Hannah Somers
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Digital image analyst @mdibiolab.bsky.social @mdibl-lmf.bsky.social #science #microscopy #mdibiolab #bluesci
MDI Bio Lab is seeking a Senior Faculty member! Lead innovative research, mentor scientists, and help advance discoveries in aging and regeneration. Our collaborative environment creates opportunities for discovery and impact: https://ow.ly/qrOf50Zl6U5 #sciencejobs #STEMjobs #researchjobs
🧪 @aicjanelia.bsky.social and @scientistrachel.bsky.social have just published a new quantitative tool, OpticalFlow3D, for tracking amorphous motion in 3D. Try it out and let us know what you think! tinyurl.com/OpticalFlow3D
Hello, C. elegans enthusiasts, please help us get the word out for this great opportunity to join the Spaulding Lab!! #celegans #postdoc #neurodegeneration #hiring #science
MDI Biological Laboratory@mdibl.org · 3mo agoCalling all #Postdocs! Join the Spaulding Lab and explore how disrupted subcellular organization contributes to age-related forms of neurodegenerative disease. Learn more and apply: https://mdibl.org/careers/postdoctoral-researcher-spaulding-lab/ #hiring 🧪 #neurojobs #sciencejobs #postdocjob
Introducing our new collection on imaging data management, designed to introduce researchers to the key concepts, standards, and community best practices for managing imaging data throughout the research lifecycle: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/onl... #Bioimaging #DataManagement #FAIR #OpenScience
🔬 Innovation happens at the intersection of engineering and biology • Dr Kate McDole shares how advanced imaging reveals previously hidden dynamics in early mouse development. • Dr Jan Roden shares insights into the engineering and software that make such visualisation possible. 1/2
Episode 5: Challenges of Biomedical Image Analysis in Light-Sheet Microscopy
In Episode 5 of the Light-Sheet Chronicles, we spoke with Dr. Kate McDole (MRC LMB, Cambridge) and Dr. Jan Roden (Senior Software Architect, Bruker) about biomedical image analysis. What emerged was…
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#HappyFluorescenceFriday #microscopycommunity- Join us May 27 for “Science Communication as a Strategic Tool” with Dr. Elisabeth Marnik and learn how to turn your work into compelling stories that build trust and support. Learn more: buff.ly/L7KG2V5
Congrats to Hannah Somers! Her image Adult Zebrafish Brain earned Honorable Mention in Evident’s Illuminating the Unseen contest. Magenta/blue indicate the #zebrafish brain vessels labeled using dextran, imaged with the MesoSPIM #MicroscopyMonday MDIBL Light Microscopy Facility
The MDI Biological Laboratory is hiring a Junior Faculty member! A great opportunity to launch your independent research program in a collaborative, mission-driven environment. Learn more at the link below. 🧪 #sciencejobs #academicjobs #hiring #recruiting
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Reminder! Maine Microscopy: Foundations and Fundamentals (Aug 4–12) This course helps researchers build strong foundations in experiment planning, imaging and analysis—supporting rigor, reproducibility & better science. 🧪 🍎 #fluorescencefriday #microscopy #fluorescentproteins #lightsheet
Maine Microscopy: Foundations and Fundamentals 2026
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Reminder! Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy: May 31–June 6 at MDI Bio Lab Academic, industry and federal lab innovators come together to share the latest developments taking place in light-sheet research and its biological applications! https://mdibl.org/course/lsfm-2026/ #microscopymonday 🧪 🍎
One concept. One minute. Better #microscopy. MDIBL Light Microscopy Facility just launched Light Microscopy Fundamentals—a new YouTube series breaking down the basics of light microscopy in quick, bite-sized videos. #microscopymonday #fluorescentproteins #lightsheet #SciEd #AcademicSky 🧪 🍎
Light Microscopy Fundamentals - One Concept, One Minute 🔬
YouTube video by LMF@MDIBL
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#HappyMicroscopyMonday #microscopycommunity-Join the AIMM user community on Friday, March 6, for a talk by Hannah Somers- “Stop Reinventing the Protocol: MicroHub, a Searchable Hub for Microscopy Knowledge” Learn more: buff.ly/kZSIkSJ
Today's #microscopymonday from MDI Bio Lab is a view of the #microvasculature in a young African turquoise killifish heart. 📸 2025 Dr. Anastasia Paulmann and Hannah Somers, MDIBL Light Microscopy Facility
It is time to plan your next course of #LSFM #LISH #Lightsheet It will take place for the second time in @mdibl.org, next to Bar Harbour and you can enjoy the Acadia National Park but also join me to swim everyday in a refreshing ocean! Join us! mdibl.org/course/lsfm-...
This amazing #microscopymonday capture of a young African turquoise killifish's brain blood vessels by the MDI Bio Lab's Haller lab was imaged using the MesoSPIM in the MDIBL Light Microscopy Facility. #researchmatters #microscopy #fluorescentproteins #lightsheet 🧪 🐟🎸 🍎 👩🔬 🌎 🖥️ 🧬
A special Valentine's Day, brain! 😘 #fluorescentfriday #brain #vasculature #microscopy #valentinesday @mdibl.org
MDI Biological Laboratory@mdibl.org · 6mo agoNew in @dev-journal.bsky.social, “Reciprocal inhibition of Wnt signaling pathways pattern the interconnection of epithelial tubules in the regenerating zebrafish kidney” with Caramai Kamei, Iain Drummond & team. 🧪 🐟🎸 #ScientificResearchPublishing doi.org/10.1242/dev....
A #fluorescencefriday image of an adult #zebrafish kidney by the Drummond Lab's Caramai Kamei, Ph.D. We are looking at the aorta that runs through the kidney. Blood vessels connect to glomeruli, which hang like fruits on a tree. #researchmatters #microscopy #fluorescentproteins #lightsheet 🧪 🤝
One year into Trump's second presidency, how are science and medical research faring? Our @nature.com team breaks it down for you. (1/n) From @virginiagewin.bsky.social, learn about Layoffs ✅ Funding cuts ✅ Attacks on science ✅ www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
‘Shattered’: US scientists speak out about how Trump policies disrupted their careers
Researchers lay bare the human toll of lay-offs, funding cuts and attacks on science one year after the president’s return to the White House.
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📗 New paper in PLOS Genetics, "Zebrafish genetic model of neuromuscular degeneration associated with Atrogin-1 expression" from Romain Menard, Romain Madelaine & team. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1012019 🧪 🐟🎸 #ScientificResearchPublishing
We have been thinking a lot recently on how to share and interact with code when doing image analysis. This is one piece of the puzzle. Awesome work driven by Bruno S. Always a delight to work with @henriqueslab.bsky.social 🫶 More to come soon 😄.
Ricardo Henriques@henriqueslab.bsky.social · 7mo ago📯👨🚀 Calling all #bioimage analysis aficionados. #EZInput is out! We wanted to bring #ImageJ’s capacity to record settings to the #Python ecosystem 🐍. It is a declarative library for generating UIs that just work. Done with @guijacquemet.bsky.social lab arxiv.org/abs/2601.08859 #ScientificComputing
🎉 Today is the last of our Top Posts countdown. This time it's a #microscopymonday post from Bluesky. Thank you for joining us as we revisited our top posts of 2025—for liking, sharing and being part of our digital community. It's what makes our work possible. 🧪 🐟🎸 #researchmatters
📚 New paper published in Kidney International, "Sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 inhibition improves age-dependent kidney microvascular rarefaction" by Anastasia Paulmann, Hermann Haller & team: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.kint.2025.12.011 #NephSky #RenalSky #ScientificResearchPublishing 🧪 👩🔬
2026 Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy, May 31–June 6 This course brings together academic, industry and lab innovators to share the latest developments taking place in light-sheet research and its biological applications. #lightsheet #fluorescencemicroscopy #microscopy 🧪 🍎 #microscopymonday
Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy 2026
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Quantitative Fluorescence Microscopy 2026: Registration Open! An international course in #fluorescence #microscopy and imaging for advanced grad students, postdoc trainees, imaging core managers and researchers who are incorporating the technology into their laboratories. 🧪 🐟🎸 🍎 👩🔬 🌎 🖥️ 🧬
Quantitative Fluorescence Microscopy 2026
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This image by MDI Bio Lab's Travis Carney is a #drosophila larval brain. Neural stem cells and neurons are marked, including axons that project into the brain. The flare in the center of each lobe is part of a learning and memory center in flies. ZEISS Microscopy #microscopymonday 🧪 🤝
Big congratulations to Hannah Somers, Digital Image Analyst at MDI Bio Lab, whose striking visualization of a zebrafish’s brain was named an Image of Distinction in the Nikon Small World competition — and featured by #NationalGeographic! #researchmatters #microscopymonday #lightsheet 🧪 🤝 🐟🎸 👩🔬
MDI Bio Lab’s Hannah Somers’ Image Wins International Recognition
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No tricks—just #fluorescent treats! 🎃 Captured by Romain Menard in the @mdibl-lmf.bsky.social, this #zebrafish shows its vascular (Fli1a:GFP) and motor neuron (mnx1:mCherry) systems glowing under the microscope. #fluoresencefriday #microscopymonday #fluorescentproteins #lightsheet 🧪 🤝 🐟🎸
Congratulations to Frederic Bonnet and the @mdibl-lmf.bsky.social on these amazing achievements!! 🎉
BioImaging North America@bioimagingna.bsky.social · 10mo ago#HappyFluorescenceFriday! #microscopycommunity- 🎉 Winners of the BINA Image Contest! 1st Place: Frederic Bonnet – Hexagonal Vision: Compound Eye and Sensory Crown 2nd Place: Nat Prunet – Allergy Season 3rd Place: Arlen Ramírez Corona – Blue, Red and Fish People’s Choice: Mahgol Darvishmolla
