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Microscopic farmer 🔬🌺 Microscopy core director @UNC Chapel Hill Former plant developmental biologist
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FINAL CALL – This Thursday, 6pm, in-person 🌿 Step into a hidden world where art meets science under the microscope! Join us for this in-conversation as celebrated visual artist Rob Kesseler FLS reveals how cutting-edge microscopy unlocks the astonishing architecture of plants. bit.ly/4manReO

Tobacco Pair in Red 8/2018 20 X 24 inches [50.8 X 61 cm] Colored Pencil on Paper #sciart #gawoski #pollen

This #confocal image of a #jellyfish by Sosuke Fujita is exquisite! #microscopy #bioart #sciart

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Just stumbled upon these #birds I painted when I was 10 back home in France! #birding #birdwatching #painting #bioart #sciart

A perfectly round liver organoid stained for mitochondria (yellowish/green), e-cadherin in blue and nuclei in pink for #MicroscopyMonday

🧠 Missing link of synchronized skull and brain development and evolution revealed — explaining rare congenital syndromes. 🧬 Evolution meets development and medicine. #Evolution #Development #BrainSkull #EvolutionaryInnovations www.evolbio.mpg.de/3823787/news...

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Artificial feeders have allowed the Anna’s hummingbird to expand their range out of Southern California up to the state’s northern end. They have also driven a transformation of the birds themselves.

After years studying #plant #devbio, I started a #chicken #development experiment 🐣🐥

These are stunning!

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Sponge choanoderm belongs in a museum #FluorescenceFriday

Happy #FluorescenceFriday!

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Why wait for #FluorescenceFriday if you can have a neat #zebrafish right now. (pic credit Amanda Garfield @cudevbio.bsky.social) #devbio

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Awesome dehiscence video!

Gorgeous images!

If you need to attend a microscopy or bioimage analysis training course to support your #cellbio research but don't have funding, check out our JCS–FocalPlane Training Grants. 🔬🖥️https://www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-focalplane-training-grants/

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One of the reasons I love #DevelopmentalBiology is that it's so visually engaging. I had the pleasure of organising an image competition at the GRC last March, and share this passion. You can now check out these images on @the-node.bsky.social: thenode.biologists.com/grs-developm...

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🔬✨ Today for #FluorescenceFriday: A close-up of the dorsal part of the first gill arch in a mature zebrafish. The intricate vascular network supporting respiration, visualized using kdrl:mcherry. #Zebrafish #DevBio #Microscopy #Fluorescence #SciArt

Preprint: IntAct-U-ExM enables robust, isoform-specific expansion microscopy of actin networks in yeast and mammalian cells. A cool study led by @anubhavdhar.bsky.social in collaboration with Sudarshan and Deepak Nair. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Assembling rail microscopes from @thorlabs.bsky.social for my #microscopy course @uncchapelhill.bsky.social. These are super fun teaching tools! #microscope #optics #bioimaging

Another academic year is past and this weekend we said goodbye to the latest set of graduates from UNC Biology. Teaching here is a privilege and seeing so many students excel & getting to know many of them is a yearly highlight. Biology holds its own ceremony, allowing us to honor them by name 1/n

A Dark sectioning algorithm removes background and provides single-frame optical sectioning in fluorescence microscopy, facilitating improved deep-tissue segmentation accuracy. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Simultaneous imaging of twelve #zebrafish embryos using Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy (LSFM). Credit to Prof. Jan Huisken & Flamingo Microscope (huiskenlab.com/flamingo/). #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

The Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy (AQLM) course has come to a close. For two weeks, researchers examined the theory of image formation and the subtle interactions between light and a specimen. Learn more about this and other courses here! bit.ly/3GMpPSn

🧫The #heterogeneity of gastrointestinal (GI) #organoids: Image of the Month📆 🔬Patient-derived #cancer & healthy #organoids imaged using spinning disk confocal #microscopy to link 3D morphology to outcomes. 🎨 By Sanika Jahagirdar @sanikajah.bsky.social from @tudresden.bsky.social #sciart #bioart

Closing @aqlm.bsky.social like it started, building a #microscope, with @openuc2.bsky.social #microscopy #aqlm2025 @mblscience.bsky.social

My #FlyWeek contribution: The Variety of Testis Shapes in Pomace Fly Species Aren't they beatiful?🌈🪰🔬 An old-school sci-poster meets modern confocal imaging! #Drosophila testis diversity fascinated even Curt Stern (yes, the human genetics textbook guy!) back in the 1930s. #microscopy #insects

Thrilled to see our work now online @nature.com This study reveals how individual root cells sense and respond to real, compacted soil environments. www.nature.com/articles/s41... beautiful spatial transcritomics of rice root in gel & soil conditions and huge credit to Mingyuan and colleagues.

Shinya Inoue’s video #microscope at @mblscience.bsky.social #microscopy #aqlm2025 #bioimaging

Just a bunch of demonic point-spread functions 👹😈👺🔬 #aqlm2025 #microscopy #confocal #microscope #fluorescence

Tracking #microtubule tips in plant cells on a @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social LSM880 #confocal #microscope 🌱🔬 #aqlm2025 #microscopymonday #microscopy #plantscience #botany #cytoskeleton #cellbio

Just some Arabidopsis roses ✨