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New England Society for Microscopy
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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.
#NESM had a great time last week at #BINA2026! Looking forward to hosting our conference in December at UConn and seeing some familiar faces from the crowd. :)
🔬 A #3DThursday fan favorite from #BINA2026! This is a tiny, lab-grown model of a lung, meant to mimic the structure and function of real tissues. I think we showed this #organoid to everyone who stopped by ...💜

🔬: #mesoSPIM Lightsheet
🥼: Hei Ming Lai, Illumos
🎬: #syGlass, v2.7.1

#I2KxBINA2026
October 8, 2026 at 4:02 PM
🔬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
September 30, 2026 at 12:31 PM
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
Wellcome Photography Prize | Engaging people | Wellcome
The Wellcome Photography Prize is an annual competition to celebrate remarkable visual stories that bring urgent health challenges to life.
wellcome.org
September 21, 2026 at 2:57 PM
#FluorescenceFriday 🧪

Join #NESM Board Member Harry C. Cramer III, Michelle Ocana & #Evident Microscopy next week for a FREE 3-day comparative imaging workshop with lots of great info + hands-on work!

Sign up here: tinyurl.com/4r8asp6d
September 18, 2026 at 3:23 PM
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. 🔬

Register now to get 10% off with code 2026EARLYBIRD: www.nesmicroscopy.org/2026-fall-sy...

#NESM #Microscopy #SciComm
September 14, 2026 at 10:59 PM
We'll be heading to Milwaukee next week to chat about #NESM! Board members Stephan Kraemer, from Harvard University's Center for Nanoscale Systems, and Brandy Freitas from syGlass will be there -- if you're going to M&M, come say "hi" in person. 😊

#MM2026 #Microscopy
July 30, 2026 at 6:24 PM
This is a great example of work that microscopy companies from New England are innovating! @lifecanvastech.bsky.social #syglass
🔬 For #3DThursday: a whole cleared mouse embryo imaged with DALISPIM from @lifecanvastech.bsky.social

A theme from #FOM2026 + #ELMI2026 was that light microscopy innovation can come from rethinking imaging geometries, in this case an open-top inverted #lightsheet.

🎬: #syGlass v2.6.0
June 25, 2026 at 8:21 PM
🔬 For #MicroscopyMonday, a live Philodina roseola rotifer captured with Polychromatic Polarization Microscopy by Michael Shribak & Irina Arkhipova at @mblscience.bsky.social

PPM reveals fine anatomy in this tiny freshwater invertebrate.

#Microscopy #Bioimaging #NESM #Evident
June 8, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Bluesky:
🔬🪸 For #MicroscopyMonday: live Astrangia poculata (Northern Star Coral) imaged at MBL by Michael Shribak and Loretta Roberson.

Captured in true color on an Olympus IX81 with Polychromatic Polarization Microscopy, revealing optical details that appear white under standard microscopy. #NESM
May 11, 2026 at 4:16 PM
🌊🦠 Meet Leonardo Villacís, PhD student in Dr. Jasmine Saros’s lab and selected speaker from the #NESM Spring Symposium!

His #SEM image of Aulacoseira subarctica, a spring-blooming diatom from northern Maine lakes, helps reveal how warming may be reorganizing aquatic ecosystems.
@umaine.bsky.social
May 6, 2026 at 2:44 PM
📣 #NESM Spring Symposium keynote (THIS FRIDAY!): Tirzah Abbott ☄️

SEM + NA-TKD to reveal nanoscale transformations in a shocked meteorite, multiple pathways of ringwoodite & wadsleyite under extreme conditions.

Join us: www.nesmicroscopy.org/2026-spring-...

#Microscopy #SEM #PlanetaryScience
April 8, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Core Tour for the #NESM Spring Symposium! 🔬
Join April 10 for a virtual visit to the SCOPE Lab at UMass Chan Med @umasschan.bsky.social with Christina Baer.

🐟Featuring MERFISH data, Schafer lab. @vizgen.bsky.social @scope-umasschan.bsky.social

Register: www.nesmicroscopy.org/2026-spring-...
April 6, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Reposted by New England Society for Microscopy
Happy #3DThursday from Sweden! 🇸🇪 This Thy-1 mouse brain was the crowd favorite at Focus on Microscopy this year 🐭

🔬: Zeiss Lightsheet Z.1
🥼: Chih-Wei Logan Hsu @cwloganhsu.bsky.social
🏛️: Baylor College of Medicine
🎬: syGlass, v2.6.0

#FOM2026 #syGlass #Microscopy @scilifelab.se
April 2, 2026 at 7:09 AM
⭐ Meet our first #NESM Spring Symposium Keynote: Zak Swartz! @zakswartz.bsky.social

📸: Live sea star oocyte 🟨 microtubules | 🟪 actin
🔬: Nikon / Yokogawa W1 spinning disk
🥼: Beverly Naigles
🌐: www.theswartzlab.org
🏛️: Marine Biological Laboratory @mblscience.bsky.social

#MicroscopyMonday
March 23, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Tour of the Core for the #NESM Spring Symposium! 🔬
Join us April 10 for a virtual visit to the Microscopy Core Lab at UMass Lowell with Anna Maria Routsi.

Featuring HR-TEM imaging from Sangmin Jeong (Ross Lab).

Register: www.nesmicroscopy.org/2026-spring-...

#MicroscopyMonday #Microscopy #TEM
March 16, 2026 at 3:20 PM
🦋 Butterfly wings form from invisible developmental boundaries long before their colors appear.🏆Congrats to Gabby Jerz, Poster Winner from the #NESM Fall Symposium and Lab Manager in the Patel Lab at the MBL @mblscience.bsky.social.
🔬 Zeiss LSM880

#MicroscopyMonday #Bioimaging #DevBio
March 9, 2026 at 3:18 PM
📣 Announcing our #NESM Spring Symposium — April 10 (virtual & free!)

We’re building an exciting lineup across the life & physical sciences. Interested in giving a talk? Submit your abstract by March 25 🗓️

Register: www.nesmicroscopy.org/2026-spring-...

#Microscopy #Bioimaging
March 3, 2026 at 2:15 PM
GORGEOUS data from Laura Smithson for #MicroscopyMonday! 🏆
Our #NESM Fall Symposium Poster Winner (Brown Univ., de Graffenried Lab) used customized #FIB-SEM to reconstruct the T. brucei cytoskeleton at 4 nm res — 9,000+ images & 660 GB. @brown.edu @aicjanelia.bsky.social

#Microscopy #VolumeEM #EM
February 23, 2026 at 5:01 PM
📢 Calling the #NESM community!

We’re coming up on a year of sharing incredible microscopy data — and we want you to be part of it 🔬✨ Submit your work and we’ll feature it in future posts.
📩 Submit here: forms.gle/5bApb3RTVoA1...

#Microscopy #ScienceCommunication #Imaging
February 9, 2026 at 3:51 PM
For #MicroscopyMonday, meet Rylie Walsh — Imaging Specialist at @mblscience.bsky.social and longtime board member. Our Director of Biological Sciences, she is passionate about helping scientists design #microscopy experiments, and is excited by all things #VolumeEM! 🔬

@ryliewalsh.bsky.social #NESM
February 2, 2026 at 3:23 PM
For #MicroscopyMonday, meet our #NESM President, Jaqulin! She studies how alpha-synuclein affects synapses in sea lamprey at @mblscience.bsky.social, and is passionate about microscopy education & outreach.

🔬: @jeolusa.bsky.social 120i TEM
🐍: Sea lamprey reticulospinal synapse
🥼: Jaqulin Wallace
January 26, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Reposted by New England Society for Microscopy
The Allen Mouse Brain Atlas is a cornerstone of #neuroscience: a standardized, high-resolution map of brain anatomy built to keep experiments comparable across labs. 🧠 Here’s a 3D walk through its anatomical meshes in #syGlass!
@alleninstitute.org
#3DThursday #DataViz #VR
January 22, 2026 at 3:29 PM
For today’s #MicroscopyMonday, meet our #NESM President-elect, Harry Cramer! The Assistant Director of Cellular Imaging Core at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harry brings deep expertise in multiphoton microscopy, training, and community-driven science. 🔬🧠
@bostonchildrens.bsky.social
January 12, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Introducing #NESM Treasurer Jennifer Misuraca for #MicroscopyMonday! Jennifer is FESEM Product Manager at #JEOL USA, supporting applications, training, and demos. She joined the NESM board in 2016 and became Treasurer in 2024. 📸 SEM of bacteriophage on a JEOL FESEM, Joseph Stukey at Hope College
January 5, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Happy Holidays from NESM!
🎄 A canonical visualization dataset, revisited! This #CT Christmas tree (2001) became a classic for teaching & benchmarking volume rendering. I’ve brought it into #syGlass to explore how far #3Dvisualization has come — same data, new method. 🔬 #3DThursday
Story: www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/page/xmas/
December 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM