Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR)
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Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource (CISR). Microscopy for all of VU and VUMC. Light microscopy and electron microscopy. Image analysis. https://medschool.vanderbilt.edu/cisr/
Happy Holidays from the CISR! May all your days and fluorophores be BRIGHT. #MicroscopyMonday
December 22, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Happy Holidays from the CISR! May all your days and fluorophores be BRIGHT. #MicroscopyMonday
For the last (workday) #FluorescenceFriday of 2025, let's recap another amazing year in the CISR! We appreciate all our CISR labs, users, faculty, and staff! Thanks for a great 2025, and here's to a great 2026! #Wrapped #Microscopy First, you imaged for 11,082 microscope hours! 1/9
December 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
For the last (workday) #FluorescenceFriday of 2025, let's recap another amazing year in the CISR! We appreciate all our CISR labs, users, faculty, and staff! Thanks for a great 2025, and here's to a great 2026! #Wrapped #Microscopy First, you imaged for 11,082 microscope hours! 1/9
Time for the annual sharing of our favorite Christmas Microscope Joke: The Z-mas Tree! Source unknown. #Microscopy #Confocal #Volume
December 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Time for the annual sharing of our favorite Christmas Microscope Joke: The Z-mas Tree! Source unknown. #Microscopy #Confocal #Volume
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Oh where, oh where does my protein localize? Oh where, oh where can it be?🎵
Check out our Subcellular Localization Collection page, with fluorescent protein markers for organelles and cellular structures to help you find your way 🔬
Check out our Subcellular Localization Collection page, with fluorescent protein markers for organelles and cellular structures to help you find your way 🔬
Addgene: Fluorescent Protein Guide: Subcellular Localization
Find plasmids encoding fluorescent fusion proteins with known subcellular localization patterns for colocalization studies or organelle labeling.
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December 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Oh where, oh where does my protein localize? Oh where, oh where can it be?🎵
Check out our Subcellular Localization Collection page, with fluorescent protein markers for organelles and cellular structures to help you find your way 🔬
Check out our Subcellular Localization Collection page, with fluorescent protein markers for organelles and cellular structures to help you find your way 🔬
For #FluorescenceFriday, we're adding #Football. Good luck to Vanderbilt's first ever Heisman finalist, QB Diego Pavia! High-resolution nucleus football to scale (2 microns), Pavia not to scale. #Heisman #DiegoPavia #2Turnt
December 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
For #FluorescenceFriday, we're adding #Football. Good luck to Vanderbilt's first ever Heisman finalist, QB Diego Pavia! High-resolution nucleus football to scale (2 microns), Pavia not to scale. #Heisman #DiegoPavia #2Turnt
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The next Special Edition #VirtualPub "Imaging Organoids" will take place on Jan. 30, 1-3 pm CET. Speakers from academia & industry will introduce a range of methods used to image organoid systems from lung buds to mini-brains.
Join us!
Register 🔽
www.eurobioimaging.eu/special-edit...
Join us!
Register 🔽
www.eurobioimaging.eu/special-edit...
December 5, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The next Special Edition #VirtualPub "Imaging Organoids" will take place on Jan. 30, 1-3 pm CET. Speakers from academia & industry will introduce a range of methods used to image organoid systems from lung buds to mini-brains.
Join us!
Register 🔽
www.eurobioimaging.eu/special-edit...
Join us!
Register 🔽
www.eurobioimaging.eu/special-edit...
Today is #WorldDiabetesDay & #FluorescenceFriday! One example from Vanderbilt diabetes research. Image from Darian Carroll's graduate work in Gannon lab. NHP pancreas: insulin (green), mitochondria (magenta), DAPI (blue). @healthcare.nikon.com @betacellbelle.bsky.social @vubasicsciences.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Today is #WorldDiabetesDay & #FluorescenceFriday! One example from Vanderbilt diabetes research. Image from Darian Carroll's graduate work in Gannon lab. NHP pancreas: insulin (green), mitochondria (magenta), DAPI (blue). @healthcare.nikon.com @betacellbelle.bsky.social @vubasicsciences.bsky.social
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Just 4 days until the start of I2K and its 33 totally free image analysis tutorials and events! Please share with your "home networks", especially early career researchers - the videos will be amazing and high-impact no matter how many people attend live, BUT (1/x)
November 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Just 4 days until the start of I2K and its 33 totally free image analysis tutorials and events! Please share with your "home networks", especially early career researchers - the videos will be amazing and high-impact no matter how many people attend live, BUT (1/x)
I think all imaging scientists and microscopy core facility personnel already know we have the greatest jobs in the world, but it's nice to see it written. #microscopy #imaging 🔬😊💯 Vanderbilt friends, come see us to "look at random things through fancy microscopes"!
I used to think I wanted to be a scientist, but when I really reflect, I just wanted to look at random things through fancy microscopes.
November 11, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I think all imaging scientists and microscopy core facility personnel already know we have the greatest jobs in the world, but it's nice to see it written. #microscopy #imaging 🔬😊💯 Vanderbilt friends, come see us to "look at random things through fancy microscopes"!
Great explanation for #MicroscopyMonday on when to use or not use a Maximum Intensity Projection during your image analysis. "Extracting 3D information from 2D projections is akin to estimating the volume, surface, and content properties form a crushed beverage can"
Ever wondered if analyzing your images by using intensity Z-projections impacts your data?
Happy to announce my guest article in Microscopy & Analysis on that topic. It's a very short read but worth for everyone dealing with image analysis!
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#Microscopy #ZProjection #ImageAnalysis
Happy to announce my guest article in Microscopy & Analysis on that topic. It's a very short read but worth for everyone dealing with image analysis!
buff.ly/KJ147tI
#Microscopy #ZProjection #ImageAnalysis
November 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Great explanation for #MicroscopyMonday on when to use or not use a Maximum Intensity Projection during your image analysis. "Extracting 3D information from 2D projections is akin to estimating the volume, surface, and content properties form a crushed beverage can"
Happy #FluorescenceFriday and #HappyHalloween! Spider web or microtubule web? Let's check the scale bar. 5 microns. Great lesson in the importance of a #scalebar. (Microtubules to scale, spider not to scale) 🎃👻🕷️🕸️
October 31, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Happy #FluorescenceFriday and #HappyHalloween! Spider web or microtubule web? Let's check the scale bar. 5 microns. Great lesson in the importance of a #scalebar. (Microtubules to scale, spider not to scale) 🎃👻🕷️🕸️
We're a week behind, but excited to see so many Vanderbilt and CISR researchers with winning images in the 2025 #NikonSmallWorld contest! Congrats to James Hayes (4th, first image here), Dylan Burnette (10th), Zach Sanchez (20th), and Amy Engevik (IOD)! #FluorescenceFriday www.nikonsmallworld.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
We're a week behind, but excited to see so many Vanderbilt and CISR researchers with winning images in the 2025 #NikonSmallWorld contest! Congrats to James Hayes (4th, first image here), Dylan Burnette (10th), Zach Sanchez (20th), and Amy Engevik (IOD)! #FluorescenceFriday www.nikonsmallworld.com
The CISR is hosting a webinar and demonstration of the Zeiss LSM910 with Lightfield 4D microscope. Join the webinar next Thursday, Oct. 30 at 11 AM. Then contact Jenny Schafer with CISR or Cumberland Dugan with Zeiss to sign up for a demo time the week of Nov. 10. @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The CISR is hosting a webinar and demonstration of the Zeiss LSM910 with Lightfield 4D microscope. Join the webinar next Thursday, Oct. 30 at 11 AM. Then contact Jenny Schafer with CISR or Cumberland Dugan with Zeiss to sign up for a demo time the week of Nov. 10. @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social
Happy #FluorescenceFriday! Trying out a new color combo for today, Friday, October 3. Mitochondria (MitoTracker) in turquoise, nucleus (DAPI) in orange. Confocal Airyscan, tile, MIP. 🧡💚🔬
October 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Happy #FluorescenceFriday! Trying out a new color combo for today, Friday, October 3. Mitochondria (MitoTracker) in turquoise, nucleus (DAPI) in orange. Confocal Airyscan, tile, MIP. 🧡💚🔬
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🌍🎗️ Today is #WorldCancerResearchDay. Cancer impacts millions of people around the world and our scientists are working to tackle cancer from every angle: genes, metabolism, drug discovery, and more. Learn more about cancer research being done at our school 👉 medschool.vanderbilt.edu/basic-scienc...
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Sep. 9, 2025
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September 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
🌍🎗️ Today is #WorldCancerResearchDay. Cancer impacts millions of people around the world and our scientists are working to tackle cancer from every angle: genes, metabolism, drug discovery, and more. Learn more about cancer research being done at our school 👉 medschool.vanderbilt.edu/basic-scienc...
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#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 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
#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
Great opportunity for a "Train the Trainer" workshop for light microscopy facility people! Check it out here. #microscopy #cores
September 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Great opportunity for a "Train the Trainer" workshop for light microscopy facility people! Check it out here. #microscopy #cores
Join VI4 for Mega Microbe on September 27! This is always a fun event for kids in the Nashville area. CISR-EM will be showing off some cool EM instruments and will show how beautiful these tiny bacteria can be! 🔬🦠🏫
August 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Join VI4 for Mega Microbe on September 27! This is always a fun event for kids in the Nashville area. CISR-EM will be showing off some cool EM instruments and will show how beautiful these tiny bacteria can be! 🔬🦠🏫
Looking forward to this joint conference in Montreal! Global BioImaging (GBI) & BioImaging North America (BINA). Registration ends soon! Dr. Jenny Schafer will be representing the CISR. Say hello! #GBIxBINA2025 #BioimagingCommunity #HybridConference #Imaging2025 globalbioimaging.org/exchange-of-...
Exchange of Experience 2025 | Global BioImaging
Applications closed on 7 March 2025 The Program Committee for the EoE2025: Claire Brown (McGill University, Canada) Clara Prats (University of Copenhagen, Denm…
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August 13, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Looking forward to this joint conference in Montreal! Global BioImaging (GBI) & BioImaging North America (BINA). Registration ends soon! Dr. Jenny Schafer will be representing the CISR. Say hello! #GBIxBINA2025 #BioimagingCommunity #HybridConference #Imaging2025 globalbioimaging.org/exchange-of-...
Drumroll please 🥁 We're excited to announce the winners of the 2nd Annual CISR Life Is Beautiful Image Contest! 🔬🏅
1 - James Hayes, Burnette/Merryman Labs
2 - Rekha Nagarajan, Tyska Lab
3 - James Costanzo, Gama Lab
Read about these researchers, projects, and microscopes here. tinyurl.com/4r6xwe8h
1 - James Hayes, Burnette/Merryman Labs
2 - Rekha Nagarajan, Tyska Lab
3 - James Costanzo, Gama Lab
Read about these researchers, projects, and microscopes here. tinyurl.com/4r6xwe8h
August 8, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Drumroll please 🥁 We're excited to announce the winners of the 2nd Annual CISR Life Is Beautiful Image Contest! 🔬🏅
1 - James Hayes, Burnette/Merryman Labs
2 - Rekha Nagarajan, Tyska Lab
3 - James Costanzo, Gama Lab
Read about these researchers, projects, and microscopes here. tinyurl.com/4r6xwe8h
1 - James Hayes, Burnette/Merryman Labs
2 - Rekha Nagarajan, Tyska Lab
3 - James Costanzo, Gama Lab
Read about these researchers, projects, and microscopes here. tinyurl.com/4r6xwe8h
Tomorrow! First Tuesday of the month. CISR Office Hours. 9:00-11:00 AM. Come see us in 704 Light Hall and/or T-2216 MCN, and ask anything microscopy related!
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August 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Tomorrow! First Tuesday of the month. CISR Office Hours. 9:00-11:00 AM. Come see us in 704 Light Hall and/or T-2216 MCN, and ask anything microscopy related!
Happy #FluorescenceFriday! Submissions have closed, and NEXT WEEK we will be announcing the WINNERS of the 2nd Annual Life Is Beautiful CISR Image Contest! Stay tuned! To get everyone excited, let's enjoy these 3 beautiful winners from last year! 🔬🎨🏆
August 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Happy #FluorescenceFriday! Submissions have closed, and NEXT WEEK we will be announcing the WINNERS of the 2nd Annual Life Is Beautiful CISR Image Contest! Stay tuned! To get everyone excited, let's enjoy these 3 beautiful winners from last year! 🔬🎨🏆
Nashville has been under a #HeatAdvisory all week, so how about a #RedHot LUT for #FluorescenceFriday? 🌞😎🥵Might be a cell, might be an artistic representation of what it feels like in Tennessee right now. 🤷
July 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Nashville has been under a #HeatAdvisory all week, so how about a #RedHot LUT for #FluorescenceFriday? 🌞😎🥵Might be a cell, might be an artistic representation of what it feels like in Tennessee right now. 🤷
Hello #MicroscopyMonday! Second, TEM & SEM from the @tyskalabactual.bsky.social lab and first author @operkins.bsky.social with CISR-EM's Dr. Evan Krystofiak of clathrin-coated pits in intestinal crypts (click for more!). @cp-cellreports.bsky.social @vubasicsciences.bsky.social tinyurl.com/yhue25bv
July 21, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Hello #MicroscopyMonday! Second, TEM & SEM from the @tyskalabactual.bsky.social lab and first author @operkins.bsky.social with CISR-EM's Dr. Evan Krystofiak of clathrin-coated pits in intestinal crypts (click for more!). @cp-cellreports.bsky.social @vubasicsciences.bsky.social tinyurl.com/yhue25bv
Hello #MicroscopyMonday! How about 2 new papers with CISR-EM team & Vanderbilt researchers? First, TEM from the @gouldlab.bsky.social with CISR-EM's Dr. Evan Krystofiak to show changes in fungal cell wall architecture. @pnas.org @awillet.bsky.social @vubasicsciences.bsky.social tinyurl.com/23rncw78
July 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Hello #MicroscopyMonday! How about 2 new papers with CISR-EM team & Vanderbilt researchers? First, TEM from the @gouldlab.bsky.social with CISR-EM's Dr. Evan Krystofiak to show changes in fungal cell wall architecture. @pnas.org @awillet.bsky.social @vubasicsciences.bsky.social tinyurl.com/23rncw78