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BIC_Bordeaux @bic-bordeaux.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

#ImageOfTheMonth September 2026 🍇 15 µm Vitis vinifera wood cross-section (Safranin/Astra Blue). Xylem vessels revealed segmentation. Image by Samuele Moretti, Nathalie Ferrer, @chloedelmas.bsky.social (SAVE) & Guillaume Maucort (BIC). #PlantScience #Microscopy #BIC

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BIC_Bordeaux @bic-bordeaux.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

#ImageOfTheMonth August 2026 🔬 Stunning 8x expanded human hippocampus! Microglia (pink), lysosomes (yellow), nuclei (grey). Collaboration: Ana Victoria Prádanos Senén (@cbm-csic-uam.bsky.social) & @monica-bic.bsky.social (BIC). #Neuroscience #ExpansionMicroscopy

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BIC_Bordeaux @bic-bordeaux.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

#ImageOfTheMonth July 2026 🌿✨ Spotlight on Alizé Chambard @inrae-bfp.bsky.social Confocal image of an Arabidopsis thaliana leaf cross-section 🟢 GFP-tagged virus from @lbm-bordeaux.bsky.social 🟠 Plasmodesmata 🔵 Cell walls 🟣 Plastids A masterpiece of in resin fluorescence & immunolabeling ! 🎨🔬

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France-BioImaging @france-bioimaging.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

SFBS 2026 is taking shape 👀 Discover the first programme highlights of our symposium dedicated to super-resolution microscopy and advanced optical imaging Good news: abstract submission & early bird registration are extended until June 30! More info👉 france-bioimaging.org/announcement...

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BIC_Bordeaux @bic-bordeaux.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

#ImageOfTheMonth May 2026 🌟 Astrocytes in action! Cytoskeletal proteins in rat cortical astrocytes (DIV16), captured with simple widefield microscopy. A beautiful, informative glimpse into intercellular networks. Credit: Tatiana Charbonnier (IINS UMR 5297) #Neuroscience #Astrocytes #Microscopy

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BIC_Bordeaux @bic-bordeaux.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

After the poster, the presentation ! #FOM2026

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BIC_Bordeaux @bic-bordeaux.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Mathieu (proudly) representing the BIC #FOM2026. It's happening now !

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BIC_Bordeaux @bic-bordeaux.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Yesterday, the 4 teams of the BIC spent a very nice moment together. We had presentations from the newest members of the BIC (and not so newest), and a shared lunch on the sunny terasse of the INRAE campus !

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Mag_BIC @mag-bic.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

And here we go again 😊 widefield / confocal basics training. More than 15 years that we do this training twice a year, still expected by users ! Basics always matter !!!

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BIC_Bordeaux @bic-bordeaux.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

This week @jeremie-bic.bsky.social presented his work on sample clearing and light-sheet imaging during @france-bioimaging.bsky.social annual meeting. This is the pure définition of the "Whaou" effect! Congrats !!!

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Laboratoire de Biogenèse Membranaire @lbm-bordeaux.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Interested in plant biology and super-resolution microscopy? This EMBL workshop is for you! You will learn how efficient tau-STED Xtend is in Arabidopsis root tip. With Christel Poujol @bic-bordeaux.bsky.social and Magali Grison from our Lab, register before April 6th! www.embl.org/about/info/c...

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BIC_Bordeaux @bic-bordeaux.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

#ImageOfTheMonth March 2026 Dividing Arabidopsis epidermal cells imaged by confocal microscopy after expansion. Microtubules guided cell plate formation revealed in 3D with depth-code. Image: Magali Grison @lbm-bordeaux.bsky.social @gtexm.bsky.social #Microscopy #PlantScience #CellBiology

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Mag_BIC @mag-bic.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

A well deserved prize for one of the most enthousiastic user ever!

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BIC_Bordeaux @bic-bordeaux.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

#ImageOfTheMonth February 2026 ✨ Fluorescent fibers (hundreds of µm) of a Platinium complex visualized in Fiji using orientation-based pseudocolors 🎨. Image acquired during the BIC hands-on microscopy training 🔬 Credits: F. R. Lauro, A. Virepinte (ISM), J. Teillon (BIC)

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Mag_BIC @mag-bic.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

A priori on va aussi bien en 2026 qu'en 2025 😅

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BIC_Bordeaux @bic-bordeaux.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

✨ En ce début d’année, l’équipe du pôle photonique s’est dit qu’il était temps de changer des slides et des listes d’équipements 📄❌ 👉 Résultat : un mini-film un peu décalé pour présenter nos systèmes de microscopie, d’optique et d’instrumentation 🔬 La photonique, mais en version musicale 🎶

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BIC_Bordeaux @bic-bordeaux.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

A colorful start to 2026! 🌿 #ImageOfTheMonth M. Batsale (Plant Virology team, @inrae-bfp.bsky.social ) captured a Nicotiana benthamiana cell infected with turnip mosaic virus — peroxisomes (yellow), viral vesicles (magenta) & chloroplasts (blue).

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BIC_Bordeaux @bic-bordeaux.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

✨ December 2025 #ImageOfTheMonth ✨ Whole rat hearts cleared with iDISCO reveal sympathetic innervation (orange) and vascularization (green). 💛💚 Work by S. Bertrand & A. Bonilla (INCIA) with S. Martin & I. Brunet (CIRB), imaged by J. Teillon (BIC). #Microscopy #iDISCO #BICBordeaux

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BIC_Bordeaux @bic-bordeaux.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

November #ImageOfTheMonth goes to M.Pujol from LPCO lab (UMR 5629). Acquired with Transmission Electron Microscopy, it shows a polystyrene (PS) latex obtained by post-dispersion of a yogurt cup made of PS in water using a surfactant. The resulting particles are highly heterogeneous and large.

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BIC_Bordeaux @bic-bordeaux.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

‪October #ImageOfTheMonth is from O. Barba-Vila from @iins-bordeaux.bsky.social Slice of the gustatory cortex showing axons from the gustatory thalamus (G), basolateral amygdala (R) and a thick-tufted layer 5 neuron (W), recorded through patch clamp and imaged via biocytin-streptavidin labelling

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BIC_Bordeaux @bic-bordeaux.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

September #ImageOfTheMonth is from @rkinet.bsky.social from @imn-bordeaux.bsky.social This is a maximum projection of a confocal image of a microglia cell (blue) and its nucleus (red), internalising multiple nanoparticles (yellow), one day after supranigral injection in C57B6-J mouse

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BIC_Bordeaux @bic-bordeaux.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

August #ImageOfTheMonth is from L.Congiu from @imn-bordeaux.bsky.social. This is a 3D reconstruction of a CD68-positive particles (white) within the cell body of microglia cells (Red) in the mouse cortex. The confocal Z-stack was processed with Imaris software.

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BIC_Bordeaux @bic-bordeaux.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

July #ImageOfTheMonth is from A.Drouet from @iins-bordeaux.bsky.social. This image represents a neurosphere (150x150 µm) formed from dissociated hippocampal neurons cultured for 14 days under non-adhesive conditions. Yellow shows GFP expressing neurons and nuclei are showed in cyan.

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BIC_Bordeaux @bic-bordeaux.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

May #ImageOfTheMonth was from C.Mazocco & M.Darricau from @imn-bordeaux.bsky.social. Staining on spinal cord slices reveal TDP43 protein in the nucleus of neurons (Red). Motoneurons and synaptic terminations were stained targetting ChAT (Cyan).

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BIC_Bordeaux @bic-bordeaux.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

June #ImageOfTheMonth is from L.Boutaleb from @inrae-bfp.bsky.social. They study the impact of heat stress on cell division and DNA replication on the tomato meristem. On this confocal image, EdU staining (magenta) detects replicating DNA and Hoechst labeling (cyan) shows all cell nuclei.

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BIC_Bordeaux @bic-bordeaux.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

April #ImageOfTheMonth is from H. Vaïtinadapoulé (BiiO EA 2521). Here is a guttae, a “drop-like deposits” of extracellular matrix components on the surface of the cornea. This image was acquired using scanning electron microscopy with the help of F.Decoeur from the EM unit of the BIC.

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BIC_Bordeaux @bic-bordeaux.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

March #ImageOfTheMonth goes to M.Bonhivers from MFP lab (UMR 5234). Trypanosoma brucei cell was extracted in detergent, expanded 4.2 fold using U-ExM, labelled for the microtubule cytoskeleton (magenta) and for the Hook Complex (yellow), and images usinf scanning confocal microscopy.

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BIC_Bordeaux @bic-bordeaux.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

February #ImageOfTheMonth is from @tdhellemmes.bsky.social . GFP expressing Relaxin3 neurons from the nucleus incertus and their projections are followed through the whole mouse brain using Adipoclear+ method and Light Sheet microscopy. Scale:1mm

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BIC_Bordeaux @bic-bordeaux.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Happy new year! Let's start 2025 with an #ImageOfTheMonth from N. Bollier @inrae-bfp.bsky.social. Scanning confocal 3D reconstruction of a tomato shoot apical meristem. The fixed meristem was cleared using clearsee and the cell walls are stained by calcofluor white.

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BIC_Bordeaux @bic-bordeaux.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Hello, the BIC is starting its Bluesky experience with its December #ImageOfTheMonth. Beautiful rat neurons imaged in STED 😍 by T.Cloâtre from @iins-bordeaux.bsky.social !

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Mag_BIC @mag-bic.bsky.social · 21/06/2022

3ème cours sur les challenges en dSTORM donné par @kmonier007 pour l'#ANF "Microscopie de super-resolution PALM/STORM en biologie cellulaire" en version multi-site (Bordeaux @magali_mondin, Lyon @kmonier007, Montpellier @MuriauxD @mailfertSeb, Paris @LydiaDanglot) grâce @RTMFM1

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Mag_BIC @mag-bic.bsky.social · 22/03/2022

🚨 A l'initiative du groupe de travail "Pointillisme" du @RTMFM1, nous organisons avec la MITI une ANF centrée sur les techniques de microscopie de super-résolution basées sur la détection de molécules individuelles🔬 Les inscriptions sont ouvertes !

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Mag_BIC @mag-bic.bsky.social · 10/11/2021

Preparing samples in an hotel room while looking at the live stream of the ongoing lecture: @MonicaFM_BIC in #MiFoBio2021 mood !

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Mag_BIC @mag-bic.bsky.social · 27/10/2021

Getting ready for #MiFoBio2021, preparing presentation while checking demo samples 😎

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Mag_BIC @mag-bic.bsky.social · 14/09/2021

After being cancelled in 2020, postponed in 2021 we are finally able to launch our super resolution training 🥳

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Mag_BIC @mag-bic.bsky.social · 26/05/2020

A PhD position is open in Nice (Region fellowship) : Deciphering the regulation of the cell death receptor Fas by cell polarity molecules & adherens junctions in both tumoral and normal human epithelia Contact L.Gagnoux : gagnoux@unice.fr Recruitment is now!!!

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Mag_BIC @mag-bic.bsky.social · 13/05/2018

Demain sera votre dernière chance de réserver vos places !! Visitez le site vous trouverez forcément votre bonheur ! Si vous réservez le ticket à 5€ comprend votre première conso, ce serait dommage de rater ça!! #pint18 pintofscience.fr/events/nice

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