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Zimeng Wu

@zimengwu33.bsky.social
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Wellcome Trust Optical Biology PhD student @ UCL in the Wong Lab // interested in mechanotransduction and dynamic signalling in morphogenesis

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Yanlan Mao @yanlanmao.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
This epic paper, which has been a heroic 10 year journey for the lead author, Ricardo Barrientos, is finally out in Cell today! Many thanks to all co-authors, especially Billie Meadowcroft and Andela Saric for their beautiful MD simulations www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Basement membrane turnover controls cell shape
Basement membranes are scaffolds of proteins, like collagen, that give organs shape. During development, basement membranes must adapt to the growing organ. We infer how fast the basement membrane ada...
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Zimeng Wu @zimengwu33.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Got to try out another microscope woo! 8 positions stitched taken on the new @Bruker lightsheet this morning
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Guillaume Jacquemet @guijacquemet.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Delighted to share our latest preprint "NucleiSky enables cross-scale multimodal registration of microscopy data using nuclei constellations" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Code and App: github.com/CellMigratio...
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UCL Research Department of Cell & Developmental Biology @ucl-cdb.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
🔬 Exciting to see the publication of DySTrack in the Journal of Cell Science: a modular, open-source tool designed to transform how we approach live-cell imaging. 👉 Read the paper: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... #Microscopy #Bioimaging #LifeSciences #CellBiology #UCL
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Zimeng Wu @zimengwu33.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
DySTrack is officially published!: doi.org/10.1242/jcs.... If anyone is keen on using it feel free to reach out as we are more than happy to help and demo if need be!
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DySTrack – a modular smart microscopy tool for live tracking of dynamic samples on modern commercial microscopes
Summary: DySTrack is an easy-to-use open-source tool that bridges standard microscope control software with the Python image analysis ecosystem to enable automated tracking of moving, drifting, or gro...
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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
We are particular fans of DySTrack (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...) by @zimengwu33.bsky.social & Jonas Hartmann at UCL for live tracking of dynamic samples & WaveOrder (arxiv.org/abs/2412.097...) by @mattersoflight.bsky.social et al as a wave-optical framework for scalable biological microscopy 🐟🔬
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Zimeng Wu @zimengwu33.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
I always get weirdly sad setting up/collecting my fish/embryos for the last time every year and hope that they have a happy holidays too
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Zimeng Wu @zimengwu33.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Pleased to say that Jonas Hartmann (bs-less) and I have finally released DySTrack (“diss track”) - Dynamic Sample Tracking. It’s a Python-based, modular tool that brings smart microscopy to everyday imaging on commercial systems. Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... [1/6]
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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
DySTrack: a modular smart microscopy tool for live tracking of dynamic samples on modern commercial microscopes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Zimeng Wu @zimengwu33.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
My timely return to social media - just ahead of something fun we’re releasing next week! Until then here’s a movie of the zebrafish pLLP migrating past motor neurons and under the spinal cord as a teaser.
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Zimeng Wu @zimengwu33.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Thought I was being really novel when I designed and 3D printed this mold for zebrafish transplants based on the microinjection one, but found out today it already exists… Bottom: my PLA mold that’s bent from warm agarose Top: a very kind (more robust looking) gift from @mongeralab.bsky.social
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Dave Barry @david-j-barry.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
BIOIMAGE ANALYSTS ASSEMBLE!!! #CBIAS2025
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Zimeng Wu @zimengwu33.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
What a fun #CBIAS2025 !!
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Giulia Paci @giuliapaci.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Courtney @courtneyl7a7.bsky.social has written a lovely piece on this wonderful community initiative we’ve been running for 5 years at UCL - have a read! And follow @biig-ucl.bsky.social !
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Young Embryologist Network @yen-network.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Our second perspective talk was by Rob Tetley from Nikon Instruments with beautiful example movies developmental dynamics across scales sharing his experience in making the most of resonant scanning confocal imaging.
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