Giuseppe Di Caprio
@giudica.bsky.social
Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) at the University of Strathclyde. PI at CeMi. Interested in Smart Microscopy, Cell Engineering, Bioimage Analysis and Organs-On-Chip. Formerly Harvard and Federico II 🏳️🌈 📍Glasgow https://dicaprio.bioe.strath.ac.uk
The University of Strathclyde has climbed 21 places to joint 230th in the QS World University Rankings 2027 – its highest-ever position in the table - putting it among the top 15% of ranked institutions worldwide and in the top 30 in the UK. www.strath.ac.uk/whystrathcly...
Two of our students are on exchanges across Europe. 🇮🇹 Grant is at ISASI-CNR in Naples, working with Giuseppe Coppola through a @royalsociety.org–CNR exchange . 🇧🇪 Swabra is at KU Leuven, exploring cardiac tissue repair and paracrine therapies. Wishing them a experience plenty of exciting science 🤓
Another interesting review on #SmartMicroscopy. 🔬https://www.nature.com/articles/s44303-026-00145-y#Sec1
Smart microscopy: adaptive microscope control to improve the way we see life - npj Imaging
npj Imaging - Smart microscopy: adaptive microscope control to improve the way we see life
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Mucosal vaccination in mice provides protection from diverse respiratory threats | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Mucosal vaccination in mice provides protection from diverse respiratory threats
Traditional vaccines target specific pathogens, limiting their scope against diverse respiratory threats. We describe an intranasal liposomal formulation combining toll-like receptor (TLR) 4 and 7/8 l...
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Rewrote my Python bioformats wrapper (from aicsimageio/bioio) as a standalone package: - fully bootstrapped Java setup (just pip install) - lazy, repeatably-indexable Array object - fully spec-compliant OME-Zarr group obj. - xarray/dask exports github.com/imaging-form... v0.0.rc1 on PyPI
GitHub - imaging-formats/bffile: Modern Bio-Formats wrapper with clean lazy Python API
Modern Bio-Formats wrapper with clean lazy Python API - imaging-formats/bffile
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OpenClaw AI chatbots are running amok — these scientists are listening in www.nature.com/articles/d41...
OpenClaw AI chatbots are running amok — these scientists are listening in
Artificial-intelligence agents have their own social-media platform and are publishing AI-generated research papers on their own preprint server.
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I just passed the Life in the UK test! Now I can forget everything 😊 (Jane Seymour who?)
Just read the new CellSAM paper, a tool for cell segmentation across diverse imaging modalities, no retraining needed. Looking forward to trying it in our lab. 🔬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
CellSAM: a foundation model for cell segmentation - Nature Methods
CellSAM uses an object detector, CellFinder, to detect cells and prompt the Segment Anything Model (SAM) to generate segmentations. This universal model achieves human-level performance across a range...
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Make sure to follow our department’s brand-new Bluesky account! Exciting updates coming soon. @biomedeng-strath.bsky.social
When we physicists need a manual just to look like socially functional humans at conferences 😂 apparently there’s an article for that #Networking101 #LifeofSheldon doi.org/10.1088/2058... via @ioppublishing.bsky.social
The joy of networking - IOPscience
The joy of networking, Powrie, Honor
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Had a great time at the SIPTA Forum in Huairou Science City, Beijing, together with colleagues from Imperial College, Tsinghua University, Peking University, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. I was also fortunate to visit collaborators on the Tsinghua campus and at the Institute of Automation.
🚨Only 2 more weeks to apply for our fully-funded PhD position @york.ac.uk! Want to pioneer a blood test for dementia, detect single molecules & spend time in industry with @ei-science.bsky.social?! Apply by 4th Dec: tinyurl.com/yt36p9tx It doesn't get any more EXCITING! 🔬🩸🧪
I’m pleased to share that I’ve been awarded support from the Royal Society–CNR International Exchanges scheme for a project with colleagues in Italy. We’ll combine advanced optical imaging and AI to better understand how cancer cells store fats using label-free 3D microscopy.
What do ER exit sites really look like? Using large-scale volume FIB-SEM and a custom 3D-Unet pipeline (ASEM), Nahir et al @kirchhausenlab.bsky.social reveal that ERES are vesicular, abundant & diverse, resolving long-standing morphological discrepancies rupress.org/jcb/article/... #ER_literature
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Daily briefing: People with cancer lived longer if they’d had a COVID-19 vaccine
mRNA vaccines seem to ‘rev up’ the immune system to boost immunotherapy. Plus, a rare meteorite has been recovered from the Moon and the mysterious transition between wakefulness and sleep.
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A beautiful piece of work from @ruixuan3.bsky.social and @supgokul.bsky.social presenting a light-based slicing method using a photosensitive hydrogel to image large biological samples layer by layer, preserving fine structure for full 3D reconstructions.
Ruixuan Gao@ruixuan3.bsky.social · 10mo ago(1/x) Excited to report VIPS (Volumetric imaging of biological specimens via photochemical sectioning) @science.org! VIPS uses light-based sample sectioning to eliminate the inherent imaging depth limit of high-resolution optical microscopes @supgokul.bsky.social: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We’re excited to welcome Grant McClure, John Selkirk, Ben Polwart, and Robert Barry, who are undertaking their 5th-year Industrial Partnership Project on the OpenFlexure Microscope, an open-source, 3D-printed laboratory microscope designed to make high-quality microscopy accessible worldwide.
Say Hi to Nicola👋🏻🔬, our shiny new Nikon microscope. Already the most popular member of the lab... Sorry everyone else 😅
A new Perspective discusses the challenges of sharing annotated image datasets and offers advice for improving bioimage annotation and reuse, particularly for AI applications. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Strathclyde named Scottish University of the Year and Runner-Up UK University of the Year by The Times and Sunday Times www.strath.ac.uk/whystrathcly...
A bit of a terroristic view. Synthetic data isn’t all bad, it has been shown to improve classification algorithms. P.S. We’ve got a hopefully interesting contribution to this field coming shortly. 📝 Stay tuned. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The rising danger of AI-generated images in nanomaterials science and what we can do about it - Nature Nanotechnology
Generative AI has made it trivial to generate fake microscopy images that are indistinguishable from real images, even for experts. As researchers in nanoscience, it is time for us to face this realit...
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🔬🧠 Our paper on smart microscopy & the issue of interoperability! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... LONG THREAD WARNING: Smart microscopy uses real-time image analysis to automatically guide the acquisition or perturbation of the sample (closed feedback-control loop). Many applications exist:
Intrigued to know more about rBio, a new AI model from CZI that uses virtual cell models to explore biology in silico. chanzuckerberg.com/blog/rbio-re...
rBio: Reasoning Model Trained on Virtual Cell Simulations
Scientists can ask complex biological questions in plain language and get predictions about gene interactions.
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Smart Microscopy: Current Implementations and a Roadmap for Interoperability
Smart microscopy is transforming life sciences by automating experimental imaging workflows and enabling real-time adaptation based on feedback from images and other data streams. This shift increases...
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