AQLM was an intense 9-day dive into advanced microscopy—blending core concepts, cutting-edge methods, and inspiring MBL history. I gained valuable skills and connections to better support LSU researchers and strengthen our imaging community. #AQLM2025 #MBL #LightMicroscopy #LSU #SIF #Microscopy 🔬🦑
And just like that, #AQLM2025 is over. Hopefully we’ll all find ourselves in the same windowless microscope room sometime soon, bead slide in hand.
This year’s esteemed Inoue Lecture was given by French optical physicist Dr. Sophie Brasselet of The Fresnel Institute. Dr. Brasselet spoke of her team’s efforts towards applying 6 degrees of PSF engineering to super resolution polarization microscopy. #AQLM2025
As a final exercise everyone got to build open source microscopes using kits available from UC2 @openuc2.bsky.social #AQLM2025
Closing @aqlm.bsky.social like it started, building a #microscope, with @openuc2.bsky.social
#microscopy #aqlm2025 @mblscience.bsky.social
Beautiful plant! Captured with our #lightsheet microsocpe at the #AQLM2025 @mblscience.bsky.social! Curious? openuc2.com/light-sheet-3/
Shinya Inoue’s video #microscope at @mblscience.bsky.social
#microscopy #aqlm2025 #bioimaging
🔬 Glad to support #AQLM2025 at the #MBL.
On our partners’ workstations:
✅ UNO+ – user-friendly & high value
✅ BL3 – with Full Sample Feedback for real-time control of Temp, Humidity & CO₂ at the sample level.
👉 Already using our latest tech? Tell us what u think!
Two women sit in large wooden arm chairs worn leather cushions in a high ceiling room. To the right a projector screen shows multicolor images of cells.
The AQLM Queens of Super-res lead evening discussion. Dr. Gustavsson and Dr. Lidke help us figure out how to look REALLY close. #AQLM2025
@gustavssonlab.bsky.social
@aqlm.bsky.social
Arabidopsis labeled with EB1b-mNeon in green (microtubule plus end) and tubulin in magenta (microtubules). Timelapse image on the Leica Stellaris 8 laser scanning confocal. @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social @mblscience.bsky.social #AQLM2025
Ooof, those PSFs are looking *a little* asymmetric...sample prep is key here! (AKA keep Cheeto dust out of your bead sample.)
#AQLM2025
Just a bunch of demonic point-spread functions 👹😈👺🔬
#aqlm2025 #microscopy #confocal #microscope #fluorescence
#microtubule tip tracks color-coded for time
Imaged on a @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social
LSM880 #confocal #microscope 🌱🔬
#aqlm2025 #microscopymonday #microscopy #plantscience #botany #cytoskeleton #cellbio
Tracking #microtubule tips in plant cells on a @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social LSM880 #confocal #microscope 🌱🔬
#aqlm2025 #microscopymonday #microscopy #plantscience #botany #cytoskeleton #cellbio
Dr. Palmer gives an amazing lecture on dyes, fluorescent proteins, and FRET/FLIM. A chemist who makes non-chemists understand the chemistry! #AQLM2025
Arabidopsis with EB1b-mNEON labeling the plus end of microtubules 🌱 Imaged on the Nikon AX-R laser scanning confocal with NSPARC. #AQLM2025
Live cell lab: understanding the trade offs between acquisition time, SNR, spatial resolution, and cell survival on different microscope systems. You can’t have it all, but ideally you can have enough for meaningful analysis. #AQLM2025
The back focal plane! Today Dr. Chris Bjornsson demonstrated Abbe’s theory of resolution by manipulating the light passing through the back focal plane. Here he is using a lens to focus the back focal plane onto the camera for us to see. #AQLM2025
Dr. Shalin Mehta giving a tour of Shinya Inoue’s polarization scope housed in Lillie @mblscience.bsky.social 🔬
#AQLM2025
Watch how the color shifts as the angle changes.
#AQLM2025
Rabbit muscle fibers under darkfield. Something interesting is happening where two fibers overlap…
#AQLM2025
#bryozoa in dark field #microscopy
#aqlm2025 #bioimaging #marinebiology
Louise does the #polarization interpretive dance for #aqlm2025 label-free lab 🕺🏼✨
#microscopy #bioimaging @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social @aqlm.bsky.social
Visualizing illumination with a uranium block
Photo credit @roggomes.bsky.social
#aqlm2025 #microscopy #bioimaging #fluorescence
