Had a fantastic time at #iPoLS 2026 @lmu.de in Munich! I really enjoyed presenting our #Flamingo project, exchanging ideas with colleagues, and catching up during the social events. Many thanks to the iPoLS and CeNS teams for the excellent organization! @huiskenlab.bsky.social

Back from the International Polychaete Conference at the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt! A big thanks to the organisers and everyone who made #IPC15 such an enjoyable and inspiring meeting. I learned a lot about polychaete biodiversity. @etilic.bsky.social #annelids #polychaete

Jan and Paul are back at MBL with a Flamingo microscope for the Zebrafish Development and Genetics course! Two weeks of exciting imaging sessions and zebrafish science are now underway. @mblscience.bsky.social #LightSheet #LSFM #PortableMicroscope #Flamingo #zebrafish

Huisken lab is at #EED2026! @metteh-thorsager.bsky.social & @bekeloh.bsky.social will show how we use #Flamingo #light-sheet microscopy to address biological questions in the annelid #Platynereis, with imaging of the developing nervous system as an example (Platy Satellite Meeting & Poster P146).

#PhD @huiskenlab.bsky.social @uniklinik-fr.bsky.social. Deadline 7 June 2026.

Always a pleasure to discuss annelid biology and live imaging of annelid development with Martin-Duran and Dumollard labs. @qmul.bsky.social @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social #LSFM #lightsheet #Flamingo #Platynereis #Owenia

Allan Carrillo-Baltodano@allancarbal.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Very cool to have @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social Silvia Caballero and Daniel González and @uni-goettingen.de @metteh-thorsager.bsky.social visiting @qmulsbbs.bsky.social Sharing ideas and data for future collaborations. Funded by @britishcouncil.bsky.social #MicroscopyMonday #EvoDevo

PhD opportunity in Huisken lab with Zgierski-Johnston lab @uniklinik-fr.bsky.social. Topic: Multiscale Structural Imaging of Cardiac Conduction: Linking Interstitial Remodeling to Arrhythmia at Sub-Cellular Resolution. Deadline 7 June 2026. #LSFM #lightsheet #bioimaging #engineering #biophysics

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Happy to share our contribution to this new work led by @michalis-averof.bsky.social! @bekeloh.bsky.social and @metteh-thorsager.bsky.social tested membrane tags in the annelid Platynereis dumerilii — many reached the cell membrane, and several also label the developing nervous system in the larvae.

Michalis Averof@michalis-averof.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Finding molecular tags that localise fluorescent proteins to the cell membrane was the goal of our latest paper, now published in Development @dev-journal.bsky.social. The tags act as address labels, sending proteins to the cell membrane, where they highlight the shape and arrangement of cells. 2/9

Honored to have two images from our lab selected among the Top 5 Research Images of the Year in Göttingen 🎉 The images will be exhibited in Forum Wissen until 10 April 2026. www.forum-wissen.de/event/resear... #ForumWissen #ScienceIsAlsoArt

New paper published! We explore how modern microscopy transforms biology from observing single examples to navigating distributions of phenotypes. doi.org/10.3389/fbin... #lightsheet #SmartMicroscopy #BiologicalVariation #visualization #RepresentativeSampling

Frontiers | Visualizing the multidimensional landscape of biological variation in modern microscopy

Variation is a foundational biological principle that has historically been marginalized—both due to limited experimental accessibility and because of ideali...

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New Huisken lab member: We’re excited to welcome Roman Tsukanov (@romantsukanov.bsky.social)! With expertise in super-resolution microscopy using DNA-PAINT, Roman will combine this technology with light sheet fluorescence microscopy. Exciting times ahead! #SuperResolution #DNApaint #lightsheet #LSFM

Lichtblattmikroskope erstellen 3D-Scans von Geweben und Organen – erzeugen bei großen Proben aber unscharfe Bilder. Forschende haben eine Plattform entwickelt, die diese Hürde überwindet. Mehr erfahren: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/3240.html... #MBexC #UMG @mbexc.bsky.social @huiskenlab.bsky.social

Enjoying a Glühwein at the Christmas market - yearly Huisken lab tradition 🎄

#Mastodon, the Command Center for Large-Scale Lineage-Tracing Microscopy Datasets, is finally heading for publication (well, let's see). To #cite or not to cite shall no longer be the question 🙃, because the #preprint. Software is available in every #Fiji near you. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We’re collecting protocols and reviews for studying neural mechanisms in marine invertebrates. Submit your functional imaging, connectomics, or electrophysiology techniques to our JOVE Methods Collection and help make these approaches accessible across species. app.jove.com/methods-coll...

Studying cochlear neuroanatomy demands imaging the entire cochlea at subcellular resolution. In our recent study (tinyurl.com/isotropicLSFM), we recorded the cochlea at isotropic resolution across the whole organ, laying the groundwork for what follows… #lightsheet #isotropic #cochlea

🧬 10 @dfg.de-funded PhD positions at @goettingen-campus.de 🧬 ❗Focus: Evolution of gene regulatory networks & Wnt signaling in emerging models (insects, snails, flatworms, cnidarians). 💻 Methods: 'Omics, Bioinformatics, CRISPR/RNAi & Imaging. 📌Start: June 2026. #EvoDevo #Genomics #Bioinformatics

Isotropic, aberration-corrected light sheet microscopy for rapid high-resolution imaging of cleared tissue - @huiskenlab.bsky.social go.nature.com/4odcS49

Isotropic, aberration-corrected light sheet microscopy for rapid high-resolution imaging of cleared tissue - Nature Biotechnology

A light-sheet microscope built from off-the-shelf components enables high-resolution clear tissue imaging.

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Happy to see our paper “Isotropic, aberration-corrected light sheet microscopy for rapid high-resolution imaging of cleared tissue” in @natbiotech.nature.com – with Tobias Moser’s lab from @unimedizin-goe.bsky.social and @janwenzel.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... #microscopy #lightsheet

Our image of a sea squirt oozoid (Thalia democratica) was selected as an Image of Distinction in Nikon Small World. Imaged with the Flamingo microscope by @metteh-thorsager.bsky.social at @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social in Villefranche-sur-Mer. Salp sample courtesy of Alexandre Alie. nikonsmallworld.com/

Huisken lab is attending Göttingen Cognition Forum: Curiosity & Interaction. Learn about our research... @spp2205.bsky.social @sfb1528.bsky.social @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social @uni-goettingen.de events.gwdg.de/event/1099/

The Göttingen Cognition Forum: Curiosity & Interaction

We are pleased to announce the First Göttingen Cognition Forum: Curiosity & Interaction The conference brings together researchers from neuroscience, psychology, behavioral biology, computational scie...

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Shape the future of light: PhD opportunity in photonics in the Huisken lab. Apply through the Max Planck School of Photonics. Deadline 1 Dec 2025. Excellent research network. photonics.maxplanckschools.org/apply-now

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Postdoc opportunity in the Averof lab: a crustacean meets a flamingo—not on the menu, but in the light sheet. Track the origins of cells during leg regeneration in Parhyale hawaiensis using light sheet microscopy. Excited to be part of this interdisciplinary project. Details on how to apply below.

Michalis Averof@michalis-averof.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Here it is! Postdoctoral position to identify the progenitors sensory organs in the regenerating legs of Parhyale apply here: www.averof-lab.org/pages/tracman 1/3

Postdoc opportunity in the Averof lab: a crustacean meets a flamingo—not on the menu, but in the light sheet. Track the origins of cells during leg regeneration in Parhyale hawaiensis using light sheet microscopy. Excited to be part of this interdisciplinary project. Details on how to apply below.

Michalis Averof@michalis-averof.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Here it is! Postdoctoral position to identify the progenitors sensory organs in the regenerating legs of Parhyale apply here: www.averof-lab.org/pages/tracman 1/3

We brought our Flamingo microscope to the light sheet microscope course in Dresden (#LISH25). We captured extensive time-lapse recordings and are excited to share highlights from our experiments with Hydra and Zebrafish.