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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR)

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR). Microscopy for all of VU and VUMC. Light microscopy and electron microscopy. Image analysis. medschool.vanderbilt.edu/cisr

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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 · 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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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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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 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 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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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 · 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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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 · 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 · 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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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
The Winter 2026 edition of our CISR Newsletter is out! Read about new instrumentation, staff introduction, ongoing office hours, recent publication highlights, and more. #MicroscopyMonday
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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
We're using #FluorescenceFriday to manifest some warmth here in Nashville! Still tens of thousands of people without power, still lots of ice on the roads and trees, and still below freezing. Enjoy this little cell pseudo-colored with Inferno for the nucleus and Orange Hot for the mitochondria. 🔥🧊☀️❄️
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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
New paper alert for #FluorescenceFriday! Full of confocal imaging from Gu, Jacobson, & Kaverina Labs. "Paracrine Hormonal Signals From Islet α-Cells Regulate Microtubule Dynamics in β-Cells to Promote Insulin Secretion in Mouse and Human Islets" pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41511443/
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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
First #MicroscopyMonday of 2026! Happy New Year!
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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Happy Holidays from the CISR! May all your days and fluorophores be BRIGHT. #MicroscopyMonday
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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
We can't wait to continue working with all our CISR researchers in 2026! Happy Holidays! 9/9
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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Current CISR microscopes range from brand new to 18 years old! The average age is 8 years old. 8/9
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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
And we held our 2nd annual "Life Is Beautiful" Image Contest! There were 27 submissions representing 7 CISR microscopes. (All images in this post are 2025 submissions.) 7/9
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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Which departments had the most CISR hours? 6/9
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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Which labs were obsessed with EM this year? 5/9
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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Which labs did we see in the CISR most often? 4/9
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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
CISR staff were busy with microscope trainings! 3/9
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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Looks like the usual suspects for Most Popular Microscopes. 2/9
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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
For the last (workday) #FluorescenceFriday of 2025, let's recap another amazing year in the CISR! We appreciate all our CISR labs, users, faculty, and staff! Thanks for a great 2025, and here's to a great 2026! #Wrapped #Microscopy First, you imaged for 11,082 microscope hours! 1/9
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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Time for the annual sharing of our favorite Christmas Microscope Joke: The Z-mas Tree! Source unknown. #Microscopy #Confocal #Volume
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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
For #FluorescenceFriday, we're adding #Football. Good luck to Vanderbilt's first ever Heisman finalist, QB Diego Pavia! High-resolution nucleus football to scale (2 microns), Pavia not to scale. #Heisman #DiegoPavia #2Turnt
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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Today is #WorldDiabetesDay & #FluorescenceFriday! One example from Vanderbilt diabetes research. Image from Darian Carroll's graduate work in Gannon lab. NHP pancreas: insulin (green), mitochondria (magenta), DAPI (blue). @healthcare.nikon.com @betacellbelle.bsky.social @vubasicsciences.bsky.social
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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Happy #FluorescenceFriday and #HappyHalloween! Spider web or microtubule web? Let's check the scale bar. 5 microns. Great lesson in the importance of a #scalebar. (Microtubules to scale, spider not to scale) 🎃👻🕷️🕸️
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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR) @vucellimaging.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Amy Engevik (Image of Distinction). Amy has her own lab now, but we claim her as a former CISR user and Vanderbilt postdoc! @amyengevik.bsky.social
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