Another (very Christmassy) image from our new FIB-SEM machine at Octopus. The snowman is about 20 microns tall and the snowflakes are 2.5 microns in diameter with a line width of around 150 nanometres ☃️🔬 For comparison, a red blood cell is around 7-8 microns across!🤯

Quarantine: Day 17

Happy 10 year anniversary to our Octopus Imaging Cluster! For the last decade, Octopus has played an important role as a National UK imaging facility. Amazing research and discoveries have been made using Octopus over the years and in this thread we’d like to share some!

It's good to be back! 🔬

Just a reminder, please RT

Merry Christmas from #CLFoctopus! I have recently used the CrossBeam to image polymer nanoparticles from BioCyto. It is hoped that the nanoparticles will deliver antivirals across the blood-brain barrier for the treatment of covid-19. These nanoparticles look especially festive!

Serious business here👇👇👇 Apply and join our group: exciting alveolar cell biology, immunology and fancy quantitative imaging, with a touch of chemistry.--> Chemical-Immuno-Biophysics !! imperial.ac.uk/nhli/study/pos… Pls, RT! NHLI Imperial Medicine

Pls, RT! More serious business: Exciting cross-institutional #PhD opportunities! Challenging and Exciting Breast Cancer Organoids and real time quantitative imaging @ICR & NHLI. Convergence Science!! #PhDprogramme are open. zcu.io/vnFN Deadline 3rd Jan 2021

Levelled-up my 3D-printing game to create moveable parts for my microscope 🤩😅 Don't know how I ever lived without the 3D printer! 💙

The end of my first day at Oxford Uni's Biochemistry Department... So excited to get started in the lab tomorrow! 🔬🧬🦠 💪

My day has so far consisted of 95% learning how to more efficiently program in Python, and 5% growing up my cells ready for imaging tomorrow 🔬 I feel so lucky to work in a field where I learn something new every day 💙 Happy #WomenInScienceDay to all my friends & colleagues!

Hi GWR Are there plans to increase the number of services between Didcot and Oxford back up to pre-lockdown level? It hasn't been possible to socially-distance on any of the trains I have taken so far this week. One service per hour isn't enough for the increased footfall!

Check out my small contribution to the #FEMSmicroBlog about how we push the resolution of fluorescence microscopy using single molecule techniques🔬 fems-microbiology.org/exposing-bacte…

Exactly 1 year since joining the wonderful lab of Stephan Uphoff, automated single molecule tracking experiments are running on the microscope 🙌✨ My Python code will be shared on GitHub shortly for those interested... hopefully some cool experiments will follow too! 🔬👩‍🔬

We have an opening for a postdoctoral researcher. The project will involve imaging bacterial stress responses and DNA repair during infection. Apply by 6th July! Email me if you have any questions about the role and our lab my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…

Had so much fun putting this cover art together 🤩 The image features examples of some lovely single molecule tracks of a fluorescently-labelled DNA repair protein in live E. coli cells from our recent study ...unrelated, anyone suddenly craving cheese puffs? 😅 #MyACSCover