Monash Micro Imaging

Huge congratulations to our 2025 MMI Image Competition Winners! 1st Place: Dr Melinda Wang (Top Left) 2nd Place: Ashleigh Paschek (Top Right) 3rd Place: Crystal Li (Bottom Right) SciArt: Connor Leayr (Bottom Left) Details of winning & standout images upcoming. Stay tuned!

✨ Science meets art at "The BIG Microcosmos" exhibition! 🔬 Explore the fascinating brain-immune-gut axis through stunning visuals during National Science Week (Aug 8-17) at The Alfred Innovation Hub in Melbourne. 🎫Free entry - book tickets: bigmicrocosmos.com

This amazing group from Monash, Burnet and Baker have completed a 3-day NIS Elements Image Analysis Workshop. Their brains were full, but still smiling at the end. Congrats everyone! Many thanks to @tevin_chau from Nikon Australia for designing and delivering a fantastic course.

Image by Dr Ana Antonic-Baker Neuroscience @ School of Translational Medicine, Monash University MMI-ARA - Nikon A1R Confocal Human stem cell derived Neuronal progenitors (red betta III tubulin/ blue DAPI)

It seems everyone has been busy writing grants during April/May. Good luck all! If you're still slogging through, here's a beautiful MMI Competition Winner from 2024 to brighten your day🤩 Neurites are red, nuclei are blue Dr Ana Antonic-Baker @AnaAB013 @MonashSTM @STMneurosci

Congratulations to our amazing researchers for their winning entries in the 2024 Monash Micro Imaging Competition! We will be sharing all of the winning images and standout entries throughout 2025. Stay tuned! @JanManentN, @LiCrystal_, Francois Olivier, @Esther_GD_ , @AnaAB013

Coming up on the Monash Advanced Microscopy seminar series is the amazing Dr Robert Haase @haesleinhuepf. Tune in to witness the brilliance first hand! 👋

Tick Tock! Tomorrow is the last day for entries in the Monash Micro Imaging 2023 competition! Cash prizes and reagents for winners. Extra bonuses: canvas prints of winning images, prestige and self satisfaction (sign up now to support your mental health!)

Yesterday our head of MMI demonstrated some super cool microscopy light theory to @CCSNeurosci users at the Faculty Platform Roadshow at Alfred Hospital Campus. @sydaharris1 @salbergsabrina glad you enjoyed the show!

Thanks to @MonashCCS & FMNHS for hosting the Faculty Platform Roadshow at Alfred Hospital Campus. 13 platforms provided info on platform services to researchers. It was an A+ cooperative effort! @Monash_FMNHS @Monash_MTRP @Monash_MPMF @flowcore_aus @Mon_Bio_Imaging @CryoEM_Monash

Yesterdays marvellous talk by Prof Rob Parton (@LabParton) has just been uploaded to Youtube for those who missed it: amazing work on caveolae and plasmamembrane using LM, EM, Electron tomography to decipher nanodomains. youtu.be/qF-LPcoyPvc

Great talk about imaging transcription factor dynamics by Dr Matthew Graus @CentenaryInst is now online at Youtube in the Monash Advanced Microscopy Channel youtu.be/1_VlOvJGYh4 via @YouTube

In case you missed it: @KRogers1001 's marvellous talk showing #malaria parasite invasion of RBC's using a range of spatial and temporal microscopies is now avail via @YouTube: youtu.be/nvgirAQHOuI. Absolutely awesome imaging 👋🔬👩‍🔬🧪👋👋

Awesome commentary about accessibility in mechanical designs for microscopy. nature.com/articles/s4159… Great work @beniroquai, @aandr314, and team.

Monash Advanced Microscopy Seminar Series: 28/04/2022. Ethan (@labethan) Scott's wonderful talk 👋👋 last week on imaging calcium dynamics in zebrafish is now online: youtu.be/pWFtGjCcvhA via @YouTube

Grateful🙏to our Competition sponsors @thermofisher & @NikonAustralia

Congrats to Ankita Suri, Dept Chem & Biol Eng, @MonashUni for this stunning rendering of S.cerevisiae, winner of our 2021 Image Competition in Video/Moving Image: #superresolution, reconstruction. For more detail (and other images) see instagram.com/tv/CXXNyuwDvHs….

and with thanks 🙏to our competiton sponsors @thermofisher and @NikonAustralia

At a time when we need research to solve the problems of the 21st century and when @ScottMorrisonMP says science is going to save us from climate change, there have been cuts to the #ARC - The engine room of Australian discovery research 🤯🤔🤯 #SaveOzScience

and our #3 winner in the annual image competition was this outstanding entry: "Star Wars" also by Lulu Xing of #ARMI. Many thanks to #Thermofisher and #Nikon for supporting our comp. All entries featured on our Instagram @monashmicro.