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Alvaro H Crevenna

@alvarocrevenna.bsky.social
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Head of Light Imaging Facility at EMBL Rome. Helping people image the world.

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Alvaro H Crevenna @alvarocrevenna.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
This promises to be awesome!
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EMBL @embl.org · 17/02/2025
🧪 #AcademicSky @alvarocrevenna.bsky.social | @simonemattei.bsky.social | @tischi.bsky.social | @yschwab.bsky.social
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Alvaro H Crevenna @alvarocrevenna.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Would you want to join us to drive a project to correlate X-ray tomography with spatial transcriptomics? Are you passionate about details, love bench work have a PhD in an area of biology that fits tissue work, molecular biology and imaging? Apply here: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/d...
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Tissue Processing Postdoc
3 years position About the job/team A collaboration between EMBL Rome, EMBL Hamburg and EMBL Heidelberg has been awarded funding from CZI to link the detailed cellular morphology of a tissue with its ...
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Nikita Vladimirov @nvladimus.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Please welcome our official #mesoSPIM channel on this platform, @mesospim.bsky.social. Repost is appreciated!
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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
We are looking for our next cohort of #FocalPlaneCorrespondents! If you are interested in getting some #scicomm experience alongside your research, check out our call and drop us an email if you have any questions. Deadline for applications: 20 January 2025
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Become a FocalPlane correspondent - Discussions
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EMBL Events @events.embl.org · 15/01/2025
📣 #EMBLSingleMolecule is open for registrations! Our aim is to catalyse the emergence of a new generation of mechanistic models of the regulation of genes across each steps of the central dogma. 🧬🔍 👉🏼 s.embl.org/grg25-01-bl 📅 15 – 18 July 2025 📜 Submit your abstract by 8 April!
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Jörg Enderlein @joergenderlein.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Although @ritastrack.bsky.social has publicly declared that Superresolution Optical Imaging (SOFI) is dead 🤓 I am happy to share our newest review about it rdcu.be/d52ak
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Super-resolution optical fluctuation imaging
Nature Photonics - The authors present a review of super-resolution optical fluctuation imaging (SOFI), including its core working principle, recent advances and remaining challenges.
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Alvaro H Crevenna @alvarocrevenna.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Would you want to join us to drive a project to correlate X-ray tomography with spatial transcriptomics? Are you passionate about details, love bench work have a PhD in an area of biology that fits tissue work, molecular biology and imaging? Apply here: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/d...
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Tissue Processing Postdoc
3 years position About the job/team A collaboration between EMBL Rome, EMBL Hamburg and EMBL Heidelberg has been awarded funding from CZI to link the detailed cellular morphology of a tissue with its ...
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Shweta Ramdas @shwetaramdas.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Our mentor Casey Brown, apart from being an extraordinary scientist, was a brilliant teacher who loved everything genetics. In his honor, some of the world's leading experts came together to create the 'Casey Brown Lecture Series' on human genetics 1/ shorturl.at/eCm7S
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Casey Brown Lecture Series - YouTube
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Neuroscience and Beyond @neuroandbeyond.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
🌟 Expanding Conventional Microscopy! 🔬✨ In our latest episode, we spoke with Prof. Jörg Enderlein. His group pioneered SOFI, a revolutionary technique that transforms conventional microscopy! Check out the full episode at www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2e2.... #Microscopy #Physics #Biology #Innovation
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Zarr @zarr.dev · 04/01/2025
Hi, Zarr community! 👋 🚨 Big news: Zarr-Python 3.0 is dropping next week! 🚨 If your project depends on Zarr-Python, make sure to check out the migration guide to get ready for the update. Guide: buff.ly/3W0cLxd More updates soon! 🧑🏻‍💻
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Reader of Banned Books @readerofbannedbook.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Spread this far and wide, PLEASE!
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James Manton @jamesdmanton.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Many have asked how best to sample voxels in an OPM. Now Conor and Reto present a surprising answer...
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Top 4 misconceptions about science 1. It fills knowledge-gaps (discoveries are unknown unknowns) 2. It proceeds along a straightforward path (discoveries are not predictable) 3. It looks for answers (new questions are crucial) 4. It is only rational (requires night science leaps)
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Fabian Theis @fabiantheis.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
🚨 We're hiring! 🚨
Join our team as a Lab & Science Manager for the Theis lab! 🧬🧪 Help drive cutting-edge research, manage lab operations, and enable scientific excellence. 🌟 📍 Munich, Germany
🔗 Apply here: lmy.de/cLUmM
#ScienceJobs #LabManagement #Helmholtz
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Lab & Science Manager (f/m/x)
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eurobioimaging.bsky.social @eurobioimaging.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Don't miss it! Registration & abstract submission is now open for #ELMI2025 at EMBL🔽
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Johanna Bischof @jojobischof.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Is it almost Christmas? Yes! Is that a reason to stop the @eurobioimaging.bsky.social #VirtualPub? No! We're closing the year with a big one - a @volumeem1.bsky.social special session from one of our Nodes featuring all their vEM imaging and analysis techniques.
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Beth Cimini 🔬💻📊 @bethcimini.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
New Year, new job? Delighted to announce two early-career-level (post-BA/BS or MA) positions in my lab, and an open call for computational postdocs at the Broad! First, an image analysis associate - work on high content screens for all kinds of cells and dimensionalities! See more at link (1/4)
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Image analysis associate job description
Image Analysis Associate Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA Impact the discovery of new disease therapies in the Cimini laboratory at the Imaging Platform Join our vibrant, world-clas...
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EMBL @embl.org · 17/12/2024
EMBL’s Prevedel Group scaled down a microscope to miniature size while scaling up imaging resolution. 🔬 OCM is a portable microscope to image label-free samples, with different magnifications and within fractions of a second. Read more: www.embl.org/news/science... 🧪 @prevedel-lab.bsky.social
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Rachel Coulthard-Graf @rachelcg.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Curious about industry R&D? Maria Fälth Savitski, Head of Computational Biology Boehringer Ingelheim, shared her career journey, insights into collaborative research in industry, and tips for early-career researchers with the @embl.org Careers Blog: www.embl.org/about/info/e...
Screenshot of the EMBL Careers Blog website with the start of the blog post (click on the link to read the text) and a photo of Maria.
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Prakash Lab at Stanford @prakashlab.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Team Foldscope at #CellBio2024. Come for some exciting surprises (Foldscope Game); stay for the goal of making science more accessible globally. Don’t miss it.
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Science News @scinews.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky 1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research Open Access journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
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eurobioimaging.bsky.social @eurobioimaging.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
📣 Many #EuroBioImaging Nodes, facilities & friends are on BlueSky🦋! Here are some to follow 🔽 @bioimaginguk.bsky.social @france-bioimaging.bsky.social @danishbioimaging.bsky.social @sln-icfo.bsky.social Don't miss the starter pack 🔽 go.bsky.app/VoeAfuN Join us - Nominate yourself or reply here!
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Luke Sjulson @lukesjulson.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Neuroscience students asked us to teach a PRACTICAL course on experimental methods, and it is now on YouTube! Please like and repost to help us get the word out! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization 🧵
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Neuroscience methods - YouTube
Nanocourse: Approaches to Study Neural Circuits This course was taught by Anita Autry, Tiago Gonçalves, and Luke Sjulson at Albert Einstein College of Medici...
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René Ketting @reneketting.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
We are looking for new group leaders. If RNA is your thing, and/or computational biology and you want to start your own group, check out these links. Feel free to contact me about these! And, please help me spread this. Thanks! www.imb.de/jobs/jobdeta... www.imb.de/jobs/jobdeta...
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IMB Mainz
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Luca Giorgetti lab @FMI @lucagiorgetti.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Join us in Banff for the Keystone Interplay of Chromatin Architecture and Transcriptional Regulation meeting next spring (joint with Epigenetics in Development and Disease): www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/... Short talk abstract coming up - Jan 9
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Leander Rohr, PhD @plant-cyclist.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Great Starter Pack! Let's join! go.bsky.app/2YVvYER
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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Well this is some cool single molecule imaging www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Simon F. Nørrelykke @simonfn.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Best (and most demanding) combined microscopy and image analysis course I know of. Apply!
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Jennifer Waters @jencwaters.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
We are so excited that @janfunkey.bsky.social has agreed to give the keynote seminar for @qiatcshl.bsky.social 2025 @cshlnews.bsky.social! 🔬🖥️ 🛤️ Applications due 1/31/2025. t.co/x87ngy34UC
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https://meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx?course=C-QICM
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Beth Cimini 🔬💻📊 @bethcimini.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
Have you ever analyzed a #microscope image before- even just a single one? Please take our survey on progress and places to still improve for image analysis software! #microscopy #imageanalysis #bioimageanalysis forum.image.sc/t/2024-image...
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2024 Image Analysis Survey
The Center for Open Bioimage Analysis , Bioimaging North America , the Royal Microscopical Society, and the Global Bioimage Analysts’ Society have now released a new and improved edition of our biannu...
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Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Relatively straightforward integration into an OPM, much better long term imaging stability.
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Constantin Pape @cppape.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
You can now watch the I2K video tutorial on #micro-sam by @anwaiarchit.bsky.social on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxjU... Check it out for an in-depth explanation for how to use our tool to segment your microscopy images.
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Segment Anything for Microscopy
YouTube video by I2K Conference
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EMBL @embl.org · 27/11/2024
For many molecular biologists, #proteins are not only objects of study, but also dear friends (or enemies). Sofia Rucli from EMBL Rome talk about her relationship with the protein OGT, a molecular ‘candy man’ of the cell. 🧶 #MolBiol #SciComm @sofiarucli.bsky.social www.embl.org/news/people-...
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Diego del Alamo @delalamo.xyz · 27/11/2024
Conformational dynamics smoothen the fitness landscapes of enzymes. Who knew? 🧪🧶
Another important biophysical factor underlying how fitness landscapes are traversed during evolution is conformational sampling, i.e. the ability of proteins to adopt multiple conformational substates.48,49 Different conformational substates could have different activities and thus contribute differently to the net fitness of the protein: conformation “A” could represent 5% of the populated states, but catalyze a new reaction that the other conformations cannot. Evolution can then act to smoothly “tune” the function of the protein through remote mutations that shift its conformational equilibrium by relatively stabilizing conformation “A”. This results in a smoother landscape because there are generally many more pathways by which a pre-existing conformational equilibrium between two conformations can be affected by remote mutations than the number of solutions that are available through complete remodeling of an active site. For example, the laboratory evolution of phosphotriesterase into an into arylesterase was tracked with protein crystallography, which revealed that almost all the mutations were remote from the active site and shifted the conformational equilibrium to favor pre-existing states that were beneficial to the new catalytic activity (50). The same process was observed in the evolution of a computationally designed Kemp eliminase, wherein gradual changes in the conformational sampling between inactive and active states resulting in a remarkably smooth evolutionary transition (51). These examples of evolutionary trajectories generated by laboratory evolution demonstrate how conformational flexibility can produce smooth fitness landscapes, and help explain the high frequency of remote mutations observed in evolutionary trajectories (52).
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Jamie Hackett @jamiehackett.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
📢 Preprint! How does the environment of a father before conception influence offspring? Even more, how do paternal genetics & ages interact with exposures to affect F1 outcome? We tested this systematically, with intriguing findings & some cautionary tales🧵... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Embryonic Signatures of Intergenerational Inheritance across Paternal Environments and Genetic Backgrounds
The paternal preconception environment has been implicated as a modulator of phenotypic traits and disease risk in F1 offspring. However, the prevalence and mechanisms of such intergenerational epigen...
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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
🧪ECRs can now apply for a funded place at our Workshop 'Democratising Microscopy in Latin America: Imaging Across Scales and Regions' taking place in Ecuador in Oct 2025. Find out more at bit.ly/41646g5 #ECR #BiologistsWorkshops
Workshop Democratising Microscopy in Latin America: Imaging Across Scales and Regions 
Date: 12 - 15 October 2025

Location: Samari Spa Resort in Baños de Agua Santa, Ecuador

Secure your place alongside leading experts and other early-career researchers.
Applicants from diverse scientific backgrounds are encouraged.

Deadline: 14 February 2025

Organisers
Constadina Arvanitis Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, USA
Mario Del Rosario ITQB Nova, Portugal
Helena De la Torre Universidad Técnica de Ambato, Ecuador
Mariana De Niz Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, USA
María Fernanda Latorre Barragán Universidad Regional Autónoma de los Andes, Ecuador
Licyel Lenny Paulas Condori Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, UK

Speakers
Federico Brown Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Santiago Casado Universidad Técnica de Ambato, Ecuador
Teng-Leong Chew HHMI Janelia, USA
Benedict Diedrich Open Instrumentation Group, Leibniz-IPHT Jena, Germany
Estibaliz Gómez-de-Mariscal Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencias, Portugal
Hernán E. Grecco Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Adán Guerrero Instituto de Biotecnología, UNAM, Mexico
Ricardo Henriques ITQB Nova, Portugal
Anna Kreshuk EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Federico Lecumberry Universidad de la República, Uruguay
Lucía López Centro de Investigaciones en Bionanociencias (CIBION), Argentina
Kildare Miranda Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Iván Rey Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
Aníbal Vargas Ríos Center of Integrative Biology, Universidad Mayor, Chile
Andrés Romero-Carvajal Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE), Ecuador
Tobias Wenzel Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
Flavio Zolessi Instituto Pasteur de Montevideo, Uruguay

To find outmore or apply online visit workshops.biologists.com
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Jamie Hackett @jamiehackett.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
📢 Must must listen. As well as setting up her lab to do great science, Ana is a beacon of sound advice, scientific knowledge and ever-amusing anecdotes. ... she is also the only person in Italy that will join me to have a cappuccino after the sacred 11am deadline, so extra kudos!
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Helen Matthews @helenkmatthews.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
🚨THREE fully-funded PhD positions available! 2 in our lab @mcb-sheffield.bsky.social and 1 with our collaborators in Leeds. Three exciting but very different projects in cancer cell biology, biophysics & chemical/structural biology. 👇 full details in 🧵
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Urszula McClurg @urszulamcclurg.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I am delighted to announce a tailored PhD scheme supporting candidates from minority backgrounds. This scheme is fully funded, passport blind and comes with tailored mentoring www.findaphd.com/phds/program.... Come join us at @livuni-ismib.bsky.social!
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FindAPhD : Fully funded studentship at the Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology at University of Liverpool
Apply for a PhD: Fully funded studentship at the Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology at University of Liverpool
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Joachim Goedhart @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
The dark side of fluorescent protein tagging: the impact of protein tags on biomolecular condensation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Figure 4. Position and type of fluorescent tag affect protein expression and P-body numbers in vivo.
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Clifford Johnson @asymptotia.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
My first post on this platform! Hello and welcome to my little corner. I will be posting regularly here soon, so come back for more and yes do follow! In the meantime check out the PBS Nova show “Decoding the Universe: Quantum“ that recently came out! Fascinating stuff! m.youtube.com/watch?v=t06a...
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Decoding the Universe: Quantum | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS
YouTube video by NOVA PBS Official
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Ioannis Vlachos @ioavlachos.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Starter a Spatial Tissue Profling/Omics/Biology Startup package. Will be updating often. Please stop by again soon! go.bsky.app/7a9Frz9
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Jon Lim, FRCP PhD @drjonlim.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
🎨 In case anyone need… The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏! Check it out 👇 bioart.niaid.nih.gov
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Anna-Karin Gustavsson @gustavssonlab.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Our review on Light sheet illumination in single-molecule localization microscopy for imaging of cellular architectures and molecular dynamics is now published in npj Imaging! Check it out here: doi.org/10.1038/s443...
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Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Join the Interdisciplinary Postdoc Fellowship Program at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), one of the best places to do research in modern biology and develop your career. Great opportunities for statisticians, comp. biologists, AI experts, mathem. modelers! www.embl.org/eipod-linc
Poster of the EIPOD call
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Ed Boyden @eboyden3.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Playing catchup :) 2 bioRxiv preprints related to our goal of imaging neural activity across entire brains: In Vivo Optical Clearing of Mammalian Brain, synthneuro.org/publications... Imaging the voltage of neurons distributed across entire brains of larval zebrafish, synthneuro.org/publications...
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Jennifer Waters @jencwaters.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
We've created a mailing list for Microtutor, our interactive virtual light microscopy courses! Join to learn about new courses: lp.constantcontactpages.com/sl/5BYgJu6/m... Microtutor: microtutor.globalbioimaging.org
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Alvaro H Crevenna @alvarocrevenna.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
If you see this, please repost with a favorite photo of the sky that you've taken recently
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Alvaro H Crevenna @alvarocrevenna.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
It's always nice to visit this place but today I'm even happier due to a special occasion EMBL ATC
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