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Maurice Lee

@mauriceylee.bsky.social

PhD in BioPhysics. Scientist who worked at the Genome Institute of Singapore. Worked on 3D lightsheet and confocal microscopy for 3D spatial transcriptomics via multiplexed error robust fluorescence in situ hybridisation (MERFISH).

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Maurice Lee @mauriceylee.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Goodbye Mr Snouty. I had a lot of fun working with you. It has been a blast. Hopefully the next scientist/engineer who works with you will enjoy the process too.🥹

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Maurice Lee @mauriceylee.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Caring for your friends in science means lending them your neutral density filter wheel to see if it will help to alleviate their microscope problems

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Maurice Lee @mauriceylee.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

I had the opportunity to conduct a hands-on workshop on basic optical alignment today! Zesheng and Alex, from Dr Liang Kaicheng's group, joined me in the optics lab where we covered the basics such as "walking" the laser beam, collimating lasers, and checking back reflections!

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Maurice Lee @mauriceylee.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

I think these are my favorite forever stamps ever!🖤🤍♥️💚🩵🧡

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Maurice Lee @mauriceylee.bsky.social · 19/08/2023

We have started to work on 3D spatial transcriptomics of the whole larval zebrafish brain and I'm excited to share an image that we recently acquired in the lab! Every bright spot or blob represents the RNA molecules that we've labelled and imaged! The image below is 1750*1050 microns.

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Maurice Lee @mauriceylee.bsky.social · 04/08/2023

I'm still amazed that my Pixel 7 can see stars with the astrophotography mode amidst all that light pollution in Singapore.

This is a photo of the night sky. The contrast has been heavily adjusted such that the stars can still be visible as white spots in a black night sky despite the light pollution from the city below. We can see a few cranes at a construction site at the bottom of the photo

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Maurice Lee @mauriceylee.bsky.social · 04/08/2023

It was a sunny day at #BiopolisSingapore

This is a photo of urban landscape with buildings and a skybridge connecting some of the buildings. There is a cloudy sky with patches of blue in the background. The sun is very bright at the top left of the photo while it is behind the white clouds.

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Maurice Lee @mauriceylee.bsky.social · 04/08/2023

And the results are in! The #1.5 glass coverslips that we have are all thicker than the 170 microns I expected. The range is supposed to be 150-190 microns. And different brands of coverslips have slightly different distributions too!

This is a figure with two different coloured histograms for the thicknesses of the coverslips from two brands which are Werner and Bioptechs. The Bioptechs coverslips are slightly thicker than the Werner coverslips on average.

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Maurice Lee @mauriceylee.bsky.social · 03/08/2023

We finally got a micrometer screw gauge (with a ratchet) to measure the thicknesses of our #1.5 glass coverslips to see how close they are to the specified 0.170 mm thickness with micron precision! The first two were 0.183 and 0.212 mm thick.🤷🏻‍♂️

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Maurice Lee @mauriceylee.bsky.social · 30/07/2023

Got a chance to enjoy the hot weather and see some touristy sights in Singapore today!

This is a photo of an urban scenery. There is a blue sky with fluffy white clouds. There are modern looking buildings in the background. There is also a foot bridge with dozens of people. There are green trees and bougainvilla bushes too

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