2025 – The Live Cell Imaging facility

3D imaging symposium

Dear all

An interesting whole-day 3D imaging symposium at Scilife on the 4th of December. Many really inspiring talks! 🙂

Time to apply to the LCI Microscopy course! :)

Dear all

You are now welcome to apply to join the LCI light microscopy course (21 Jan – 13 Feb 2026) ‘Microscopy: improve your imaging skills – from sample preparation to image analysis’ (6 credits).

The purpose of this fully online yet very applied course is to provide PhD students and researchers with enough theoretical and practical knowledge about their OWN sample and their OWN microscope, to enable them to:

1. Prepare their sample and formulate their scientific question in a way that is suitable for reliable data extraction.
2. Properly use the software and hardware available on the microscope they use in their lab/facility.
3. Design their experiment based on image analysis requirements.

Application deadline 5^th of November.

Course webpage.

Course syllabus, description and registration. Please carefully check the eligibility criteria and make sure to include all required items in your application.

Those who cannot register to the course can anyway follow any of the lectures (in blue on the schedule) as they will be publicly broadcasted live on Zoom and accessible to anyone without registration. The schedule and zoom link are on the course page.

Kindly help us spread the word. 🙂

The LCI team

Online course for microscopy facility staff: “Magnify Your Impact: Train the Microscopy Trainer.”

Dr. Sylvie Le Guyader (sylvie.le.guyader@ki.se) and Ms. Rhonda Powell (rhondar@clemson.edu) invite you to apply to the online course: “Magnify Your Impact: Train the Microscopy Trainer.”

This practical, interactive, online course is intended for anyone with experience training people to use light microscopes, including Core Facility Staff and Industry Applications Specialists.

During the course, you will focus on improving your OWN training. By the end of the course, you will be able to:

Write a list of learning objectives for your own microscopy training
Incorporate new pedagogical tools in your microscopy training
Evaluate the quality of your training using assessments and feedback

Please see the attached flyer for details and a link to the application, or visit https://tinyurl.com/magnifyyourimpactapplication

The application deadline is September 20, 2025. Applications will be reviewed in the order they are received. Questions about the application can be directed to Rhonda.

Our department is recruiting 2 Assistant Professors!

Our department (Medicine Huddinge) is recruiting 2 Assistant Professors! Please spread the word! 🙂

I would like to share an exciting opportunity at Karolinska Institutet, where we are currently recruiting 20 Assistant Professors with a strong focus on scientific excellence.

At the Department of Medicine, Huddinge (MedH), we are looking to recruit up to two Assistant Professors in the fields of molecular or translational medicine. We are seeking early-career researchers with a strong scientific drive and the ambition to grow in an international, collaborative environment.

As part of MedH, new faculty members will benefit from:

Strong academic mentorship and career support
Access to state-of-the-art infrastructure and a modern preclinical animal facility
Rich clinical cohorts and biobank resources
A competitive salary and a generous startup package
A vibrant research environment spanning stem cell biology, immunology, infectious diseases, hematology and cancer, gastroenterology and hepatology, cardiovascular research, nutrition, metabolism and diabetes, and aging
A fantastic microscopy core facility! 🙂

The position is open to international applicants and includes a generous funding package.

Please help us spread the word!

Application deadline: 2 September 2025

More information and application: Assistant Professor in molecular or translational medicine

Flemingsberg science fun!

Do you want to know more about working at a Biotech companies? Meet the companies located on the Flemingsberg campus! Join the Flemingsberg Science breakfast meetings (in English) every wednesday in Novum.

Nikon small world

Dear all

Now you get a chance to win $3000 with the Nikon Small World competition! Please also send us your most beautiful images so we will put them on our gallery! 😊

Please submit by April 30, 2025 via this link.

Useful tips on the Nikon E-learning platform

Dear all

Have a quick look at Nikon’s e-learning platform! There are many useful tips and reminders of what we teach during the LCI training and course. 🙂

For example, here is a reminder of how refractive index mismatch distorts your images and when you should be concerned. 🙂

Invitation to submit nominations for the Lennart Nilsson Award 2025

Karolinska Institutet hereby invites nominations for the Lennart Nilsson Award 2025.

The Lennart Nilsson foundation was established in 1998 in order to bestow an award in recognition of the world-renowned Swedish photographer Lennart Nilsson and his extraordinary body of work. Its main aim is to promote education, training and research within the medical, biological and engineering sciences through the use of images.

This is achieved through the Lennart Nilsson Award, an international award bestowed annually upon an individual in recognition of outstanding contributions within the realm of scientific photography.

The nominees should fulfil the following criteria:

Work in the spirit of Lennart Nilsson
Make the invisible visible
Drive the development of imaging
Reveal sciences to the world in beautiful, unique and powerful ways
Visualize a scientific breakthrough
Image reality in a surprising way

Candidates should be active mainly in the Life Sciences and use pictorial representation as an explanatory medium. Users of animation technology are also eligible. The independence of the nominee should be clearly described in the nomination letter.

The nomination form should be filled out and sent in together with a motivation letter, articles, technical descriptions, and pictorial material. Up to three letters with references and comments from experts may be included. Please attach the material as one PDF-file if possible and send to fonder@ki.se no later than Wednesday April 16, 2025.

The awarded amount is SEK 120 000 and the prize ceremony will take place in connection with the installation ceremony for new professors at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

More information about the Award can be found on http://ki.se/en/about/the-lennart-nilsson-award

For further questions please contact fonder@ki.se