This is a fantastic video on the importance, value, and general awesomeness of scientific shared resources/cores. Thanks to ABRF @abrf.bsky.social! Reach out to your local cores and ask them how they can help with your research projects. They are experts and they want to help! f.io/1cgVqnLm
I was just about to ask for a pic! Good luck!
#FluorescenceFriday! Kindlins regulate integrin- and growth factor-dependent ureteric bud formation from Zent Lab @cp-devcell.bsky.social. Beautiful imaging & 3D rendering of ureteric bud cultures, tubulogenesis, & cells. @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social LSM980 confocal. doi.org/10.1242/dev....
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Happy #FluorescenceFriday! April is time for the Nikon Small World contest. Last year was great for Vanderbilt & CISR! James Hayes 4th; Dylan Burnette 10th; Zachary Sanchez 20th! CISR users, submit by April 30! @ento-sanchez.bsky.social @mag2art.bsky.social www.nikonsmallworld.com
Great review from the Hinton Lab!
For #FluorescenceFriday, a recent publication highlight from first author Duby Okonkwo from the Schoenecker lab. Great bone imaging with CISR widefield, 3D rendering, and analysis help from Oleg Kovtun. Thanks for using and acknowledging the CISR! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41651294/
Excited for the first full day of #ABRF2026! Jenny Schafer will present a Lightning Talk on maintaining publications, Monday 12:50. Sean Schaffer will participate in the Monday 2:45 panel, "How AI Can Be Used to Improve Core & Platform Operations". We'd love to say hello to old and new friends!
Here we go! The CISR supports our #Vanderbilt #Commodores as they begin #MarchMadness! #6 men's team plays today. #2 women's team plays Saturday. #AnchorDown #GoDores Image taken by James Hayes, CISR Nikon SDC, human heart cell undergoing division. (Basketballs not to scale.) #Microscopy
Join us! The CISR is hosting a Leica STELLARIS FALCON demo to learn more about FLIM. Seminar this Wednesday, March 18 at 12:30 PM in 3131 MRBIII. Demo next week, March 23-27. Use the QR code or contact Jenny Schafer to sign up! @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social #microscopy #FLIM
For today's #FluorescenceFriday, a reminder that the CISR offers monthly Office Hours on the 1st Tuesday of each month from 9-11 AM. Next is this Tuesday, March 3! Stop by and ask us a question about fluorescence, basic imaging, analysis, scheduling, or anything you want. See you then!
Accessible minimal requirements for reproducible light microscopy. This viewpoint presents a community-endorsed checklist defining minimal light microscopy metadata to improve rigor, reproducibility, and transparency in research. rupress.org/jcb/article/...
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The Winter 2026 edition of our CISR Newsletter is out! Read about new instrumentation, staff introduction, ongoing office hours, recent publication highlights, and more. #MicroscopyMonday
We're using #FluorescenceFriday to manifest some warmth here in Nashville! Still tens of thousands of people without power, still lots of ice on the roads and trees, and still below freezing. Enjoy this little cell pseudo-colored with Inferno for the nucleus and Orange Hot for the mitochondria. ๐ฅ๐งโ๏ธโ๏ธ
New paper alert for #FluorescenceFriday! Full of confocal imaging from Gu, Jacobson, & Kaverina Labs. "Paracrine Hormonal Signals From Islet ฮฑ-Cells Regulate Microtubule Dynamics in ฮฒ-Cells to Promote Insulin Secretion in Mouse and Human Islets" pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41511443/
So fun! I've been trying to figure out a way to explain this as an important part of cores - something about the breadth of samples and being available for one-off experiments on different sample types. It's very important!
First #MicroscopyMonday of 2026! Happy New Year!
Happy Holidays from the CISR! May all your days and fluorophores be BRIGHT. #MicroscopyMonday
We can't wait to continue working with all our CISR researchers in 2026! Happy Holidays! 9/9
Current CISR microscopes range from brand new to 18 years old! The average age is 8 years old. 8/9
And we held our 2nd annual "Life Is Beautiful" Image Contest! There were 27 submissions representing 7 CISR microscopes. (All images in this post are 2025 submissions.) 7/9
Which departments had the most CISR hours? 6/9
Which labs were obsessed with EM this year? 5/9
Which labs did we see in the CISR most often? 4/9
CISR staff were busy with microscope trainings! 3/9
Looks like the usual suspects for Most Popular Microscopes. 2/9
For the last (workday) #FluorescenceFriday of 2025, let's recap another amazing year in the CISR! We appreciate all our CISR labs, users, faculty, and staff! Thanks for a great 2025, and here's to a great 2026! #Wrapped #Microscopy First, you imaged for 11,082 microscope hours! 1/9
Time for the annual sharing of our favorite Christmas Microscope Joke: The Z-mas Tree! Source unknown. #Microscopy #Confocal #Volume
