Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR)

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! Enjoy these 3 beautiful Image of Distinction winners from Vanderbilt researchers in this year's @healthcare.nikon.com Small World competition. Congrats to Dylan Burnette (1 and 2), James Hayes (2), and Nicholas Noel & Valentina Cigliola (3)! @mag2art.bsky.social

Join us on TOMORROW (Oct. 20) to celebrate SOMBS' 10th anniversary!

Emma Koory, a graduate student in Dylan Burnette's lab, recently received an honorable mention at the 2026 Nikon Small World in Motion Competition. Koory took this video of a heart cell building sarcomeres, which are responsible for heart muscle contractions.

Rafael Arrojo e Drigo, an assistant professor of molecular physiology and biophysics, was one of 13 recipients of the Laureate Award from the international Endocrine society. This award honors his pioneering work at the intersection of thyroid biology, diabetes, and aging. buff.ly/M2lgrKy

Today is #FluorescenceFriday, but it's also #DollyDay here in Nashville. So we took some microscopy images and made them into pink and purple butterflies to honor her. #DollyDayNashville #DollyParton #9to5 🔬🦋💜

REMINDER! This Thursday! We're launching a virtual "CLEM Collaborative" for imaging scientists in Correlative Light & Electron Microscopy to share tips & tricks. Thurs, Sept 24, 10AM CDT/3PM UTC/4PM BST. Registration & Zoom link. forms.gle/8WXRQuFHz7Bu... #clem #electronmicrocopy #microscopy

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! Huge congratulations 👏👏👏 to Vanderbilt researchers with Honorable Mentions in the 2026 Nikon Small World in Motion - Dylan Burnette, Emma Koory, and Zach Lehmann! @healthcare.nikon.com www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20... @mag2art.bsky.social @zlehmann.bsky.social 🔬🎥🎨

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...

✨ One more shout out to the 2026 @vucellimaging.bsky.social #LifeIsBeautiful Image Contest winners! 🥇 Spencer Rothfuss, “Nano Snowflake” 🥈 Hannah Collins, “The Art of Recycling” 🥉 James Hayes, “Zebrafish embryonic pupil” Discover the beauty of biology through microscopy: buff.ly/pNtBpvP

Join us! We're launching a virtual "CLEM Collaborative" for imaging scientists in Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy to share tips & tricks. First event is Thurs, Sept 24 at 10AM CDT/3PM UTC/4PM BST. Registration & Zoom link. forms.gle/xu28967pnvRA... #clem #electronmicrocopy #microscopy

Happy #MicroscopyMonday! New paper alert from the Gould Lab with Alaina Willet as first author. Beautiful TEM of the fungal cell wall. Scale = 250 nm. Thank you for using and acknowledging the CISR! @vubasicsciences.bsky.social Nature Communications. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The loss of Dolly Parton hits hard here in Nashville. We remember her amazing music, her gift of books to every child born in Tennessee, and her generosity to research at Vanderbilt. ❤️🦋

#HappyMicroscopyMonday #microscopycommunity - One week until the 2026 BINA Light Microscopy Image contest closes! Don’t miss out on this chance to win prizes and show off your talent! Learn more: buff.ly/8Qz8EM1

New publication alert #FluorescenceFriday! First author Juliann Burkett, Gannon Lab. Beautiful mouse pancreatic islet imaging! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42294887/ And great acknowledgment! "acknowledge the staff...for their training and maintenance of the high-power microscopes used in this study" 👏

A day in the life of a microscopy core scientist...

Today is the LAST DAY to submit to the 3rd annual CISR Life Is Beautiful image contest! We can't wait to see all the entrants and choose the winners! #MicroscopyMonday Details and submission here. tinyurl.com/2dd42x89

#FluorescenceFriday finishes our Life Is Beautiful countdown! FIRST PLACE here! 2024 Shane Watson, Sando Lab, Zeiss lightsheet, cleared mouse brain. 2025 James Hayes, Burnette Lab, Nikon SoRa, Zebrafish eye. Submit now for 2026! tinyurl.com/2dd42x89 @vubasicsciences.bsky.social @mag2art.bsky.social

VICB member, Dr. Borden Lacy, is featured in Vanderbilt University Medical Center News for ongoing research focused on improving the prevention and treatment of C. difficile infections. Read more from Vanderbilt Health News: news.vumc.org/2026/08/11/c... @vubasicsciences.bsky.social

The countdown continues! 2025 Second Place winner - Rekha Nagarajan, Tyska Lab, Nikon AXR MP, whole mount small intestine. 🔬🎨🏅 @vubasicsciences.bsky.social @tyskalabactual.bsky.social FOUR DAYS LEFT TO SUBMIT THIS YEAR! Details, prizes, link here. tinyurl.com/2dd42x89

We're counting down to the Aug. 17 deadline for the 3rd annual CISR Life Is Beautiful contest! Today, 2nd place winner from 2024 - James Hayes, Burnette Lab, cardiomyocyte actin, Nikon SoRa. @mag2art.bsky.social @vubasicsciences.bsky.social Details and submission link here! tinyurl.com/2dd42x89 🔬🎨🏅

The countdown continues! Today we highlight the 3rd place image from 2025 - James Costanzo, Gama lab, iPSC neurons, Nikon SoRa. 🔬🎨🏅 This year's CISR Life Is Beautiful contest is open for submissions for 6 more days! #microscopy Submit now! tinyurl.com/2dd42x89 @vubasicsciences.bsky.social

Let's countdown this week with our previous CISR Life Is Beautiful winners! 2024 3rd Place - Emma Koory, Burnette lab with a Nikon SoRa image of a clefted nucleus among mRNA. 🔬🎨🏅@mag2art.bsky.social @vubasicsciences.bsky.social #MicroscopyMonday Enter this year's contest here! tinyurl.com/2dd42x89

CISR users still have time to submit to our 3rd annual Life Is Beautiful Image Contest! Do it today for #FluorescenceFriday! Deadline is August 17. Details and prizes here at the submission link. medschool.vanderbilt.edu/cisr/image-c...

📣 The @vucellimaging.bsky.social Life Is Beautiful Image Contest submission deadline has been extended to Aug. 17. If you've captured stunning scientific imagery using a CISR microscope, you now have more time to share your work and a chance to win 💰️. medschool.vanderbilt.edu/cisr/image-c...

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! But an EM image to remind you about our 3rd annual CISR Life Is Beautiful contest. Deadline is MONDAY, Aug 3. Submit light or electron microscopy images acquired in the CISR! Winners announced in Sept. $100, $50, and $25 prizes. medschool.vanderbilt.edu/cisr/image-c...

🔬✨ Don't forget, CISR’s annual Life Is Beautiful Image Contest is open until Aug. 3! Researchers and trainees who have captured an image using a @vucellimaging.bsky.social microscope are invited to submit their work—and to win cash prizes. 👉 medschool.vanderbilt.edu/cisr/image-c...

It's #FluorescenceFriday! And the submissions are rolling in for the 3rd annual CISR Life Is Beautiful contest! You have 10 days left to submit. Let's see those beautiful images! medschool.vanderbilt.edu/cisr/image-c...

From researching #cancer to becoming a cancer patient, VICB member, Lawrence Marnett, shares his personal #journey through diagnosis, #treatment, and survivorship. His story is a powerful reminder of why cancer research matters. Read more: news.vumc.org/momentum/whe... @vubasicsciences.bsky.social

It's #MicroscopyMonday! CISR users, have you submitted your images to the 3rd annual CISR Life Is Beautiful contest yet? Three weeks until the deadline!

First #MicroscopyMonday of the month! Good time for Vanderbilt CISR users to submit their beautiful images to our 3rd annual CISR Life Is Beautiful Image Contest! medschool.vanderbilt.edu/cisr/image-c...

It's that time of year! Submissions are open for the THIRD annual CISR Life Is Beautiful contest! Start searching your folders for your best CISR images (light or electron microscopy). Or go ahead and submit today for #FluorescenceFriday! 🔬🎨🏆 medschool.vanderbilt.edu/cisr/image-c...

Great spotlight on graduate student Monica Brown in the Lau Lab. She is a very frequent CISR user, and it's great to read about her research.

Let's get this week started with #MicroscopyMonday! New MBoC paper alert from the Tyska lab including so many #microscopy techniques - light, EM, and CLEM (pic). "A role for LIMA1 in the assembly of actin bundle-supported protrusions" 🔬👏💚 www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/...

New publication from the Nordman Lab with lots of imaging for #FluorescenceFriday! Confocal, Airyscan, live imaging, and photobleaching, with first authors Mohit Das and Eli Coronado-Chavez. "NASP functions in the cytoplasm to prevent histone H3 aggregation during early embryogenesis" @jcb.org

Happy NIH S10 submission day to all who celebrate! #MicroscopyMonday

New paper for #FluorescenceFriday! "Human Brain Vasculature-on-a-Chip Model Constructed With Microvessels Isolated From Cryopreserved Postmortem Human Brain Tissue". 1st author Brian O'Grady (now VUMC Asst. Prof.) & Lippmann lab. Great ex. of confocal to show localization & structure in X,Y,Z.

Could you be our next scientific image competition winner? 📸 👉 Enter now >>> www.biotechniques.com/imaging/btn_... 🧪

Happy Graduation Day at Vanderbilt! #VU2026 We celebrate with the undergraduate and graduate students, especially those who have come through the CISR on their academic journey. Hats off to you! And enjoy this brain image for #FluorescenceFriday! Scale bar = 1500 microns 👩‍🎓🎓👨‍🎓🧠🔬

Last day to submit to the #NikonSmallWorld competition for 2026! We love to see all the beautiful microscopy images, and we would love to see some Vanderbilt winners again! #microscopy

Great topic and great lineup including Zanic lab graduate student Anna Cassidy! @annacassidy.bsky.social @zaniclab.bsky.social

#FluorescenceFriday highlight from Burkewitz Lab. "ER remodelling is a feature of ageing and depends on ER-phagy" @natcellbio.nature.com Super-resolution (Airyscan) of C. elegans hypodermis w/ ER tubules & sheets. Scale=2 microns. @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41629400/

We're only 30 minutes into the NIH ORIP S10 Symposium (day 1 of 2), and I've already learned so much. Thank you for all this information! We are always thinking toward our new NIH S10 submission. And glad to hear this will be an annual symposium. #cores #equipment #NIH

This is a fantastic video on the importance, value, and general awesomeness of scientific shared resources/cores. Thanks to ABRF @abrf.bsky.social! Reach out to your local cores and ask them how they can help with your research projects. They are experts and they want to help! f.io/1cgVqnLm

#FluorescenceFriday! Kindlins regulate integrin- and growth factor-dependent ureteric bud formation from Zent Lab @cp-devcell.bsky.social. Beautiful imaging & 3D rendering of ureteric bud cultures, tubulogenesis, & cells. @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social LSM980 confocal. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! April is time for the Nikon Small World contest. Last year was great for Vanderbilt & CISR! James Hayes 4th; Dylan Burnette 10th; Zachary Sanchez 20th! CISR users, submit by April 30! @ento-sanchez.bsky.social @mag2art.bsky.social www.nikonsmallworld.com