Be Used to Improve Core & Platform Operations". We'd love to say hello to old and new friends!

Here we go! The CISR supports our #Vanderbilt #Commodores as they begin #MarchMadness! #6 men's team plays today. #2 women's team plays Saturday. #AnchorDown #GoDores Image taken by James Hayes, CISR Nikon SDC, human heart cell undergoing division. (Basketballs not to scale.) #Microscopy

Join us! The CISR is hosting a Leica STELLARIS FALCON demo to learn more about FLIM. Seminar this Wednesday, March 18 at 12:30 PM in 3131 MRBIII. Demo next week, March 23-27. Use the QR code or contact Jenny Schafer to sign up! @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social #microscopy #FLIM

For today's #FluorescenceFriday, a reminder that the CISR offers monthly Office Hours on the 1st Tuesday of each month from 9-11 AM. Next is this Tuesday, March 3! Stop by and ask us a question about fluorescence, basic imaging, analysis, scheduling, or anything you want. See you then!

Accessible minimal requirements for reproducible light microscopy. This viewpoint presents a community-endorsed checklist defining minimal light microscopy metadata to improve rigor, reproducibility, and transparency in research. rupress.org/jcb/article/... @quarep-limi.bsky.social

The Winter 2026 edition of our CISR Newsletter is out! Read about new instrumentation, staff introduction, ongoing office hours, recent publication highlights, and more. #MicroscopyMonday

We're using #FluorescenceFriday to manifest some warmth here in Nashville! Still tens of thousands of people without power, still lots of ice on the roads and trees, and still below freezing. Enjoy this little cell pseudo-colored with Inferno for the nucleus and Orange Hot for the mitochondria. 🔥🧊☀️❄️

New paper alert for #FluorescenceFriday! Full of confocal imaging from Gu, Jacobson, & Kaverina Labs. "Paracrine Hormonal Signals From Islet α-Cells Regulate Microtubule Dynamics in β-Cells to Promote Insulin Secretion in Mouse and Human Islets" pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41511443/

First #MicroscopyMonday of 2026! Happy New Year!

Happy Holidays from the CISR! May all your days and fluorophores be BRIGHT. #MicroscopyMonday

For the last (workday) #FluorescenceFriday of 2025, let's recap another amazing year in the CISR! We appreciate all our CISR labs, users, faculty, and staff! Thanks for a great 2025, and here's to a great 2026! #Wrapped #Microscopy First, you imaged for 11,082 microscope hours! 1/9

Time for the annual sharing of our favorite Christmas Microscope Joke: The Z-mas Tree! Source unknown. #Microscopy #Confocal #Volume

Oh where, oh where does my protein localize? Oh where, oh where can it be?🎵 Check out our Subcellular Localization Collection page, with fluorescent protein markers for organelles and cellular structures to help you find your way 🔬

For #FluorescenceFriday, we're adding #Football. Good luck to Vanderbilt's first ever Heisman finalist, QB Diego Pavia! High-resolution nucleus football to scale (2 microns), Pavia not to scale. #Heisman #DiegoPavia #2Turnt

The next Special Edition #VirtualPub "Imaging Organoids" will take place on Jan. 30, 1-3 pm CET. Speakers from academia & industry will introduce a range of methods used to image organoid systems from lung buds to mini-brains. Join us! Register 🔽 www.eurobioimaging.eu/special-edit...

Today is #WorldDiabetesDay & #FluorescenceFriday! One example from Vanderbilt diabetes research. Image from Darian Carroll's graduate work in Gannon lab. NHP pancreas: insulin (green), mitochondria (magenta), DAPI (blue). @healthcare.nikon.com @betacellbelle.bsky.social @vubasicsciences.bsky.social

Just 4 days until the start of I2K and its 33 totally free image analysis tutorials and events! Please share with your "home networks", especially early career researchers - the videos will be amazing and high-impact no matter how many people attend live, BUT (1/x)

I think all imaging scientists and microscopy core facility personnel already know we have the greatest jobs in the world, but it's nice to see it written. #microscopy #imaging 🔬😊💯 Vanderbilt friends, come see us to "look at random things through fancy microscopes"!

Great explanation for #MicroscopyMonday on when to use or not use a Maximum Intensity Projection during your image analysis. "Extracting 3D information from 2D projections is akin to estimating the volume, surface, and content properties form a crushed beverage can"

Happy #FluorescenceFriday and #HappyHalloween! Spider web or microtubule web? Let's check the scale bar. 5 microns. Great lesson in the importance of a #scalebar. (Microtubules to scale, spider not to scale) 🎃👻🕷️🕸️

We're a week behind, but excited to see so many Vanderbilt and CISR researchers with winning images in the 2025 #NikonSmallWorld contest! Congrats to James Hayes (4th, first image here), Dylan Burnette (10th), Zach Sanchez (20th), and Amy Engevik (IOD)! #FluorescenceFriday www.nikonsmallworld.com

The CISR is hosting a webinar and demonstration of the Zeiss LSM910 with Lightfield 4D microscope. Join the webinar next Thursday, Oct. 30 at 11 AM. Then contact Jenny Schafer with CISR or Cumberland Dugan with Zeiss to sign up for a demo time the week of Nov. 10. @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! Trying out a new color combo for today, Friday, October 3. Mitochondria (MitoTracker) in turquoise, nucleus (DAPI) in orange. Confocal Airyscan, tile, MIP. 🧡💚🔬

🌍🎗️ Today is #WorldCancerResearchDay. Cancer impacts millions of people around the world and our scientists are working to tackle cancer from every angle: genes, metabolism, drug discovery, and more. Learn more about cancer research being done at our school 👉 medschool.vanderbilt.edu/basic-scienc...

#HappyFluorescenceFriday! #microscopycommunity- want to learn open source image analysis or share your knowledge to help others? We’ve got a FREE virtual workshop Nov 17-19! Now accepting workshop session applications! Learn more & sign up: buff.ly/esGIotD

Great opportunity for a "Train the Trainer" workshop for light microscopy facility people! Check it out here. #microscopy #cores

Join VI4 for Mega Microbe on September 27! This is always a fun event for kids in the Nashville area. CISR-EM will be showing off some cool EM instruments and will show how beautiful these tiny bacteria can be! 🔬🦠🏫

Looking forward to this joint conference in Montreal! Global BioImaging (GBI) & BioImaging North America (BINA). Registration ends soon! Dr. Jenny Schafer will be representing the CISR. Say hello! #GBIxBINA2025 #BioimagingCommunity #HybridConference #Imaging2025 globalbioimaging.org/exchange-of-...

Drumroll please 🥁 We're excited to announce the winners of the 2nd Annual CISR Life Is Beautiful Image Contest! 🔬🏅 1 - James Hayes, Burnette/Merryman Labs 2 - Rekha Nagarajan, Tyska Lab 3 - James Costanzo, Gama Lab Read about these researchers, projects, and microscopes here. tinyurl.com/4r6xwe8h

Tomorrow! First Tuesday of the month. CISR Office Hours. 9:00-11:00 AM. Come see us in 704 Light Hall and/or T-2216 MCN, and ask anything microscopy related!

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! Submissions have closed, and NEXT WEEK we will be announcing the WINNERS of the 2nd Annual Life Is Beautiful CISR Image Contest! Stay tuned! To get everyone excited, let's enjoy these 3 beautiful winners from last year! 🔬🎨🏆

Nashville has been under a #HeatAdvisory all week, so how about a #RedHot LUT for #FluorescenceFriday? 🌞😎🥵Might be a cell, might be an artistic representation of what it feels like in Tennessee right now. 🤷

Hello #MicroscopyMonday! Second, TEM & SEM from the @tyskalabactual.bsky.social lab and first author @operkins.bsky.social with CISR-EM's Dr. Evan Krystofiak of clathrin-coated pits in intestinal crypts (click for more!). @cp-cellreports.bsky.social @vubasicsciences.bsky.social tinyurl.com/yhue25bv

Hello #MicroscopyMonday! How about 2 new papers with CISR-EM team & Vanderbilt researchers? First, TEM from the @gouldlab.bsky.social with CISR-EM's Dr. Evan Krystofiak to show changes in fungal cell wall architecture. @pnas.org @awillet.bsky.social @vubasicsciences.bsky.social tinyurl.com/23rncw78

Last day to submit your images to our second annual CISR Life Is Beautiful Image Contest! Submit now. Submit more than one. Share with your lab mates. WIN PRIZES. Happy #FluorescenceFriday! 🔬🧬🎨🏅💰 vanderbilt-university.formstack.com/forms/cisr_l...

Four days left! Submit your images today! Win prizes! medschool.vanderbilt.edu/basic-scienc...

Deadline extended! Submit your images to the Second Annual CISR Life is Beautiful Image Contest! New deadline is July 18. Open to anyone with CISR-acquired images. More details here. medschool.vanderbilt.edu/basic-scienc...

We'll be off enjoying the sunshine 😎 and fireworks 🎆 tomorrow, so here is our contribution to #FluorescenceFriday for the #4thofJuly! What do you see? Fireworks? Red and white stripes? Or just some good ol' Fluo cells? Confocal Airyscan on Zeiss LSM980. 🔬❤️🤍💙🗽

The submissions are rolling in for our Second Annual Life Is Beautiful CISR Image Contest! Join in by submitting your beautiful image today in celebration of #FluorescenceFriday! Details here. medschool.vanderbilt.edu/basic-scienc...