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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR). Microscopy for all of VU and VUMC. Light microscopy and electron microscopy. Image analysis.

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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR)@vucellimaging· 11h

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

Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR)@vucellimaging· 1d

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

Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR)@vucellimaging· 4d

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...

Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR)@vucellimaging· 11d

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...

Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR)@vucellimaging· 18d

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...

Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR)@vucellimaging· 29d

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!

Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR)@vucellimaging· Jul 6

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...

Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR)@vucellimaging· Jun 26

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...

Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR)@vucellimaging· Jun 22

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/...

Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR)@vucellimaging· Jun 12

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

Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR)@vucellimaging· May 29

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.

Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR)@vucellimaging· May 8

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 👩‍🎓🎓👨‍🎓🧠🔬

Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR)@vucellimaging· Apr 24

#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/

Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR)@vucellimaging· Apr 17

#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....

Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR)@vucellimaging· Apr 10

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

Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR)@vucellimaging· Apr 3

For #FluorescenceFriday, a recent publication highlight from first author Duby Okonkwo from the Schoenecker lab. Great bone imaging with CISR widefield, 3D rendering, and analysis help from Oleg Kovtun. Thanks for using and acknowledging the CISR! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41651294/

Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR)@vucellimaging· Mar 29

Excited for the first full day of #ABRF2026! Jenny Schafer will present a Lightning Talk on maintaining publications, Monday 12:50. Sean Schaffer will participate in the Monday 2:45 panel, "How AI Can Be Used to Improve Core & Platform Operations". We'd love to say hello to old and new friends!

Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR)@vucellimaging· Mar 19

Here we go! The CISR supports our #Vanderbilt #Commodores as they begin #MarchMadness! #6 men's team plays today. #2 women's team plays Saturday. #AnchorDown #GoDores Image taken by James Hayes, CISR Nikon SDC, human heart cell undergoing division. (Basketballs not to scale.) #Microscopy

Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR)@vucellimaging· Mar 16

Join us! The CISR is hosting a Leica STELLARIS FALCON demo to learn more about FLIM. Seminar this Wednesday, March 18 at 12:30 PM in 3131 MRBIII. Demo next week, March 23-27. Use the QR code or contact Jenny Schafer to sign up! @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social #microscopy #FLIM

Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR)@vucellimaging· Feb 27

For today's #FluorescenceFriday, a reminder that the CISR offers monthly Office Hours on the 1st Tuesday of each month from 9-11 AM. Next is this Tuesday, March 3! Stop by and ask us a question about fluorescence, basic imaging, analysis, scheduling, or anything you want. See you then!

Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR)@vucellimaging· Feb 16

The Winter 2026 edition of our CISR Newsletter is out! Read about new instrumentation, staff introduction, ongoing office hours, recent publication highlights, and more. #MicroscopyMonday

Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR)@vucellimaging· Jan 30

We're using #FluorescenceFriday to manifest some warmth here in Nashville! Still tens of thousands of people without power, still lots of ice on the roads and trees, and still below freezing. Enjoy this little cell pseudo-colored with Inferno for the nucleus and Orange Hot for the mitochondria. 🔥🧊☀️❄️

Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR)@vucellimaging· Jan 16

New paper alert for #FluorescenceFriday! Full of confocal imaging from Gu, Jacobson, & Kaverina Labs. "Paracrine Hormonal Signals From Islet α-Cells Regulate Microtubule Dynamics in β-Cells to Promote Insulin Secretion in Mouse and Human Islets" pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41511443/

Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR)@vucellimaging· Jan 5

First #MicroscopyMonday of 2026! Happy New Year!

Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR)@vucellimaging· Dec 22

Happy Holidays from the CISR! May all your days and fluorophores be BRIGHT. #MicroscopyMonday

Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR)@vucellimaging· Dec 19

We can't wait to continue working with all our CISR researchers in 2026! Happy Holidays! 9/9

Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR)@vucellimaging· Dec 19

Current CISR microscopes range from brand new to 18 years old! The average age is 8 years old. 8/9

Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR)@vucellimaging· Dec 19

And we held our 2nd annual "Life Is Beautiful" Image Contest! There were 27 submissions representing 7 CISR microscopes. (All images in this post are 2025 submissions.) 7/9

Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR)@vucellimaging· Dec 19

Which departments had the most CISR hours? 6/9

Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR)@vucellimaging· Dec 19

Which labs were obsessed with EM this year? 5/9