🎉 🔬 We’re thrilled to announce the winners of this year’s #NikonSmallWorld in Motion video #Microscopy competition: bit.ly/4mtjUk7 🥇 1st place goes to Jay McClellan of Saranac, Michigan (USA) for his video capturing self-pollination in a thymeleaf speedwell flower. #Microscope #SciArt #SciComm

Thanks go out to MDI Bio Lab Digital Image Analyst @hsomers.bsky.social for this #microscopymonday view of an adult #zebrafish (brain vasculature) from the MesoSPIM. #standwithscience #researchmatters 🧪 🤝 🐟🎸 #microscopy #fluorescentproteins #lightsheet

Speaking with BioImaging North America about the Maine Microscopy Course! @bioimagingna.bsky.social @mdibiolab.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=t90L... #science #education #microscopy #EoE

One of the people I'm indebted the most for creating stunningly beautiful #mesoSPIM samples was Martina Schaettin - who tragically passed away in March this year. To honor her memory, Elkhan Yusifov created an award - submit your best #microscopy images & videos! www.linkedin.com/company/mart...

This mouse fibroblast cell captured by @mdibl-lmf.bsky.social in 2022 is labeled with a #fluorescence to visualize the actin cytoskeleton—a network of actin filaments & proteins that maintains cell shape, enables movement & supports key processes. #researchmatters #microscopymonday #lightsheet 🧪 🤝

Do you see chromatic aberration in your images? www.youtube.com/shorts/9lyix... #science #microscopy #bioimaging #microscopymonday #chromaticaberration #bluesci #mdibl

What is Köhler Illumination? youtube.com/shorts/-1ct0... #microscopy #microscopymonday #Köhler #Köhlerillumination #brightfield #science

A beautiful #microscopymonday sea star captured by @hsomers.bsky.social in 2022. Sample: Asterias amurensis (Northern Sea Star) Label: Nuclear staining with DAPI in Cyan and auto-fluorescence in green #standwithscience #researchmatters #microscopy #fluorescentproteins #lightsheet 🧪 🤝 #wildlife

Reminder! Application Deadline: August 8, 2025 From mastering iPSC culture to directed differentiation and organoid creation, participants will gain skills they can immediately apply to their own research workflows. #standwithscience #researchmatters 🧪 🤝 🐟🎸 🍎 👩‍🔬 🖥️🧬

This #microscopymonday image shows GFP+ stem cells moving through the complex environment of a #zebrafish kidney. It was captured in 2023 by Senior Research Scientist Caramai Kamei. #standwithscience #researchmatters #microscopy #fluorescentproteins #lightsheet 🧪 🤝 🐟🎸

This #microscopymonday image is of a #Drosophila male reproductive system: paired coiled testes, seminal vesicles & accessory glands, and a single ejaculatory duct. Each coiled testis is about 1.5mm. Image captured by MDI Bio Lab Sr. Scientist Travis Carney. #standwithscience #researchmatters 🧪 🤝

What is Numerical Aperture? #microscopy #na #numericalaperture #microscopymonday #science #bioimaging www.youtube.com/shorts/x1XUs...

This image from 2024 is by MDI Bio Lab Senior Scientist Travis Carney. It shows the neurons in the brain of a #Drosophila fruit fly larva. The images are color-coded projections, so different focal planes are in different colors. #standwithscience #researchmatters #microscopymonday #lightsheet 🧪 🤝

Do you know the PSF of your microscope? #PSF #Pointspreadfunction #microscopy #microscopymonday #introduction #science #biology youtube.com/shorts/K7Xr1...

This colorized #microscopymonday image from 2023 by Frederic Bonnet shows kidney cells of a pig: the nuclei in yellow, the cytoplasmic vesicle in green and the membrane in magenta. #standwithscience #researchmatters @mdibl-lmf.bsky.social #microscopy #fluorescentproteins #lightsheet 🧪 🤝 🐟🎸 🍎 👩‍🔬

Do you follow best practices for visualizing microscopy images? #microscopy #microscopymonday #imaging #visualization #science youtube.com/shorts/_HlXa...

SGLT2 Inhibition Ameliorates Age-Dependent Renovascular Rarefaction https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.27.654312v1

Deadline Approaching! July 7, 2025 Maine #Microscopy: Foundations and Fundamentals 2025, August 5-13 at MDI Bio Lab! Optimize your experiment planning, imaging and analysis skills to strengthen your research and accelerate discoveries in your field. #standwithscience #researchmatters 🧪 🤝 🍎 👩‍🔬

Maine #Microscopy: Foundations & Fundamentals 2025, August 5-13 For Maine grad students, postdoc trainees, research assistants & junior faculty. Understand current technology and how technical decisions impact final image products. Application Deadline: July 7. Register today! 🧪 🤝 🍎 👩‍🔬 🖥️ 🧬

Happy #MicroscopyMonday! #microscopycommunity - join @bioimagingna.bsky.social May 28, to hear Fredric Bonnet of @MDIBL_LMF speak on “Maine Microscopy: Democratizing Microscopy Education for Local Scientists” as part of the BINA EoE Virtual Group Learn more and register here: buff.ly/F3rZzx7

Looking forward to the @mesospim.bsky.social #lightsheet #Microscopy anniversary symposium in October with @preibischs.bsky.social @adamkglaser.bsky.social @christellelangevin.bsky.social & many more! And to the next mesoSPIM decade! 🔬 Thanks @nvladimus.bsky.social & Co for organizing it!

A leading Light Microscopy Facility in Maine, the goal of MDI Bio Lab's @mdibl-lmf.bsky.social is excellence in research support & training with a strong emphasis on #education. For instance, this #microscopymonday #zebrafish image is an example of a practice sample. #standwithscience 🧪 🤝 🐟🎸 🍎 👩‍🔬

New chapter from Iain Drummond (MDI Bio Lab) and Heiko Schenk (Hannover Medical School) in Current Topics in Developmental Biology (@elsevierconnect.bsky.social): "Kidney development, injury and regeneration—Zebrafish" #standwithscience 🧪 🤝 🐟🎸 #SciencePublishing doi.org/10.1016/bs.c...

Happy #MicroscopyMonday! Nominate an academic @bioimagingna.bsky.social member for the 2025 Michael W. Davidson Memorial Award! 2025 submissions are now being accepted through May 23, 2025 & details are available here buff.ly/Bh9qo5r .

Have you been thinking of enrolling the MDI Bio Lab's #LightSheet Fluorescence Microscopy course? Registration has been lowered to $1,000 — down from $3,500! This is a great opportunity for researchers/students to enhance their knowledge & skills in cutting-edge #microscopy techniques. 🧪 🤝 🍎 👩‍🔬

A new publication is now out from @commsbio.bsky.social: "The small molecule ML233 is a direct inhibitor of tyrosinase function" by R.Menard, A.Baanannou, C.Halluin, D.Morse, S.Kuhn, @jhgrabermdibl.bsky.social, J.Strickland & R.Madelaine. 🧪 🤝 🐟🎸 👩‍🔬 #ScientificResearchPublishing #ResearchPublishing

Who knew something as simple as salt could look this mesmerizing up close? This stunning #microscopy image from @mdibl-lmf.bsky.social reveals the intricate beauty of salt crystals, captured using the Zeiss microscope (10x objective). 🧪 🤝 #microscopymonday #fluorescentproteins #lightsheet

MDI Bio Lab’s Light #Microscopy Facility (LMF) went from unknown to Top 5 in the US, in just five years. In this article, LMF Director Frederic Bonnet discusses how if #Maine loses @microscopy_in_maine due to federal funding cuts, it loses a key hub for #biomedical research. #standwithscience 🧪 🤝 🦞

For @hsomers.bsky.social, childhood days exploring Maine’s coast sparked a lifelong passion for #marinebiology. That curiosity led her to MDI Biological Laboratory, where scientists collaborate to push the boundaries of discovery. 🧪 🤝 🦞 #standwithscience #standupforscience2025

This is an image of a healthy mouse kidney, imaged on the MesoSPIM 4x objective. #microscopymonday #microscopy #fluorescentproteins #lightsheet 🧪 🤝 🍎 👩‍🔬 #NephSky #RenalSky Image courtesy of @mdibl-lmf.bsky.social

"Take care of this place and protect the possibility for the continuation of our peaceful research." In 1945, this powerful message was found at the Univ of Tokyo Misaki Marine Bio Station in Japan—a reminder of why protecting scientific research matters: ow.ly/xOKx50Vaaaq #standwithscience 🧪 🤝 👩‍🔬

A tardigrade for this week's #microscopymonday! (Zeiss LSM 980) 63x objective, image courtesy of @mdibl-lmf.bsky.social 🧪 🤝 🍎 🦠 🧫 #microscope #microscopy #fluorescentproteins #lightsheet

Indirect funding is essential for keeping the lights on—literally! It covers vital costs like lab maintenance, utilities & admin support. Let's illustrate just how different research would look at MDI Bio Lab without it. 🧪 🤝 👩‍🔬 #standwithscience #standupforscience2025 @standupforscience.bsky.social

Science research gave @moonsledges.bsky.social 8 more years with her father after a Stage IV #lungcancer diagnosis. Now, science funding is at risk. We must protect research—it isn’t just about discovery, it’s about life and hope. 🧪 🤝 🧬 🐟🎸 🍎 👩‍🔬 #standwithscience @standupforscience.bsky.social

Meet Dr. Anastasia Paulmann, a researcher in the Haller Lab working with a unique, short-lived fish to study how the #vascular system changes with age and test a new therapy to prevent those changes. 🧪 🤝 🧬 🐟🎸 🍎 👩‍🔬 #standwithscience #standupforscience2025

This image by Frederic Bonnet @mdibl-lmf.bsky.social shows pathways within renal #glomeruli (filtering units) from a mouse's kidney section. Blue delineates the delicate scaffolding of #actinfilaments, while orange reveals the #glycoproteins enmeshing the #vasculature. 🧪 🤝 👩‍🔬 #microscopymonday

Join us July 13-23 in Bar Harbor, #Maine, for our upcoming ReBilD program for emerging leaders in the field of regenerative biology & development! Don't miss this incredible opportunity for promising #scientists, #graduatestudents, and #postdoctoral researchers! 🧪 🤝 🧬 🐟🎸 🍎 👩‍🔬 #devbio #AcademicSky

Registration for LSFM at @mdibl-lmf.bsky.social 6/1-6/7 is now open! This is an amazing academic environment, and is unique that all the major vendors will be there and students are ENCOURAGED to bring their own samples! mdibl.org/course/lsfm-...

Join us at MDI Bio Lab (@mdibl-lmf.bsky.social) for an exciting 2025 lineup of #microscopy courses designed for researchers & professionals — May 16-23, June 1-7, and Aug 5-13! #microscopymonday #fluorescentproteins #lightsheet 🧪 🤝 🧬 🐟🎸 🍎 Learn more & enroll now! mdibl.org/education/co...

"Leaf Walker" This beautiful #tardigrade crawling on a leaf was captured in the MDIBL #LightMicroscopy Facility in 2024 by Researcher Hannah Somers (lipid stain is shown in blue, DAPI staining is shown in yellow, autofluorescence is magenta). 🧪🤝 #microscopymonday #fluorescentproteins #lightsheet

A kidney #organoid #nephron, captured by Cory Johnson, via the MDIBL Light Microscopy Facility, is grown from human induced #PluripotentStemCells. Magenta marks epithelial cells that line the inner side of tubules in the nephron & cyan are nuclei of individual cells. 🧪🤝 #microscopymonday #lightsheet

Join us at MDI Bio Lab for an exciting 2025 lineup of #microscopy courses! 🧪🤝 May 16-23: Quantitative #FluorescenceMicroscopy June 1-7: #LightSheet #Fluorescence Microscopy August 5-13: Maine Microscopy: Foundations & Fundamentals Enroll now! mdibl.org/education/co...

"Muscle Power" This image by Assistant Prof. Romain Madelaine & Research Assistant Caroline Halluin in 2021, depicts muscle tissue in #zebrafish; green slow fibers, magenta fast fibers & red mitochondria in skeletal muscle fibers are lit up using #fluorescentprotein technology. 🧪🤝 #microscopymonday

This is a C. elegans embryo captured by @dustinupdike.bsky.social. The embryo is developing from a one-cell zygote to about a 50-cell embryo over the course of about three hours. The green germ granules partition to one cell lineage through these early stages of development. #microscopymonday 🧪🤝

In this #microscopy image, MDI Biological Laboratory's Bioimaging Data Scientist @hsomers.bsky.social used #fluorescentproteins to tag and detail a fish's blood vessels to create "2001, A Space Eyedyssey." 🧪🤝 #fluorescencefriday #fluorescentproteins #lightsheet

🤔 Did you know the Maine INBRE is a collaborative network comprised of 17 institutions, led by the MDI Biological Laboratory? Sponsored by the NIH's NIGMS, the #MaineINBRE strengthens Maine’s capacity to conduct competitive #biomedicalresearch. 🧪🤝🍎🖥️ 🧬 Learn more: mdibl.org/research/res...

🔎 A new publication in Cells & Development from @elsevierconnect.bsky.social, "The evolutionary origin and mechanism of chordate tail regeneration. An ancient tale?" from @murawalalab.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1016/j.cd... 🧪🤝 #ScientificResearchPublishing #ResearchPublishing #AcademicPublishing

#Zebrafish can regenerate damaged tissues, including their eyes. The Madelaine lab is investigating the molecular mechanisms behind this remarkable ability, with a focus on vision restoration in conditions like #maculardegeneration and #glaucoma. 🐟🎸🧪🤝 #VisionScience

This 2020 image by @hsomers.bsky.social, was created using a Nikon spinning disk #microscope, and depicts the yellow muscles and purple ribosomes of the roundworm #Celegans. 🧪🤝🧬 #microscopy #microscopymonday #fluorescentproteins #lightsheet

📚🔬 An exciting new year of Courses & Conferences has kicked off at the MDI Biological Laboratory. Take a look at what's to come for our 2025 season! 🧪 🤝 🧬 🍎 #AcademicSky #SciEd