New England Society for Microscopy

Image credit: A male water flea (Daphnia magna): yellow 🟨 is musculature, magenta/gray 🟪 shows autofluorescence of its outer cuticle.
🔬: Fluorescence Microscopy
🥼: Carsten Wolff @carsten-wolff.bsky.social
🏛️: Marine Biological Laboratory @mblscience.bsky.social
📸: #syGlass

📣 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

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

"A Sparkling Spot" ✨
🔬: Leica Biosystems SP8 Confocal, White Light Laser
🥼: Keunjung Heo, FM Kirby Neurobiology Center
📝: Harvard Brain Science Initiative Beauty of the Brain Awards: mailchi.mp/brain.harvar...
🏛️: Boston Children's Hospital (CIC): research.childrenshospital.org/resources/co...

📢 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

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

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

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

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

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

Happy Holidays from NESM!

For #MicroscopyMonday, we’re excited to welcome Katie Shulenberger as NESM’s newest Director of Physical Sciences! 🎉
An Asst. Prof. of Chemistry at @brandeis.edu, Katie develops spectroscopic methods to study semiconductor nanomaterials and photophysics.
#NESM #Spectroscopy #Nanomaterials

Another #MicroscopyMonday intro! Meet Emma Perry, the #NESM Clerk from UMaine @umaine.bsky.social . She manages electron & confocal microscopes at UMaine and studies Maine/NE USA tardigrade biogeography & taxonomy. 📸 Maine tardigrade: Viridiscus perviridis 🔬Amray 1820, CORE #ElectronMicroscopy Lab.

The New England Society for Microscopy is heartbroken by the tragic shooting at Brown University. Academic and research spaces should be safe places to learn, teach, and experiment. We mourn the victims, stand with the Brown community, and are deeply angered by this senseless act of violence.

Introducing another #NESM board member for #MicroscopyMonday — Ben Muller, Director of Physical Sciences! He works across surface metrology, microfluidics, thin films, and micro/nanofabrication. He just defended his PhD! 🎉
📸 SEM of modified EGaIn sphere contacts (Harvard CNS).
#SEM #Nanotechnology

#NESM team together!

Happy #MicroscopyMonday! Meet our new Director of Biological Sciences, Mark Scimone, a UNH professor whose work spans neuroscience, optics, and image analysis. He brings experience from Boston Children’s and PSI, plus a passion for microscopy education. #NESM #SEM

📸: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Happy #MicroscopyMonday! This week we're spotlighting Brandy Freitas, our Director of Media and Outreach at #NESM.👏 @brandy-syglass.bsky.social
Brandy is the Director of Data Science at #syGlass, and here is a video of #3Ddata from C Wolff the MBL @mblscience.bsky.social 🔬

#BioImaging #SciComm

Happy #MicroscopyMonday! 🧫 This week we're spotlighting Andy Stone, our immediate past-president at #NESM. 👏 @andystoneimaging.bsky.social

Andy leads the Brandeis light microscopy core and is a powerhouse in the imaging community—from BINA to NESM and RMS. 🎥🔬

#LightSheet #BioImaging #STEM

Great!

This gorgeous piece will be displayed during our Fall Symposium at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA on November 6th & 7th. If you are interested in a chance to learn more about 3D printing and how it can be used in your microscopy builds, register now for the Makerspace Workshop on November 6th.

This week's #MicroscopyMonday is a time lapse 3D printing of a mini microscope from the MakerLab at Brandeis University.

🥼 Greg Buckland | Head of Brandeis MakerLab

#MicroscopyMonday #Sciencecommunication #BrandeisUniversity #NESM #Microscopy #Science #3D #3DPrinting

We're up in Gloucester today for the 10th Annual GMGI Science Forum! #NESM #GMGI

Tungsten crystals for #MicroscopyMonday from one of our upcoming keynote speakers! #NESM www.nesmicroscopy.org/2025-fall-sy...

🥼: @gewilli.bsky.social, Microscopist
🏛️: Brown University Leduc Bioimaging
🔬: TFS Apreo 2 VS Scanning Electron Microscope, Horizontal Field Width (HFW) = 49μm

It's #MicroscopyMonday and we are only three weeks away from the #NESM Fall Symposium! We still have opportunities for poster and oral presentations for researchers, vendors and core facilities, link here: www.nesmicroscopy.org/2025-fall-sy...

#Microscopy #LightSheet #3DPrinting #SEM #LSFM #SciComm

For #MicroscopyMonday: “Seeing Every Photon”—a hands-on workshop with Evident Scientific on the FLUOVIEW FV4000 confocal! At the Fall symposium Nov 6-7, learn to capture consistent, quantitative images with SilVIR™ detectors and performance monitoring. #NESM #ConfocalMicroscopy

Stylized graphic of an electron beam, shown as a purple cone with a red bullseye tip, aimed precisely at a single atom in a hexagonal lattice of atoms. The background is a faint atomic-resolution microscopy image, highlighting the idea of targeting individual atoms in atomically thin materials

Excited to welcome MIT’s Julian P. Klein as a keynote at the #NESM Fall Symposium! 🔬 His work uses electron beams to target atoms in 2D materials — here’s a teaser image from his research in quantum engineering.

#MicroscopyMonday #ElectronMicroscopy #QuantumMaterials #Nanotechnology #MIT #SciComm

📣Announcing the Fall Symposium Workshops for #MicroscopyMonday!🎫 Registration is now open here: www.nesmicroscopy.org/2025-fall-sy...

🔬: Hitachi Gemini FE SEM
🥼: Benjamin Muller, PI Giovanni Traverso, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE)
📝: Feig et al, lnkd.in/ea5M7aET

#NESM #SciComm

Announcing one of our Keynote Speakers, Elizabeth Engle, for #MicroscopyMonday! Please join us in November at Brandeis!

🔬: 3i Light Sheet
🐭: Dharmendra Puri, Boston Children's Hospital
🏛️: Harvard Medical School's MicRoN facility
🎬: syGlass.io

#NESM #LightSheetMicroscopy #3DImaging #TissueClearing

Announcing registration for the Fall Symposium at Brandeis for #MicroscopyMonday! #NESM
www.nesmicroscopy.org/2025-fall-sy...

🔬: Bruker TruLive3D @brukerspatial.bsky.social
🥼: Amro Hamdoun @hamdounlab.bsky.social ‬, Tzer Han Tan's @tzerhan29.bsky.social group
🌌: Painted Sea Urchin
📷: syGlass.io