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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Field trip day at #SOMC25 - we took a trip to the Isle of Cumbrae to collect specimens to image for the rest of the course. Tide pooling, beach combing, diatom netting, copepod fishing, crustacean hunting, and jelly junking. 🌊🪼🦀

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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

#SOMC25 Day 3 kicks off with our morning lecture from Klaus Suhling (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social) discussing detectors for optical imaging. 📷🔬

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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Next up at #SOMC25 is our second lecture of the day from @gailmcconnell.bsky.social (@unistrathclyde.bsky.social) on light source for optical microscopy. 💡🔬

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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

#SOMC25 Day 3 practical session of phase and DIC methods kicks off with a demonstration from Brad Amos before the students will spend time aligning systems for phase contrast and DIC, then imaging various aquatic and marine specimens.

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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Day 3 of #SOMC25 is rounding off with our evening lecture from Bob Edkins (@unistrathclyde.bsky.social) on Fluorescence and Fluorescent Proteins. 🌟🔬

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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Day 2 of #SOMC25 kicks off with Lecture 1 from Brad Amos with an Overview of Optical Microscopy. Starting with the question: does the microscopist need to understand physics?

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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Day 2 Lecture 2 of #SOMC25 delivered by David McKee (@physicsstrath.bsky.social) on Ray and Wave Optics. 🌈🔬

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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Day 1 #SOMC25 practical sessions demonstrating Abbe’s famous experiments followed by hands on alignment and Köhler illumination exercises using a variety of transillumination setups.

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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Rounding off the day with Lecture 3 of #SOMC25 with Polarisation, Interference and Diffraction delivered by @muellenbroich.bsky.social, featuring sunglasses-adorned Brewster and a young(er) @ralfmbauer.bsky.social.

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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

The Strathclyde Optical Micoscopy Course #SOMC25 kicked off today - 10 days of practical light microscopy training with 24 students from around the world! From fundamental & advanced lectures, to hands-on workshops with high end systems, & a field trip to the Isle of Cumbrae, it will be great! 🔬

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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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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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Kay Polland @kaypolland.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Abstract deadlines coming up soon! Talk - 14th March Poster - 28th March Sign up on our Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/glasgow-im... and come along and see our wonderful keynote speaker @alicepyne.bsky.social ! For more info, head to the GIN website : glasgowimagingnetwork.wordpress.com

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Glasgow Imaging Network Symposium 2025

Bringing together those from academia and industry, GIN provides a platform for delegates to share, promote and discuss microscopy.

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Glasgow Imaging Network @glasgowimaging.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

the Glasgow Imaging Network (GIN) Symposium is back for 2025! The symposium will take place on 4th April 2025 at the Mazumdar-Shaw Advanced Research Centre (ARC), University of Glasgow. Register and submit your abstract via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/glasgow-im...

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Glasgow Imaging Network Symposium 2025

Bringing together those from academia and industry, GIN provides a platform for delegates to share, promote and discuss microscopy.

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Gail McConnell @gailmcconnell.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

We are delighted to announce the Strathclyde Optical Microscopy Course 2025 (SOMC25), taking place in Glasgow from 23rd July – 1st August 2025. No previous experience in microscopy necessary! Please find more details at shorturl.at/98lXJ, deadline 17 January 2025.

Poster for the Strathclyde Optical Microscopy Course 2025 (SOMC25), which will take place at the University of Strathclyde from 23 July until 1 August 2025. Deadline to apply is 17 January 2025.

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Gail McConnell @gailmcconnell.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

🚨 Pre-print alert! 🚨 We have developed a robust protocol to reveal the ultrastructure of live Candida albicans using stimulated emission depletion microscopy, tracking organelles with high spatial precision for more than 12 hours. Read more (and movies!) at www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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