#HappyFluorescenceFriday!

#microscopycommunity- want to learn about a cool imaging technique? Join BINA’s STED WG on Thur Sept 11 for a talk and panel discussion with STED scientists

More info here: buff.ly/mp9AHsP

The Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy (AQLM) course has come to a close.

For two weeks, researchers examined the theory of image formation and the subtle interactions between light and a specimen.

Learn more about this and other courses here! bit.ly/3GMpPSn

Thank you Wendy! It was a pleasure to meet you too.

AQLM was an intense 9-day dive into advanced microscopy—blending core concepts, cutting-edge methods, and inspiring MBL history. I gained valuable skills and connections to better support LSU researchers and strengthen our imaging community. #AQLM2025 #MBL #LightMicroscopy #LSU #SIF #Microscopy 🔬🦑

And just like that, #AQLM2025 is over. Hopefully we’ll all find ourselves in the same windowless microscope room sometime soon, bead slide in hand.

Amazing!!!

The back focal plane! Today Dr. Chris Bjornsson demonstrated Abbe’s theory of resolution by manipulating the light passing through the back focal plane. Here he is using a lens to focus the back focal plane onto the camera for us to see. #AQLM2025

Visualizing illumination with a uranium block

Photo credit @roggomes.bsky.social

#aqlm2025 #microscopy #bioimaging #fluorescence

What do we think? Collimated? #AQLM2025

Our simple microscopes are built and the first data from #AQLM2025 has been generated 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Exploring polarization en masse!
@aqlm.bsky.social #AQLM2025

Fluorescence lab is upon us. Time to get to know (and love) beads. #AQLM2025

Students started #AQLM2025 by building their own #microscope on a rail🔬

#microscopy

Have you ever seen the black box that is the inside of a microscope objective? Today Dr. Stephen Ross of Nikon gave a fascinating lecture on what goes into the design and manufacturing of an objective.

Our preprint is out! Kudos to @josanesousa.bsky.social, @gabrielalima19.bsky.social, @perezlouise.bsky.social and undergraduate prodigy Hannah Shof! By comparing Polypterus fin and axolotl limb we find shared and new regeneration programs. @lsuscience.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...