We are all super happy and proud to see our work on the function and evolution of the #cephalic #furrow published in @nature.com. Let me say a few things about the background and history of this work on the #Evolution_of_Morphogenesis (1/12)
Excited to share more widely: I am starting the Dorkenwald Lab at MIT (McGovern Institute + BCS) in January 2026. We study the organizational principles of neuronal circuits using connectomics.
And we are hiring postdocs & tech associates! dorkenwaldlab.com/join
ha ha, not yet ;)
The connectome of the entire male Drosophila central nervous system is out!! Acquired using FIB-SEM @ 8x8x8nm, we aligned 7.5 mio 2D images aligned into one seamless 3D volume, which was used to segment & proofread neurons and synapses. @hhmijanelia.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Preprint -
Excited to present WHOLISTIC, which extends the concept of whole-brain functional imaging to the entire body. Pioneering work by incredibly talented Virginia Ruetten @vmsruetten.bsky.social, this platform reveals whole-organism cellular dynamics in vivo.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
What does a neural network look like? Maybe like this view of Larissa Heinrich's U-net for organelle segmentation, with edges between layer inputs and outputs.
Want to help build networks like this? Join #HHMIJanelia's new AI initiative as a data engineer:
hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
🎉 Call for Abstracts! 🎉
We’re celebrating 10 years of #mesoSPIM #opensource initiative – join us at the symposium for talks, demos & posters on open-source light-sheet microscopy, tissue clearing, and imaging!
Dates: October 13-15, 2025
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Registration: ema.uzh.ch/R7YRN
NSF, NASA and NIH budgets per year, inflation adjusted from 2000-2025 along with the proposed cuts. NSF includes research component only. Massive cuts across all sectors, well below support spanning 25 years.
How bad will it be? Catastrophic.
Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come.
But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget.
Speak up now before it is too late.
(inflation adjusted $-s below)
Thinkmate … retail price
That only took 3.5 months 😅
Looking forward!
Found some pretty cool books at the Marine Biological Laboratory @mblscience.bsky.social library alongside pictures of renowned stylish scientists, with @markkitti.bsky.social, @joshmoore.bsky.social and Graham Johnson. It was overall a very inspiring OME community meeting in Woods Hole!
#GloBIAS has a blog series - new post out today!
Two GloBIAS volunteers reflect on the first version of GloBIAS Free Help (previously Call4Help), explain the idea behind this activity and what was learned during the pilot session.
Please check out the webpage: www.globias.org/resources/gl...
The STIM paper is out! We build on established computer vision techniques to automatically create 3D volumes of spatial transcriptomics datasets with human-level accuracy, and useful, interactive visualizations.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@hhmijanelia.bsky.social @mdc-bimsb.bsky.social
Graphic announcing an event: A purple and orange wave pattern background with symmetrical curved lines creates a visually dynamic effect. A small white "Helmholtz Imaging" logo appears in the bottom right corner. The overlaid text is centered and reads in white, bold sans-serif font: "Helmholtz Imaging Conference 2025. Potsdam, June 25–27. Registration & call for abstracts open."
Join us in Potsdam for the #HIConference25 by @helmholtzimaging.bsky.social – three days of talks, workshops, community challenges, and some stunning scientific visuals!
🗓 Abstract deadline: May 1, 2025
More info and registration:
🔗 events.hifis.net/event/2061/ #HelmholtzImaging #mdcBerlin
Our 3D study of the tumor microenvironment is finally out!
Play around with the data yourself at lung-3d-browser.mdc-berlin.de (Kudos to @danilexn.bsky.social👏 )
Many thanks to Nikolaus Rajewsky lab at @mdc-bimsb.bsky.social and everyone involved, it takes a village to raise a multimodal paper!
www.cell.com/cell-systems...
CosMx data by @brukerspatial.bsky.social
Second harmonics by Andrew Woehler
Immunofluorescence by @sonjafritzsche.bsky.social and @josenimo.bsky.social in Fabian Coscia lab
STIM for 3D alignment by @preibischs.bsky.social @nukappa.bsky.social et al (coming very soon!)
Shout out to my dear #BigStitcher #Windows users :) I finally got access to a Windows VM and fixed many Windows bugs. I hope most functionality is restored. I still advise switching to Linux/Mac, but I will be able to provide more Windows support in the future if necessary.
#conferences
#funding opportunities:
- AWS Imagine Grant (lnkd.in/exrCc7gf)
- Amazon Research Awards for Build On Trainium (lnkd.in/eP_Rg76E)
I recently visited #Amazon HQ2, to present at the AWS Imagine Nonprofit conference 2025. It was exciting to see use cases & opinions from other areas than biomedicine, to make new contacts, and to see how people at AWS work.
#AWS has an interesting line up of #conferences & #funding opportunities:
Check out this new & exciting #postdoc program from Max Planck Society 🤩 - My lab is thrilled to move to MPI MB in Muenster - positions available in #chromatin #mechanobiology #cancer #stemcells #transcription join us!
The Trump administration's erasure of federal data has put the Internet Archive in the spotlight. The organization, with its small but mighty team, is working to help save the world's digital history.
It did indeed … it’s a matter of convenience I think. As @paveltomancak.bsky.social said, good intentions are usually there …
🔜 Starting at 5 PM tonight, the @dfg.de will present the 2025 #LeibnizPreis to #mdcBerlin researcher @apombo1.bsky.social and nine other recipients. Congratulations to all of them! 🥳
📺 You can join the action via livestream – click the link below! 👇
#mdcBIMSB | @www.helmholtz.de
Pretty awesome setting for today’s workshop on enabling access to emerging bioimaging techniques organized by Ian Dobbie at JHU’s downtown DC campus. We had great presentations and discussions; sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iic/workshop...
Indeed they are 😉
Graphic with text and colored blocks: Grid-style collage of female scientists in lab coats and professional attire, with "Happy Women's Day!" text in the center, celebrating women in STEM.
Happy #InternationalWomensDay ‼️
Over the past weeks, we’ve shared insights from #mdcBerlin's inspiring #WomenInSTEM – highlighting their work, challenges, and career advice.
🔗 Explore all of their stories here:
➡️ www.mdc-berlin.de/about/values... ⬅️ #WomenInScience #mdcDiversity #IWD2025
Amazing news on thr #Fiji front. The new launcher holds beautiful promises for better bioimage analysis tools, and not only for Fiji!!
See this summary thread by Curtis
forum.image.sc/t/fiji-2024-...
Calling the #bioimageanalysis community! Remember the #GatherIsland used during the online #I2K? Remember #Hebedas?
#Woodstockbio2025 will be like this, in real life on a #YMCA #campsite in #Czech woods.
Bioimage Geeks of the World - Unite and Register!
woodstock.img.cas.cz/registration/
