New England Society for Microscopy
@nesmicroscopy.bsky.social
Volunteer led organization focused on providing microscopy-related activities and events and disseminating microscopy knowledge and skills to anyone interested in the New England region.
For today’s #MicroscopyMonday, meet our #NESM President-elect, Harry Cramer! The Assistant Director of Cellular Imaging Core at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harry brings deep expertise in multiphoton microscopy, training, and community-driven science. 🔬🧠
@bostonchildrens.bsky.social
@bostonchildrens.bsky.social
January 12, 2026 at 3:11 PM
For today’s #MicroscopyMonday, meet our #NESM President-elect, Harry Cramer! The Assistant Director of Cellular Imaging Core at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harry brings deep expertise in multiphoton microscopy, training, and community-driven science. 🔬🧠
@bostonchildrens.bsky.social
@bostonchildrens.bsky.social
Introducing #NESM Treasurer Jennifer Misuraca for #MicroscopyMonday! Jennifer is FESEM Product Manager at #JEOL USA, supporting applications, training, and demos. She joined the NESM board in 2016 and became Treasurer in 2024. 📸 SEM of bacteriophage on a JEOL FESEM, Joseph Stukey at Hope College
January 5, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Introducing #NESM Treasurer Jennifer Misuraca for #MicroscopyMonday! Jennifer is FESEM Product Manager at #JEOL USA, supporting applications, training, and demos. She joined the NESM board in 2016 and became Treasurer in 2024. 📸 SEM of bacteriophage on a JEOL FESEM, Joseph Stukey at Hope College
For #MicroscopyMonday, we’re excited to welcome Katie Shulenberger as NESM’s newest Director of Physical Sciences! 🎉
An Asst. Prof. of Chemistry at @brandeis.edu, Katie develops spectroscopic methods to study semiconductor nanomaterials and photophysics.
#NESM #Spectroscopy #Nanomaterials
An Asst. Prof. of Chemistry at @brandeis.edu, Katie develops spectroscopic methods to study semiconductor nanomaterials and photophysics.
#NESM #Spectroscopy #Nanomaterials
December 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM
For #MicroscopyMonday, we’re excited to welcome Katie Shulenberger as NESM’s newest Director of Physical Sciences! 🎉
An Asst. Prof. of Chemistry at @brandeis.edu, Katie develops spectroscopic methods to study semiconductor nanomaterials and photophysics.
#NESM #Spectroscopy #Nanomaterials
An Asst. Prof. of Chemistry at @brandeis.edu, Katie develops spectroscopic methods to study semiconductor nanomaterials and photophysics.
#NESM #Spectroscopy #Nanomaterials
Another #MicroscopyMonday intro! Meet Emma Perry, the #NESM Clerk from UMaine @umaine.bsky.social . She manages electron & confocal microscopes at UMaine and studies Maine/NE USA tardigrade biogeography & taxonomy. 📸 Maine tardigrade: Viridiscus perviridis 🔬Amray 1820, CORE #ElectronMicroscopy Lab.
December 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Another #MicroscopyMonday intro! Meet Emma Perry, the #NESM Clerk from UMaine @umaine.bsky.social . She manages electron & confocal microscopes at UMaine and studies Maine/NE USA tardigrade biogeography & taxonomy. 📸 Maine tardigrade: Viridiscus perviridis 🔬Amray 1820, CORE #ElectronMicroscopy Lab.
Introducing another #NESM board member for #MicroscopyMonday — Ben Muller, Director of Physical Sciences! He works across surface metrology, microfluidics, thin films, and micro/nanofabrication. He just defended his PhD! 🎉
📸 SEM of modified EGaIn sphere contacts (Harvard CNS).
#SEM #Nanotechnology
📸 SEM of modified EGaIn sphere contacts (Harvard CNS).
#SEM #Nanotechnology
December 8, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Introducing another #NESM board member for #MicroscopyMonday — Ben Muller, Director of Physical Sciences! He works across surface metrology, microfluidics, thin films, and micro/nanofabrication. He just defended his PhD! 🎉
📸 SEM of modified EGaIn sphere contacts (Harvard CNS).
#SEM #Nanotechnology
📸 SEM of modified EGaIn sphere contacts (Harvard CNS).
#SEM #Nanotechnology
Happy #MicroscopyMonday! Meet our new Director of Biological Sciences, Mark Scimone, a UNH professor whose work spans neuroscience, optics, and image analysis. He brings experience from Boston Children’s and PSI, plus a passion for microscopy education. #NESM #SEM
📸: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
📸: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
December 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Happy #MicroscopyMonday! Meet our new Director of Biological Sciences, Mark Scimone, a UNH professor whose work spans neuroscience, optics, and image analysis. He brings experience from Boston Children’s and PSI, plus a passion for microscopy education. #NESM #SEM
📸: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
📸: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Happy #MicroscopyMonday! This week we're spotlighting Brandy Freitas, our Director of Media and Outreach at #NESM.👏 @brandy-syglass.bsky.social
Brandy is the Director of Data Science at #syGlass, and here is a video of #3Ddata from C Wolff the MBL @mblscience.bsky.social 🔬
#BioImaging #SciComm
Brandy is the Director of Data Science at #syGlass, and here is a video of #3Ddata from C Wolff the MBL @mblscience.bsky.social 🔬
#BioImaging #SciComm
November 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Happy #MicroscopyMonday! This week we're spotlighting Brandy Freitas, our Director of Media and Outreach at #NESM.👏 @brandy-syglass.bsky.social
Brandy is the Director of Data Science at #syGlass, and here is a video of #3Ddata from C Wolff the MBL @mblscience.bsky.social 🔬
#BioImaging #SciComm
Brandy is the Director of Data Science at #syGlass, and here is a video of #3Ddata from C Wolff the MBL @mblscience.bsky.social 🔬
#BioImaging #SciComm
Happy #MicroscopyMonday! 🧫 This week we're spotlighting Andy Stone, our immediate past-president at #NESM. 👏 @andystoneimaging.bsky.social
Andy leads the Brandeis light microscopy core and is a powerhouse in the imaging community—from BINA to NESM and RMS. 🎥🔬
#LightSheet #BioImaging #STEM
Andy leads the Brandeis light microscopy core and is a powerhouse in the imaging community—from BINA to NESM and RMS. 🎥🔬
#LightSheet #BioImaging #STEM
November 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Happy #MicroscopyMonday! 🧫 This week we're spotlighting Andy Stone, our immediate past-president at #NESM. 👏 @andystoneimaging.bsky.social
Andy leads the Brandeis light microscopy core and is a powerhouse in the imaging community—from BINA to NESM and RMS. 🎥🔬
#LightSheet #BioImaging #STEM
Andy leads the Brandeis light microscopy core and is a powerhouse in the imaging community—from BINA to NESM and RMS. 🎥🔬
#LightSheet #BioImaging #STEM
This week's #MicroscopyMonday is a time lapse 3D printing of a mini microscope from the MakerLab at Brandeis University.
🥼 Greg Buckland | Head of Brandeis MakerLab
#MicroscopyMonday #Sciencecommunication #BrandeisUniversity #NESM #Microscopy #Science #3D #3DPrinting
🥼 Greg Buckland | Head of Brandeis MakerLab
#MicroscopyMonday #Sciencecommunication #BrandeisUniversity #NESM #Microscopy #Science #3D #3DPrinting
October 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
This week's #MicroscopyMonday is a time lapse 3D printing of a mini microscope from the MakerLab at Brandeis University.
🥼 Greg Buckland | Head of Brandeis MakerLab
#MicroscopyMonday #Sciencecommunication #BrandeisUniversity #NESM #Microscopy #Science #3D #3DPrinting
🥼 Greg Buckland | Head of Brandeis MakerLab
#MicroscopyMonday #Sciencecommunication #BrandeisUniversity #NESM #Microscopy #Science #3D #3DPrinting
October 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Tungsten crystals for #MicroscopyMonday from one of our upcoming keynote speakers! #NESM www.nesmicroscopy.org/2025-fall-sy...
🥼: @gewilli.bsky.social, Microscopist
🏛️: Brown University Leduc Bioimaging
🔬: TFS Apreo 2 VS Scanning Electron Microscope, Horizontal Field Width (HFW) = 49μm
🥼: @gewilli.bsky.social, Microscopist
🏛️: Brown University Leduc Bioimaging
🔬: TFS Apreo 2 VS Scanning Electron Microscope, Horizontal Field Width (HFW) = 49μm
October 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Tungsten crystals for #MicroscopyMonday from one of our upcoming keynote speakers! #NESM www.nesmicroscopy.org/2025-fall-sy...
🥼: @gewilli.bsky.social, Microscopist
🏛️: Brown University Leduc Bioimaging
🔬: TFS Apreo 2 VS Scanning Electron Microscope, Horizontal Field Width (HFW) = 49μm
🥼: @gewilli.bsky.social, Microscopist
🏛️: Brown University Leduc Bioimaging
🔬: TFS Apreo 2 VS Scanning Electron Microscope, Horizontal Field Width (HFW) = 49μm
It's #MicroscopyMonday and we are only three weeks away from the #NESM Fall Symposium! We still have opportunities for poster and oral presentations for researchers, vendors and core facilities, link here: www.nesmicroscopy.org/2025-fall-sy...
#Microscopy #LightSheet #3DPrinting #SEM #LSFM #SciComm
#Microscopy #LightSheet #3DPrinting #SEM #LSFM #SciComm
October 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
It's #MicroscopyMonday and we are only three weeks away from the #NESM Fall Symposium! We still have opportunities for poster and oral presentations for researchers, vendors and core facilities, link here: www.nesmicroscopy.org/2025-fall-sy...
#Microscopy #LightSheet #3DPrinting #SEM #LSFM #SciComm
#Microscopy #LightSheet #3DPrinting #SEM #LSFM #SciComm
For #MicroscopyMonday: “Seeing Every Photon”—a hands-on workshop with Evident Scientific on the FLUOVIEW FV4000 confocal! At the Fall symposium Nov 6-7, learn to capture consistent, quantitative images with SilVIR™ detectors and performance monitoring. #NESM #ConfocalMicroscopy
October 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
For #MicroscopyMonday: “Seeing Every Photon”—a hands-on workshop with Evident Scientific on the FLUOVIEW FV4000 confocal! At the Fall symposium Nov 6-7, learn to capture consistent, quantitative images with SilVIR™ detectors and performance monitoring. #NESM #ConfocalMicroscopy
Excited to welcome MIT’s Julian P. Klein as a keynote at the #NESM Fall Symposium! 🔬 His work uses electron beams to target atoms in 2D materials — here’s a teaser image from his research in quantum engineering.
#MicroscopyMonday #ElectronMicroscopy #QuantumMaterials #Nanotechnology #MIT #SciComm
#MicroscopyMonday #ElectronMicroscopy #QuantumMaterials #Nanotechnology #MIT #SciComm
September 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Excited to welcome MIT’s Julian P. Klein as a keynote at the #NESM Fall Symposium! 🔬 His work uses electron beams to target atoms in 2D materials — here’s a teaser image from his research in quantum engineering.
#MicroscopyMonday #ElectronMicroscopy #QuantumMaterials #Nanotechnology #MIT #SciComm
#MicroscopyMonday #ElectronMicroscopy #QuantumMaterials #Nanotechnology #MIT #SciComm
📣Announcing the Fall Symposium Workshops for #MicroscopyMonday!🎫 Registration is now open here: www.nesmicroscopy.org/2025-fall-sy...
🔬: Hitachi Gemini FE SEM
🥼: Benjamin Muller, PI Giovanni Traverso, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE)
📝: Feig et al, lnkd.in/ea5M7aET
#NESM #SciComm
🔬: Hitachi Gemini FE SEM
🥼: Benjamin Muller, PI Giovanni Traverso, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE)
📝: Feig et al, lnkd.in/ea5M7aET
#NESM #SciComm
September 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
📣Announcing the Fall Symposium Workshops for #MicroscopyMonday!🎫 Registration is now open here: www.nesmicroscopy.org/2025-fall-sy...
🔬: Hitachi Gemini FE SEM
🥼: Benjamin Muller, PI Giovanni Traverso, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE)
📝: Feig et al, lnkd.in/ea5M7aET
#NESM #SciComm
🔬: Hitachi Gemini FE SEM
🥼: Benjamin Muller, PI Giovanni Traverso, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE)
📝: Feig et al, lnkd.in/ea5M7aET
#NESM #SciComm
Announcing one of our Keynote Speakers, Elizabeth Engle, for #MicroscopyMonday! Please join us in November at Brandeis!
🔬: 3i Light Sheet
🐭: Dharmendra Puri, Boston Children's Hospital
🏛️: Harvard Medical School's MicRoN facility
🎬: syGlass.io
#NESM #LightSheetMicroscopy #3DImaging #TissueClearing
🔬: 3i Light Sheet
🐭: Dharmendra Puri, Boston Children's Hospital
🏛️: Harvard Medical School's MicRoN facility
🎬: syGlass.io
#NESM #LightSheetMicroscopy #3DImaging #TissueClearing
September 15, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Announcing one of our Keynote Speakers, Elizabeth Engle, for #MicroscopyMonday! Please join us in November at Brandeis!
🔬: 3i Light Sheet
🐭: Dharmendra Puri, Boston Children's Hospital
🏛️: Harvard Medical School's MicRoN facility
🎬: syGlass.io
#NESM #LightSheetMicroscopy #3DImaging #TissueClearing
🔬: 3i Light Sheet
🐭: Dharmendra Puri, Boston Children's Hospital
🏛️: Harvard Medical School's MicRoN facility
🎬: syGlass.io
#NESM #LightSheetMicroscopy #3DImaging #TissueClearing
Announcing registration for the Fall Symposium at Brandeis for #MicroscopyMonday! #NESM
www.nesmicroscopy.org/2025-fall-sy...
🔬: Bruker TruLive3D @brukerspatial.bsky.social
🥼: Amro Hamdoun @hamdounlab.bsky.social , Tzer Han Tan's @tzerhan29.bsky.social group
🌌: Painted Sea Urchin
📷: syGlass.io
www.nesmicroscopy.org/2025-fall-sy...
🔬: Bruker TruLive3D @brukerspatial.bsky.social
🥼: Amro Hamdoun @hamdounlab.bsky.social , Tzer Han Tan's @tzerhan29.bsky.social group
🌌: Painted Sea Urchin
📷: syGlass.io
September 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Announcing registration for the Fall Symposium at Brandeis for #MicroscopyMonday! #NESM
www.nesmicroscopy.org/2025-fall-sy...
🔬: Bruker TruLive3D @brukerspatial.bsky.social
🥼: Amro Hamdoun @hamdounlab.bsky.social , Tzer Han Tan's @tzerhan29.bsky.social group
🌌: Painted Sea Urchin
📷: syGlass.io
www.nesmicroscopy.org/2025-fall-sy...
🔬: Bruker TruLive3D @brukerspatial.bsky.social
🥼: Amro Hamdoun @hamdounlab.bsky.social , Tzer Han Tan's @tzerhan29.bsky.social group
🌌: Painted Sea Urchin
📷: syGlass.io
🕷️ A winter tick’s lethal grasp for a late #MicroscopyMonday, captured in stunning SEM by Monica Miles, winner of 3rd place in UMaine’s 2025 Imaging Your Research Contest.
Tiny structures, huge impact on Maine’s moose calves.
#Microscopy #Ecology #Moose #SEM #NESM @umaine.bsky.social
Tiny structures, huge impact on Maine’s moose calves.
#Microscopy #Ecology #Moose #SEM #NESM @umaine.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
🕷️ A winter tick’s lethal grasp for a late #MicroscopyMonday, captured in stunning SEM by Monica Miles, winner of 3rd place in UMaine’s 2025 Imaging Your Research Contest.
Tiny structures, huge impact on Maine’s moose calves.
#Microscopy #Ecology #Moose #SEM #NESM @umaine.bsky.social
Tiny structures, huge impact on Maine’s moose calves.
#Microscopy #Ecology #Moose #SEM #NESM @umaine.bsky.social
It's #MicroscopyMonday! Today we have a very special confocal dataset that HIGH SCHOOL students were able to label and image themselves at the MBL.
🐟: #Zebrafish
🔬: Nipam Patel, High School Science Discovery Programs
🏛️: @mblscience.bsky.social
🎬: syGlass.io
#NESM #Confocal #SciComm #ScienceEd
🐟: #Zebrafish
🔬: Nipam Patel, High School Science Discovery Programs
🏛️: @mblscience.bsky.social
🎬: syGlass.io
#NESM #Confocal #SciComm #ScienceEd
August 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM
It's #MicroscopyMonday! Today we have a very special confocal dataset that HIGH SCHOOL students were able to label and image themselves at the MBL.
🐟: #Zebrafish
🔬: Nipam Patel, High School Science Discovery Programs
🏛️: @mblscience.bsky.social
🎬: syGlass.io
#NESM #Confocal #SciComm #ScienceEd
🐟: #Zebrafish
🔬: Nipam Patel, High School Science Discovery Programs
🏛️: @mblscience.bsky.social
🎬: syGlass.io
#NESM #Confocal #SciComm #ScienceEd
Tungsten crystals for #MicroscopyMonday! #NESM
⚗️: Tungsten oxide crystals
🥼: Geoff Williams, @gewilli.bsky.social
🏛️: @brownuresearch.bsky.social , Leduc Bioimaging Facility
🔬: @thermofishersci.bsky.social , Apreo 2 VS Scanning Electron Microscope, HFW 8um
⚗️: Tungsten oxide crystals
🥼: Geoff Williams, @gewilli.bsky.social
🏛️: @brownuresearch.bsky.social , Leduc Bioimaging Facility
🔬: @thermofishersci.bsky.social , Apreo 2 VS Scanning Electron Microscope, HFW 8um
August 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Tungsten crystals for #MicroscopyMonday! #NESM
⚗️: Tungsten oxide crystals
🥼: Geoff Williams, @gewilli.bsky.social
🏛️: @brownuresearch.bsky.social , Leduc Bioimaging Facility
🔬: @thermofishersci.bsky.social , Apreo 2 VS Scanning Electron Microscope, HFW 8um
⚗️: Tungsten oxide crystals
🥼: Geoff Williams, @gewilli.bsky.social
🏛️: @brownuresearch.bsky.social , Leduc Bioimaging Facility
🔬: @thermofishersci.bsky.social , Apreo 2 VS Scanning Electron Microscope, HFW 8um
Announcing our first Fall Symposium speaker for #MicroscopyMonday! Geoff Williams, Brown. #NESM
🌾: Lily of the Valley
🥼: Geoff Williams, @gewilli.bsky.social
🏛️: @brownuresearch.bsky.social Leduc Bioimaging Facility
🔬: @thermofishersci.bsky.social Apreo 2 VS Scanning Electron Microscope, HFW 4mm
🌾: Lily of the Valley
🥼: Geoff Williams, @gewilli.bsky.social
🏛️: @brownuresearch.bsky.social Leduc Bioimaging Facility
🔬: @thermofishersci.bsky.social Apreo 2 VS Scanning Electron Microscope, HFW 4mm
August 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Announcing our first Fall Symposium speaker for #MicroscopyMonday! Geoff Williams, Brown. #NESM
🌾: Lily of the Valley
🥼: Geoff Williams, @gewilli.bsky.social
🏛️: @brownuresearch.bsky.social Leduc Bioimaging Facility
🔬: @thermofishersci.bsky.social Apreo 2 VS Scanning Electron Microscope, HFW 4mm
🌾: Lily of the Valley
🥼: Geoff Williams, @gewilli.bsky.social
🏛️: @brownuresearch.bsky.social Leduc Bioimaging Facility
🔬: @thermofishersci.bsky.social Apreo 2 VS Scanning Electron Microscope, HFW 4mm
A #NESM Save the Date for #MicroscopyMonday! We're happy to announce our in-person Fall Symposium will be held at Brandeis University @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social November 6th & 7th. We're looking for #poster and oral presentations and #abstract submission opens soon!
www.nesmicroscopy.org
www.nesmicroscopy.org
July 28, 2025 at 7:53 PM
A #NESM Save the Date for #MicroscopyMonday! We're happy to announce our in-person Fall Symposium will be held at Brandeis University @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social November 6th & 7th. We're looking for #poster and oral presentations and #abstract submission opens soon!
www.nesmicroscopy.org
www.nesmicroscopy.org
🐙 This Octopus shifts from deep to active rest while "dreaming" for #MicroscopyMonday. REM‑like sleep (color bursts and twitches) filmed in real time by Horst Obenhaus @octoscience.bsky.social, currently a 2025 Whitman Fellow at @mblscience.bsky.social. #NESM
#Octopus #Neuro #SleepScience #MBL
#Octopus #Neuro #SleepScience #MBL
July 21, 2025 at 11:53 AM
🐙 This Octopus shifts from deep to active rest while "dreaming" for #MicroscopyMonday. REM‑like sleep (color bursts and twitches) filmed in real time by Horst Obenhaus @octoscience.bsky.social, currently a 2025 Whitman Fellow at @mblscience.bsky.social. #NESM
#Octopus #Neuro #SleepScience #MBL
#Octopus #Neuro #SleepScience #MBL
@brandeisuniversity.bsky.social has a new lightsheet for #MicroscopyMonday !💡New England microscopy cores - do you have a system you want advertised? Send us an image! #NESM
🧠: TdTomato Mouse Brain
🔬: #LifeCanvas SmartSPIM, 1.6x obj
🥼: @andystoneimaging.bsky.social
🏛️: Brandeis LMCF (RRID:SCR_02589)
🧠: TdTomato Mouse Brain
🔬: #LifeCanvas SmartSPIM, 1.6x obj
🥼: @andystoneimaging.bsky.social
🏛️: Brandeis LMCF (RRID:SCR_02589)
July 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
@brandeisuniversity.bsky.social has a new lightsheet for #MicroscopyMonday !💡New England microscopy cores - do you have a system you want advertised? Send us an image! #NESM
🧠: TdTomato Mouse Brain
🔬: #LifeCanvas SmartSPIM, 1.6x obj
🥼: @andystoneimaging.bsky.social
🏛️: Brandeis LMCF (RRID:SCR_02589)
🧠: TdTomato Mouse Brain
🔬: #LifeCanvas SmartSPIM, 1.6x obj
🥼: @andystoneimaging.bsky.social
🏛️: Brandeis LMCF (RRID:SCR_02589)
For #MicroscopyMonday, we have "The Many Layers of a Squid": Pictured here is a cross-section of the optic lobe from Doryteuthis pealei, the longfin inshore squid. #NESM
🔬: Zeiss @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social Axioscope
📸: Sony DSC-s70
🥼: Jaqulin Wallace, Alan Kuzirian
🏛️: @mblscience.bsky.social
🔬: Zeiss @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social Axioscope
📸: Sony DSC-s70
🥼: Jaqulin Wallace, Alan Kuzirian
🏛️: @mblscience.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
For #MicroscopyMonday, we have "The Many Layers of a Squid": Pictured here is a cross-section of the optic lobe from Doryteuthis pealei, the longfin inshore squid. #NESM
🔬: Zeiss @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social Axioscope
📸: Sony DSC-s70
🥼: Jaqulin Wallace, Alan Kuzirian
🏛️: @mblscience.bsky.social
🔬: Zeiss @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social Axioscope
📸: Sony DSC-s70
🥼: Jaqulin Wallace, Alan Kuzirian
🏛️: @mblscience.bsky.social