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#microscopymonday #microscopycommunity #I2kxBINA2026 - Image contest winners!

🥇 Jackson Roberts, Harvard University

🥈 Wen Lu, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

🥉 Claudia Rohr, Medical College of Wisconsin

A video of Filoreta ramosa, a fascinating protist that can form multinucleate networks, for #MicroscopyMonday.

Imaged by Erandi Sachinthanie, Andrew Kennard, Amaranta Kahn, Jason Bear, Annie Rowe, and John Spear (@spearmicrobe.bsky.social) from the 2026 Microbial Diversity course.

Happy #MicroscopyMonday everyone!🔬🌞 Today's photo is a special one and it comes from Matt!✨🧪 The image shows the cochlea of an 18 day old mouse stained with DAPI (in 💙) and with GFP delivered via round window injection of an AAV (in 💚)

#Neuroskyence #HearingResearch

Today's image for #MicroscopyMonday and our new banner was taken by Mengshu Wang, PhD student in DRN and in the Sheffield Hearing Group @hearingshef.bsky.social

The image shows auditory hair cells in the cochlea, including rootlets (green) and hair bundles (red).

Mouse retina optical section labeled with a polySia marker (green), calretinin (magenta), and a nuclear label (blue). #MicroscopyMonday

How long does it takes to 'review' a film?
Just give us the raw data already.
We talk so much about data sharing and open access...

#MicroscopyMonday

Since this year #NobelPrize is for #optogenetics, here is one of my favorite systems, the optoRas. Originally designed for neutrophils, I adapted this to my embryonic myeloid cells! I use it to induce a new protrusion and drives this EM cell to go backward. #MicroscopyMonday

DRN member Sarah Hool won first prize in the Jarema Malicki imaging competition at the School of Biosciences Annual Research Symposium for this fabulous image of the cochlea!
#MicroscopyMonday

Happy #MicroscopyMonday!

Check out this free-swimming cercaria larva of a local parasitic flatworm Lepocreadium setiferoides, which infects mud snails.

Imaged and sampled by Ana Corum and Yuxuan Xu in the Rawlinson Lab.

This #MicroscopyMonday shows the early formation of a small colony of corals from the Hawaiian Montipora capitata coral. Coral polyps have autofluorescence by the expression of the Green Fluorescent Protein. 🪸 (Gibson Lab)

🔬A slightly late #MicroscopyMonday, but we have a good excuse: we’re at BioImaging North America in Madison this week! #BINA2026

If you’re here, come find the NESM crowd and say hi! (Harry not pictured due to being incredibly delayed by the nor'easter ... 🌧️)

#Microscopy #BioImaging #NESM

This week's #MicroscopyMonday is a side view of #zebrafish sensory organs, called neuromasts. These organs detect water flow based on the deflection of the protruding hair bundles (stereocilia). @daniomuench.bsky.social (Piotrowski
Lab)

Marine copepod legs for #MicroscopyMonday!

Exoskeleton (blue) stained with WGA and nuceli (pink-orange) stained with Hoescht.

This image was placed #20 in Nikon’s 2025 Small World photomicrography competition.

Imaged by Zachary Sanchez.

Is it really that easy to get light sheet data from a 12 well plate?For #MicroscopyMonday, we thought we’d let #DALISPIM co-creator Nick Evans walk you through how our open-top light sheet microscope works, from plating samples to acquiring high-res 3D data. Learn more: bit.ly/49pqjKd

Happy #MicroscopyMonday.
I found this very pretty COS-7 cell expressing LifeAct-mCherry from my old data. Look at how dense its actin network is. Also, many of the moving dots are endosomal to seemingly push them through the cytoplasm, similar to actin comet tail, but just a lot shorter.

Happy #MicroscopyMonday!

This is a holomatography image of a larval tubeworm imaged on a Tomocube Mini.

Imaged by students Le Pham and Sophia Aredas during the 2026 Molecular and Cell Biology of Symbiosis course.

For #MicroscopyMonday today: The Wellcome Photography Prize! This has a long history of celebrating microscopy & biomedical imaging: wellcome.org/engagement-a...

Next week: #I2KxBINA2026 in Madison! NESM’s Harry Cramer, Brandy Freitas, Mark Scimone & Andy Stone will be there—come say hi! #NESM

So excited to announce our Fall Symposium for #MicroscopyMonday! Come and see us for two days of talks, workshops, and networking University of Connecticut this December. 🔬

#NESM #Microscopy #SciComm

Looking forward to this BINA Corporate Partners session on Wed, Sept 16 -- "Magnifying your Market Value: Converting Your Academic Skills and CV to an Industry Resume in the Age of AI". Join us! @bioimagingna.bsky.social #MicroscopyMonday #microscopy www.bioimagingnorthamerica.org/events/insig...