This week I visited Belgium for a Bruker Luxendo HIVE server installation (Fig. 1) with a detour to the Netherlands for some Bruker Fluorescence Microscopy lightsheet and superresolution microscopy conversations.

I'm sitting in the last session of the #EZM2026 conference and I'm grateful that I could participate on behalf of @brukercorporation.bsky.social Fluorescence Microscopy. Great trip to my academic past, I was relieved that I still more or less understand what people are working on.

The #EZM2026 (European Zebrafish Society @ezsociety.bsky.social meeting) is in full swing! More than 500 (not only zebra-)fish researchers from all over the world gather here in Vienna for the next 5 days to discuss science, exchange ideas and make new connections. #Fish #Zebrafish #Friends

No better way to head to #EZM2026 than with a freshly published success! Our eLife paper is now out: elifesciences.org/articles/107.... We show optimised prime editing in zebrafish for precise DNA substitutions and insertions. Huge thanks to the fantastic team #Zebrafish #GenomeEditing #eLife

Optimised genome editing for precise DNA insertion and substitution using prime editors in zebrafish

Nickase and nuclease Prime Editors offer complementary routes for precise zebrafish genome editing, balancing accuracy for substitutions with efficiency for short insertions.

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Come to the Bruker Fluorescence Microscopy booth at the #EZM2026 zebrafish meeting in Vienna this week to learn how to capture movies like this one below in high throughput.

Here fish go! #EZM2026

Celebrate #ModelMonday with all these amazing images of embryogenesis! thenode.biologists.com/results-of-t...

Results of the YEN 2026 Image Competition - the Node

We are delighted to announce the winners of the Young Embryologist Network Image Competition held as part of the YEN 2026 Conference, which took place on

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Young Embryologist Network@yen-network.bsky.social · last mo.

We are excited to announce the results of the YEN 2026 Image Competition! Thanks to all who submitted an entry. This year amazing work has been shared with us complementing our perspectives talks on art+science. We congratulate the winners of the YEN and public votes! #yen2026 #yenimagecompetition

We are excited to announce the results of the YEN 2026 Image Competition! Thanks to all who submitted an entry. This year amazing work has been shared with us complementing our perspectives talks on art+science. We congratulate the winners of the YEN and public votes! #yen2026 #yenimagecompetition

Come to the Bruker Fluorescence Microscopy booth at the #EZM2026 zebrafish meeting in Vienna this week to learn how to capture movies like this one below in high throughput.

#2 Close collaboration with @rocha-lab.bsky.social across institutes. @catfigueiredo.bsky.social shows that neurogenic progenitors in the developing retina can respond to cell death with an unexpected self-renewing division. I am sure Mauricio has more to say :-). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Apoptosis-induced self-renewal of neurogenic progenitors safeguards retinal development against extensive cell loss

Developing embryos have a striking ability to buffer external and internal perturbations. A key example of this phenomenon across developing systems is successful organ formation even after substantia...

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We are trying for a hattrick this month and two out of three are out: #1 Great work by Margarida Cruz et al. showing that tissue context in addition to cell intrinsic programs can determine migration mode of neurons. Retinal Bipolar Cells as an example. Check it out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Tissue lamination state switches neuronal translocation from active to passive in the vertebrate retina

Neuronal migration is essential for establishing functional tissue architecture in the developing central nervous system. While cell-intrinsic mechanisms driving neuronal movement have been identified...

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I really look forward to next week in Vienna #EZM2026. Happy to meet all the researchers using zebrafish in their research. I have been in touch with so many of you about the Bruker Luxendo microscopes. It will be good to meet in person!

Annual killifish continue to surprise us: they make neutrophils before almost every other cell type, even before gastrulation. Neutrophils usually arise from the lateral plate mesoderm (forming in cyan), but in killifish they are already patrolling around the embryo in gold. tinyurl.com/killiphil

🔬 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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🤔 How do organs measure and control their size? 🐟 The Mateus Lab @ritamateus.bsky.social at PoL & @mpi-cbg.de use #zebrafish to understand how organs form the right size and shape, at the right time, during development or regeneration. Learn more in our new video 👉 youtu.be/L7XUfk0s51E

Good to see this superres volumetric 3D dataset from the Bruker Fluorescence Microscopy VXL microscope! DNA paint of a full cell volume? No problem with this new kit.

Massive Photonics@massivephotonics.bsky.social · last mo.

𝗜𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲 𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘀𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗲𝗿-𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻🔬 Classical single-molecule localization microscopy (SMLM) is constrained to TIRF and HILO illumination. 𝗕𝗿𝘂𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗩𝘂𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗮 𝗩𝗫𝗟 + 𝗠𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗣𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗗𝗡𝗔-𝗣𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗧 𝗸𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁. www.massive-photonics.com/product-cate...

𝗩𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼: B cell mitochondria imaged across an entire 10.5 µm cell volume, localization precision ~11 nm.

Our optimized imager strands & kits enable robust DNA-PAINT via epifluorescence illumination. Image entire cell volumes at nanoscale resolution via z-stacks. ✅ Full volumetric imaging — no TIRF/HILO constraints ✅ Compatible with Bruker Vutara VXL out of the box ✅ Optimized imagers for EPI DNA-PAINT

I'll be at the Dutch Neuroscience Meeting #DNM26. Happy to talk to anyone interested in microscopy. 🔬 multiphoton for the challenging in vivo experiments - optogenetics, voltage imaging, large field of view imaging 🔬 miniscopes for imaging in freely moving animals 🔬 lightsheet for the cleared brains

Look, people. We have superb keynotes, we are giving prizes, we are giving postdocs a megaphone to tell everyone why they should be hired. This is the meeting to be at. Sign up, join us, and have the time of your life while discussing science with people that know where the cleithrum is🐟🧪

MadScientist@mads100tist.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Deadline extended for the 1st German Fish Meeting to mid-June (woooo) www.germanfishmeeting.org/from-postoc-... and the deadline for the special "Postdoc to PI" session to mid-July (double wooo). There will be a Prize for the best Postdoc to PI talk and for talks and posters throughout the meeting 🧪

If you think about moving towards live imaging and higher throughputs with your 3D samples, this event can be a good start! It will cover @brukercorporation.bsky.social Luxendo #lightsheet microscopes as well as the Acquifer IM screening microscope and #HIVE server www.bruker.com/en/news-and-...

Bruker Fluorescence Microscopy Solutions: Automated Imaging and Light-Sheet Microscopy

This Bruker webinar discusses how Bruker’s light-sheet, high-content screening, and big data management solutions create practical biological insights.

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Vote for a @dev-journal.bsky.social cover from the 2025 Quintay International Course on Developmental Biology We’re excited to launch a cover competition to select an image from the 2025 cohort of @devbioquintay.bsky.social. Voting closes on 24 June 2026. thenode.biologists.com/vote-for-a-d...

Vote for a Development cover from the Quintay International Course on Developmental Biology - the Node

Browse through the gallery of the 9 images and vote for your favourite by Wednesday, 24 June 2026.

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A next episode of the Bruker Fluorescence Microscopy #lightsheet podcast digging deep into image registration in light-sheet microscopy. www.bruker.com/en/products-...

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 a...

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Next week Wednesday-Friday I will be in Wroclaw mainly to attend an oncology conference at Łukasiewicz - PORT. I will be there with our distributor Labsoft to talk about Bruker Fluorescence Microscopy microscopes to whoever is willing to listen :-)

Last week we installed the Bruker Fluorescence Microscopy Ultima 2P Plus multiphoton in Krakow, Poland at the Uniwersytet Jagielloński-Collegium Medicum. How the week ended vs. how it started 👇

21st century dev bio at its best! I can't help but point out that not one but two Bruker microscopes (Acquifer IM, MuVi) were used for gentle&long term time lapse imaging of developing Nematostella here. No need to mount your invertebrate (cnidaria, planaria, crustaceans), we can do the time lapse!

Aissam Ikmi@aikmi.bsky.social · last yr.

We thought we were just studying mesoglea biogenesis…Turns out Nematostella has been hiding a sophisticated backup pressure valve! Work driven by the talented PhD student Soham Basu! @embl.org‬ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Now published. Congrats to Soham and all co-authors! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... @embl.org

Aissam Ikmi@aikmi.bsky.social · last yr.

We thought we were just studying mesoglea biogenesis…Turns out Nematostella has been hiding a sophisticated backup pressure valve! Work driven by the talented PhD student Soham Basu! @embl.org‬ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Like last year, we are running an online Bruker Fluorescence Microscopy neuroscience miniconference. It is focused on the actual science one can do with our microscopes presented by researchers, not sales presentations.

We are looking for an experienced light microscopy specialist, motivated to support our users in the Advanced Light Microscopy Facility at EMBL Heidelberg. embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j... -closing date 11 May 2026 @eurobioimaging.bsky.social @globalbioimaging.bsky.social

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I suppose most EU zebrafish researchers will attend European zebrafish meeting in July in Vienna #EZM2026. It is going to be a great event like the previous one in Krakow. Important note for you: Come early, already on 6th in the evening. The conference starts with Bruker Luxendo workshop on 7th.