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Volunteer led organization focused on providing microscopy-related activities and events and disseminating microscopy knowledge and skills to anyone interested in the New England region.
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For #MicroscopyMonday, a 100M year-old 🦟 in amber! Lots of familiar #NESM faces up in Acadia for the #LSFM25 at the MDI @mdibiolab.bsky.social ! πŸ”¬: Bruker @brukercorporation.bsky.social, LCS SPIM 🟠: Courtesy the Sims Collection πŸ₯Ό&πŸŽ₯: Jan Frankowski @frankowskijc.bsky.social @lsfm-na.bsky.social

πŸ₯£ #MicroscopyMonday at #NESM! Nano Cheerios (FeO) imaged with a Schottky field emission #SEM (FE-SEM). These rings highlight the clarity and contrast achievable with a high-brightness electron beam. πŸ”¬ JEOL JSM-IT800SHL, www.jeolusa.com/PRODUCTS/Sca... πŸ₯Ό Jennifer Misuraca πŸ›οΈ @jeoleurope.bsky.social

Microscopist on vacation: "wait, can I take an image with a phone and binoculars' lens?" ... yes, apparently you can ... πŸ”­ Not quite #MicroscopyMonday ... #NESM πŸ”¬: Celestron phase coated 8x42 129m, FOV 7.4Β°, iPhone detector 🐦: Scarlet Tanager πŸ₯Ό: @brandy-syglass.bsky.social πŸ›οΈ: West Marlboro, VT

#MicroscopyMonday: tissue cleared 🐭lung using light sheet microscopy (#LSFM)! πŸ”¬: @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social LIGHTSHEET 7, 5x mag πŸ₯Ό: Sidrah Ahmed & Carla Kim, PI at BCH πŸ›οΈ: @bostonchildrens.bsky.social research.childrenshospital.org/resources/co... 🎬: syglass.io #Microscopy #TissueClearing #NESM

For #MicroscopyMonday: 3D reconstructions of lamprey reticulospinal synapses πŸ‰: Petromyzon marinus πŸ₯Ό: Jaqulin Wallace, @mblscience.bsky.social πŸ”¬: JEOL JEM-200CX, MBL’s Central Microscopy Facility πŸ“„: doi.org/10.1091/mbc.... #Neurodegeneration #ElectronMicroscopy #MBL #Microscopy #Parkinsons #NESM

It's #MicroscopyMonday!πŸ”¬πŸŒˆ An incredible mouse embryo, cleared and imaged on a @the.3i.social LightSheet. #NESM πŸ”¬: @edwardlachica3.bsky.social 🐭: Dharmendra Puri, @harvardmed.bsky.social, @bostonchildrens.bsky.social πŸ›οΈ: micron.hms.harvard.edu/tissue-clear... πŸ“©: [email protected]

"Rising from Chaos" #MicroscopyMonday: an active system of microtubules, kinesin motors and actin filaments. πŸ”¬: Resonant Scanning Nikon AX-R Confocal πŸ₯Ό: Quang Tran of the Fraden Lab, MRSEC, @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social πŸ›οΈ: www.brandeis.edu/science/reso... πŸ“©: [email protected]

For #MicroscopyMonday: polymer-drug crystal complexes scanned with a FE-SEM! πŸ”¬: Hitachi's Gemini Field-Emission Scanning Electron Microscope πŸ₯Ό: Ben Muller, PI Giovanni Traverso, MIT-MechE πŸ“: www.nature.com/articles/s44... πŸ›οΈ: Harvard Center for Nanoscale Systems (CNS) πŸ“©: [email protected] #NESM

For #MicroscopyMonday, Naegleria cells from our Keynote Speaker for the Spring Symposium!🦠 πŸ”¬: Nikon Ti2, Plan Apo Ξ» 100x oil obj, Crest spinning disk, Prime 95B CMOS, Spectra III/Celesta source πŸ₯Ό: @katrinavelle.bsky.social πŸ›οΈ: www.umassd.edu πŸ“©: [email protected] #NESM #SciComm #SciArt

For #MicroscopyMonday, the 1st place winner of UMaine's 2025 β€œImaging Your Research"! πŸ‘‘: Aulacoseira pusilla, a diatom from a pond in Maine! πŸ”¬: Zeiss NVision 40 FIB/SEM πŸ₯Ό: Leonardo VillacΓ­s πŸ›οΈ: umaine.edu/core/electron-microscopy-laboratory πŸ“©: [email protected] #NESM #SciComm #SciArt

πŸ“£ Call for Abstracts πŸ“£ for the Spring Symposium: www.nesmicroscopy.org/2025-spring-... πŸ“ Virtual - all are invited to attend and submit an abstract, even if you're outside of the NE area! πŸ“† Friday, April 25th πŸ• 9AM - 4PM EST πŸ’² Free #NESM #SciComm #SciArt #ShareYourScience #Microscopy

For #MicroscopyMonday: Sea Lamprey spinal cord! πŸ‰: Petromyzon marinus. Axons injected to visualize presynaptic actin. πŸ”¬: Leica Stellaris 8, 40x oil obj. Max z-projection, heat map for fluorescence. πŸ₯Ό: Jaqulin Wallace, MBL. Johannes Tromm, DZNE. #NESM #SciComm #SciArt www.mbl.edu/research/res...

πŸ“£ Registration is now open for our virtual Spring Symposium, April 25th! This is a great opportunity to get submit an abstract and have a chance of being selected to give a talk. Join us! www.nesmicroscopy.org/2025-spring-... #NESM #Microscopy #STEM #SciComm #TalkingScience

🌱 #MicroscopyMonday! 🌱 This award-winning image, "A Sparkling Spot", Keunjung Heo, PhD (Woolf Lab), looks like a flower but is actually a motor neuron spot culture! 🌸 πŸ”¬: Leica SP8 Confocal at Boston Children's Hospital CIC. Got an amazing image? πŸ“© [email protected] to be featured!✨#NESM

Happy #Fluorescence Friday! #microscopy community, mark your calendar and join us for Valeria Piazza’s presentation as part of @bioimagingna.bsky.social's Career Speaker series on Feb 6, free & online! Register here www.bioimagingnorthamerica.org/events/caree...

Hello from the New England Society for Microscopy! We are a volunteer led organization aiming to provide microscopy focused events and disseminate microscopy knowledge in New England. We love our microscopes and want to engage with anyone else who does too! Find out more at www.nesmicroscopy.org