Virginia Silio
@virsicas.bsky.social
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Virginia Silio
@virsicas.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Hi everyone! I'm excited to introduce myself:
Background – PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology, focusing on PI3K in mitosis (1/n)
Background – PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology, focusing on PI3K in mitosis (1/n)
Stunning @anhhle2702.bsky.social 😍
For this week #FluorescenceFriday, we'll be treated with one of our favourite animal models 🐸 . Here is a Xenopus laevis embryo imaged with a Lightsheet microscope showing macrophage migration.
Purple🟣 = ectoderm nuclei, Red🔴 = macrophages.
📹: Hoang Anh Le, postdoc in the Mayor lab, UCL.
Purple🟣 = ectoderm nuclei, Red🔴 = macrophages.
📹: Hoang Anh Le, postdoc in the Mayor lab, UCL.
November 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Stunning @anhhle2702.bsky.social 😍
is someone here using Opal 690?
Pic not related as it's #FluorescenceFriday
star-protocols.cell.com/protocols/37...
Pic not related as it's #FluorescenceFriday
star-protocols.cell.com/protocols/37...
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
is someone here using Opal 690?
Pic not related as it's #FluorescenceFriday
star-protocols.cell.com/protocols/37...
Pic not related as it's #FluorescenceFriday
star-protocols.cell.com/protocols/37...
Back to reality after #CBIAS2025: two trainings today, a pile of analysis requests waiting in my inbox, and an experiment in a rush thanks to the pre-Christmas panic...
November 26, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Back to reality after #CBIAS2025: two trainings today, a pile of analysis requests waiting in my inbox, and an experiment in a rush thanks to the pre-Christmas panic...
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Enjoying my new sticker courtesy of @helenajambor.bsky.social, who also gave an amazing talk today at cbias
November 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Enjoying my new sticker courtesy of @helenajambor.bsky.social, who also gave an amazing talk today at cbias
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🔬There are 2 weeks left for applications in this round!
🔬Next deadlines are 31 March, 31 July and 30 November 2026!
🔬DM us for any queries!
🔬Next deadlines are 31 March, 31 July and 30 November 2026!
🔬DM us for any queries!
🔬 THREAD: UK Bioimaging User Access Fund is OPEN!
Up to £5k for imaging experiments, £2k for image analysis
Access world-class facilities at Crick, ESRIC, KCL, Liverpool, Oxford Brookes & York
First deadline: 9 Dec 2025 📅
🧵👇
Up to £5k for imaging experiments, £2k for image analysis
Access world-class facilities at Crick, ESRIC, KCL, Liverpool, Oxford Brookes & York
First deadline: 9 Dec 2025 📅
🧵👇
November 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
🔬There are 2 weeks left for applications in this round!
🔬Next deadlines are 31 March, 31 July and 30 November 2026!
🔬DM us for any queries!
🔬Next deadlines are 31 March, 31 July and 30 November 2026!
🔬DM us for any queries!
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November 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Topical conclusion from @helenajambor.bsky.social
Scientists have tools to fight and make life better
#CBiAS2025
Scientists have tools to fight and make life better
#CBiAS2025
November 25, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Topical conclusion from @helenajambor.bsky.social
Scientists have tools to fight and make life better
#CBiAS2025
Scientists have tools to fight and make life better
#CBiAS2025
Had a brilliant time at #CBIAS2025. Still not sure if I’m an intruder or a red panda, but I’ve definitely come back with lots of ideas for my users… and awesome stickers.
November 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Had a brilliant time at #CBIAS2025. Still not sure if I’m an intruder or a red panda, but I’ve definitely come back with lots of ideas for my users… and awesome stickers.
This is scary (although those “cells” look nothing like HeLa) but…
I tried an even harder example on Gemini Pro image generation and this is quite scary/amazing. I asked for a microscopy image of around 20 HeLa cells, GFP tagged 20% nuclear, 10% membrane, +1 nuclear staining, + overlap. Image below and prompt in the following post.
November 22, 2025 at 8:34 PM
This is scary (although those “cells” look nothing like HeLa) but…
🤯
We just released a new major version of TrackMate (v8), the cell and organelle tracking plugin of Fiji.
It ships many new features, detailed below, but that are articulated around the following:
It ships many new features, detailed below, but that are articulated around the following:
November 20, 2025 at 8:20 PM
🤯
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We just released a new major version of TrackMate (v8), the cell and organelle tracking plugin of Fiji.
It ships many new features, detailed below, but that are articulated around the following:
It ships many new features, detailed below, but that are articulated around the following:
November 20, 2025 at 11:42 AM
We just released a new major version of TrackMate (v8), the cell and organelle tracking plugin of Fiji.
It ships many new features, detailed below, but that are articulated around the following:
It ships many new features, detailed below, but that are articulated around the following:
Reposted by Virginia Silio
Less than a week to go for #CBIAS2025! A few hours left to register, in person in London or online over Zoom (registration deadline on Nov 20th)
Find out all the information at the link below:
www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cri...
Find out all the information at the link below:
www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cri...
Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium 2025
www.crick.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Less than a week to go for #CBIAS2025! A few hours left to register, in person in London or online over Zoom (registration deadline on Nov 20th)
Find out all the information at the link below:
www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cri...
Find out all the information at the link below:
www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cri...
😍😍😍😍😍
My new ImageJ / Fiji toolkit is out 🔥! The goal is to make image handling & visualization easy, with an intuitive interface! Install it on Fiji with the "Image Viewer" update site
#microscopy #ImageJ #FluorescenceFriday #microscopyMonday
imagej.net/plugins/imag...
#microscopy #ImageJ #FluorescenceFriday #microscopyMonday
imagej.net/plugins/imag...
November 16, 2025 at 1:18 PM
😍😍😍😍😍
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Full chameleon cranial atlas article out now in @anatrecord.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1002/ar.7... 🦎✨️
3D anatomical atlas of the heads of male and female adult Chamaeleo calyptratus
The veiled chameleon is a model organism in reptile development research. Utilizing contrast-enhanced microCT and deep learning segmentation models, we have generated the first digital atlases of the...
doi.org
November 15, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Full chameleon cranial atlas article out now in @anatrecord.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1002/ar.7... 🦎✨️
Two great talks today at 12pm UK time. (ZOOM, Meeting ID: 982 1434 7242 / Passcode: 952497) @biig-ucl.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Two great talks today at 12pm UK time. (ZOOM, Meeting ID: 982 1434 7242 / Passcode: 952497) @biig-ucl.bsky.social
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Join us tomorrow at the @biig-ucl.bsky.social monthly hybrid seminar, to hear @leaveylab.bsky.social speak on: "From chameleons to sea urchins: Using AI-driven digital dissection tools to study development and evolution".
I have been invited to speak at the UCL BioImage Interest Group meeting on Nov 14 - find the Zoom information on this link, open for anyone wanting to learn about AI-driven digital dissection tools (www.ucl.ac.uk/science-tech...)
UCL BioImage Interest Group
The UCL BIIG - BioImage Interest Group - aims to share knowledge, expertise and foster discussion and collaborations around the topics of bioimaging and bioimage analysis in an informal setting.
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 13, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Join us tomorrow at the @biig-ucl.bsky.social monthly hybrid seminar, to hear @leaveylab.bsky.social speak on: "From chameleons to sea urchins: Using AI-driven digital dissection tools to study development and evolution".
Reposted by Virginia Silio
🔬 THREAD: UK Bioimaging User Access Fund is OPEN!
Up to £5k for imaging experiments, £2k for image analysis
Access world-class facilities at Crick, ESRIC, KCL, Liverpool, Oxford Brookes & York
First deadline: 9 Dec 2025 📅
🧵👇
Up to £5k for imaging experiments, £2k for image analysis
Access world-class facilities at Crick, ESRIC, KCL, Liverpool, Oxford Brookes & York
First deadline: 9 Dec 2025 📅
🧵👇
October 24, 2025 at 1:27 PM
🔬 THREAD: UK Bioimaging User Access Fund is OPEN!
Up to £5k for imaging experiments, £2k for image analysis
Access world-class facilities at Crick, ESRIC, KCL, Liverpool, Oxford Brookes & York
First deadline: 9 Dec 2025 📅
🧵👇
Up to £5k for imaging experiments, £2k for image analysis
Access world-class facilities at Crick, ESRIC, KCL, Liverpool, Oxford Brookes & York
First deadline: 9 Dec 2025 📅
🧵👇
As someone born in a country with national healthcare and living in another one with the same, this is against humanity.
Before ACA, many Americans couldn’t afford insurance
Alex Smith was a diabetic who got kicked off his Mom’s insurance at 26
He made 35k a year which was “too much” for Medicaid, but not nearly enough to cover insurance premiums
He had to ration his insulin & died a month after losing insurance
Alex Smith was a diabetic who got kicked off his Mom’s insurance at 26
He made 35k a year which was “too much” for Medicaid, but not nearly enough to cover insurance premiums
He had to ration his insulin & died a month after losing insurance
Insulin's High Cost Leads To Lethal Rationing
Alec Raeshawn Smith was 23 when diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes and 26 when he died. He couldn't afford $1,300 per month for his insulin and other diabetes supplies, so he tried to stretch the doses.
www.npr.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:37 AM
As someone born in a country with national healthcare and living in another one with the same, this is against humanity.
Sharing this, quite relevant this week. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Remembering my sister Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin died of ovarian cancer in 1958 aged 37 years. Sympathy and feminism
have combined to give us her familiar image as a downtrodden woman scientist, brilliant
but neglected, a heroine t...
www.thelancet.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Sharing this, quite relevant this week. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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November 5, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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🔬 UK Researchers: Up to £5K for bioimaging access now available!
Access state-of-the-art facilities at 6 leading UK sites:
🔬 Francis Crick Institute
🔬 ESRIC Edinburgh
🔬 King's
🔬 Liverpool
🔬 Oxford Brookes
🔬 York
First deadline: 9 Dec 2025 📅
Apply: www.rms.org.uk/user-access-fund
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Access state-of-the-art facilities at 6 leading UK sites:
🔬 Francis Crick Institute
🔬 ESRIC Edinburgh
🔬 King's
🔬 Liverpool
🔬 Oxford Brookes
🔬 York
First deadline: 9 Dec 2025 📅
Apply: www.rms.org.uk/user-access-fund
Please re-post!
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
🔬 UK Researchers: Up to £5K for bioimaging access now available!
Access state-of-the-art facilities at 6 leading UK sites:
🔬 Francis Crick Institute
🔬 ESRIC Edinburgh
🔬 King's
🔬 Liverpool
🔬 Oxford Brookes
🔬 York
First deadline: 9 Dec 2025 📅
Apply: www.rms.org.uk/user-access-fund
Please re-post!
Access state-of-the-art facilities at 6 leading UK sites:
🔬 Francis Crick Institute
🔬 ESRIC Edinburgh
🔬 King's
🔬 Liverpool
🔬 Oxford Brookes
🔬 York
First deadline: 9 Dec 2025 📅
Apply: www.rms.org.uk/user-access-fund
Please re-post!
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Big news! Our week-long #bioimageanalysis bootcamp is BACK! Learn how to think about bioimage analysis like the pros do, learn what corrections you should (and shouldn't!) apply to your images, learn open source tools, and more. Apply NOW at broad.io/BAB3 for our January 2026 course!
October 14, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Big news! Our week-long #bioimageanalysis bootcamp is BACK! Learn how to think about bioimage analysis like the pros do, learn what corrections you should (and shouldn't!) apply to your images, learn open source tools, and more. Apply NOW at broad.io/BAB3 for our January 2026 course!
You can decrease the speed so I talk a normal pace!
In this #VirtualPub recording, @virsicas.bsky.social, one of #EuroBioImaging's Scientific Ambassadors, explores multiple aspects of her work at the Light Microscopy facility at @ucl.ac.uk, from microscopes to workflows. 🔬
A great talk - check it out! 👀 🔽
youtu.be/aKakQ6K6HxU
A great talk - check it out! 👀 🔽
youtu.be/aKakQ6K6HxU
October 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
You can decrease the speed so I talk a normal pace!
Had a great visit to KCL for my second Euro-BioImaging Node interview — and really nice to meet Andreas! The MIC renovation looks fantastic. Hope the interview shines a bit more light on all the brilliant technical work happening across the Nodes!
Meet Andres Bodén! In an interview with @virsicas.bsky.social, he explains how managing the Microscopy Innovation Centre at King's allows him to balance tech development with user projects — to shape the future of microscopy & broaden its impact. 🔬
More⤵️
www.eurobioimaging.eu/news/meet-an...
More⤵️
www.eurobioimaging.eu/news/meet-an...
October 1, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Had a great visit to KCL for my second Euro-BioImaging Node interview — and really nice to meet Andreas! The MIC renovation looks fantastic. Hope the interview shines a bit more light on all the brilliant technical work happening across the Nodes!