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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Today is #FluorescenceFriday, but it's also #DollyDay here in Nashville. So we took some microscopy images and made them into pink and purple butterflies to honor her. #DollyDayNashville #DollyParton #9to5 🔬🦋💜

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

REMINDER! This Thursday! We're launching a virtual "CLEM Collaborative" for imaging scientists in Correlative Light & Electron Microscopy to share tips & tricks. Thurs, Sept 24, 10AM CDT/3PM UTC/4PM BST. Registration & Zoom link. forms.gle/8WXRQuFHz7Bu... #clem #electronmicrocopy #microscopy

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! Huge congratulations 👏👏👏 to Vanderbilt researchers with Honorable Mentions in the 2026 Nikon Small World in Motion - Dylan Burnette, Emma Koory, and Zach Lehmann! @healthcare.nikon.com www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20... @mag2art.bsky.social @zlehmann.bsky.social 🔬🎥🎨

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Looking forward to this BINA Corporate Partners session on Wed, Sept 16 -- "Magnifying your Market Value: Converting Your Academic Skills and CV to an Industry Resume in the Age of AI". Join us! @bioimagingna.bsky.social #MicroscopyMonday #microscopy www.bioimagingnorthamerica.org/events/insig...

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BINA Speaker Series - Registration

Join us for the BINA Insights and Educational Tools from Industry Series - Register now!

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Vanderbilt School of Medicine Basic Sciences @vubasicsciences.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

✨ One more shout out to the 2026 @vucellimaging.bsky.social #LifeIsBeautiful Image Contest winners! 🥇 Spencer Rothfuss, “Nano Snowflake” 🥈 Hannah Collins, “The Art of Recycling” 🥉 James Hayes, “Zebrafish embryonic pupil” Discover the beauty of biology through microscopy: buff.ly/pNtBpvP

Scanning electron micrograph showing a mostly flat plane with small, medium, and large spheres throughout the midground and background. In the center of the image is a snowflake-looking, dark gray ice crystal.

Two rows of vertical images that come together to make a composition. The bottom images are a repetition of the top images, but in different colors and placements (i.e, the top left image is the same as the bottom right image and the top right image is the same image as the bottom left image; the remaining image is in the middle in both top and bottom). The top left image looks like a green “c”; the bottom right is magenta. The top middle image is a network of purple over the same green “c”; the bottom middle is the same network, but in green over the magenta “c.” The top right is the same green c and magenta network, but with baby-blue cells overlaid on top. Dark blue lines crisscross the edges. On the bottom left, the cells are shown in cyan, but the dark blue lines remain.

Egg-like shape (a zebrafish eye) with a bright yellow and orange circle in the middle (the pupil). The pupil is surrounded by a circle of dark blue and then purple and then red, though the colors fade into one another so that they change as if on a gradient. The whole thing is surrounded by what looks like a net with hexagonal holes; these are cell borders “lit up” by staining for the researcher’s protein of interest.

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Join us! We're launching a virtual "CLEM Collaborative" for imaging scientists in Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy to share tips & tricks. First event is Thurs, Sept 24 at 10AM CDT/3PM UTC/4PM BST. Registration & Zoom link. forms.gle/xu28967pnvRA... #clem #electronmicrocopy #microscopy

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Drumroll please... Congrats to the winners of the 3rd annual CISR Life Is Beautiful Image Contest! 1st Spencer Rothfuss, 2nd Hannah Collins, 3rd James Hayes! 👏🔬🎨🏆 @vubasicsciences.bsky.social medschool.vanderbilt.edu/basic-scienc...

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Happy #MicroscopyMonday! New paper alert from the Gould Lab with Alaina Willet as first author. Beautiful TEM of the fungal cell wall. Scale = 250 nm. Thank you for using and acknowledging the CISR! @vubasicsciences.bsky.social Nature Communications. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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BioImaging North America @bioimagingna.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

#HappyMicroscopyMonday #microscopycommunity - One week until the 2026 BINA Light Microscopy Image contest closes! Don’t miss out on this chance to win prizes and show off your talent! Learn more: buff.ly/8Qz8EM1

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

New publication alert #FluorescenceFriday! First author Juliann Burkett, Gannon Lab. Beautiful mouse pancreatic islet imaging! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42294887/ And great acknowledgment! "acknowledge the staff...for their training and maintenance of the high-power microscopes used in this study" 👏

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Today is the LAST DAY to submit to the 3rd annual CISR Life Is Beautiful image contest! We can't wait to see all the entrants and choose the winners! #MicroscopyMonday Details and submission here. tinyurl.com/2dd42x89

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

#FluorescenceFriday finishes our Life Is Beautiful countdown! FIRST PLACE here! 2024 Shane Watson, Sando Lab, Zeiss lightsheet, cleared mouse brain. 2025 James Hayes, Burnette Lab, Nikon SoRa, Zebrafish eye. Submit now for 2026! tinyurl.com/2dd42x89 @vubasicsciences.bsky.social @mag2art.bsky.social

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VU Chemical Biology @vanderbiltvicb.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

VICB member, Dr. Borden Lacy, is featured in Vanderbilt University Medical Center News for ongoing research focused on improving the prevention and treatment of C. difficile infections. Read more from Vanderbilt Health News: news.vumc.org/2026/08/11/c... @vubasicsciences.bsky.social

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Vanderbilt Health evaluating vaccine for C. difficile for people 65 and older

Participants in the study will be randomized to receive two C. difficile vaccine doses six months apart, or a placebo, to learn if an investigational vaccine is safe and can help prevent C. difficile ...

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The countdown continues! 2025 Second Place winner - Rekha Nagarajan, Tyska Lab, Nikon AXR MP, whole mount small intestine. 🔬🎨🏅 @vubasicsciences.bsky.social @tyskalabactual.bsky.social FOUR DAYS LEFT TO SUBMIT THIS YEAR! Details, prizes, link here. tinyurl.com/2dd42x89

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

We're counting down to the Aug. 17 deadline for the 3rd annual CISR Life Is Beautiful contest! Today, 2nd place winner from 2024 - James Hayes, Burnette Lab, cardiomyocyte actin, Nikon SoRa. @mag2art.bsky.social @vubasicsciences.bsky.social Details and submission link here! tinyurl.com/2dd42x89 🔬🎨🏅

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The countdown continues! Today we highlight the 3rd place image from 2025 - James Costanzo, Gama lab, iPSC neurons, Nikon SoRa. 🔬🎨🏅 This year's CISR Life Is Beautiful contest is open for submissions for 6 more days! #microscopy Submit now! tinyurl.com/2dd42x89 @vubasicsciences.bsky.social

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Let's countdown this week with our previous CISR Life Is Beautiful winners! 2024 3rd Place - Emma Koory, Burnette lab with a Nikon SoRa image of a clefted nucleus among mRNA. 🔬🎨🏅@mag2art.bsky.social @vubasicsciences.bsky.social #MicroscopyMonday Enter this year's contest here! tinyurl.com/2dd42x89

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

CISR users still have time to submit to our 3rd annual Life Is Beautiful Image Contest! Do it today for #FluorescenceFriday! Deadline is August 17. Details and prizes here at the submission link. medschool.vanderbilt.edu/cisr/image-c...

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Vanderbilt School of Medicine Basic Sciences @vubasicsciences.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

📣 The @vucellimaging.bsky.social Life Is Beautiful Image Contest submission deadline has been extended to Aug. 17. If you've captured stunning scientific imagery using a CISR microscope, you now have more time to share your work and a chance to win 💰️. medschool.vanderbilt.edu/cisr/image-c...

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Image Contest

Contest Details: The Cell Imaging Shared Resource is hosting its third annual Life Is Beautiful Image Contest. The contest, which features stunning scientific imagery of the inherent beauty of life…

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! But an EM image to remind you about our 3rd annual CISR Life Is Beautiful contest. Deadline is MONDAY, Aug 3. Submit light or electron microscopy images acquired in the CISR! Winners announced in Sept. $100, $50, and $25 prizes. medschool.vanderbilt.edu/cisr/image-c...

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Vanderbilt School of Medicine Basic Sciences @vubasicsciences.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

🔬✨ Don't forget, CISR’s annual Life Is Beautiful Image Contest is open until Aug. 3! Researchers and trainees who have captured an image using a @vucellimaging.bsky.social microscope are invited to submit their work—and to win cash prizes. 👉 medschool.vanderbilt.edu/cisr/image-c...

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

It's #FluorescenceFriday! And the submissions are rolling in for the 3rd annual CISR Life Is Beautiful contest! You have 10 days left to submit. Let's see those beautiful images! medschool.vanderbilt.edu/cisr/image-c...

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PBF Comics @pbfcomics.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

“What a beautiful universe, hon" says a telescope as gazes upon an aurora borealis. “It really is”, responds the telescope's partner, who it turns out is not a telescope, but a microscope. Hands full of algae, she wades waist deep in a disgusting swamp, amazed by the heavenly microscopic life all around them.

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VU Chemical Biology @vanderbiltvicb.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

From researching #cancer to becoming a cancer patient, VICB member, Lawrence Marnett, shares his personal #journey through diagnosis, #treatment, and survivorship. His story is a powerful reminder of why cancer research matters. Read more: news.vumc.org/momentum/whe... @vubasicsciences.bsky.social

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When a scientist gets cancer

A cancer expert’s journey through his own diagnosis and care.

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

It's #MicroscopyMonday! CISR users, have you submitted your images to the 3rd annual CISR Life Is Beautiful contest yet? Three weeks until the deadline!

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

First #MicroscopyMonday of the month! Good time for Vanderbilt CISR users to submit their beautiful images to our 3rd annual CISR Life Is Beautiful Image Contest! medschool.vanderbilt.edu/cisr/image-c...

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

It's that time of year! Submissions are open for the THIRD annual CISR Life Is Beautiful contest! Start searching your folders for your best CISR images (light or electron microscopy). Or go ahead and submit today for #FluorescenceFriday! 🔬🎨🏆 medschool.vanderbilt.edu/cisr/image-c...

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Great spotlight on graduate student Monica Brown in the Lau Lab. She is a very frequent CISR user, and it's great to read about her research.

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Let's get this week started with #MicroscopyMonday! New MBoC paper alert from the Tyska lab including so many #microscopy techniques - light, EM, and CLEM (pic). "A role for LIMA1 in the assembly of actin bundle-supported protrusions" 🔬👏💚 www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/...

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

New publication from the Nordman Lab with lots of imaging for #FluorescenceFriday! Confocal, Airyscan, live imaging, and photobleaching, with first authors Mohit Das and Eli Coronado-Chavez. "NASP functions in the cytoplasm to prevent histone H3 aggregation during early embryogenesis" @jcb.org

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

New paper for #FluorescenceFriday! "Human Brain Vasculature-on-a-Chip Model Constructed With Microvessels Isolated From Cryopreserved Postmortem Human Brain Tissue". 1st author Brian O'Grady (now VUMC Asst. Prof.) & Lippmann lab. Great ex. of confocal to show localization & structure in X,Y,Z.

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BioTechniques @biotechniques.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Could you be our next scientific image competition winner? 📸 👉 Enter now >>> www.biotechniques.com/imaging/btn_... 🧪

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BioTechniques Image Competition 2026

This year's BioTechniques Scientific Image Competition is now accepting submissions! Enter for your chance to win.

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Happy Graduation Day at Vanderbilt! #VU2026 We celebrate with the undergraduate and graduate students, especially those who have come through the CISR on their academic journey. Hats off to you! And enjoy this brain image for #FluorescenceFriday! Scale bar = 1500 microns 👩‍🎓🎓👨‍🎓🧠🔬

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Last day to submit to the #NikonSmallWorld competition for 2026! We love to see all the beautiful microscopy images, and we would love to see some Vanderbilt winners again! #microscopy

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

#FluorescenceFriday highlight from Burkewitz Lab. "ER remodelling is a feature of ageing and depends on ER-phagy" @natcellbio.nature.com Super-resolution (Airyscan) of C. elegans hypodermis w/ ER tubules & sheets. Scale=2 microns. @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41629400/

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

We're only 30 minutes into the NIH ORIP S10 Symposium (day 1 of 2), and I've already learned so much. Thank you for all this information! We are always thinking toward our new NIH S10 submission. And glad to hear this will be an annual symposium. #cores #equipment #NIH

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

This is a fantastic video on the importance, value, and general awesomeness of scientific shared resources/cores. Thanks to ABRF @abrf.bsky.social! Reach out to your local cores and ask them how they can help with your research projects. They are experts and they want to help! f.io/1cgVqnLm

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

#FluorescenceFriday! Kindlins regulate integrin- and growth factor-dependent ureteric bud formation from Zent Lab @cp-devcell.bsky.social. Beautiful imaging & 3D rendering of ureteric bud cultures, tubulogenesis, & cells. @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social LSM980 confocal. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! April is time for the Nikon Small World contest. Last year was great for Vanderbilt & CISR! James Hayes 4th; Dylan Burnette 10th; Zachary Sanchez 20th! CISR users, submit by April 30! @ento-sanchez.bsky.social @mag2art.bsky.social www.nikonsmallworld.com

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

For #FluorescenceFriday, a recent publication highlight from first author Duby Okonkwo from the Schoenecker lab. Great bone imaging with CISR widefield, 3D rendering, and analysis help from Oleg Kovtun. Thanks for using and acknowledging the CISR! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41651294/

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Excited for the first full day of #ABRF2026! Jenny Schafer will present a Lightning Talk on maintaining publications, Monday 12:50. Sean Schaffer will participate in the Monday 2:45 panel, "How AI Can Be Used to Improve Core & Platform Operations". We'd love to say hello to old and new friends!

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Here we go! The CISR supports our #Vanderbilt #Commodores as they begin #MarchMadness! #6 men's team plays today. #2 women's team plays Saturday. #AnchorDown #GoDores Image taken by James Hayes, CISR Nikon SDC, human heart cell undergoing division. (Basketballs not to scale.) #Microscopy

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Join us! The CISR is hosting a Leica STELLARIS FALCON demo to learn more about FLIM. Seminar this Wednesday, March 18 at 12:30 PM in 3131 MRBIII. Demo next week, March 23-27. Use the QR code or contact Jenny Schafer to sign up! @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social #microscopy #FLIM

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

For today's #FluorescenceFriday, a reminder that the CISR offers monthly Office Hours on the 1st Tuesday of each month from 9-11 AM. Next is this Tuesday, March 3! Stop by and ask us a question about fluorescence, basic imaging, analysis, scheduling, or anything you want. See you then!

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Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · 25/02/2026

Accessible minimal requirements for reproducible light microscopy. This viewpoint presents a community-endorsed checklist defining minimal light microscopy metadata to improve rigor, reproducibility, and transparency in research. rupress.org/jcb/article/... @quarep-limi.bsky.social

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