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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 6d

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! Trying out a new color combo for today, Friday, October 3. Mitochondria (MitoTracker) in turquoise, nucleus (DAPI) in orange. Confocal Airyscan, tile, MIP. 🧡💚🔬

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Vanderbilt School of Medicine Basic Sciences @vubasicsciences.bsky.social · 14d

🌍🎗️ Today is #WorldCancerResearchDay. Cancer impacts millions of people around the world and our scientists are working to tackle cancer from every angle: genes, metabolism, drug discovery, and more. Learn more about cancer research being done at our school 👉 medschool.vanderbilt.edu/basic-scienc...

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Sep. 9, 2025

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BioImaging North America @bioimagingna.bsky.social · 20d

#HappyFluorescenceFriday!

#microscopycommunity- want to learn open source image analysis or share your knowledge to help others? We’ve got a FREE virtual workshop Nov 17-19! Now accepting workshop session applications!

Learn more & sign up: buff.ly/esGIotD

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · Sep 2

Great opportunity for a "Train the Trainer" workshop for light microscopy facility people! Check it out here. #microscopy #cores

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · Aug 27

Join VI4 for Mega Microbe on September 27! This is always a fun event for kids in the Nashville area. CISR-EM will be showing off some cool EM instruments and will show how beautiful these tiny bacteria can be! 🔬🦠🏫

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · Aug 13

Looking forward to this joint conference in Montreal! Global BioImaging (GBI) & BioImaging North America (BINA). Registration ends soon! Dr. Jenny Schafer will be representing the CISR. Say hello! #GBIxBINA2025 #BioimagingCommunity #HybridConference #Imaging2025 globalbioimaging.org/exchange-of-...

Exchange of Experience 2025 | Global BioImaging

Applications closed on 7 March 2025 The Program Committee for the EoE2025: Claire Brown (McGill University, Canada) Clara Prats (University of Copenhagen, Denm…

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · Aug 8

Drumroll please 🥁 We're excited to announce the winners of the 2nd Annual CISR Life Is Beautiful Image Contest! 🔬🏅
1 - James Hayes, Burnette/Merryman Labs
2 - Rekha Nagarajan, Tyska Lab
3 - James Costanzo, Gama Lab
Read about these researchers, projects, and microscopes here. tinyurl.com/4r6xwe8h

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · Aug 4

Tomorrow! First Tuesday of the month. CISR Office Hours. 9:00-11:00 AM. Come see us in 704 Light Hall and/or T-2216 MCN, and ask anything microscopy related!

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · Aug 1

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! Submissions have closed, and NEXT WEEK we will be announcing the WINNERS of the 2nd Annual Life Is Beautiful CISR Image Contest! Stay tuned! To get everyone excited, let's enjoy these 3 beautiful winners from last year! 🔬🎨🏆

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · Jul 25

Nashville has been under a #HeatAdvisory all week, so how about a #RedHot LUT for #FluorescenceFriday? 🌞😎🥵Might be a cell, might be an artistic representation of what it feels like in Tennessee right now. 🤷

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · Jul 21

Hello #MicroscopyMonday! Second, TEM & SEM from the @tyskalabactual.bsky.social lab and first author @operkins.bsky.social with CISR-EM's Dr. Evan Krystofiak of clathrin-coated pits in intestinal crypts (click for more!). @cp-cellreports.bsky.social @vubasicsciences.bsky.social tinyurl.com/yhue25bv

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · Jul 21

Hello #MicroscopyMonday! How about 2 new papers with CISR-EM team & Vanderbilt researchers? First, TEM from the @gouldlab.bsky.social with CISR-EM's Dr. Evan Krystofiak to show changes in fungal cell wall architecture. @pnas.org @awillet.bsky.social @vubasicsciences.bsky.social tinyurl.com/23rncw78

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · Jul 18

Last day to submit your images to our second annual CISR Life Is Beautiful Image Contest! Submit now. Submit more than one. Share with your lab mates. WIN PRIZES. Happy #FluorescenceFriday! 🔬🧬🎨🏅💰
vanderbilt-university.formstack.com/forms/cisr_l...

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · Jul 15

Four days left! Submit your images today! Win prizes! medschool.vanderbilt.edu/basic-scienc...

Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · Jul 11

SAME. See also: writing "fluor" on the grocery list instead of "flour".

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · Jul 9

Deadline extended! Submit your images to the Second Annual CISR Life is Beautiful Image Contest! New deadline is July 18. Open to anyone with CISR-acquired images. More details here. medschool.vanderbilt.edu/basic-scienc...

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · Jul 3

We'll be off enjoying the sunshine 😎 and fireworks 🎆 tomorrow, so here is our contribution to #FluorescenceFriday for the #4thofJuly! What do you see? Fireworks? Red and white stripes? Or just some good ol' Fluo cells? Confocal Airyscan on Zeiss LSM980. 🔬❤️🤍💙🗽

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · Jun 13

The submissions are rolling in for our Second Annual Life Is Beautiful CISR Image Contest! Join in by submitting your beautiful image today in celebration of #FluorescenceFriday! Details here. medschool.vanderbilt.edu/basic-scienc...

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Michelle Itano @michelleitano.bsky.social · Jun 9

Calling all core facilities 🎉- Timely 'Navigating Strategies for Core Facilities 2025: A Town Hall virtual Forum' 16th June.
A joint @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social and @msa-microscopy.bsky.social meeting that welcomes all.

See - www.rms.org.uk/rms-event-ca...

Navigating Strategies for Core Facilities 2025: A Town Hall Webinar

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · Jun 9

For #MicroscopyMonday, brand new paper from frequent lightsheet lab, Matthew Schrag, and first author Lissa Ventura-Antunes. 3D microscopy on human brains with cerebral amyloid angiopathy. Scale 50 µm. Zeiss Z1 lightsheet @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40465757/

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · Jun 3

Ed the Zebra stopped by for some imaging. And I know Ed will be sure to acknowledge the CISR in his upcoming publication. #zebra #microscopy (FYI: There is a pet zebra on the loose in Rutherford County, TN.)

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BioTechniques @biotechniques.bsky.social · May 29

You have 2 weeks left to submit your scientific images to our 2025 Image Competition!

🗓️ Deadline: Tuesday, 17 June

🏆 Prizes: US$200 gift card, winning image on our journal cover, and a written interview

📄 How to enter >>> www.biotechniques.com/life-science...

#Imaging #Microscopy #Bioimaging 🧪

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · May 23

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! CISR users - don't forget to submit your beautiful images to our Second Annual Life Is Beautiful Image Contest! Deadline is July 1, 2025. Info and submission link here. medschool.vanderbilt.edu/basic-scienc...

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Vanderbilt Center for Structural Biology @vanderbiltcsb.bsky.social · May 21

Mark your calendar and spread the word ...
@vubasicsciences.bsky.social @vanderbiltvicb.bsky.social @vucellimaging.bsky.social @vandybiomed.bsky.social

#structuralbiology #AI #research #cryoem #cryoet #protein

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · May 16

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! Since we've been on BlueSky for less than a year, we're sharing memories from one year ago in Nashville when we had a #cidada #broodxix invasion! Confocal Z projection (color coded for depth) of a cicada leg. 🔬🐝🍃

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