🍂 ¡Bienvenido, octubre! 🧠
Comenzamos el mes con la foto "Lobes of the little brain", una imagen #SciencePhoto_IN de Macarena Herrera @eloisaherrera.bsky.social
📸 La ciencia, vista a través de otra mirada.
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“Brain Kaleidoscope”
Author: Francesco Dori
Lab: @glb-lab.bsky.social
"A mosaic of color-coded 1-minute temporal projections of mesoscale calcium activity in astrocytes and neurons. Each circle is a small developing brain.
With a @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social Axio Zoom.V16".

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“An Elegant Worm with a Rainbow of Thoughts”
Author: José Ignacio Jordá
Lab: @eleyvadiaz.bsky.social
"NeuroPAL is a Caenorhabditis elegans strain with a stereotyped multicolor fluorescent atlas of the entire nervous system of the worm. @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social Airyscan Elyra".

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“A Lonely Star”
Author: Juan Zaragoza
Lab: @barcolab.bsky.social
Mouse cortical neurons glow red thanks to a fluorescent marker. At the centre, hidden among their branches, is a star-shaped astrocyte: a support cell that nourishes neurons. With @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social DM6B.

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“Rice Hippo-campus”
Author: Juan Zaragoza
Lab: @barcolab.bsky.social
"This brain neuron (dark) makes OsTIR1, a rice plant protein. Here it works as a switch: it lets us destroy any protein we pick revealing its role in the brain. @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social SPE II".

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“Crossing Over”
Author: Macarena Herrera
Lab: Dr. Eloísa Herrera @eloisaherrera.bsky.social
"Optic chiasm with axons traced with green cholera toxin in one eye and red in the other. Image obtained with an Olympus FV1200 inverted confocal microscope".

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“A Pointillist Cerebelum”
Author: Macarena Herrera
Lab: Dr. Eloísa Herrera @eloisaherrera.bsky.social
"Immunohistochemistry of a sagittal cerebellar section from P9 mice using anti-Zfp423 antibody. Image obtained with an Olympus FV1200 confocal inverted microscope".

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“Underlay Networks”
Author: Macarena Herrera
Lab: Dr. Eloísa Herrera @eloisaherrera.bsky.social
"Flat-mounted P16 mouse retina immunostained for axons (anti-TUJ1, red) and astrocytes (anti-GFAP, cyan). Imaged with an Olympus FV1200 inverted confocal microscope".

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“Two Perspectives, One Movement”
Author: Olimpia Ortega
Lab: @reiglab.bsky.social
"A corridor provides simultaneous lateral and ventral views of mouse locomotion to study coordination and subtle motor changes in Parkinson's disease models. With Basler ace camera and lens".

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“The Lethal Orchid”
Author: Dr. Mary Luz Uribe
Lab: Dr. María Domínguez
"Under nutritional stress or immunosuppression, an incipient tumor induces a chaotic green network that attempts to feed the tumor, like a beautiful yet lethal biological bloom. @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social".

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“The Sleep of Glia Produces Monsters”
Author: Dr. Mary Luz Uribe
Lab: Dr. María Domínguez
"Emerging from a dense fog of DNA, unsettling silhouettes take shape. What look like other worlds creatures are glial cells in the Drosophila larval imaginal disc @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social"

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“Eye of Neuron”
Author: Dr. Emily Wilson @emilywilson19.bsky.social
Lab: Dr. Guillermina López Bendito @glb-lab.bsky.social
"A cortical neuron bundle (magenta) sits atop a tower of astrocytes (red and green). Taken on a @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social Thunder Imager microscope".

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“Roses”
Author: Adrián Cuevas
Lab: @nietoangela.bsky.social
"Culture of cancer cells from human breast tumors. Nuclei are in green, whilst expression of keratins is in red, emphasizing the heterogeneity of cancer cells. Taken with a @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social DMi8 Thunder".

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“Vessels for everyone!”
Author: Adrián Cuevas
Lab: @nietoangela.bsky.social
"Panoramic image of the vascular network in a whole mouse brain. Endothelial cells in green, and mural cells in magenta. Image taken with a @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social DMi8 Thunder Imager".

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“Bloody Memory!”
Author: Adrián Cuevas
Lab: @nietoangela.bsky.social
Network of blood vessels supplying the hippocampus. The endothelial cells forming the vessels (green), whilst the mural cells surrounding the vasculature are in magenta. With @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social DMi8.

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“A nerve that leaves its mark”
Author: Miguel A. Serrano
Lab: Dr. Francisco Taberner
"Skin section prepared with @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social GeminiSEM. Embedded within the dermis is a ‘mark’ corresponding to a bundle of axons surrounded by a Schwann cell".

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“Neuroimmune Constellations at the #CornealSurface”
Dr. Almudena Íñigo
Lab: Ocular Neurobiology
A corneal dendritic cell (yellow) is in close contact with a sensory nerve fiber (magenta) across the epithelial cell mosaic, forming a pattern reminiscent of a miniature spiral galaxy.

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“Cellular Kaleidoscope”
Author: Mahima Laxmeesha
Lab: Dr. Ana Carmena
A fluorescent view of a Drosophila third-instar larval brain, revealing neuroblasts surrounded by progenitors, ganglion mother cells, and neurons during brain development.
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“Wings of Perception”
Author: Marina Villaro
Lab: @painchannels.bsky.social
"The butterfly-shaped gray matter is home to neuronal networks that integrate sensory information such as touch, temperature, or pain. Imaged with a @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social SPEII microscope".