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Benjamin Compans

@bencompans.bsky.social
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Field Application Scientist at Abbelight & Neuroscientist 🔬🧠 Alumni from Daniel Choquet lab (IINS - Bordeaux University, Fr) and Burrone lab (CDN - King's College London, UK)

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Abbelight @abbelight.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
✨ 𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗮 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗯𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁. Read the full Press Release here on businesswire: www.businesswire.com/news/home/20... or on our website: www.abbelight.com/company/news/
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Neuroscience and Beyond @neuroandbeyond.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Seeing the presynapse at the nanometer scale with super-resolution microscopes. Watch our latest episode to learn about how modern #microscopy reveals the inner architecture of cells here: youtu.be/8cXV9J5NJQQ
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Abbelight @abbelight.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Revolutionize your DNA-PAINT workflow with the new Abbelight Massive Photonics Smart DNA-PAINT Kit Explore it on our eshop: shop.abbelight.com/products/kit... Want to learn more? Reach out to our experts at eshop@abbelight.com #SMLM #SuperResolution #Microscopy #Nanoscopy #Bioimaging
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Abbelight @abbelight.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
𝗔𝗯𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿 #𝗦𝗠𝗟𝗠𝗦𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱! 📍 Bonn, Germany 📅 27–29 August 2025 This is more than just a conference—it’s a chance to shape the future of super-resolution imaging, together. See you there! #SMLM #SuperResolution #Microscopy
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Abbelight @abbelight.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
🔬 Super-resolution is powerful — and with Abbelight, it’s simple. Join us at the EMBO Course in Prague (20–21 June) to see how our end-to-end SMLM workflow makes sample prep & analysis seamless. 🎙️ Talk + hands-on demos 👥 Experts from Abbelight & SVEN BioLabs #SMLM #Microscopy #EMBO
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Abbelight @abbelight.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Come join us at #ELMI2025 The Abbelight team is heading to Heidelberg for one of the most exciting microscopy events of the year — and we hope to see you there! 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝘁𝗵 𝗙𝟭𝟭, 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗺 𝟭𝟭𝟲𝗯 #SMLM #SuperResolution #Bioimaging
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Benjamin Compans @bencompans.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Excited to be heading at King's College London to with @mehdi-madi.bsky.social to discuss about @abbelight.bsky.social cutting-edge imaging solutions. Meeting customers and learning about their research is always stimulating. #microscopy #nanoscopy #Abbelight #KingsCollegeLondon #NowWeSee
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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
#FocalPlaneCorrespondent Sally Horton interviews Benjamin Compans @bencompans.bsky.social about his journey from academia to industry (@abberior.rocks) as an expert in super-resolution microscopy. focalplane.biologists.com/2025/05/07/i...
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Interview with Dr Benjamin Compans: From Academia to Industry in Super-Resolution Microscopy - FocalPlane
Interview with Dr Benjamin Compans: From Academia to Industry in Super-Resolution Microscopy - Interviews
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Benjamin Compans @bencompans.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Fantastic interview by Dr Sally Horton for @focalplane.bsky.social ! It was a pleasure to reflect on my journey into super-resolution microscopy and my move from academia to @abbelight.bsky.social Hope you find it interesting! #superresolutionmicroscopy #Abbelight #careerjourney
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Interview with Dr Benjamin Compans: From Academia to Industry in Super-Resolution Microscopy - FocalPlane
Interview with Dr Benjamin Compans: From Academia to Industry in Super-Resolution Microscopy - Interviews
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Abbelight @abbelight.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘼𝙪𝙩𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙎𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝘿𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙭𝙞𝙣𝙜 Our new SAFe platforms now feature automated spectral demixing—a breakthrough that: ✅ Enhances accuracy ✅ Eliminates bias ✅ Delivers clearer, more reliable data effortlessly 🚀 Coming soon! #SMLM #SuperResolution #Bioimaging #imaging #Microscopy
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Florian Levet @flevet.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
With Ed Cohen (Imperial College London) we are recruting 2 PhDs for a nice project called "Deciphering the functional architecture of neuronal proteins using 3D SMLM, artificial intelligence and robust statistics". More information here : www.ma.imperial.ac.uk/~eakc07/Impe...
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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
We have a new review out! In this Microscopy & Microanalysis piece, Louisa Mezache and I survey some of the latest commercially available microscope technologies: Nikon NSPARC, Re-scan Gaia, CSR Biotech MI-SIM, refinements to STED, SMLM from Bruker and Abbelight… Check it out with free access:
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Advancing Super-Resolution Microscopy: Recent Innovations in Commercial Instruments
Abstract. Super-resolution microscopy techniques have accelerated scientific progress, enabling researchers to explore cellular structures and dynamics wit
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Benjamin Compans @bencompans.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Congrats @slfort.bsky.social et al. For this new paper. New milestone for multiplexing SMLM👏🏻
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Abbelight @abbelight.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵-𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝗽𝘂𝘁 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗲𝗿-𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗜𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 Learn more: lnkd.in/eaBVV3qD
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Abbelight @abbelight.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿. Learn how: www.abbelight.com/technology/n... #SMLM #Nanoscopy #SuperResolution #Bioimaging #research #Microscopy #Drugresearch #Cancerresearch #Neuroscience #Microbiology #Biophysics #Genomics
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Plantae.org @plantaeofficial.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
📅New #PlantSciEvents Event Added: SPS Summer School 2025 - "Advanced Plant Imaging: From super-resolution to fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy"🌱 👉https://eventform.plantae.org/plantae.calendar/detail/1381/1751198400000 #PlantScience
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SPS Summer School 2025 - "Advanced Plant Imaging: From super-resolution to fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy"
Sun 29 Jun, 2:00 PM - Fri 4 Jul, 6:00 PM [CEST]: Microscopy is a fundamental tool for understanding the functioning of plants at the cellular to molecular scale. Recent technological advances…
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Benjamin Compans @bencompans.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Amazing line up that promises fantastic talks and discussions. 🧠🔬 A symposium I am really looking forward
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Benjamin Compans @bencompans.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
We're looking for a Field Application Scientist to join our team at @abbelight.bsky.social & support researchers in achieving groundbreaking results worldwide.   If you're driven to make a difference and enjoy working with cutting-edge technologies, Apply Now 👇🏻👇🏻 www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41...
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Abbelight hiring Field Applications Scientist (FAS) - GLOBAL in Cachan, Île-de-France, France | LinkedIn
Posted 2:17:40 AM. Join our team at Abbelight – Pioneers in imaging of tomorrow! Abbelight is creating the future of…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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Abbelight @abbelight.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 #𝗕𝗣𝗦𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱? 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁 𝗔𝗯𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗮𝘁 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝘁𝗵 #𝟳𝟬𝟰! #SMLM #SuperResolution #Biophysics #Bioimaging #Microscopy #Nanoscopy #imaging
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Valentina Caorsi @valentinacaorsi.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Interested in bringing microscopy and nanoscopy to the next level? Can you take the challenge? Don’t hesitate to contact Sandrine @slfort.bsky.social or myself @abbelight for more info. Application deadline 26th of March!
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Benjamin Compans @bencompans.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Pushing the limits again for SMLM! More data in one acquisition with nanoscale information! Here some mitochondria imaged with @abbelight.bsky.social SAFe MN360, STORM and a Field of view of 230x230um! More to come! #NowWeSee
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Massive Photonics @massivephotonics.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
🎉Amazing work!!! Ignacio Gallea, Oleksii Nevskyi et al. show T4 virus particles can be used as versatile 3D-bio-nanorulers! 📏Our 2-Plex #DNAPAINT kit, containing anti-mouse & rabbit single-domain antibodies was used for T4 virus visualization advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Super‐Resolution Goes Viral: T4 Virus Particles as Versatile 3D‐Bio‐NanoRulers
Various super-resolution fluorescence microscopy methods achieve nanoscale resolution, vital for visualizing subcellular structures. Choosing suitable biological standards is challenging, demanding p...
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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
High-throughput expansion microscopy takes shape. elifesciences.org/articles/96025?ut…
3D image of cardiomyocytes with high-throughput expansion microscopy
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Sandrine Lévêque Fort 🔬 @slfort.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Application for the LIGHTinPARIS COFUND Doctoral program is open, 33 research projects @univparissaclay.bsky.social. Several projects in @ismolab.bsky.social and I'm happy to propose two projects in collaboration with Abbelight, don't hesitate to contact us/apply before 26/03/2025 lightinparis.eu
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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
A journal club on @lumasullo.bsky.social et al. RASTMIN paper (with explanations for non-microscopists audience) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozKA...
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Session 1 (Optical Physics): Think Like a Physicist—Clematis Training Program
YouTube video by Clematis Research Empowerment Hub
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Benjamin Compans @bencompans.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Abbelight is at CellBio2024! Don't hesitate to pass by to discover our imaging platform from Microscopy to Nanoscopy. #cellbio24 #superresolution #microscopy #science @ascbiology.bsky.social
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Benjamin Compans @bencompans.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
SMLM image of Endoplasmic Reticulum imaged with Abbelight SAFe MN360. #SuperResolution #SMLM #FluorescenceFriday
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Benjamin Compans @bencompans.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Synapticome?
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Hanieh Falahati @haniehfalahati.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Our paper is out just in time for #EM_Monday! It is about a specialized neuron-specific ER, called the spine apparatus, which is found close to synapses and has a very peculiar shape. If you think neurons are special, the spine apparatus is their🦄 horn! But how does it form?! doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
Gif showing a spine containing spine apparatus, reconstructed from FIB-SEM images. ER: red, synapse: yellow, plasma membrane: blue
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Benjamin Compans @bencompans.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Thank you for working so much on this paper while I was quite occupied in my new personnal and professional adventure!
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Benjamin Compans @bencompans.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Thank you @jbneuro.bsky.social for giving me the freedome to apply my fascination for super-resolution micrscopy to one of, if not his favorite compartment, the AIS. A big thanks to Vincenzo for bringing his fantastic patching skills and to Clara for joining this adventure too!
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Benjamin Compans @bencompans.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I hope you'll enjoy the reading to discover more details about this project. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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In vivo modulation of network activity drives the nanoscale reorganisation of axo-axonic synapses at the axon initial segment
Chemical synapses control their strength through the nanoscale clustering of postsynaptic receptors into sub-synaptic domains (SSDs). Despite their importance in synapse function, the properties and p...
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Benjamin Compans @bencompans.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Finally, fantastic Vincenzo Mastrolia used mice expressing Channelrhodopsin in Chandelier Cells, the interneuron forming axo-axonic synapses, to demonstrate that this nanoscale reorganization was associated to a strong reduction in evoked IPSC
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Benjamin Compans @bencompans.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
However, when looking at Gephyrin sub-synaptic domains, the story is different. Interestingly, only Gephyrin SSD at the AIS were reduced in volume, while those at tufts remained unchanged. Also, not only AIS SSDs on hM3Dq+ neurons, but also neighbors expressed this plasticity.
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Benjamin Compans @bencompans.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
cfos activity increased as the network level and AIS length shrinked as expected from previous work. However, in contrast to when increase activity happen at P12-P18, no change of axo-axonic synapse number occured here.
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Benjamin Compans @bencompans.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Then, we asked how plastic was this nanoscale organization. We refined a previous protocole from the lab to increase network activity using DREADD and CNO in vivo at P20-22. We first looked at AIS structural plasticity and number of synapses
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Benjamin Compans @bencompans.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Literrature is solide about the link between Gephyrin and GABAa Receptors clustering. Still, we checked in cell culture that both Gephyrin and GABAaR SSD properties correlates. We used Abbelight spectral demixing feature to perform dual color SMLM. (Thank you @nibourg-abbelight.bsky.social)
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Benjamin Compans @bencompans.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Here we took advantage of Gephyrin-FingR from @Don_B_Arnold to label in vivo endogenous Gephyrin. We noticed that depending of the position of inhibitory synapses, hence the type of interneuron forming synapses, Gephyrin Sub-Synaptic Domains had specific properties
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Benjamin Compans @bencompans.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
We first challenged the possibility to image inhibitory synapses at 2 compartments of S1 L2/3 Pyramidal Neurons using Single Molecule Localization Microscopy in brain sections. ✅ [dSTORM of Gephyrin-FingR-EGFP+ AF647 anti-GFP antibody in brain slice. NSTORM5]
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Benjamin Compans @bencompans.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Nanoscale organization of synaptic proteins has become an important topic to better understand synaptic function. However, few is known about it at specific type of synapses, mostly as previous work were done in vitro where specific connectivity between cell type isn't reproduced
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Benjamin Compans @bencompans.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Happy to see my MSCA project with @jbneuro.bsky.social lab available on @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social We Increased network activity in vivo and used dSTORM to look at the nanoscale organization of inhibitory synapses formed onto the AIS and onto tufts dendrites of L2/3 S1 Cortex!
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Benjamin Compans @bencompans.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Enjoy Visitech iSIM. It's a great scope!
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Benjamin Compans @bencompans.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Congrats @adorrego.bsky.social and @grubblabneuro.bsky.social
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Benjamin Compans @bencompans.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
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The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · 11/11/2024
Register now for the Crick Bioimage Analysis Symposium 🧫 We’ll be joined by leading experts to discuss the latest tools and techniques of image analysis and explore their future potential. #CBIAS2024 📅 25-26 November 🎟️ Online and in-person tickets www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cri...
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Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium 2024
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Benjamin Compans @bencompans.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
It reminds me Chandelier cells cartridges. Beautiful
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Debora Olivier Keller @smlm.bsky.social · 30/12/2023
Opportunité a ne pas manquer! Poste #CNRS #MobiliteInterne au sein du @LabOptBio #Morphoscope pour un IR #BioimageInformatics un beau projet avec focus imagerie de grands volumes et microscopie non-lineaire Lien: mobiliteinterne.cnrs.fr/ords/afip/ow...
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