📣 The @vucellimaging.bsky.social Life Is Beautiful Image Contest submission deadline has been extended to Aug. 17. If you've captured stunning scientific imagery using a CISR microscope, you now have more time to share your work and a chance to win 💰️. medschool.vanderbilt.edu/cisr/image-c...

Image Contest

Contest Details: The Cell Imaging Shared Resource is hosting its third annual Life Is Beautiful Image Contest. The contest, which features stunning scientific imagery of the inherent beauty of life…

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Happy #FluorescenceFriday! But an EM image to remind you about our 3rd annual CISR Life Is Beautiful contest. Deadline is MONDAY, Aug 3. Submit light or electron microscopy images acquired in the CISR! Winners announced in Sept. $100, $50, and $25 prizes. medschool.vanderbilt.edu/cisr/image-c...

🔬✨ Don't forget, CISR’s annual Life Is Beautiful Image Contest is open until Aug. 3! Researchers and trainees who have captured an image using a @vucellimaging.bsky.social microscope are invited to submit their work—and to win cash prizes. 👉 medschool.vanderbilt.edu/cisr/image-c...

Image Contest

Contest Details: The Cell Imaging Shared Resource is hosting its third annual Life Is Beautiful Image Contest. The contest, which features stunning scientific imagery of the inherent beauty of life…

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It's #FluorescenceFriday! And the submissions are rolling in for the 3rd annual CISR Life Is Beautiful contest! You have 10 days left to submit. Let's see those beautiful images! medschool.vanderbilt.edu/cisr/image-c...

From researching #cancer to becoming a cancer patient, VICB member, Lawrence Marnett, shares his personal #journey through diagnosis, #treatment, and survivorship. His story is a powerful reminder of why cancer research matters. Read more: news.vumc.org/momentum/whe... @vubasicsciences.bsky.social

When a scientist gets cancer

A cancer expert’s journey through his own diagnosis and care.

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It's #MicroscopyMonday! CISR users, have you submitted your images to the 3rd annual CISR Life Is Beautiful contest yet? Three weeks until the deadline!

First #MicroscopyMonday of the month! Good time for Vanderbilt CISR users to submit their beautiful images to our 3rd annual CISR Life Is Beautiful Image Contest! medschool.vanderbilt.edu/cisr/image-c...

It's that time of year! Submissions are open for the THIRD annual CISR Life Is Beautiful contest! Start searching your folders for your best CISR images (light or electron microscopy). Or go ahead and submit today for #FluorescenceFriday! 🔬🎨🏆 medschool.vanderbilt.edu/cisr/image-c...

Great spotlight on graduate student Monica Brown in the Lau Lab. She is a very frequent CISR user, and it's great to read about her research.

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Meet Monica Brown from VICB member, Dr. Ken Lau’s lab! Learn about her research journey and the work she is doing to advance biomedical discovery. www.vumc.org/viiii/resear...

Let's get this week started with #MicroscopyMonday! New MBoC paper alert from the Tyska lab including so many #microscopy techniques - light, EM, and CLEM (pic). "A role for LIMA1 in the assembly of actin bundle-supported protrusions" 🔬👏💚 www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/...

New publication from the Nordman Lab with lots of imaging for #FluorescenceFriday! Confocal, Airyscan, live imaging, and photobleaching, with first authors Mohit Das and Eli Coronado-Chavez. "NASP functions in the cytoplasm to prevent histone H3 aggregation during early embryogenesis" @jcb.org

Happy NIH S10 submission day to all who celebrate! #MicroscopyMonday

Judge Judy: Hurry Up, Wrap It Up!

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New paper for #FluorescenceFriday! "Human Brain Vasculature-on-a-Chip Model Constructed With Microvessels Isolated From Cryopreserved Postmortem Human Brain Tissue". 1st author Brian O'Grady (now VUMC Asst. Prof.) & Lippmann lab. Great ex. of confocal to show localization & structure in X,Y,Z.

Could you be our next scientific image competition winner? 📸 👉 Enter now >>> www.biotechniques.com/imaging/btn_... 🧪

BioTechniques Image Competition 2026

This year's BioTechniques Scientific Image Competition is now accepting submissions! Enter for your chance to win.

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Happy Graduation Day at Vanderbilt! #VU2026 We celebrate with the undergraduate and graduate students, especially those who have come through the CISR on their academic journey. Hats off to you! And enjoy this brain image for #FluorescenceFriday! Scale bar = 1500 microns 👩‍🎓🎓👨‍🎓🧠🔬

Last day to submit to the #NikonSmallWorld competition for 2026! We love to see all the beautiful microscopy images, and we would love to see some Vanderbilt winners again! #microscopy

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The #NikonSmallWorld 2026 Competition invites you to submit your work by April 30: https://bit.ly/38BwQnV 🎥 Second Place - 2025 Nikon Small World in Motion Competition Volvox algae swimming in water drop that has been pipetted into the central opening of a Japanese 50 Yen Coin - Benedikt Pleyer

Great topic and great lineup including Zanic lab graduate student Anna Cassidy! @annacassidy.bsky.social @zaniclab.bsky.social

American Society for Cell Biology@ascbiology.bsky.social · 3mo ago

MBoC Highlight: Quantitative Cell Biology June 22 | 12 PM ET Keynote: Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz + emerging research from the special issue. Register: https://www.ascb.org/ascb-meetings/mboc-highlight-quantitative-cell-biology-with-keynote-by-jennifer-lippincott-schwartz/

#FluorescenceFriday highlight from Burkewitz Lab. "ER remodelling is a feature of ageing and depends on ER-phagy" @natcellbio.nature.com Super-resolution (Airyscan) of C. elegans hypodermis w/ ER tubules & sheets. Scale=2 microns. @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41629400/

We're only 30 minutes into the NIH ORIP S10 Symposium (day 1 of 2), and I've already learned so much. Thank you for all this information! We are always thinking toward our new NIH S10 submission. And glad to hear this will be an annual symposium. #cores #equipment #NIH

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This is a fantastic video on the importance, value, and general awesomeness of scientific shared resources/cores. Thanks to ABRF @abrf.bsky.social! Reach out to your local cores and ask them how they can help with your research projects. They are experts and they want to help! f.io/1cgVqnLm

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#FluorescenceFriday! Kindlins regulate integrin- and growth factor-dependent ureteric bud formation from Zent Lab @cp-devcell.bsky.social. Beautiful imaging & 3D rendering of ureteric bud cultures, tubulogenesis, & cells. @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social LSM980 confocal. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! April is time for the Nikon Small World contest. Last year was great for Vanderbilt & CISR! James Hayes 4th; Dylan Burnette 10th; Zachary Sanchez 20th! CISR users, submit by April 30! @ento-sanchez.bsky.social @mag2art.bsky.social www.nikonsmallworld.com

Great review from the Hinton Lab!

Journal of Cell Science@jcellsci.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In their Review, Prasanna Katti, Antentor Hinton, Jr and colleagues discuss how imaging techniques have advanced our understanding of mitochondrial biology. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

For #FluorescenceFriday, a recent publication highlight from first author Duby Okonkwo from the Schoenecker lab. Great bone imaging with CISR widefield, 3D rendering, and analysis help from Oleg Kovtun. Thanks for using and acknowledging the CISR! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41651294/

Excited for the first full day of #ABRF2026! Jenny Schafer will present a Lightning Talk on maintaining publications, Monday 12:50. Sean Schaffer will participate in the Monday 2:45 panel, "How AI Can Be Used to Improve Core & Platform Operations". We'd love to say hello to old and new friends!

Here we go! The CISR supports our #Vanderbilt #Commodores as they begin #MarchMadness! #6 men's team plays today. #2 women's team plays Saturday. #AnchorDown #GoDores Image taken by James Hayes, CISR Nikon SDC, human heart cell undergoing division. (Basketballs not to scale.) #Microscopy

Join us! The CISR is hosting a Leica STELLARIS FALCON demo to learn more about FLIM. Seminar this Wednesday, March 18 at 12:30 PM in 3131 MRBIII. Demo next week, March 23-27. Use the QR code or contact Jenny Schafer to sign up! @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social #microscopy #FLIM

For today's #FluorescenceFriday, a reminder that the CISR offers monthly Office Hours on the 1st Tuesday of each month from 9-11 AM. Next is this Tuesday, March 3! Stop by and ask us a question about fluorescence, basic imaging, analysis, scheduling, or anything you want. See you then!

Accessible minimal requirements for reproducible light microscopy. This viewpoint presents a community-endorsed checklist defining minimal light microscopy metadata to improve rigor, reproducibility, and transparency in research. rupress.org/jcb/article/... @quarep-limi.bsky.social