Virginia Silio
@virsicas.bsky.social
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Virginia Silio
@virsicas.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Hi everyone! I'm excited to introduce myself:
Background – PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology, focusing on PI3K in mitosis (1/n)
Background – PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology, focusing on PI3K in mitosis (1/n)
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Less than a week to go for #CBIAS2025! A few hours left to register, in person in London or online over Zoom (registration deadline on Nov 20th)
Find out all the information at the link below:
www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cri...
Find out all the information at the link below:
www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cri...
Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium 2025
www.crick.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Less than a week to go for #CBIAS2025! A few hours left to register, in person in London or online over Zoom (registration deadline on Nov 20th)
Find out all the information at the link below:
www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cri...
Find out all the information at the link below:
www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cri...
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My new ImageJ / Fiji toolkit is out 🔥! The goal is to make image handling & visualization easy, with an intuitive interface! Install it on Fiji with the "Image Viewer" update site
#microscopy #ImageJ #FluorescenceFriday #microscopyMonday
imagej.net/plugins/imag...
#microscopy #ImageJ #FluorescenceFriday #microscopyMonday
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November 16, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Full chameleon cranial atlas article out now in @anatrecord.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1002/ar.7... 🦎✨️
3D anatomical atlas of the heads of male and female adult Chamaeleo calyptratus
The veiled chameleon is a model organism in reptile development research. Utilizing contrast-enhanced microCT and deep learning segmentation models, we have generated the first digital atlases of the...
doi.org
November 15, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Full chameleon cranial atlas article out now in @anatrecord.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1002/ar.7... 🦎✨️
Two great talks today at 12pm UK time. (ZOOM, Meeting ID: 982 1434 7242 / Passcode: 952497) @biig-ucl.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Two great talks today at 12pm UK time. (ZOOM, Meeting ID: 982 1434 7242 / Passcode: 952497) @biig-ucl.bsky.social
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Join us tomorrow at the @biig-ucl.bsky.social monthly hybrid seminar, to hear @leaveylab.bsky.social speak on: "From chameleons to sea urchins: Using AI-driven digital dissection tools to study development and evolution".
I have been invited to speak at the UCL BioImage Interest Group meeting on Nov 14 - find the Zoom information on this link, open for anyone wanting to learn about AI-driven digital dissection tools (www.ucl.ac.uk/science-tech...)
UCL BioImage Interest Group
The UCL BIIG - BioImage Interest Group - aims to share knowledge, expertise and foster discussion and collaborations around the topics of bioimaging and bioimage analysis in an informal setting.
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 13, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Join us tomorrow at the @biig-ucl.bsky.social monthly hybrid seminar, to hear @leaveylab.bsky.social speak on: "From chameleons to sea urchins: Using AI-driven digital dissection tools to study development and evolution".
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🔬 THREAD: UK Bioimaging User Access Fund is OPEN!
Up to £5k for imaging experiments, £2k for image analysis
Access world-class facilities at Crick, ESRIC, KCL, Liverpool, Oxford Brookes & York
First deadline: 9 Dec 2025 📅
🧵👇
Up to £5k for imaging experiments, £2k for image analysis
Access world-class facilities at Crick, ESRIC, KCL, Liverpool, Oxford Brookes & York
First deadline: 9 Dec 2025 📅
🧵👇
October 24, 2025 at 1:27 PM
🔬 THREAD: UK Bioimaging User Access Fund is OPEN!
Up to £5k for imaging experiments, £2k for image analysis
Access world-class facilities at Crick, ESRIC, KCL, Liverpool, Oxford Brookes & York
First deadline: 9 Dec 2025 📅
🧵👇
Up to £5k for imaging experiments, £2k for image analysis
Access world-class facilities at Crick, ESRIC, KCL, Liverpool, Oxford Brookes & York
First deadline: 9 Dec 2025 📅
🧵👇
As someone born in a country with national healthcare and living in another one with the same, this is against humanity.
Before ACA, many Americans couldn’t afford insurance
Alex Smith was a diabetic who got kicked off his Mom’s insurance at 26
He made 35k a year which was “too much” for Medicaid, but not nearly enough to cover insurance premiums
He had to ration his insulin & died a month after losing insurance
Alex Smith was a diabetic who got kicked off his Mom’s insurance at 26
He made 35k a year which was “too much” for Medicaid, but not nearly enough to cover insurance premiums
He had to ration his insulin & died a month after losing insurance
Insulin's High Cost Leads To Lethal Rationing
Alec Raeshawn Smith was 23 when diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes and 26 when he died. He couldn't afford $1,300 per month for his insulin and other diabetes supplies, so he tried to stretch the doses.
www.npr.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:37 AM
As someone born in a country with national healthcare and living in another one with the same, this is against humanity.
Sharing this, quite relevant this week. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Remembering my sister Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin died of ovarian cancer in 1958 aged 37 years. Sympathy and feminism
have combined to give us her familiar image as a downtrodden woman scientist, brilliant
but neglected, a heroine t...
www.thelancet.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Sharing this, quite relevant this week. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Please repost - Multiple PhDs available
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November 5, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Please repost - Multiple PhDs available
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🔬 UK Researchers: Up to £5K for bioimaging access now available!
Access state-of-the-art facilities at 6 leading UK sites:
🔬 Francis Crick Institute
🔬 ESRIC Edinburgh
🔬 King's
🔬 Liverpool
🔬 Oxford Brookes
🔬 York
First deadline: 9 Dec 2025 📅
Apply: www.rms.org.uk/user-access-fund
Please re-post!
Access state-of-the-art facilities at 6 leading UK sites:
🔬 Francis Crick Institute
🔬 ESRIC Edinburgh
🔬 King's
🔬 Liverpool
🔬 Oxford Brookes
🔬 York
First deadline: 9 Dec 2025 📅
Apply: www.rms.org.uk/user-access-fund
Please re-post!
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
🔬 UK Researchers: Up to £5K for bioimaging access now available!
Access state-of-the-art facilities at 6 leading UK sites:
🔬 Francis Crick Institute
🔬 ESRIC Edinburgh
🔬 King's
🔬 Liverpool
🔬 Oxford Brookes
🔬 York
First deadline: 9 Dec 2025 📅
Apply: www.rms.org.uk/user-access-fund
Please re-post!
Access state-of-the-art facilities at 6 leading UK sites:
🔬 Francis Crick Institute
🔬 ESRIC Edinburgh
🔬 King's
🔬 Liverpool
🔬 Oxford Brookes
🔬 York
First deadline: 9 Dec 2025 📅
Apply: www.rms.org.uk/user-access-fund
Please re-post!
Reposted by Virginia Silio
Big news! Our week-long #bioimageanalysis bootcamp is BACK! Learn how to think about bioimage analysis like the pros do, learn what corrections you should (and shouldn't!) apply to your images, learn open source tools, and more. Apply NOW at broad.io/BAB3 for our January 2026 course!
October 14, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Big news! Our week-long #bioimageanalysis bootcamp is BACK! Learn how to think about bioimage analysis like the pros do, learn what corrections you should (and shouldn't!) apply to your images, learn open source tools, and more. Apply NOW at broad.io/BAB3 for our January 2026 course!
You can decrease the speed so I talk a normal pace!
In this #VirtualPub recording, @virsicas.bsky.social, one of #EuroBioImaging's Scientific Ambassadors, explores multiple aspects of her work at the Light Microscopy facility at @ucl.ac.uk, from microscopes to workflows. 🔬
A great talk - check it out! 👀 🔽
youtu.be/aKakQ6K6HxU
A great talk - check it out! 👀 🔽
youtu.be/aKakQ6K6HxU
October 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
You can decrease the speed so I talk a normal pace!
Had a great visit to KCL for my second Euro-BioImaging Node interview — and really nice to meet Andreas! The MIC renovation looks fantastic. Hope the interview shines a bit more light on all the brilliant technical work happening across the Nodes!
Meet Andres Bodén! In an interview with @virsicas.bsky.social, he explains how managing the Microscopy Innovation Centre at King's allows him to balance tech development with user projects — to shape the future of microscopy & broaden its impact. 🔬
More⤵️
www.eurobioimaging.eu/news/meet-an...
More⤵️
www.eurobioimaging.eu/news/meet-an...
October 1, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Had a great visit to KCL for my second Euro-BioImaging Node interview — and really nice to meet Andreas! The MIC renovation looks fantastic. Hope the interview shines a bit more light on all the brilliant technical work happening across the Nodes!
Reposted by Virginia Silio
The advert for the second (wetlab) postdoc is now live www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
September 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The advert for the second (wetlab) postdoc is now live www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Reposted by Virginia Silio
Halfway to I2K is BACK, friends of all kinds! Last year, 650 people attended 30+ TOTALLY FREE image analysis workshops of all kinds, across many timezones.
If you make image analysis software and want to teach it, workshop submissions are open now! We'd love to have your tool highlighted.
If you make image analysis software and want to teach it, workshop submissions are open now! We'd love to have your tool highlighted.
#HappyFluorescenceFriday!
#microscopycommunity- want to learn open source image analysis or share your knowledge to help others? We’ve got a FREE virtual workshop Nov 17-19! Now accepting workshop session applications!
Learn more & sign up: buff.ly/esGIotD
#microscopycommunity- want to learn open source image analysis or share your knowledge to help others? We’ve got a FREE virtual workshop Nov 17-19! Now accepting workshop session applications!
Learn more & sign up: buff.ly/esGIotD
September 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Halfway to I2K is BACK, friends of all kinds! Last year, 650 people attended 30+ TOTALLY FREE image analysis workshops of all kinds, across many timezones.
If you make image analysis software and want to teach it, workshop submissions are open now! We'd love to have your tool highlighted.
If you make image analysis software and want to teach it, workshop submissions are open now! We'd love to have your tool highlighted.
Reposted by Virginia Silio
BioImage analysis friends - King's are recruiting for a full-time, permanent facility position! Come and work with fun microscopes and fun people (and me!) - please share! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/126345-...
Bioimage Analysis Specialist | King's College London
www.kcl.ac.uk
September 29, 2025 at 9:48 AM
BioImage analysis friends - King's are recruiting for a full-time, permanent facility position! Come and work with fun microscopes and fun people (and me!) - please share! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/126345-...
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It's TODAY! Join us at 13:00 CEST for an exciting talk by Virginia Silio, our Scientific Ambassador, on "From Microscopes to Workflows: Supporting Research Through Imaging and Analysis." @virsicas.bsky.social
All are welcome!
Register🔽
www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/title...
All are welcome!
Register🔽
www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/title...
September 26, 2025 at 6:45 AM
It's TODAY! Join us at 13:00 CEST for an exciting talk by Virginia Silio, our Scientific Ambassador, on "From Microscopes to Workflows: Supporting Research Through Imaging and Analysis." @virsicas.bsky.social
All are welcome!
Register🔽
www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/title...
All are welcome!
Register🔽
www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/title...
I’m speaking at the Euro-BioImaging Virtual Pub! I’ll share my journey into microscopy support, introduce UCL’s Light Microscopy facility, and show how we help researchers from planning to analysis — plus reproducible workflows & community building.
www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/title...
www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/title...
From Microscopes to Workflows: Supporting Research Through Imaging and Analysis
Please join us for the Virtual Pub on September 26, 2025 at 13:00 CEST. We welcome Virginia Silio, University College London (one of Euro-BioImaging’s Scientific Ambassadors!), for a talk entitled…
www.eurobioimaging.eu
September 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I’m speaking at the Euro-BioImaging Virtual Pub! I’ll share my journey into microscopy support, introduce UCL’s Light Microscopy facility, and show how we help researchers from planning to analysis — plus reproducible workflows & community building.
www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/title...
www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/title...
It’s out! It was a pleasure to talk to Rob, and learn how amazing Octopus is!
Our Scientific Ambassador @virsicas.bsky.social interviewed Robert Lees, an expert in multiphoton & light sheet microscopy at the 🐙 Octopus facility, part of Euro-BioImaging’s UK Node @bioimaginguk.bsky.social.
🔬Learn more about his role in the full interview🔽
www.eurobioimaging.eu/news/meet-ro...
🔬Learn more about his role in the full interview🔽
www.eurobioimaging.eu/news/meet-ro...
September 9, 2025 at 4:43 PM
It’s out! It was a pleasure to talk to Rob, and learn how amazing Octopus is!
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BIIG seminars are back! 🎉
12-1pm on 12th September:
- Kaixiang Shuai (LMCB, UCL): Creating the first Drosophila imaginal wing disc atlas
- Aikta Sharma (UCL Mechanical Engineering): Predicting Osteoarthritis in the Tibial Epiphysis with Synchrotron X-ray CT and Digital Volume Correlation
12-1pm on 12th September:
- Kaixiang Shuai (LMCB, UCL): Creating the first Drosophila imaginal wing disc atlas
- Aikta Sharma (UCL Mechanical Engineering): Predicting Osteoarthritis in the Tibial Epiphysis with Synchrotron X-ray CT and Digital Volume Correlation
September 8, 2025 at 9:25 AM
BIIG seminars are back! 🎉
12-1pm on 12th September:
- Kaixiang Shuai (LMCB, UCL): Creating the first Drosophila imaginal wing disc atlas
- Aikta Sharma (UCL Mechanical Engineering): Predicting Osteoarthritis in the Tibial Epiphysis with Synchrotron X-ray CT and Digital Volume Correlation
12-1pm on 12th September:
- Kaixiang Shuai (LMCB, UCL): Creating the first Drosophila imaginal wing disc atlas
- Aikta Sharma (UCL Mechanical Engineering): Predicting Osteoarthritis in the Tibial Epiphysis with Synchrotron X-ray CT and Digital Volume Correlation
Reposted by Virginia Silio
Courtney @courtneyl7a7.bsky.social has written a lovely piece on this wonderful community initiative we’ve been running for 5 years at UCL - have a read! And follow @biig-ucl.bsky.social !
📢New post on FocalPlane - Connecting Researchers Through Bioimaging: Reflections from UCL’s BioImage Interest Group
Courtney Lancaster @courtneyl7a7.bsky.social reflects on the success of the BioImage Interest Group at UCL, offering a template for other communities.
Courtney Lancaster @courtneyl7a7.bsky.social reflects on the success of the BioImage Interest Group at UCL, offering a template for other communities.
Connecting Researchers Through Bioimaging: Reflections from UCL’s BioImage Interest Group - FocalPlane
Connecting Researchers Through Bioimaging: Reflections from UCL’s BioImage Interest Group -
focalplane.biologists.com
August 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Courtney @courtneyl7a7.bsky.social has written a lovely piece on this wonderful community initiative we’ve been running for 5 years at UCL - have a read! And follow @biig-ucl.bsky.social !
Do you even work in microscopy if your camera roll isn’t 50% laser bed glamour shots? #fluorescencefriday #kindof
July 25, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Do you even work in microscopy if your camera roll isn’t 50% laser bed glamour shots? #fluorescencefriday #kindof
How I feel after the Festival of Digital Research, Innovation & Scholarship, workshops, keynotes, talks, networking… #ucldigifest
July 15, 2025 at 6:31 PM
How I feel after the Festival of Digital Research, Innovation & Scholarship, workshops, keynotes, talks, networking… #ucldigifest