Hello, the BIC is starting its Bluesky experience with its December #ImageOfTheMonth. Beautiful rat neurons imaged in STED 😍 by T.Cloâtre from @iins-bordeaux.bsky.social !
December 12, 2024 at 10:30 AM
Hello, the BIC is starting its Bluesky experience with its December #ImageOfTheMonth. Beautiful rat neurons imaged in STED 😍 by T.Cloâtre from @iins-bordeaux.bsky.social !
#ImageOfTheMonth March 2026
Dividing Arabidopsis epidermal cells imaged by confocal microscopy after expansion. Microtubules guided cell plate formation revealed in 3D with depth-code.
Image: Magali Grison @lbm-bordeaux.bsky.social @gtexm.bsky.social
#Microscopy #PlantScience #CellBiology
Dividing Arabidopsis epidermal cells imaged by confocal microscopy after expansion. Microtubules guided cell plate formation revealed in 3D with depth-code.
Image: Magali Grison @lbm-bordeaux.bsky.social @gtexm.bsky.social
#Microscopy #PlantScience #CellBiology
March 2, 2026 at 2:36 PM
#ImageOfTheMonth March 2026
Dividing Arabidopsis epidermal cells imaged by confocal microscopy after expansion. Microtubules guided cell plate formation revealed in 3D with depth-code.
Image: Magali Grison @lbm-bordeaux.bsky.social @gtexm.bsky.social
#Microscopy #PlantScience #CellBiology
Dividing Arabidopsis epidermal cells imaged by confocal microscopy after expansion. Microtubules guided cell plate formation revealed in 3D with depth-code.
Image: Magali Grison @lbm-bordeaux.bsky.social @gtexm.bsky.social
#Microscopy #PlantScience #CellBiology
A colorful start to 2026! 🌿 #ImageOfTheMonth
M. Batsale (Plant Virology team, @inrae-bfp.bsky.social ) captured a Nicotiana benthamiana cell infected with turnip mosaic virus — peroxisomes (yellow), viral vesicles (magenta) & chloroplasts (blue).
M. Batsale (Plant Virology team, @inrae-bfp.bsky.social ) captured a Nicotiana benthamiana cell infected with turnip mosaic virus — peroxisomes (yellow), viral vesicles (magenta) & chloroplasts (blue).
January 2, 2026 at 9:58 AM
A colorful start to 2026! 🌿 #ImageOfTheMonth
M. Batsale (Plant Virology team, @inrae-bfp.bsky.social ) captured a Nicotiana benthamiana cell infected with turnip mosaic virus — peroxisomes (yellow), viral vesicles (magenta) & chloroplasts (blue).
M. Batsale (Plant Virology team, @inrae-bfp.bsky.social ) captured a Nicotiana benthamiana cell infected with turnip mosaic virus — peroxisomes (yellow), viral vesicles (magenta) & chloroplasts (blue).
March #ImageOfTheMonth goes to M.Bonhivers from MFP lab (UMR 5234).
Trypanosoma brucei cell was extracted in detergent, expanded 4.2 fold using U-ExM, labelled for the microtubule cytoskeleton (magenta) and for the Hook Complex (yellow), and images usinf scanning confocal microscopy.
Trypanosoma brucei cell was extracted in detergent, expanded 4.2 fold using U-ExM, labelled for the microtubule cytoskeleton (magenta) and for the Hook Complex (yellow), and images usinf scanning confocal microscopy.
March 3, 2025 at 11:00 AM
March #ImageOfTheMonth goes to M.Bonhivers from MFP lab (UMR 5234).
Trypanosoma brucei cell was extracted in detergent, expanded 4.2 fold using U-ExM, labelled for the microtubule cytoskeleton (magenta) and for the Hook Complex (yellow), and images usinf scanning confocal microscopy.
Trypanosoma brucei cell was extracted in detergent, expanded 4.2 fold using U-ExM, labelled for the microtubule cytoskeleton (magenta) and for the Hook Complex (yellow), and images usinf scanning confocal microscopy.
Happy new year! Let's start 2025 with an #ImageOfTheMonth from N. Bollier @inrae-bfp.bsky.social. Scanning confocal 3D reconstruction of a tomato shoot apical meristem. The fixed meristem was cleared using clearsee and the cell walls are stained by calcofluor white.
January 5, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Happy new year! Let's start 2025 with an #ImageOfTheMonth from N. Bollier @inrae-bfp.bsky.social. Scanning confocal 3D reconstruction of a tomato shoot apical meristem. The fixed meristem was cleared using clearsee and the cell walls are stained by calcofluor white.
✨ December 2025 #ImageOfTheMonth ✨
Whole rat hearts cleared with iDISCO reveal sympathetic innervation (orange) and vascularization (green). 💛💚
Work by S. Bertrand & A. Bonilla (INCIA) with S. Martin & I. Brunet (CIRB), imaged by J. Teillon (BIC).
#Microscopy #iDISCO #BICBordeaux
Whole rat hearts cleared with iDISCO reveal sympathetic innervation (orange) and vascularization (green). 💛💚
Work by S. Bertrand & A. Bonilla (INCIA) with S. Martin & I. Brunet (CIRB), imaged by J. Teillon (BIC).
#Microscopy #iDISCO #BICBordeaux
December 4, 2025 at 11:29 AM
✨ December 2025 #ImageOfTheMonth ✨
Whole rat hearts cleared with iDISCO reveal sympathetic innervation (orange) and vascularization (green). 💛💚
Work by S. Bertrand & A. Bonilla (INCIA) with S. Martin & I. Brunet (CIRB), imaged by J. Teillon (BIC).
#Microscopy #iDISCO #BICBordeaux
Whole rat hearts cleared with iDISCO reveal sympathetic innervation (orange) and vascularization (green). 💛💚
Work by S. Bertrand & A. Bonilla (INCIA) with S. Martin & I. Brunet (CIRB), imaged by J. Teillon (BIC).
#Microscopy #iDISCO #BICBordeaux
Wow, great image. Love that it's blurry and almost accidental. Thank you for sharing. #Imageofthemonth! @brianbriefs.bsky.social
April 26, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Wow, great image. Love that it's blurry and almost accidental. Thank you for sharing. #Imageofthemonth! @brianbriefs.bsky.social
#ImageOfTheMonth September 2026
🍇 15 µm Vitis vinifera wood cross-section (Safranin/Astra Blue). Xylem vessels revealed segmentation. Image by Samuele Moretti, Nathalie Ferrer, @chloedelmas.bsky.social (SAVE) & Guillaume Maucort (BIC). #PlantScience #Microscopy #BIC
🍇 15 µm Vitis vinifera wood cross-section (Safranin/Astra Blue). Xylem vessels revealed segmentation. Image by Samuele Moretti, Nathalie Ferrer, @chloedelmas.bsky.social (SAVE) & Guillaume Maucort (BIC). #PlantScience #Microscopy #BIC
September 2, 2026 at 7:23 PM
#ImageOfTheMonth September 2026
🍇 15 µm Vitis vinifera wood cross-section (Safranin/Astra Blue). Xylem vessels revealed segmentation. Image by Samuele Moretti, Nathalie Ferrer, @chloedelmas.bsky.social (SAVE) & Guillaume Maucort (BIC). #PlantScience #Microscopy #BIC
🍇 15 µm Vitis vinifera wood cross-section (Safranin/Astra Blue). Xylem vessels revealed segmentation. Image by Samuele Moretti, Nathalie Ferrer, @chloedelmas.bsky.social (SAVE) & Guillaume Maucort (BIC). #PlantScience #Microscopy #BIC
Villa kitchen at Pretoria Avenue, Walthamstow, early 1900s. From Warner Estate album, held in VHM photo collection & available in our Searchroom. #ImageoftheMonth
March 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Villa kitchen at Pretoria Avenue, Walthamstow, early 1900s. From Warner Estate album, held in VHM photo collection & available in our Searchroom. #ImageoftheMonth
#ImageOfTheMonth July 2026 🌿✨
Spotlight on Alizé Chambard @inrae-bfp.bsky.social
Confocal image of an Arabidopsis thaliana leaf cross-section
🟢 GFP-tagged virus from @lbm-bordeaux.bsky.social
🟠 Plasmodesmata
🔵 Cell walls
🟣 Plastids
A masterpiece of in resin fluorescence & immunolabeling ! 🎨🔬
Spotlight on Alizé Chambard @inrae-bfp.bsky.social
Confocal image of an Arabidopsis thaliana leaf cross-section
🟢 GFP-tagged virus from @lbm-bordeaux.bsky.social
🟠 Plasmodesmata
🔵 Cell walls
🟣 Plastids
A masterpiece of in resin fluorescence & immunolabeling ! 🎨🔬
July 1, 2026 at 12:04 PM
#ImageOfTheMonth July 2026 🌿✨
Spotlight on Alizé Chambard @inrae-bfp.bsky.social
Confocal image of an Arabidopsis thaliana leaf cross-section
🟢 GFP-tagged virus from @lbm-bordeaux.bsky.social
🟠 Plasmodesmata
🔵 Cell walls
🟣 Plastids
A masterpiece of in resin fluorescence & immunolabeling ! 🎨🔬
Spotlight on Alizé Chambard @inrae-bfp.bsky.social
Confocal image of an Arabidopsis thaliana leaf cross-section
🟢 GFP-tagged virus from @lbm-bordeaux.bsky.social
🟠 Plasmodesmata
🔵 Cell walls
🟣 Plastids
A masterpiece of in resin fluorescence & immunolabeling ! 🎨🔬
February #ImageOfTheMonth is from
@tdhellemmes.bsky.social
. GFP expressing Relaxin3 neurons from the nucleus incertus and their projections are followed through the whole mouse brain using Adipoclear+ method and Light Sheet microscopy. Scale:1mm
@tdhellemmes.bsky.social
. GFP expressing Relaxin3 neurons from the nucleus incertus and their projections are followed through the whole mouse brain using Adipoclear+ method and Light Sheet microscopy. Scale:1mm
February 3, 2025 at 5:01 PM
February #ImageOfTheMonth is from
@tdhellemmes.bsky.social
. GFP expressing Relaxin3 neurons from the nucleus incertus and their projections are followed through the whole mouse brain using Adipoclear+ method and Light Sheet microscopy. Scale:1mm
@tdhellemmes.bsky.social
. GFP expressing Relaxin3 neurons from the nucleus incertus and their projections are followed through the whole mouse brain using Adipoclear+ method and Light Sheet microscopy. Scale:1mm
In celebration of International Children’s Book Day today, April’s #ImageOfTheMonth is a unique Oxyrhynchus papyrus fragment featuring an illustrated story on the labors of Hercules (3rd c. CE).
While we do not know for certain, the papyrus has been interpreted as a type of children’s book 📚
While we do not know for certain, the papyrus has been interpreted as a type of children’s book 📚
April 2, 2025 at 3:22 PM
In celebration of International Children’s Book Day today, April’s #ImageOfTheMonth is a unique Oxyrhynchus papyrus fragment featuring an illustrated story on the labors of Hercules (3rd c. CE).
While we do not know for certain, the papyrus has been interpreted as a type of children’s book 📚
While we do not know for certain, the papyrus has been interpreted as a type of children’s book 📚
🌬️This is our #December #ImageOfTheMonth!
🍭🍙"Spike Lollipop on Membrane Rice Cake", by
Adam Hospital & Genís Bayarri (Molecular Modelling and Bioinformatics lab).
📸 2019-nCoV spike glycoprotein with a single receptor-binding domain pointing upwards #ProteinDataBank.
Happy December everyone!☃️
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🍭🍙"Spike Lollipop on Membrane Rice Cake", by
Adam Hospital & Genís Bayarri (Molecular Modelling and Bioinformatics lab).
📸 2019-nCoV spike glycoprotein with a single receptor-binding domain pointing upwards #ProteinDataBank.
Happy December everyone!☃️
🧪 🐡
December 2, 2024 at 10:13 AM
🌬️This is our #December #ImageOfTheMonth!
🍭🍙"Spike Lollipop on Membrane Rice Cake", by
Adam Hospital & Genís Bayarri (Molecular Modelling and Bioinformatics lab).
📸 2019-nCoV spike glycoprotein with a single receptor-binding domain pointing upwards #ProteinDataBank.
Happy December everyone!☃️
🧪 🐡
🍭🍙"Spike Lollipop on Membrane Rice Cake", by
Adam Hospital & Genís Bayarri (Molecular Modelling and Bioinformatics lab).
📸 2019-nCoV spike glycoprotein with a single receptor-binding domain pointing upwards #ProteinDataBank.
Happy December everyone!☃️
🧪 🐡
#ImageOfTheMonth August 2026
🔬 Stunning 8x expanded human hippocampus! Microglia (pink), lysosomes (yellow), nuclei (grey). Collaboration: Ana Victoria Prádanos Senén (@cbm-csic-uam.bsky.social) & @monica-bic.bsky.social (BIC). #Neuroscience #ExpansionMicroscopy
🔬 Stunning 8x expanded human hippocampus! Microglia (pink), lysosomes (yellow), nuclei (grey). Collaboration: Ana Victoria Prádanos Senén (@cbm-csic-uam.bsky.social) & @monica-bic.bsky.social (BIC). #Neuroscience #ExpansionMicroscopy
August 4, 2026 at 7:58 AM
#ImageOfTheMonth August 2026
🔬 Stunning 8x expanded human hippocampus! Microglia (pink), lysosomes (yellow), nuclei (grey). Collaboration: Ana Victoria Prádanos Senén (@cbm-csic-uam.bsky.social) & @monica-bic.bsky.social (BIC). #Neuroscience #ExpansionMicroscopy
🔬 Stunning 8x expanded human hippocampus! Microglia (pink), lysosomes (yellow), nuclei (grey). Collaboration: Ana Victoria Prádanos Senén (@cbm-csic-uam.bsky.social) & @monica-bic.bsky.social (BIC). #Neuroscience #ExpansionMicroscopy
Let's start #February with this fascinating #ImageoftheMonth, entitled "Mitochondrial Cat's Eyes"!
By Nickolaos Giakoumakis, Chong Zhang & Paula Sánchez, from @irbbarcelona.org, it shows the contours of segmented #mitochondria with impressive precision.
Happy February everyone!
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By Nickolaos Giakoumakis, Chong Zhang & Paula Sánchez, from @irbbarcelona.org, it shows the contours of segmented #mitochondria with impressive precision.
Happy February everyone!
🧪🐡
February 3, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Let's start #February with this fascinating #ImageoftheMonth, entitled "Mitochondrial Cat's Eyes"!
By Nickolaos Giakoumakis, Chong Zhang & Paula Sánchez, from @irbbarcelona.org, it shows the contours of segmented #mitochondria with impressive precision.
Happy February everyone!
🧪🐡
By Nickolaos Giakoumakis, Chong Zhang & Paula Sánchez, from @irbbarcelona.org, it shows the contours of segmented #mitochondria with impressive precision.
Happy February everyone!
🧪🐡
#March is here! Let's celebrate with our #ImageoftheMonth: "The invisible structure of the skin", by Javier Manzano-López, from Raúl Méndez's lab at #IRBBarcelona.
Immunofluorescence image of endoplasmic reticulum membranes and actin cytoskeleton in human keratinocytes by confocal microscopy.
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Immunofluorescence image of endoplasmic reticulum membranes and actin cytoskeleton in human keratinocytes by confocal microscopy.
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March 3, 2025 at 8:30 AM
#March is here! Let's celebrate with our #ImageoftheMonth: "The invisible structure of the skin", by Javier Manzano-López, from Raúl Méndez's lab at #IRBBarcelona.
Immunofluorescence image of endoplasmic reticulum membranes and actin cytoskeleton in human keratinocytes by confocal microscopy.
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Immunofluorescence image of endoplasmic reticulum membranes and actin cytoskeleton in human keratinocytes by confocal microscopy.
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#February is here! And with it, our #ImageoftheMonth:
My Mitochondrial Romance, by Pilar Padilla (Complex Metabolic Diseases and Mitochondria Lab, IRB Barcelona).
The image shows #mitochondria inside human skin fibroblasts, revealed by immunofluorescence.
Happy February everyone!
🧪🐡
My Mitochondrial Romance, by Pilar Padilla (Complex Metabolic Diseases and Mitochondria Lab, IRB Barcelona).
The image shows #mitochondria inside human skin fibroblasts, revealed by immunofluorescence.
Happy February everyone!
🧪🐡
February 3, 2026 at 10:02 AM
#February is here! And with it, our #ImageoftheMonth:
My Mitochondrial Romance, by Pilar Padilla (Complex Metabolic Diseases and Mitochondria Lab, IRB Barcelona).
The image shows #mitochondria inside human skin fibroblasts, revealed by immunofluorescence.
Happy February everyone!
🧪🐡
My Mitochondrial Romance, by Pilar Padilla (Complex Metabolic Diseases and Mitochondria Lab, IRB Barcelona).
The image shows #mitochondria inside human skin fibroblasts, revealed by immunofluorescence.
Happy February everyone!
🧪🐡
Ambresbury Banks, Iron Age hill fort in Epping Forest & a scheduled monument since 1923. This early 20th cent postcard image shows a stream running through the site. It is near Epping & beyond our borough boundary, but our collections include sources for the wider Epping Forest area #ImageoftheMonth
April 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Ambresbury Banks, Iron Age hill fort in Epping Forest & a scheduled monument since 1923. This early 20th cent postcard image shows a stream running through the site. It is near Epping & beyond our borough boundary, but our collections include sources for the wider Epping Forest area #ImageoftheMonth
May #ImageOfTheMonth was from C.Mazocco & M.Darricau from @imn-bordeaux.bsky.social. Staining on spinal cord slices reveal TDP43 protein in the nucleus of neurons (Red). Motoneurons and synaptic terminations were stained targetting ChAT (Cyan).
June 5, 2025 at 8:44 AM
May #ImageOfTheMonth was from C.Mazocco & M.Darricau from @imn-bordeaux.bsky.social. Staining on spinal cord slices reveal TDP43 protein in the nucleus of neurons (Red). Motoneurons and synaptic terminations were stained targetting ChAT (Cyan).
Let's start this Thursday having some fun with #June 's Image of the Month!
🎮 This composition is not our beloved Tetris but centriole images obtained with acetylated α-tubulin staining.
Thanks Marcos Fariña and Júlia Mestres from @luderslab.bsky.social!
#ImageOfTheMonth #CancerResearch
🎮 This composition is not our beloved Tetris but centriole images obtained with acetylated α-tubulin staining.
Thanks Marcos Fariña and Júlia Mestres from @luderslab.bsky.social!
#ImageOfTheMonth #CancerResearch
June 5, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Let's start this Thursday having some fun with #June 's Image of the Month!
🎮 This composition is not our beloved Tetris but centriole images obtained with acetylated α-tubulin staining.
Thanks Marcos Fariña and Júlia Mestres from @luderslab.bsky.social!
#ImageOfTheMonth #CancerResearch
🎮 This composition is not our beloved Tetris but centriole images obtained with acetylated α-tubulin staining.
Thanks Marcos Fariña and Júlia Mestres from @luderslab.bsky.social!
#ImageOfTheMonth #CancerResearch
September #ImageOfTheMonth is from @rkinet.bsky.social from @imn-bordeaux.bsky.social
This is a maximum projection of a confocal image of a microglia cell (blue) and its nucleus (red), internalising multiple nanoparticles (yellow), one day after supranigral injection in C57B6-J mouse
This is a maximum projection of a confocal image of a microglia cell (blue) and its nucleus (red), internalising multiple nanoparticles (yellow), one day after supranigral injection in C57B6-J mouse
September 8, 2025 at 9:09 AM
September #ImageOfTheMonth is from @rkinet.bsky.social from @imn-bordeaux.bsky.social
This is a maximum projection of a confocal image of a microglia cell (blue) and its nucleus (red), internalising multiple nanoparticles (yellow), one day after supranigral injection in C57B6-J mouse
This is a maximum projection of a confocal image of a microglia cell (blue) and its nucleus (red), internalising multiple nanoparticles (yellow), one day after supranigral injection in C57B6-J mouse
April #ImageOfTheMonth is from H. Vaïtinadapoulé (BiiO EA 2521). Here is a guttae, a “drop-like deposits” of extracellular matrix components on the surface of the cornea. This image was acquired using scanning electron microscopy with the help of F.Decoeur from the EM unit of the BIC.
April 1, 2025 at 4:19 PM
April #ImageOfTheMonth is from H. Vaïtinadapoulé (BiiO EA 2521). Here is a guttae, a “drop-like deposits” of extracellular matrix components on the surface of the cornea. This image was acquired using scanning electron microscopy with the help of F.Decoeur from the EM unit of the BIC.
#ImageOfTheMonth February 2026 ✨
Fluorescent fibers (hundreds of µm) of a Platinium complex visualized in Fiji using orientation-based pseudocolors 🎨. Image acquired during the BIC hands-on microscopy training 🔬
Credits: F. R. Lauro, A. Virepinte (ISM), J. Teillon (BIC)
Fluorescent fibers (hundreds of µm) of a Platinium complex visualized in Fiji using orientation-based pseudocolors 🎨. Image acquired during the BIC hands-on microscopy training 🔬
Credits: F. R. Lauro, A. Virepinte (ISM), J. Teillon (BIC)
February 2, 2026 at 3:05 PM
#ImageOfTheMonth February 2026 ✨
Fluorescent fibers (hundreds of µm) of a Platinium complex visualized in Fiji using orientation-based pseudocolors 🎨. Image acquired during the BIC hands-on microscopy training 🔬
Credits: F. R. Lauro, A. Virepinte (ISM), J. Teillon (BIC)
Fluorescent fibers (hundreds of µm) of a Platinium complex visualized in Fiji using orientation-based pseudocolors 🎨. Image acquired during the BIC hands-on microscopy training 🔬
Credits: F. R. Lauro, A. Virepinte (ISM), J. Teillon (BIC)
This is May’s #ImageoftheMonth: THE POWER TREE!
A stunning live staining of mitochondrial cristae captured with STED #microscopy by Lídia Bardia and Nikolaos Giakoumakis at our Advanced Digital Microscopy Core Facility.
#IRBBarcelona #Mitochondria #ArtandScience #ScientificArt
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A stunning live staining of mitochondrial cristae captured with STED #microscopy by Lídia Bardia and Nikolaos Giakoumakis at our Advanced Digital Microscopy Core Facility.
#IRBBarcelona #Mitochondria #ArtandScience #ScientificArt
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May 13, 2026 at 9:02 AM
This is May’s #ImageoftheMonth: THE POWER TREE!
A stunning live staining of mitochondrial cristae captured with STED #microscopy by Lídia Bardia and Nikolaos Giakoumakis at our Advanced Digital Microscopy Core Facility.
#IRBBarcelona #Mitochondria #ArtandScience #ScientificArt
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A stunning live staining of mitochondrial cristae captured with STED #microscopy by Lídia Bardia and Nikolaos Giakoumakis at our Advanced Digital Microscopy Core Facility.
#IRBBarcelona #Mitochondria #ArtandScience #ScientificArt
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October #ImageOfTheMonth is from O. Barba-Vila from @iins-bordeaux.bsky.social Slice of the gustatory cortex showing axons from the gustatory thalamus (G), basolateral amygdala (R) and a thick-tufted layer 5 neuron (W), recorded through patch clamp and imaged via biocytin-streptavidin labelling
October 7, 2025 at 7:48 AM
October #ImageOfTheMonth is from O. Barba-Vila from @iins-bordeaux.bsky.social Slice of the gustatory cortex showing axons from the gustatory thalamus (G), basolateral amygdala (R) and a thick-tufted layer 5 neuron (W), recorded through patch clamp and imaged via biocytin-streptavidin labelling