It was fantastic to chat with Aníbal about the @lisium-chile.bsky.social initiative and Aníbal’s journey to becoming a light-sheet specialist and project coordinator at Universidad Mayor, Chile.
Our Community Manager @helenzsci.bsky.social chats with Aníbal Vargas Ríos @anvargasr.bsky.social about the LiSIUM initiative, which is democratising access to light-sheet microscopy in Chile and throughout Latin America.
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We are staying in Chile for our ‘Imaging with…’ series & in this post, we meet the team at Unidad de Microscopía, Universidad Mayor, Chile. The Universidad Mayor is home of the @lisium-chile.bsky.social project. We’ll be hearing some updates on LiSIUM from @anvargasr.bsky.social on FocalPlane soon.
"Facilities like LiSIUM instill confidence and encourage autonomous use, helping researchers navigate the complexities of light-sheet microscopy and maximize its potential for scientific discovery"
Thanks @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social for sharing our initiative!
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Check out this interview by @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social with @anvargasr.bsky.social, our initiative's coordinator, on building a South American #lightsheet community and our experience so far.
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#LISH25 free day ride. Epic. Almost 90 km.
Bye bye #lish25... Time to cry for 12 hours in trains... Will miss you all even @paveltomancak.bsky.social Keep up the good work!
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Excellent mid-course presentations from the #LISH25 student teams. Packed @csbdresden.bsky.social seminar room. Tons of data, visualisation, sample preparation creativity, and image analysis in progress. Lots of ambition from the student teams. I am impressed.
For the day five of #LISH25 Jan Huisken comes home, to @mpi-cbg.de, to show us what his latest project, the #Flamingo microscope can do. Walk up song featured stunning photography of birds - all taken by Jan who is the imager all the way.
Beautiful, moving combination of music, fish embryo microscopy, and Pablo Neruda poetry introduces Miguel Concha’s #LISH25 lecture. Walk-up song on another level! Like at #Woodstock. Fascinating and unusual #Morphogenesis of #killifish follows.
Light Sheet ❤️
This amazing image obtained in our Light sheet🔬, shows a chick embryo injected by Jesus Juarez with a fluorescent dye to label its vascular network.
CUBIC-based tissue clearing and 3D reconstruction by David Arancibia.
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🚨 Deadline extended!
You now have until August 8 to apply for the Light-Sheet Image Analysis Workshop (Jan 5–9, 2026) at Universidad Mayor in Santiago de Chile with the support of CZI @cziscience.bsky.social and @lisium-chile.bsky.social
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One of the most relevant challenges in light sheet microscopy is the mounting of samples. Different strategies, creativity and a lot of patience are required to carry out this task!
Would you like to see the final result?
Clarified sample (CUBIC) by Ignacio Casanova (U.Chile)
Towing of lateral line axons in vivo in a transgenic zebrafish embryo. Great imaging at the EMBO #DevBiol course in Quintay, Chile, using a Zeiss Light Sheet microscope. Huge thanks to Universidad Mayor, Microxchile, Leo Valdivia, & LiSIUM_Chile for allowing the use of the microscope at the course
We are excited to start the new version of the EMBO Practical course on developmental biology in beautiful Quintay
Credit video: Aljandro Sanchez-Alvarado @planaria1.bsky.social
And how the community of lightsheet users in 🇨🇱 is growing! How motivating to see posters and talks with results obtained in our microscopy unit. Camila Weiss and Ignacio Casanova, users of our #lightsheet7 were awarded on this occasion! Congratulations!
What an experience! We were this weekend at the First Congress of the Chilean Society for Developmental Biology at @udeconcepcion.bsky.social, with our stand @lisium-chile.bsky.social of the CIB-U. Mayor, promoting access to the lightsheet #lightsheet7 with support from @cziscience.bsky.social
in 2021, I was a member of the team @the.3i.social that described, for the first time, using a #lightsheet #microscope, the full nervous system of a mouse. I don't know if this has ever been duplicated. Sample from CIBR, Dr. Hu Zhao. Happy #FluorescenceFriday Nerds. BB-PEG. 6.5X/0.25NA
