🔬🔦In their Imaging spotlight, @taylashakespeare.bsky.social and @ijayas.bsky.social highlight their research dissecting receptor sorting in endosomes using the calibrated 3D ExM toolkit that they developed.
focalplane.biologists.com/2026/04/15/i...
Baby shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo
(apologies to everyone who now has this song stuck in their head for the rest of the day)
(Scientific) Riddles in the Dark
Microscopical and computational visualisation of Arabidopsis thaliana embryos.
Advances in imaging Arabidopsis embryogenesis
Babić et al. @istaresearch.bsky.social @milanzupunski.bsky.social @frimllab.bsky.social
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
PhD Opportunity Alert! The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions PhD programme AGILE (Advanced microscopy and image analysis around the plant nucleus) has 15 PhD positions in 6 different countries. This includes one here at Oxford Brookes University with the Kriechbaumer group.
Final TEM Rorschachs (for the time being...) 😃😏
Ghost or Bird?👻🐥
Pacman?
TEM Rorschach time! First up: fish
On Saturday we Zoomed Into Life at the @obu-hst-research.bsky.social Science Bazaar! Cool things included beetles close up, build-a-cell and a peek at life from the River Thames: featuring a heliozoan, lots of choanoflagellates and a hunting Lacrymaria cilliate
Showbiz news! Our microscopes will be featured in the new series of CBBC's Operation Ouch, starting with "Awesome Earwax" at 6pm on 23rd February!
Preparations are underway for the "Zooming into Life" activity stall at the @obu-hst-research.bsky.social 2026 Science Bazaar. Here is a photo from last year, and a sneak preview of one of our samples for this year!
We are very excited that they are trying to revive The Muppet Show 🐸🐷
What a beautiful dividing cell, we can clearly see the chromosomes and even count them with MAGNIFY in Arabidopsis root tip.
© Magali Grison
@monica-bic.bsky.social @lbm-bordeaux.bsky.social
John Gurdon taught us that the beginning of life is never truly lost — only waiting to be reawakened. Long before his ideas were accepted, he showed that a cell remembers more than it appears to know: that within a differentiated nucleus lies the latent capacity to begin anew go.nature.com/3Mf8SD0
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Congratulations to Barrack Owino on passing his PhD viva! Barrack used a range of our LM and EM systems to do his research on Leishmania. We will miss you Barrack; @macleanlab.bsky.social you've gained a gem!
The lab is a hive of activity today- no wonder the microscopes are booked out so much next week!
And special congratulations to the winners of the BioImaging Awards!
Great to see the breath of research at the Oxford Brookes HST Postgraduate Research Symposium- including wonderful findings made with our microscope systems 🔬🎓🦠
And thank you to all the organizers,speakers, attendees and @obu-hst-research.bsky.social for a fascinating day! 🔬🦠🌱🌾🪴
Finally,congratulations to Carmen Mata Mangas for winning the poster prize
The final talk of the day: Mark Johnston of Syngenta on using microscopy in crop protection research
Sam Caddell from MOA Technology explaining how the GALAXY platform aids novel herbicide discovery and understanding how these new herbicides work
Nikon's Aki Suto demonstrating the @picoquant.bsky.social FLIM system on our AX NSPARC confocal
Flash talks! 📸
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The endoplasmic reticulum in plants changes at different times of the day and between labs- are you controlling for this variation in your experiments?
