📣 #NESM Spring Symposium keynote (THIS FRIDAY!): Tirzah Abbott ☄️
SEM + NA-TKD to reveal nanoscale transformations in a shocked meteorite, multiple pathways of ringwoodite & wadsleyite under extreme conditions.
Join us: www.nesmicroscopy.org/2026-spring-...
#Microscopy #SEM #PlanetaryScience
Core Tour for the #NESM Spring Symposium! 🔬
Join April 10 for a virtual visit to the SCOPE Lab at UMass Chan Med @umasschan.bsky.social with Christina Baer.
🐟Featuring MERFISH data, Schafer lab. @vizgen.bsky.social @scope-umasschan.bsky.social
Register: www.nesmicroscopy.org/2026-spring-...
Happy #3DThursday from Sweden! 🇸🇪 This Thy-1 mouse brain was the crowd favorite at Focus on Microscopy this year 🐭
🔬: Zeiss Lightsheet Z.1
🥼: Chih-Wei Logan Hsu @cwloganhsu.bsky.social
🏛️: Baylor College of Medicine
🎬: syGlass, v2.6.0
#FOM2026 #syGlass #Microscopy @scilifelab.se
⭐ Meet our first #NESM Spring Symposium Keynote: Zak Swartz! @zakswartz.bsky.social
📸: Live sea star oocyte 🟨 microtubules | 🟪 actin
🔬: Nikon / Yokogawa W1 spinning disk
🥼: Beverly Naigles
🌐: www.theswartzlab.org
🏛️: Marine Biological Laboratory @mblscience.bsky.social
#MicroscopyMonday
Tour of the Core for the #NESM Spring Symposium! 🔬
Join us April 10 for a virtual visit to the Microscopy Core Lab at UMass Lowell with Anna Maria Routsi.
Featuring HR-TEM imaging from Sangmin Jeong (Ross Lab).
Register: www.nesmicroscopy.org/2026-spring-...
#MicroscopyMonday #Microscopy #TEM
🦋 Butterfly wings form from invisible developmental boundaries long before their colors appear.🏆Congrats to Gabby Jerz, Poster Winner from the #NESM Fall Symposium and Lab Manager in the Patel Lab at the MBL @mblscience.bsky.social.
🔬 Zeiss LSM880
#MicroscopyMonday #Bioimaging #DevBio
Image credit: A male water flea (Daphnia magna): yellow 🟨 is musculature, magenta/gray 🟪 shows autofluorescence of its outer cuticle.
🔬: Fluorescence Microscopy
🥼: Carsten Wolff @carsten-wolff.bsky.social
🏛️: Marine Biological Laboratory @mblscience.bsky.social
📸: #syGlass
📣 Announcing our #NESM Spring Symposium — April 10 (virtual & free!)
We’re building an exciting lineup across the life & physical sciences. Interested in giving a talk? Submit your abstract by March 25 🗓️
Register: www.nesmicroscopy.org/2026-spring-...
#Microscopy #Bioimaging
GORGEOUS data from Laura Smithson for #MicroscopyMonday! 🏆
Our #NESM Fall Symposium Poster Winner (Brown Univ., de Graffenried Lab) used customized #FIB-SEM to reconstruct the T. brucei cytoskeleton at 4 nm res — 9,000+ images & 660 GB. @brown.edu @aicjanelia.bsky.social
#Microscopy #VolumeEM #EM
"A Sparkling Spot" ✨
🔬: Leica Biosystems SP8 Confocal, White Light Laser
🥼: Keunjung Heo, FM Kirby Neurobiology Center
📝: Harvard Brain Science Initiative Beauty of the Brain Awards: mailchi.mp/brain.harvar...
🏛️: Boston Children's Hospital (CIC): research.childrenshospital.org/resources/co...
📢 Calling the #NESM community!
We’re coming up on a year of sharing incredible microscopy data — and we want you to be part of it 🔬✨ Submit your work and we’ll feature it in future posts.
📩 Submit here: forms.gle/5bApb3RTVoA1...
#Microscopy #ScienceCommunication #Imaging
For #MicroscopyMonday, meet Rylie Walsh — Imaging Specialist at @mblscience.bsky.social and longtime board member. Our Director of Biological Sciences, she is passionate about helping scientists design #microscopy experiments, and is excited by all things #VolumeEM! 🔬
@ryliewalsh.bsky.social #NESM
For #MicroscopyMonday, meet our #NESM President, Jaqulin! She studies how alpha-synuclein affects synapses in sea lamprey at @mblscience.bsky.social, and is passionate about microscopy education & outreach.
🔬: @jeolusa.bsky.social 120i TEM
🐍: Sea lamprey reticulospinal synapse
🥼: Jaqulin Wallace
The Allen Mouse Brain Atlas is a cornerstone of #neuroscience: a standardized, high-resolution map of brain anatomy built to keep experiments comparable across labs. 🧠 Here’s a 3D walk through its anatomical meshes in #syGlass!
@alleninstitute.org
#3DThursday #DataViz #VR
For today’s #MicroscopyMonday, meet our #NESM President-elect, Harry Cramer! The Assistant Director of Cellular Imaging Core at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harry brings deep expertise in multiphoton microscopy, training, and community-driven science. 🔬🧠
@bostonchildrens.bsky.social
Introducing #NESM Treasurer Jennifer Misuraca for #MicroscopyMonday! Jennifer is FESEM Product Manager at #JEOL USA, supporting applications, training, and demos. She joined the NESM board in 2016 and became Treasurer in 2024. 📸 SEM of bacteriophage on a JEOL FESEM, Joseph Stukey at Hope College
Happy Holidays from NESM!
For #MicroscopyMonday, we’re excited to welcome Katie Shulenberger as NESM’s newest Director of Physical Sciences! 🎉
An Asst. Prof. of Chemistry at @brandeis.edu, Katie develops spectroscopic methods to study semiconductor nanomaterials and photophysics.
#NESM #Spectroscopy #Nanomaterials
Another #MicroscopyMonday intro! Meet Emma Perry, the #NESM Clerk from UMaine @umaine.bsky.social . She manages electron & confocal microscopes at UMaine and studies Maine/NE USA tardigrade biogeography & taxonomy. 📸 Maine tardigrade: Viridiscus perviridis 🔬Amray 1820, CORE #ElectronMicroscopy Lab.
The New England Society for Microscopy is heartbroken by the tragic shooting at Brown University. Academic and research spaces should be safe places to learn, teach, and experiment. We mourn the victims, stand with the Brown community, and are deeply angered by this senseless act of violence.
Introducing another #NESM board member for #MicroscopyMonday — Ben Muller, Director of Physical Sciences! He works across surface metrology, microfluidics, thin films, and micro/nanofabrication. He just defended his PhD! 🎉
📸 SEM of modified EGaIn sphere contacts (Harvard CNS).
#SEM #Nanotechnology
#NESM team together!
Happy #MicroscopyMonday! Meet our new Director of Biological Sciences, Mark Scimone, a UNH professor whose work spans neuroscience, optics, and image analysis. He brings experience from Boston Children’s and PSI, plus a passion for microscopy education. #NESM #SEM
📸: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Happy #MicroscopyMonday! This week we're spotlighting Brandy Freitas, our Director of Media and Outreach at #NESM.👏 @brandy-syglass.bsky.social
Brandy is the Director of Data Science at #syGlass, and here is a video of #3Ddata from C Wolff the MBL @mblscience.bsky.social 🔬
#BioImaging #SciComm
Happy #MicroscopyMonday! 🧫 This week we're spotlighting Andy Stone, our immediate past-president at #NESM. 👏 @andystoneimaging.bsky.social
Andy leads the Brandeis light microscopy core and is a powerhouse in the imaging community—from BINA to NESM and RMS. 🎥🔬
#LightSheet #BioImaging #STEM
Great!
This gorgeous piece will be displayed during our Fall Symposium at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA on November 6th & 7th. If you are interested in a chance to learn more about 3D printing and how it can be used in your microscopy builds, register now for the Makerspace Workshop on November 6th.
This week's #MicroscopyMonday is a time lapse 3D printing of a mini microscope from the MakerLab at Brandeis University.
🥼 Greg Buckland | Head of Brandeis MakerLab
#MicroscopyMonday #Sciencecommunication #BrandeisUniversity #NESM #Microscopy #Science #3D #3DPrinting
Tungsten crystals for #MicroscopyMonday from one of our upcoming keynote speakers! #NESM www.nesmicroscopy.org/2025-fall-sy...
🥼: @gewilli.bsky.social, Microscopist
🏛️: Brown University Leduc Bioimaging
🔬: TFS Apreo 2 VS Scanning Electron Microscope, Horizontal Field Width (HFW) = 49μm
