Megan Harwig 🔬

@mcharwig.bsky.social

Mom, mitochondriac and confocal microscopist. Microscopy Core Manager at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Opinions = mine https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2140-5739 https://mcw.ilab.agilent.com/service_center/show_external/5443/electron_microscopy_facility

We are looking for perfusion/microfluidics systems that are compatible with OKO chambers on our Dragonfly spinning disk confocal microscopes in our core. Does anyone have any recommendations of products you love that do not leak? 🔬🧪🧬🥼

⭐ The 2025 BioTechniques Image Competition is now open! 🔬 You have until 17 June to submit up to ten scientific images or illustrations that you’ve taken or created during your research. Prizes, rules and how to enter >>> www.biotechniques.com/life-science... 🧪 #imaging #microscopy

BioTechniques Image Competition 2025

Submit your scientific images to the BioTechniques Scientific Image Competition 2025! Enter now for the chance to win a US$200 gift card.

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Today is the deadline to apply! Come hang out with our team in Boston and learn to think about bioimage analysis and how to use many fun open source tools!

Beth Cimini 🔬💻📊@bethcimini.bsky.social · last yr.

BIG NEWS - for the first time ever, we're running a Bioimage Analysis Beginnings Bootcamp. Learn #bioimageanalysis from awesome folks, and gain familiarity with some new tools as well as how to pick the right tool in the first place. Aug 4th-8th - apply here (soon!) forms.gle/d2fCXsrWHVP8...

Ad for the Bioimage Analysis Beginnings Bootcamp at the Broad Institute. 

Where & When
Broad Institute, 415 Main Street, Cambridge MA (in-person only)
Monday–Friday, August 4–8, 20259:00 AM – 5:00 PM

About the Bootcamp
Learn core bioimage analysis skills using open-source tools for light
microscopy in this hands-on, in-person course. The Bootcamp
covers annotation, segmentation, and deep learning fundamentals.

Fee: $600 (Academic/Non-Profit) | $1000 (Industry/For-Profit)
For more information email ImagingAdmin@broadinstitute.org

Did you know that Bioimage Archive has a specific database for people to share AI-ready imaging datasets? I did not until @yanlanmao.bsky.social told me! Please deposit! If people regularly submitted, it would have a huge collective impact on bioimage analysis. www.ebi.ac.uk/bioimage-arc...

BioImageArchive < The European Bioinformatics Institute < EMBL-EBI

The BioImageArchive – a free, publicly available online resource which stores and distributes biological images

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"I’ve heard a lot of panic in the community as if the support that the federal government has for science has ended and that science is no longer the priority. One of the reasons I was delighted to be able to come here was to assure people that is not true" #NIH www.jsonline.com/story/news/p...

Trump's NIH director takes questions at Medical College of Wisconsin amid broad research cuts

President Trump's new NIH director took questions from Medical College of Wisconsin researchers, including one whose research grant had been canceled.

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On April 19, 1898, Camillo Golgi described what we now know as the #Golgi apparatus - a structure so pretty and unusual it took over fifty years for the scientific community to agree it wasn’t just an artefact. April 19 is #GolgiDay! Mark your calendars to honour the best organelle.

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