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Gail McConnell @gailmcconnell.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

🚨🚨🚨 Deadline for applications to the Strathclyde Optical Microscopy Course @unistrathclyde.bsky.social extended to 30 January 2026! Details on how to apply are below 🔬 #microscope #ECRchat #Glasgow

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Gail McConnell @gailmcconnell.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

We are delighted to announce the Strathclyde Optical Microscopy Course 2026 (SOMC26), taking place in Glasgow from 21st July – 30th July 2026! Please find more details at shorturl.at/xmUiZ and apply at shorturl.at/MxTlI. Deadline 16 January 2026.

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Giuseppe Di Caprio @giudica.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

New review paper out! Proud to co-author with @optophysakhil.bsky.social and @gailmcconnell.bsky.social a deep dive into Fourier Ptychographic Microscopy (FPM), from physics to cutting-edge algorithms & medical imaging applications. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

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Fourier ptychography microscopy for digital pathology

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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

🌟 Exciting News! 🌟 I’ve been awarded the Infection Science Award by @microbiologysociety.org in recognition of recent work using cross-scale imaging methods to study complex infection models. Thanks to the Microbiology Society, mentors, funders and collaborators for all their support! 🙏🏻🧫🔬🧪

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Gail McConnell @gailmcconnell.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Improved contrast transmission stereomicroscopy using a low-cost 3D printed optical element! 🔬🧫🐟🧅 More details in our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

🚨New pre-print out now!🚨 We 3D printed a large optical element that enhanced the illumination, contrast & image quality in transmission stereomicroscopy. This simple addition to the illumination path lets us detect refractive structures & dynamics unobserved by conventional stereomicroscopy. (1/5)

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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 We used complementary sensing approaches to study oxygen microenvironments in E. coli biofilm transport channels, which provided a spatial overview of how transport channels maintain chemical gradients in complex communities. doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.001543

Orthogonal visualization presents an explanation for chemical gradients in biofilm transport channels. (a) A thin section of a fixed gfp-expressing E. coli JM105 biofilm is presented with arrows at the apical surface indicating regions where transport channels can be viewed sagittally. Thin layers of cells cap the apical surface of the biofilm and enclose the top of transport channels. The inferior portion of the channels remains open to the underlying substrate. A representative view of the section position through the centre of the colony is presented (top left). (b) A schematic proposing nutrient and oxygen gradients through the depth of biofilm transport channels. A thin layer of apical cells seals the top of channels and maintains a strict oxygen gradient, while nutrients and free oxygen can diffuse from the basolateral surface through open channel conduits into the biomass.

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Royal Microscopical Society @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

It's *Deadline Day* to submit your 'late-breaking' abstract for #mmc2025! Don't miss out on presenting the most exciting recent developments in #microscopy, #imaging and #FlowCytometry in #Manchester this summer! mmc-series.org.uk/conference/a... @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social

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Gail McConnell @gailmcconnell.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

This session has been one of the best attended and most scientifically diverse at previous mmc events - promote your most exciting, hot-out-of-the-lab results by submitting an abstract today! @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social

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Gail McConnell @gailmcconnell.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Missed the mmc conference abstract deadline but eager to present your latest work? Fear not! Late and Breaking abstracts open until Friday 2 May. More information here: www.mmc-series.org.uk/conference/a... @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social

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Abstract Submission

Abstract submission has now closed. You can now submit a late breaking abstract through Oxford Abstracts.

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Gail McConnell @gailmcconnell.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Are you fed up wasting time and photons in laser scanning microscopy? Our latest work, PerfectlyAverage, can help to determine optimal parameters for line and frame averaging while considering photobleaching. More information in our preprint! 🔬 bit.ly/PerfectlyAve...

Image of 3T3-L1 cells stained with ActinGreen, imaged with a laser scanning fluorescence microscope

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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

First senior-author paper is out today in the Journal of Microscopy! 🧪🔬 We present the first 3D printed microscope where both the optics & frame are entirely 3D printed - a low-cost, accessible, and reproducible tool for histological imaging! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jmi.13398

An exploded view of the 3D-printed microscope. A front-facing (A), oblique (B), and side-facing view (C) of the microscope are presented, with the chassis coloured in grey and the positions of additional components highlighted with different colours (orange = LED light source, magenta = 3D-printed condenser lens, blue = 3D-printed objective lens, green = CMOS camera). A scale bar is presented in (a) to provide a visualisation of the size of the microscope setup.

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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

1 week left to submit for the Imaging Host-Pathogen Interactions session @ mmc'25! @rebeccamchugh.bsky.social & I are organising a @microbiologysociety.org sponsored session w/ invited speakers, Jessica Mark Welch @adaforsyth.bsky.social & Lara Hundsdorfer @unituebingen.bsky.social 🧪🔬 #MicroSky

An AI-generated fluorescence micrograph of red-coloured invading blobs attacking a blue branching network of filamentous cells on a dark background.

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Meg Clapperton @meganclapperton.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Super cool work from our group!!

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Gail McConnell @gailmcconnell.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

If anyone fancies giving it a go we can run a workshop at the Strathclyde Optical Microscopy Course 2025. More details at www.centreforbiophotonics.com/somc25, deadline for applications is 17th January 2025. More details at bsky.app/profile/liam...

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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Mollie Brown (not on Bsky, Cc’ @gailmcconnell.bsky.social) got the cover of JBO for her first first-author paper! 👏🏻 Super-resolution cross-scale imaging with the #Mesolens and SRRF! ✨🔬🧪

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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

🚨 New pre-print out! 🚨 The world’s first fully 3D printed microscope! Is Santa bringing you a 3D printer for Christmas, or maybe you need a gift for your favourite microscopist - print the lenses, print the frame, and start imaging! ✨🔬 Check it out below and please repost!👇🏻🙏🏻 (1/N)

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