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Reminder! Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy: May 31–June 6 at MDI Bio Lab
Academic, industry and federal lab innovators come together to share the latest developments taking place in light-sheet research and its biological applications!
https://mdibl.org/course/lsfm-2026/
#microscopymonday 🧪 🍎
The Maine IDeA Data Science Conference was successfully held last Friday and Saturday and it went as well as I could have hoped. I want to thank everyone who attended, presented, and especially those who helped with the logistics (The @mdibl.org support team was FANTASTIC!)
Even in late winter, MDI Bio Lab is stunning. There’s something about fresh snow and harbor air that makes you pause.
Spring is peeking around the corner — but we’re savoring this moment.
#favoritethingsfriday 🧪 #maine
Friends of MDI Bio Lab gathered in West Palm Beach for a special Art Meets Science experience at the Norton Museum of Art led by President Hermann Haller, M.D.
Learn about joining a future tour or lecture: https://ow.ly/60v550YmGkc
🧪 🏛️🎓
Join us in hearing from Hannah Somers, Digital Image Analyst at MDI Bio Lab's MDIBL Light Microscopy Facility, this Friday, March 6!
Get the details here: https://www.bioimagingnorthamerica.org/events/aimm-user-group/
#microscopy #fluorescentproteins #lightsheet 🧪 BioImaging North America
📗 New in Autoimmunity from Taylor & Francis Research "The shared mechanisms and potential diagnostic markers for IgA nephropathy and celiac disease" with Y.Becker, P.Schroder, H.Haller & MDI Bio Lab Visiting Scientist Guibao Ke.
🧪 #ScientificResearchPublishing
Today's #microscopymonday from MDI Bio Lab is a view of the #microvasculature in a young African turquoise killifish heart.
📸 2025 Dr. Anastasia Paulmann and Hannah Somers, MDIBL Light Microscopy Facility
Unfamiliar scientific terms pop up from time to time. Let’s break down a couple of them!
🧪 🍎 👩🔬 #SciEd #iTeachBio #EduSky #AcademicSky
It is time to plan your next course of #LSFM #LISH #Lightsheet
It will take place for the second time in @mdibl.org, next to Bar Harbour and you can enjoy the Acadia National Park but also join me to swim everyday in a refreshing ocean!
Join us!
mdibl.org/course/lsfm-...
In the News from MDI Bio Lab: 🧬 Our latest research is getting attention — and for good reason.
See what’s making headlines.👇 🧪
Transformation — in nature and in us — unpacked. 🔍
Read this American Scientist review by Prayag Murawala Lab at MDI Bio Lab for "Metamorphosis: A Natural and Human History" by Oren Harman.
🧪 #RegenerativeMedicine 🧬 #SciComm
https://www.americanscientist.org/article/changing-forms
FREE Online Science Cafe: The Science of Storytelling
Join us March 9 for an engaging Online Science Cafe with Liz Marnik as we explore the science behind storytelling and why it plays such a powerful role in how people understand, remember and connect with scientific ideas. 🧪 🍎
A map of Maine showing the different geologic regions and their corresponding arsenic risk of having arsenic of greater than 10 ug/l in one's well water. The highest risk areas are the Ellsworth and Blue Hill areas, around Augusta, and in the Rockland area.
The funnest part of building new data analysis tools is that you get to use them yourself! Here's a map we built using Python that correlates underlying base geology in Maine against drinking water samples collected as part of the All About Arsenic project.
www.anecdata.org/analysis/mai...
This amazing #microscopymonday capture of a young African turquoise killifish's brain blood vessels by the MDI Bio Lab's Haller lab was imaged using the MesoSPIM in the MDIBL Light Microscopy Facility.
#researchmatters #microscopy #fluorescentproteins #lightsheet 🧪 🐟🎸 🍎 👩🔬 🌎 🖥️ 🧬
Starting 2026 with clarity and confidence.
At MDI Biological Laboratory, we’re refining priorities, strengthening research and planning intentionally for long-term impact — even in uncertain times.
Read President Haller’s message. 🧪
Guess who just registered to give a talk and present a poster about the exciting R tools we just developed!
Question: "When you hear the word science, what words and phrases come to mind?”
🖋️ Liz Marnik Substack: https://fromthescienceclass.substack.com/
#SciWri 🧪 #SciComm 🍎
🚨 Reminder! The Maine Biological and Medical Sciences Symposium registration is now open.
April 24–25, 2026
Keynote: Jay Storz, Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Abstract Deadline: April 6, 2026
#MBMSS26
One week away!
The Maine IDeA Data Science Conference in Bar Harbor, ME is almost here. Join us at MDI Bio Lab or online. Connect, learn and hear from Data Science leaders in Maine and beyond.
Register now before it’s too late.
🧪 🖥️ 🧬 #datascience #machinelearning
Happy Lunar New Year! To everyone celebrating, we wish you joy, health and prosperity in the year ahead. Let’s keep transforming the future of science together! 🧪
#LunarNewYear #YearOfTheHorse
Have you ever seen a Wild Type axolotl?
Ambystoma mexicanum is the natural, dark-colored version of the salamander, usually in shades of brown, green or black with spots. The dark color camouflages them in the muddy, shallow lakes of Mexico, to hide from predators. 🧪
📸 Murawala Lab at MDI Bio Lab
A special Valentine's Day, brain! 😘
#fluorescentfriday #brain #vasculature #microscopy #valentinesday @mdibl.org
A #fluorescencefriday — just in time for Valentine's Day! ❤️
The Godwin Lab at MDI Bio Lab perfects a new method of illuminating the #axolotl heart with a red #fluorescentprotein to simplify the identification of animals with gene deletions during embryonic development.
🧪 🧬 #microscopy
Such a great post about the work here at MDI Bio Lab from ScienceDaily: Your source for the latest research news!
Our research using a fast-aging fish model is revealing how kidneys age — and how widely-used medications may help preserve organ health. 🧪 #NephSky #RenalSky
📕 New in the Society of Toxicology journal Toxicological Sciences, "Chronic exposure to low levels of glyphosate and metals induces kidney dysfunction" with Iain Drummond & team.
🧪 🐟🎸 #ScientificResearchPublishing #NephSky #RenalSky
https://doi.org/10.1093/toxsci/kfag007
Scientists at MDI Bio Lab developed a transgenic #zebrafish that mimics human muscle aging in just weeks — a leap forward for #sarcopenia research. Read how this model could speed discovery of therapies to keep muscles strong as we age. 🧪 🐟🎸 👩🔬 🧬
mdibl.org/mdi-bio-lab-...
MDI Bio Lab’s Emily Spaulding will be presenting at the Maine Science Festival’s 5 Minute Genius! Five-minute talks + five minutes for questions = a fast-paced look at some of Maine’s most exciting, cutting-edge science. Don’t miss it! 🧪 🍎
https://www.mainesciencefestival.org/5-minute-genius
We welcomed new #GSBSE hopefuls to MDI Bio Lab for tours, conversations, and a BTS look at our science in action. The Graduate School of #BiomedicalScience & #Engineering connects PhD students with researchers across Maine’s leading institutions through a powerful, collaborative network. 🧬 🧪 #PhDSky
Check out this great @newscentersmaine.bsky.social coverage of research from the Disney Lab (@richardhilliard.bsky.social) at MDI Bio Lab. They are tackling #PFAS contamination in Acadia National Park using innovative biochar bags.
🌿 Protecting ecosystems with science-based solutions. 🧪🌎🚰
👉 Registration now open!
Maine Microscopy: Foundations and Fundamentals
August 4–12, 2026
This course helps researchers build strong foundations in experiment planning, imaging and analysis—supporting rigor, reproducibility & better science.
#microscopy 🧪 🍎 #fluorescentproteins #lightsheet
