MDI Bio Lab's Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy course 5/31–6/6.
Join innovators sharing the latest developments taking place in light-sheet research and its biological applications. Deadline: April 26
#microscopymonday #lightsheet #fluorescencemicroscopy 🧪
Congratulations to Bidhi Diwedi — first place at the BioME Graduate Fast-Pitch Competition with her presentation, "Vision impairment a global threat: Rethinking retina regeneration in humans using #zebrafish." An incredible achievement—well done!
🧪 🐟🎸 🍎 👩🔬 #VisionScience
Today's #fluorescencefriday capture is from MDI Bio Lab's Madelaine Lab. It shows the formation of blood vessels (green) and blood cells (purple) in a developing #zebrafish embryo.
Capture by Research Assistant II Caroline Halluin and MDIBL Light Microscopy Facility Director Frederic Bonnet. 🧪 🐟🎸
We did our best!
April 9 is Local News Day.
Local journalism is vital to healthy communities. The MDI Bio Lab is grateful for Maine’s local reporters who inform, connect and elevate the issues that matter. 🧪 #localnews #localnewsday
We had a great visit from students at The Community School at MDI Bio Lab! With scientist Jane Disney, they collected & tested water—getting a real feel for field research in action.
Hands-on science = the best kind of learning. Thanks for spending the day with us!
🍎 👩🔬 🌎 🦤 #AcademicSky #ecology
🚨 Registration reminder! The 53rd Annual Maine Biological and Medical Sciences Symposium is just around the corner, April 24 & 25 at MDI Bio Lab! Join researchers and students from across the region and connect with Maine’s scientific community.
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🧬 Biomedical Bootcamp 2026 is now open! A one-week, in-person program for students entering their junior or senior year of high school in Sept 2026, featuring hands-on biomedical research and mentorship from MDI Bio Lab scientists. 🧪 🍎 👩🔬
📅 Apply by May 15, 2026
Behind every breakthrough at MDI Bio Lab are graduate students asking big questions. Thank you all for your dedication and curiosity. Happy Graduate Student Appreciation Week!
#GSAW2026 🧪 🍎 👩🔬 #AcademicSky #EduSky
This week’s #FavoriteThingsFriday at MDI Bio Lab comes from Lio, a Research Assistant in the Spaulding Lab: “This plant is my baby. I dream of it climbing over the whole window and filling the lab with vegetal goodness.”
Labs are full of experiments—sometimes in pots by the window. 🧪🍎
New in Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology, "Effect of Glyphosate and AMPA on expression and activity of ABC export proteins in killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus) kidney tubules" by MDI Bio Lab Visiting Scientists B.Gericke, P.Uhl and G.Fricker. 🧪
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.etap.2026.105008
MDI Bio Lab hosted its first Maine IDeA Data Science Conference—bringing together researchers + students to explore AI and the future of biomedical science. 🧪 👩🔬 🖥️ 🧬
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MDI Bio Lab joined a Maine State House press conference to support Maine Technology Institute’s stewardship of public investment in the state’s R&D. Speakers highlighted infrastructure initiatives made possible by the Maine Technology Asset Fund, a voter-approved grant program administered by MTI.
Thrilled to congratulate Emily Spaulding on this fantastic news—so well deserved!
🧪 👩🔬 🧠 #neurodegenerative
How can the #zebrafish’s mechanisms of repair and regeneration be put to work for human health? Read about the current research in the Madelaine lab in this Q&A.
mdibl.org/mapping-regeneration-pat...
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This #microscopymonday image from MDI Bio Lab's Drummond lab shows cell ablation and regeneration in the pronephros of a #zebrafish. The pronephros is the first, simplest kidney that forms in zebrafish embryos. It serves as a vital model for studying human kidney development.
🧪 #microscopy 🐟🎸
Congratulations to Drs. Emily Spaulding and Murawala Lab at MDI Bio Lab on receiving their MIRA Awards from the National Institute of Health’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences.
Our MDI Bio Lab community is so proud to celebrate your hard work and future research! 🎉 🧪
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How do kidneys reconnect their internal “plumbing”? Scientists at MDI Bio Lab are studying #zebrafish kidney regeneration to uncover how new filtering units link into working networks.
#NephSky #RenalSky 🧪 🐟🎸
FREE Science Cafe, April 6 at 5 p.m.!
Explore "The Portrait of Antoine & Marie-Anne Lavoisier," where art, chemistry and the French Revolution meet with MDI Bio Lab President Hermann Haller, M.D.
One painting. A chemistry pioneer. A world in upheaval.
🧪 #chemsky #arthistory
A big boost for science in Maine: nearly $3M in new state and federal investments are strengthening research and workforce training at MDI Bio Lab—fueling discovery and biotech innovation.
🧪 #lifesciences #biotech
One concept. One minute. Better #microscopy.
MDIBL Light Microscopy Facility
just launched Light Microscopy Fundamentals—a new YouTube series breaking down the basics of light microscopy in quick, bite-sized videos.
#microscopymonday #fluorescentproteins #lightsheet #SciEd #AcademicSky 🧪 🍎
MDI Bio Lab's #FavoriteThingsFriday pick from Joel Graber, Senior Staff Scientist at MDIBL — The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf. It's a biography of Alexander von Humboldt, whose ideas influenced Charles Darwin. Joel esp loves the emphasis of meaningful dialogue between scientists.
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Did you know that early-life stress like constant danger or unhealthy conditions can “program” the body in long-lasting ways? MDI Bio Lab's Jim Coffman and his lab research why.
🧪 🐟🎸 🍎 👩🔬 🧬 🍏🧠 #Neuroscience #BehSci #healthpsychology
New events. New ideas. New ways to connect.
Our Events page is updated monthly with opportunities to learn from and engage with MDI Bio Lab.
See what’s ahead: https://mdibl.org/events/
We're super excited to announce that on April 2nd we're going to be doing a webinar on how to start a project and start using Anecdata.org for data collection!
mdibl-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Today's #microscopymonday of a zebrafish’s regenerating kidney thanks to Caramai Kamei and Iain Drummond at MDI Bio Lab. A new filtration unit, the nephron, forms from cells aggregating directly on an old tubule.
#microscopy #fluorescentproteins #lightsheet 🧪 🐟🎸 🍎 👩🔬 🌎 🖥️ 🧬
📔 New perspective article in npj Regenerative Medicine from Nature Portfolio, "Non-canonical muscle stem cells and other lessons from regenerative vertebrates" with Vijayishwer Singh Jamwal, Karen Crawford and Murawala Lab at MDI Bio Lab
#SciencePublishing 🧪 🧬
Reminder: ReBilD 2026 applications close May 15!
This 10-day course features hands-on regeneration & development experiments, research presentations, keynotes, and networking at MDI Bio Lab.
Emerging leaders — we’d love to see your application!
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MDI Bio Lab's Liz Marnik writes about growing up unvaccinated and how that shaped their views on science, trust, and vaccine conversations. A thoughtful opinion piece in The New York Times worth your attention.
#SciComm #InclusiveSciComm #SciEngage #SciEd 🧪 🍎 👩🔬
