Ksena Longrin
@ksenart.bsky.social
Chemist~neuroscientist~parasitologist @EdinburghUni. Part of Joanna Young lab. Here for microscopy and bioimaging, i.e. cool shots of dead or alive.
Neuron art or tissue tears? Here's how my botched prep made a sassy comeback under the microscope.
Keep your hands steady, blades sharp while brain sectioning. See a full post on this image on my Linkedin.
🟨 Cell nuclei
🟪 Kv3.3 channels
#Neuroscience #Microscopy #FluorescenceTuesday
Keep your hands steady, blades sharp while brain sectioning. See a full post on this image on my Linkedin.
🟨 Cell nuclei
🟪 Kv3.3 channels
#Neuroscience #Microscopy #FluorescenceTuesday
January 28, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Neuron art or tissue tears? Here's how my botched prep made a sassy comeback under the microscope.
Keep your hands steady, blades sharp while brain sectioning. See a full post on this image on my Linkedin.
🟨 Cell nuclei
🟪 Kv3.3 channels
#Neuroscience #Microscopy #FluorescenceTuesday
Keep your hands steady, blades sharp while brain sectioning. See a full post on this image on my Linkedin.
🟨 Cell nuclei
🟪 Kv3.3 channels
#Neuroscience #Microscopy #FluorescenceTuesday
Just won a Huygens Image Contest award from @svi_huygens with a #Toxoplasma-filled vacuole in fibroblasts :D
🟦 #Parasites
🟨🟧🟥🟪 depth-coloured nuclei (#DNA) of all cells present (deeper-darker)
Microscope: @zeiss_micro LSM980
Scale: 5 μm
#Microscopy #FluorescenceMonday
🟦 #Parasites
🟨🟧🟥🟪 depth-coloured nuclei (#DNA) of all cells present (deeper-darker)
Microscope: @zeiss_micro LSM980
Scale: 5 μm
#Microscopy #FluorescenceMonday
January 20, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Just won a Huygens Image Contest award from @svi_huygens with a #Toxoplasma-filled vacuole in fibroblasts :D
🟦 #Parasites
🟨🟧🟥🟪 depth-coloured nuclei (#DNA) of all cells present (deeper-darker)
Microscope: @zeiss_micro LSM980
Scale: 5 μm
#Microscopy #FluorescenceMonday
🟦 #Parasites
🟨🟧🟥🟪 depth-coloured nuclei (#DNA) of all cells present (deeper-darker)
Microscope: @zeiss_micro LSM980
Scale: 5 μm
#Microscopy #FluorescenceMonday
Artefacts: get a pretty picture by messing up the prep!
Once I misaligned the #brain while slicing, creating a diagonal cut through Purkinje layers. Instead of one layer, multiple rows appeared—unexpected beauty from error :)
🟦 Cell DNA
🟥 Kv3.3 channels
#Neuroscience #Microscopy #FluorescenceFriday
Once I misaligned the #brain while slicing, creating a diagonal cut through Purkinje layers. Instead of one layer, multiple rows appeared—unexpected beauty from error :)
🟦 Cell DNA
🟥 Kv3.3 channels
#Neuroscience #Microscopy #FluorescenceFriday
January 10, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Artefacts: get a pretty picture by messing up the prep!
Once I misaligned the #brain while slicing, creating a diagonal cut through Purkinje layers. Instead of one layer, multiple rows appeared—unexpected beauty from error :)
🟦 Cell DNA
🟥 Kv3.3 channels
#Neuroscience #Microscopy #FluorescenceFriday
Once I misaligned the #brain while slicing, creating a diagonal cut through Purkinje layers. Instead of one layer, multiple rows appeared—unexpected beauty from error :)
🟦 Cell DNA
🟥 Kv3.3 channels
#Neuroscience #Microscopy #FluorescenceFriday
My '37th View of Mount Fuji,' is a January cover for @scotmicro's 2025 fundraising calendar!
Got it at SMS 50th Annual Symposium, where I gave a talk on #expansionmicroscopy :)
A 'mountain' formed by ependymal cell nuclei in the mouse brainstem.
#Microscopy #Neuroscience #Brain #FluorescenceFriday
Got it at SMS 50th Annual Symposium, where I gave a talk on #expansionmicroscopy :)
A 'mountain' formed by ependymal cell nuclei in the mouse brainstem.
#Microscopy #Neuroscience #Brain #FluorescenceFriday
December 20, 2024 at 2:10 PM
My '37th View of Mount Fuji,' is a January cover for @scotmicro's 2025 fundraising calendar!
Got it at SMS 50th Annual Symposium, where I gave a talk on #expansionmicroscopy :)
A 'mountain' formed by ependymal cell nuclei in the mouse brainstem.
#Microscopy #Neuroscience #Brain #FluorescenceFriday
Got it at SMS 50th Annual Symposium, where I gave a talk on #expansionmicroscopy :)
A 'mountain' formed by ependymal cell nuclei in the mouse brainstem.
#Microscopy #Neuroscience #Brain #FluorescenceFriday
December luck continues! Just won 3rd place in the International #Wikipedia Science Competition (#Microscopy category)!
Below: #Toxoplasma gondii parasites inside a human skin cell, with colors highlighting their inner shell (🟪), microtubules (🟨), and DNA (🟦).
#FluorescenceFriday #WSC2023
Below: #Toxoplasma gondii parasites inside a human skin cell, with colors highlighting their inner shell (🟪), microtubules (🟨), and DNA (🟦).
#FluorescenceFriday #WSC2023
December 13, 2024 at 1:22 PM
December luck continues! Just won 3rd place in the International #Wikipedia Science Competition (#Microscopy category)!
Below: #Toxoplasma gondii parasites inside a human skin cell, with colors highlighting their inner shell (🟪), microtubules (🟨), and DNA (🟦).
#FluorescenceFriday #WSC2023
Below: #Toxoplasma gondii parasites inside a human skin cell, with colors highlighting their inner shell (🟪), microtubules (🟨), and DNA (🟦).
#FluorescenceFriday #WSC2023
Ho-ho! 🎄 I won 1st place in the Festive Science Image Comp (w/ @MRC)! My Xmas card, featuring a Toxoplasma "tree," is now on sale. Big thanks to my brother for his creative touch! Learn more and order here: bit.ly/3ZDCY67 #ScienceArt #Christmas #microscopy #science #Toxoplasma
Medical Research Foundation | ‘Twinkling Toxoplasma’ reveal potential…
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December 3, 2024 at 12:09 PM
Ho-ho! 🎄 I won 1st place in the Festive Science Image Comp (w/ @MRC)! My Xmas card, featuring a Toxoplasma "tree," is now on sale. Big thanks to my brother for his creative touch! Learn more and order here: bit.ly/3ZDCY67 #ScienceArt #Christmas #microscopy #science #Toxoplasma
This is a great microscopy course, so many talanted people and a trip to Scottish Highlands - highly recommend!
We are delighted to announce the Strathclyde Optical Microscopy Course 2025 (SOMC25), taking place in Glasgow from 23rd July – 1st August 2025. No previous experience in microscopy necessary! Please find more details at shorturl.at/98lXJ, deadline 17 January 2025.
November 26, 2024 at 3:32 PM
This is a great microscopy course, so many talanted people and a trip to Scottish Highlands - highly recommend!
Expansion is not negotiable! ©
At the home of Scottish football for the 50th annual Scottish Microscopy Symposium! Highlight so far is exceptional work by K Bondarenko from the Young lab in Edinburgh on ExM of Toxoplasma gondii cysts, more details at pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39189782/
November 26, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Expansion is not negotiable! ©