One concept. One minute. Better #microscopy. MDIBL Light Microscopy Facility just launched Light Microscopy Fundamentals—a new YouTube series breaking down the basics of light microscopy in quick, bite-sized videos. #microscopymonday #fluorescentproteins #lightsheet #SciEd #AcademicSky 🧪 🍎

Check out our YouTube channel! #microscopy #fluorescentfriday #education youtube.com/shorts/IyCeu...

#HappyMicroscopyMonday #microscopycommunity-Join the AIMM user community on Friday, March 6, for a talk by Hannah Somers- “Stop Reinventing the Protocol: MicroHub, a Searchable Hub for Microscopy Knowledge” Learn more: buff.ly/kZSIkSJ

Today's #microscopymonday from MDI Bio Lab is a view of the #microvasculature in a young African turquoise killifish heart. 📸 2025 Dr. Anastasia Paulmann and Hannah Somers, MDIBL Light Microscopy Facility

This amazing #microscopymonday capture of a young African turquoise killifish's brain blood vessels by the MDI Bio Lab's Haller lab was imaged using the MesoSPIM in the MDIBL Light Microscopy Facility#microscopymonday #researchmatters #microscopy #fluorescentproteins #lightsheet 🧪 🐟🎸 🍎 👩‍🔬 🌎 🖥️ 🧬

A special Valentine's Day, brain! 😘 #fluorescentfriday #brain #vasculature #microscopy #valentinesday @mdibl.org

A #fluorescencefriday image of an adult #zebrafish kidney by the Drummond Lab's Caramai Kamei, Ph.D. We are looking at the aorta that runs through the kidney. Blood vessels connect to glomeruli, which hang like fruits on a tree. #researchmatters #microscopy #fluorescentproteins #lightsheet 🧪 🤝

📗 New paper in PLOS Genetics, "Zebrafish genetic model of neuromuscular degeneration associated with Atrogin-1 expression" from Romain Menard, Romain Madelaine & team. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1012019 🧪 🐟🎸 #ScientificResearchPublishing

This #microscopymonday image by Frederic Bonnet, Ph.D., captures details of a wasp's intricate wing venation patterns and the segmented body, antennae and specialized ovipositor, demonstrating the elegant engineering of this tiny predator. MDIBL Light Microscopy Facility#microscopymonday#researchmatters 🧪

📚 New paper published in Kidney International, "Sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 inhibition improves age-dependent kidney microvascular rarefaction" by Anastasia Paulmann, Hermann Haller & team: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.kint.2025.12.011 #NephSky #RenalSky #ScientificResearchPublishing 🧪 👩‍🔬

Quantitative Fluorescence Microscopy 2026: Registration Open! An international course in #fluorescence #microscopy and imaging for advanced grad students, postdoc trainees, imaging core managers and researchers who are incorporating the technology into their laboratories. 🧪 🐟🎸 🍎 👩‍🔬 🌎 🖥️ 🧬

Big congratulations to Hannah Somers, Digital Image Analyst at MDI Bio Lab, whose striking visualization of a zebrafish’s brain was named an Image of Distinction in the Nikon Small World competition — and featured by #NationalGeographic! #researchmatters #microscopymonday #lightsheet 🧪 🤝 🐟🎸 👩‍🔬

Congratulations to Frederic Bonnet and the @mdibl-lmf.bsky.social on these amazing achievements!! 🎉

I love Frederic Bonnet's compound eye image that got first place 😍

Grateful to see one my #superresolution #pollen images won 2nd place at the 2025 @bioimagingna.bsky.social image contest! www.bioimagingnorthamerica.org/image-contes... #microscopy #confocal #botany #plantscience #allergies #bioimaging

This #microscopymonday image of a planarian regenerating its head 7 days after decapitation is from MDI Bio Lab's Disney lab. The translucent area at the top is the blastema—a mass of stem cells that gives rise to new tissues during regeneration. MDIBL Light Microscopy Facility#microscopymonday 🧪 🤝 🌎 #microscopy

🎉 🔬 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