Flora in Focus: A Microscopy Conference for Plant Scientists Date: Wednesday 7th January, 2026 Time: 9:15 – 17:00 Location: Sir Kenneth Wheare Hall, Clerici Building, Oxford Brookes University, Headington, Oxford, OX3 0BP

Congratulations to Dr Molly Hair on winning the Best Poster prize at the 2025 Cilia and Centrosome UK meeting!

Just casually making a 3-D super-resolution image of an entire Arabidopsis root in a few minutes. As you do.

Fluorescence is in danger of going stale. We're taking marker proteins to strange new places

🔬Exciting MSc by Research Studentship at #OxfordBrookes! Develop cutting-edge #cancer #diagnostics in a partially funded, 1-year program with Dr. Ryan Pink. Make a real impact in early detection! 📆Deadline: June 16, 2025. Application information: t.ly/278uw Our research: t.ly/olLsZ

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🔬𝐔𝐊 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨-𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐍𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 £𝟏.𝟖𝐌 from @ukri.org This will: -Democratise access to cutting-edge biological and biomedical imaging -Support 200+ researchers yearly -Boost open science Thanks to BBSRC and MRC for this major upgrade! 🚀 Congrats to the entire UK Node team 👏 Link in replies⬇️

Helix pomatia agglutinin bound to surface glycans of small extracellular vesicles in-vitro and in-vivo increases in early and late stage breast cancer link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New paper alert! Congratulations to Barrack Owino on the first publication from his PhD studies- hopefully the first of many! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Did you know that when you image fixed Plasmodium flagella at super-resolution, you can even see where they lie over each other, like strands of spaghetti? I didn't either until this afternoon 🔬 Taken with our Nikon NSPARC confocal, with thanks to Dr Molly Hair and Prof Sue Vaughan for the samples!

If you would like to attend a #microscopy or #bioimageanalysis training course in the next 6 months but don’t have funding, check out our Microscopy Training Grant from @jcellsci.bsky.social and @focalplane.bsky.social. Next deadline: 6 June 2025 www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-f... #Training

Calling all... 🔬 Microscopists 💻 BioImage Analysts 👩‍🔬 Life Scientists 📅 Save the Date The 5th edition of the Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium will take place on November 24/25th 2025. More details to follow... #CBIAS2025

Congrats to Dr. Ryan Pink & PhD student Bethy Airstone on securing an #STFC #Research grant to access the ISIS Neutron & Muon Source at Harwell. They’re using neutrons traveling at 84% the speed of light to study extracellular vesicles for more precise healthcare diagnostics. #oxfordbrookes

Last Saturday we ran the "Zooming Into Life" stand at the Science Bazaar #BrookesBazaar25. Thank you to our wonderful researchers (pictured) for helping out and we hope you enjoyed building cells, turning your phone into a microscope and peering at beetles, plants and samples from the Thames!

[email protected] are running an Authorship & Acknowledgements Survey! Share your thoughts on how core facility staff contributions are recognised in publications, and help us advocate for better recognition and support career advancement🤝🌎🔬 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

One of our microscopes (and tear samples) will be featuring on CBBC's Operation Ouch! On Wednesday 26th February at 17:30 on the CBBC Channel and on BBC iPlayer, "Teardrop Explodes!" will feature the Centre for BioImaging's equipment #CBBC #OperationOuch!

A video clip to see #trypanosomes in #3D #FIB-SEM Many thanks to Valérie Zeitoun and Jeanne Fenouil for their patience during the recording and to Adeline Mallet and Manu Majrouh at the UBI of @pasteur.fr www.pasteur.fr/fr/journal-r...

New Paper! The role of the endoplasmic reticulum and plasma membrane interactions during plant cytokinesis www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... We are proud to have contributed SBF-SEM data to this collaboration, and congratulations Nadine, Verena and colleagues!

As a crazy week draws to a close, enjoy these 3D super-resolution images of Leishmania parasite cells, generated by Ultra-Expansion Microscopy

Applications are now open for our Summer Studentships! ☀️🔬🦠 We’re looking for undergraduates to do paid research for 4-6 weeks this summer. See the projects on offer and check the participation eligibility requirements on our website. ⬇️ www.rms.org.uk/community/ne...

Many thanks to Sue Vaughan, Verena Kriechbaumer and Alan Marron for taking us ‘behind the scenes’ and showcasing some of their work at Oxford Brookes. It’s great to see what’s going on out there in the #microscopy community! @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social @becomingsali.bsky.social

Don't forget to enter our #EarlyCareer Award Competition 2025 (Deadline for entries: 14 Feb) Great opportunity to receive recognition for your work - and to win a cash prize! 🔬😃 Find out more and enter: rms.org.uk/opportunitie... @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social @yorkbioimaging.bsky.social

WE ARE HIRING www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLM989/e...: The Oxford Brookes Centre for BioImaging are seeking to appoint an Electron Microscopy Specialist. This is a full-time, permanent position to lead the EM side of our work. Please contact Sue Vaughan svaughan[at]brookes.ac.uk if you have any questions.

And of course the 2025 BioImaging Awards, featuring the best, most interesting and funniest images and movies taken by our users! This year the awards were very generously sponsored by Nikon- thank you to Rowan and Aki for presenting the prizes.

Great time at the Oxford Brookes Postgraduate Symposium- some wonderful talks from our research students featuring data produced at the Centre for BioImaging

As well as our usual work (tomography, preparing formvar grids), today we are joined by Ben from Oxford Medical Products to use our SEM!

Check out the RMS Early Career Award, open now for applicants across the disciplines of microscopy, image analysis and cytometry! 🔬🧪✨ Deadline: 14th February 2025

Exciting opportunity to join a friendly academic team at Oxford Brookes as a Senior Lecturer in Human Genomics! Pls share and feel free to contact me for further info #AcademicJobs #FacultyPosition #HumanGenomics #GeneticsResearch #GenomicScience www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLA420/s...

More fully funded PhD opportunities at Oxford Brookes!! Deadline to apply, January 29th 2025. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKZ277/p...

I wonder how many microscope facilities get help from their Departmental Head of Research to move anti-vibration air tables? #manofthepeople #notafraidtogethishandsdirty

A busy microscope room is a happy microscope room 🔬🙂

Barrack's Leishmania expansion microscopy experiments have been going well, but now I fear him expanding things is getting out of hand...

Great opportunity to do a #PhD with me! Think #Drosophila #eyes are fun to work with? Love to do #microscopy? Want to look into organ size regulation and evolution? Maybe even in a pest species? Get in touch and check out how to apply via Oxford Brookes University: tinyurl.com/37h7pudv