Image – The Live Cell Imaging facility

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

High Speed Multiphoton Imaging of Dynamic Processes In Vivo at Stockholm University

Intravital people might be interested in this event at the Intravital Microscopy Stockholm University facility:

Clearing live samples!

A couple of super cool papers about transiently clearing live samples to obtain better images!

On Bioarxiv

In Science

Achieving optical transparency in live animals with absorbing molecules

The online LCI microscopy course: Microscopy: improve your imaging skills – from sample preparation to image analysis.

Dear all

It is my pleasure to invite you to follow, online, free of charge and without registration, the LCI facility microscopy course Microscopy: improve your imaging skills – from sample preparation to image analysis. The public program starts on Tuesday next week (28^th of Jan) and runs until the 13^th of February.

As usual, all lectures are broadcasted live on Zoom and posted on Youtube every day, for the benefit of our far-away colleagues.

The aim for this course is to improve the microscopy skills of students and researchers who have already used a microscope to acquire digital images of fluorescent samples but feel that more knowledge could help them.

Here is a selection of what we will talk about:

Optics and image formation,
How microscopes work
Objectives and refraction index
Cameras and detectors, Noise and background, Bit depth and saturation
Sample preparation, Immunostaining, Clearing
Resolution and contrast, Nyquist sampling, how to choose microscope settings
Data handling, how to make article figures, Requirements for image analysis, Colocalization, Ethics
Image processing and analysis

Check our course webpage to see the course schedule (Broadcasted activities are in blue) and the Zoom link. Here is a full description of the course.

Scroll down to read the kind testimonies of our dear students! 🙂

We hope that you will enjoy the LCI facility online microscopy course!

Kindly forward to anyone who might be interested.

The LCI team

Correlative microscopy webinar

For those of you who are interested in Correlative microscopy where one overlays the data acquired from different imaging modalities, Zeiss organises a webinar about combining light microscopy, EM microscopy and Z ray data for very large samples.

Here is the link.

Direct label of primary antibodies with the FlexAble kit

Some of our users have tested the ProteinTech FlexAble kit to directly label primary antibody and they are very happy so we thought we should share! 🙂

It only takes 10min to label the primary. It saves time for the sample staining procedure and it saves cute animals when one stops ordering secondary antibodies! 🙂 In the hand of our users, the images were as bright or brighter than the same labelling with primary + secondary.

And you can ask for a free sample to test! :):):)