Jay Christopher
@jaylchristopher.bsky.social
PostDoc at the University of Strathclyde || PhD in 3D Printed Optics for Microscopy || Coffee weirdo ☕️ || (he/him) 🏳️🌈
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We are delighted to announce the Strathclyde Optical Microscopy Course 2026 (SOMC26), taking place in Glasgow from 21st July – 30th July 2026!
Please find more details at shorturl.at/xmUiZ and apply at shorturl.at/MxTlI. Deadline 16 January 2026.
Please find more details at shorturl.at/xmUiZ and apply at shorturl.at/MxTlI. Deadline 16 January 2026.
November 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
We are delighted to announce the Strathclyde Optical Microscopy Course 2026 (SOMC26), taking place in Glasgow from 21st July – 30th July 2026!
Please find more details at shorturl.at/xmUiZ and apply at shorturl.at/MxTlI. Deadline 16 January 2026.
Please find more details at shorturl.at/xmUiZ and apply at shorturl.at/MxTlI. Deadline 16 January 2026.
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New review paper out! Proud to co-author with @optophysakhil.bsky.social and @gailmcconnell.bsky.social a deep dive into Fourier Ptychographic Microscopy (FPM), from physics to cutting-edge algorithms & medical imaging applications. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Fourier ptychography microscopy for digital pathology
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
New review paper out! Proud to co-author with @optophysakhil.bsky.social and @gailmcconnell.bsky.social a deep dive into Fourier Ptychographic Microscopy (FPM), from physics to cutting-edge algorithms & medical imaging applications. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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🌟 Exciting News! 🌟
I’ve been awarded the Infection Science Award by @microbiologysociety.org in recognition of recent work using cross-scale imaging methods to study complex infection models.
Thanks to the Microbiology Society, mentors, funders and collaborators for all their support! 🙏🏻🧫🔬🧪
I’ve been awarded the Infection Science Award by @microbiologysociety.org in recognition of recent work using cross-scale imaging methods to study complex infection models.
Thanks to the Microbiology Society, mentors, funders and collaborators for all their support! 🙏🏻🧫🔬🧪
June 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
🌟 Exciting News! 🌟
I’ve been awarded the Infection Science Award by @microbiologysociety.org in recognition of recent work using cross-scale imaging methods to study complex infection models.
Thanks to the Microbiology Society, mentors, funders and collaborators for all their support! 🙏🏻🧫🔬🧪
I’ve been awarded the Infection Science Award by @microbiologysociety.org in recognition of recent work using cross-scale imaging methods to study complex infection models.
Thanks to the Microbiology Society, mentors, funders and collaborators for all their support! 🙏🏻🧫🔬🧪
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Improved contrast transmission stereomicroscopy using a low-cost 3D printed optical element! 🔬🧫🐟🧅 More details in our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
May 22, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Improved contrast transmission stereomicroscopy using a low-cost 3D printed optical element! 🔬🧫🐟🧅 More details in our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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🚨New pre-print out now!🚨
We 3D printed a large optical element that enhanced the illumination, contrast & image quality in transmission stereomicroscopy. This simple addition to the illumination path lets us detect refractive structures & dynamics unobserved by conventional stereomicroscopy.
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We 3D printed a large optical element that enhanced the illumination, contrast & image quality in transmission stereomicroscopy. This simple addition to the illumination path lets us detect refractive structures & dynamics unobserved by conventional stereomicroscopy.
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May 22, 2025 at 10:31 AM
🚨New pre-print out now!🚨
We 3D printed a large optical element that enhanced the illumination, contrast & image quality in transmission stereomicroscopy. This simple addition to the illumination path lets us detect refractive structures & dynamics unobserved by conventional stereomicroscopy.
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We 3D printed a large optical element that enhanced the illumination, contrast & image quality in transmission stereomicroscopy. This simple addition to the illumination path lets us detect refractive structures & dynamics unobserved by conventional stereomicroscopy.
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🚨 New paper alert! 🚨
We used complementary sensing approaches to study oxygen microenvironments in E. coli biofilm transport channels, which provided a spatial overview of how transport channels maintain chemical gradients in complex communities.
doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.001543
We used complementary sensing approaches to study oxygen microenvironments in E. coli biofilm transport channels, which provided a spatial overview of how transport channels maintain chemical gradients in complex communities.
doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.001543
May 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
🚨 New paper alert! 🚨
We used complementary sensing approaches to study oxygen microenvironments in E. coli biofilm transport channels, which provided a spatial overview of how transport channels maintain chemical gradients in complex communities.
doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.001543
We used complementary sensing approaches to study oxygen microenvironments in E. coli biofilm transport channels, which provided a spatial overview of how transport channels maintain chemical gradients in complex communities.
doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.001543
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It's *Deadline Day* to submit your 'late-breaking' abstract for #mmc2025!
Don't miss out on presenting the most exciting recent developments in #microscopy, #imaging and #FlowCytometry in #Manchester this summer!
mmc-series.org.uk/conference/a...
@rmsearlycareer.bsky.social
Don't miss out on presenting the most exciting recent developments in #microscopy, #imaging and #FlowCytometry in #Manchester this summer!
mmc-series.org.uk/conference/a...
@rmsearlycareer.bsky.social
May 2, 2025 at 10:41 AM
It's *Deadline Day* to submit your 'late-breaking' abstract for #mmc2025!
Don't miss out on presenting the most exciting recent developments in #microscopy, #imaging and #FlowCytometry in #Manchester this summer!
mmc-series.org.uk/conference/a...
@rmsearlycareer.bsky.social
Don't miss out on presenting the most exciting recent developments in #microscopy, #imaging and #FlowCytometry in #Manchester this summer!
mmc-series.org.uk/conference/a...
@rmsearlycareer.bsky.social
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This session has been one of the best attended and most scientifically diverse at previous mmc events - promote your most exciting, hot-out-of-the-lab results by submitting an abstract today! @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social
It's *Deadline Day* to submit your 'late-breaking' abstract for #mmc2025!
Don't miss out on presenting the most exciting recent developments in #microscopy, #imaging and #FlowCytometry in #Manchester this summer!
mmc-series.org.uk/conference/a...
@rmsearlycareer.bsky.social
Don't miss out on presenting the most exciting recent developments in #microscopy, #imaging and #FlowCytometry in #Manchester this summer!
mmc-series.org.uk/conference/a...
@rmsearlycareer.bsky.social
May 2, 2025 at 11:34 AM
This session has been one of the best attended and most scientifically diverse at previous mmc events - promote your most exciting, hot-out-of-the-lab results by submitting an abstract today! @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social
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Missed the mmc conference abstract deadline but eager to present your latest work? Fear not! Late and Breaking abstracts open until Friday 2 May. More information here: www.mmc-series.org.uk/conference/a... @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social
Abstract Submission
Abstract submission has now closed. You can now submit a late breaking abstract through Oxford Abstracts.
www.mmc-series.org.uk
April 2, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Missed the mmc conference abstract deadline but eager to present your latest work? Fear not! Late and Breaking abstracts open until Friday 2 May. More information here: www.mmc-series.org.uk/conference/a... @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social
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Are you fed up wasting time and photons in laser scanning microscopy? Our latest work, PerfectlyAverage, can help to determine optimal parameters for line and frame averaging while considering photobleaching. More information in our preprint! 🔬 bit.ly/PerfectlyAve...
March 20, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Are you fed up wasting time and photons in laser scanning microscopy? Our latest work, PerfectlyAverage, can help to determine optimal parameters for line and frame averaging while considering photobleaching. More information in our preprint! 🔬 bit.ly/PerfectlyAve...
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First senior-author paper is out today in the Journal of Microscopy! 🧪🔬
We present the first 3D printed microscope where both the optics & frame are entirely 3D printed - a low-cost, accessible, and reproducible tool for histological imaging!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jmi.13398
We present the first 3D printed microscope where both the optics & frame are entirely 3D printed - a low-cost, accessible, and reproducible tool for histological imaging!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jmi.13398
February 25, 2025 at 12:07 PM
First senior-author paper is out today in the Journal of Microscopy! 🧪🔬
We present the first 3D printed microscope where both the optics & frame are entirely 3D printed - a low-cost, accessible, and reproducible tool for histological imaging!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jmi.13398
We present the first 3D printed microscope where both the optics & frame are entirely 3D printed - a low-cost, accessible, and reproducible tool for histological imaging!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jmi.13398
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1 week left to submit for the Imaging Host-Pathogen Interactions session @ mmc'25!
@rebeccamchugh.bsky.social & I are organising a @microbiologysociety.org sponsored session w/ invited speakers, Jessica Mark Welch @adaforsyth.bsky.social & Lara Hundsdorfer @unituebingen.bsky.social 🧪🔬
#MicroSky
@rebeccamchugh.bsky.social & I are organising a @microbiologysociety.org sponsored session w/ invited speakers, Jessica Mark Welch @adaforsyth.bsky.social & Lara Hundsdorfer @unituebingen.bsky.social 🧪🔬
#MicroSky
February 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
1 week left to submit for the Imaging Host-Pathogen Interactions session @ mmc'25!
@rebeccamchugh.bsky.social & I are organising a @microbiologysociety.org sponsored session w/ invited speakers, Jessica Mark Welch @adaforsyth.bsky.social & Lara Hundsdorfer @unituebingen.bsky.social 🧪🔬
#MicroSky
@rebeccamchugh.bsky.social & I are organising a @microbiologysociety.org sponsored session w/ invited speakers, Jessica Mark Welch @adaforsyth.bsky.social & Lara Hundsdorfer @unituebingen.bsky.social 🧪🔬
#MicroSky
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Super cool work from our group!!
🚨 Paper Alert 🚨
Our preprint describing Elongator as a selective microtubule polymerase that rewrites PTMs on microtubules is now published! Check it out: www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
Our preprint describing Elongator as a selective microtubule polymerase that rewrites PTMs on microtubules is now published! Check it out: www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
Elongator is a microtubule polymerase selective for polyglutamylated tubulin | The EMBO Journal
imageimageElongator, an established tRNA-modifying complex, can also stabilize microtubules
during asymmetric cell division. This study shows that Elongator subcomplexes achieve
this by binding to mic...
www.embopress.org
January 17, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Super cool work from our group!!
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The article is paywalled but you can read all about it for free at www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A fully 3D-printed optical microscope for low-cost histological imaging
We present the manufacture and characterisation of a fully 3D printed, low-cost optical microscope using both a 3D printed chassis and 3D printed illumination and imaging optics. The required commerci...
www.biorxiv.org
January 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
The article is paywalled but you can read all about it for free at www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Our fully 3D-printed microscope is featured in @newscientist.bsky.social www.newscientist.com/article/2462...
World’s first fully 3D-printed microscope made in under 3 hours
The microscope cost less than £50 to build using an open-source design and a common 3D printer
www.newscientist.com
January 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Our fully 3D-printed microscope is featured in @newscientist.bsky.social www.newscientist.com/article/2462...
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If anyone fancies giving it a go we can run a workshop at the Strathclyde Optical Microscopy Course 2025. More details at www.centreforbiophotonics.com/somc25, deadline for applications is 17th January 2025. More details at bsky.app/profile/liam...
January 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
If anyone fancies giving it a go we can run a workshop at the Strathclyde Optical Microscopy Course 2025. More details at www.centreforbiophotonics.com/somc25, deadline for applications is 17th January 2025. More details at bsky.app/profile/liam...
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10 days left to apply for the Strathclyde Optical Microscopy Course 2025! 🧪🔬
#MicroSky #Microscopy
@rmsearlycareer.bsky.social @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social @microscopyirl.bsky.social @bioimaginguk.bsky.social @bioimagingna.bsky.social @globalbioimaging.bsky.social @eurobioimaging.bsky.social
#MicroSky #Microscopy
@rmsearlycareer.bsky.social @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social @microscopyirl.bsky.social @bioimaginguk.bsky.social @bioimagingna.bsky.social @globalbioimaging.bsky.social @eurobioimaging.bsky.social
Applications for the Strathclyde Optical Microscopy Course 2025 are now OPEN! 🔬✨
SOMC25 will take place in Glasgow, Scotland from 23rd July - 1st August 2025. More details: centreforbiophotonics.com/somc25
Application deadline: 17th January 2025
Please share! 🙏
#Microscopy #ECRChat #MicroSky
SOMC25 will take place in Glasgow, Scotland from 23rd July - 1st August 2025. More details: centreforbiophotonics.com/somc25
Application deadline: 17th January 2025
Please share! 🙏
#Microscopy #ECRChat #MicroSky
January 7, 2025 at 11:17 AM
10 days left to apply for the Strathclyde Optical Microscopy Course 2025! 🧪🔬
#MicroSky #Microscopy
@rmsearlycareer.bsky.social @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social @microscopyirl.bsky.social @bioimaginguk.bsky.social @bioimagingna.bsky.social @globalbioimaging.bsky.social @eurobioimaging.bsky.social
#MicroSky #Microscopy
@rmsearlycareer.bsky.social @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social @microscopyirl.bsky.social @bioimaginguk.bsky.social @bioimagingna.bsky.social @globalbioimaging.bsky.social @eurobioimaging.bsky.social
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Mollie Brown (not on Bsky, Cc’ @gailmcconnell.bsky.social) got the cover of JBO for her first first-author paper! 👏🏻
Super-resolution cross-scale imaging with the #Mesolens and SRRF! ✨🔬🧪
Super-resolution cross-scale imaging with the #Mesolens and SRRF! ✨🔬🧪
Accurate #superresolution Mesolens #microscopy with large FOV for subcellular structures + interactions. 💡⚛️
View the open access research from @unistrathclyde.bsky.social, #OnTheCover of #SPIE_JBO: www.spiedigitallibra...
View the open access research from @unistrathclyde.bsky.social, #OnTheCover of #SPIE_JBO: www.spiedigitallibra...
January 5, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Mollie Brown (not on Bsky, Cc’ @gailmcconnell.bsky.social) got the cover of JBO for her first first-author paper! 👏🏻
Super-resolution cross-scale imaging with the #Mesolens and SRRF! ✨🔬🧪
Super-resolution cross-scale imaging with the #Mesolens and SRRF! ✨🔬🧪
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🚨 New pre-print out! 🚨
The world’s first fully 3D printed microscope!
Is Santa bringing you a 3D printer for Christmas, or maybe you need a gift for your favourite microscopist - print the lenses, print the frame, and start imaging! ✨🔬
Check it out below and please repost!👇🏻🙏🏻
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The world’s first fully 3D printed microscope!
Is Santa bringing you a 3D printer for Christmas, or maybe you need a gift for your favourite microscopist - print the lenses, print the frame, and start imaging! ✨🔬
Check it out below and please repost!👇🏻🙏🏻
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A fully 3D-printed optical microscope for low-cost histological imaging https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.16.628684v1
December 21, 2024 at 4:01 PM
🚨 New pre-print out! 🚨
The world’s first fully 3D printed microscope!
Is Santa bringing you a 3D printer for Christmas, or maybe you need a gift for your favourite microscopist - print the lenses, print the frame, and start imaging! ✨🔬
Check it out below and please repost!👇🏻🙏🏻
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The world’s first fully 3D printed microscope!
Is Santa bringing you a 3D printer for Christmas, or maybe you need a gift for your favourite microscopist - print the lenses, print the frame, and start imaging! ✨🔬
Check it out below and please repost!👇🏻🙏🏻
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