Virginia Silio
@virsicas.bsky.social
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Virginia Silio
@virsicas.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Hi everyone! I'm excited to introduce myself:
Background – PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology, focusing on PI3K in mitosis (1/n)
Background – PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology, focusing on PI3K in mitosis (1/n)
My shirt is cooler than yours
December 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
My shirt is cooler than yours
One of my fav races ❤️
December 8, 2025 at 8:29 PM
One of my fav races ❤️
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If you or your trainees are just getting started with image analysis of cells & are #CellProfiler -curious, here is a fairly thorough walk-through demo I did recently. Loading files, extracting metadata (fun with Regex!), identifying objects, measuring, filtering, QC, exporting:
youtu.be/fO5nJdhj_7I
youtu.be/fO5nJdhj_7I
Introduction to CellProfiler - by a biologist, for biologists!
YouTube video by CellMorphoJSero
youtu.be
December 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM
If you or your trainees are just getting started with image analysis of cells & are #CellProfiler -curious, here is a fairly thorough walk-through demo I did recently. Loading files, extracting metadata (fun with Regex!), identifying objects, measuring, filtering, QC, exporting:
youtu.be/fO5nJdhj_7I
youtu.be/fO5nJdhj_7I
Managed a Christmassy pic of Osaka, worthy of sharing
December 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Managed a Christmassy pic of Osaka, worthy of sharing
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Apply for our Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, supporting postdocs in #devbio and #stemcell research during the transition to their first group leader position: www.biologists.com/grants/devel...
Application deadline: 2 February 2026.
Application deadline: 2 February 2026.
December 2, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Apply for our Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, supporting postdocs in #devbio and #stemcell research during the transition to their first group leader position: www.biologists.com/grants/devel...
Application deadline: 2 February 2026.
Application deadline: 2 February 2026.
I had so much fun showing microscopy to kids today, thanks to Native Scientist, and all in my own language! Already looking forward to the next one.
November 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I had so much fun showing microscopy to kids today, thanks to Native Scientist, and all in my own language! Already looking forward to the next one.
Stunning @anhhle2702.bsky.social 😍
For this week #FluorescenceFriday, we'll be treated with one of our favourite animal models 🐸 . Here is a Xenopus laevis embryo imaged with a Lightsheet microscope showing macrophage migration.
Purple🟣 = ectoderm nuclei, Red🔴 = macrophages.
📹: Hoang Anh Le, postdoc in the Mayor lab, UCL.
Purple🟣 = ectoderm nuclei, Red🔴 = macrophages.
📹: Hoang Anh Le, postdoc in the Mayor lab, UCL.
November 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Stunning @anhhle2702.bsky.social 😍
is someone here using Opal 690?
Pic not related as it's #FluorescenceFriday
star-protocols.cell.com/protocols/37...
Pic not related as it's #FluorescenceFriday
star-protocols.cell.com/protocols/37...
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
is someone here using Opal 690?
Pic not related as it's #FluorescenceFriday
star-protocols.cell.com/protocols/37...
Pic not related as it's #FluorescenceFriday
star-protocols.cell.com/protocols/37...
Back to reality after #CBIAS2025: two trainings today, a pile of analysis requests waiting in my inbox, and an experiment in a rush thanks to the pre-Christmas panic...
November 26, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Back to reality after #CBIAS2025: two trainings today, a pile of analysis requests waiting in my inbox, and an experiment in a rush thanks to the pre-Christmas panic...
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Enjoying my new sticker courtesy of @helenajambor.bsky.social, who also gave an amazing talk today at cbias
November 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Enjoying my new sticker courtesy of @helenajambor.bsky.social, who also gave an amazing talk today at cbias
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🔬There are 2 weeks left for applications in this round!
🔬Next deadlines are 31 March, 31 July and 30 November 2026!
🔬DM us for any queries!
🔬Next deadlines are 31 March, 31 July and 30 November 2026!
🔬DM us for any queries!
🔬 THREAD: UK Bioimaging User Access Fund is OPEN!
Up to £5k for imaging experiments, £2k for image analysis
Access world-class facilities at Crick, ESRIC, KCL, Liverpool, Oxford Brookes & York
First deadline: 9 Dec 2025 📅
🧵👇
Up to £5k for imaging experiments, £2k for image analysis
Access world-class facilities at Crick, ESRIC, KCL, Liverpool, Oxford Brookes & York
First deadline: 9 Dec 2025 📅
🧵👇
November 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
🔬There are 2 weeks left for applications in this round!
🔬Next deadlines are 31 March, 31 July and 30 November 2026!
🔬DM us for any queries!
🔬Next deadlines are 31 March, 31 July and 30 November 2026!
🔬DM us for any queries!
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November 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Topical conclusion from @helenajambor.bsky.social
Scientists have tools to fight and make life better
#CBiAS2025
Scientists have tools to fight and make life better
#CBiAS2025
November 25, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Topical conclusion from @helenajambor.bsky.social
Scientists have tools to fight and make life better
#CBiAS2025
Scientists have tools to fight and make life better
#CBiAS2025
Had a brilliant time at #CBIAS2025. Still not sure if I’m an intruder or a red panda, but I’ve definitely come back with lots of ideas for my users… and awesome stickers.
November 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Had a brilliant time at #CBIAS2025. Still not sure if I’m an intruder or a red panda, but I’ve definitely come back with lots of ideas for my users… and awesome stickers.
This is scary (although those “cells” look nothing like HeLa) but…
I tried an even harder example on Gemini Pro image generation and this is quite scary/amazing. I asked for a microscopy image of around 20 HeLa cells, GFP tagged 20% nuclear, 10% membrane, +1 nuclear staining, + overlap. Image below and prompt in the following post.
November 22, 2025 at 8:34 PM
This is scary (although those “cells” look nothing like HeLa) but…
🤯
We just released a new major version of TrackMate (v8), the cell and organelle tracking plugin of Fiji.
It ships many new features, detailed below, but that are articulated around the following:
It ships many new features, detailed below, but that are articulated around the following:
November 20, 2025 at 8:20 PM
🤯
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We just released a new major version of TrackMate (v8), the cell and organelle tracking plugin of Fiji.
It ships many new features, detailed below, but that are articulated around the following:
It ships many new features, detailed below, but that are articulated around the following:
November 20, 2025 at 11:42 AM
We just released a new major version of TrackMate (v8), the cell and organelle tracking plugin of Fiji.
It ships many new features, detailed below, but that are articulated around the following:
It ships many new features, detailed below, but that are articulated around the following:
Reposted by Virginia Silio
Less than a week to go for #CBIAS2025! A few hours left to register, in person in London or online over Zoom (registration deadline on Nov 20th)
Find out all the information at the link below:
www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cri...
Find out all the information at the link below:
www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cri...
Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium 2025
www.crick.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Less than a week to go for #CBIAS2025! A few hours left to register, in person in London or online over Zoom (registration deadline on Nov 20th)
Find out all the information at the link below:
www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cri...
Find out all the information at the link below:
www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cri...
😍😍😍😍😍
My new ImageJ / Fiji toolkit is out 🔥! The goal is to make image handling & visualization easy, with an intuitive interface! Install it on Fiji with the "Image Viewer" update site
#microscopy #ImageJ #FluorescenceFriday #microscopyMonday
imagej.net/plugins/imag...
#microscopy #ImageJ #FluorescenceFriday #microscopyMonday
imagej.net/plugins/imag...
November 16, 2025 at 1:18 PM
😍😍😍😍😍
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Full chameleon cranial atlas article out now in @anatrecord.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1002/ar.7... 🦎✨️
3D anatomical atlas of the heads of male and female adult Chamaeleo calyptratus
The veiled chameleon is a model organism in reptile development research. Utilizing contrast-enhanced microCT and deep learning segmentation models, we have generated the first digital atlases of the...
doi.org
November 15, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Full chameleon cranial atlas article out now in @anatrecord.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1002/ar.7... 🦎✨️
Two great talks today at 12pm UK time. (ZOOM, Meeting ID: 982 1434 7242 / Passcode: 952497) @biig-ucl.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Two great talks today at 12pm UK time. (ZOOM, Meeting ID: 982 1434 7242 / Passcode: 952497) @biig-ucl.bsky.social
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Join us tomorrow at the @biig-ucl.bsky.social monthly hybrid seminar, to hear @leaveylab.bsky.social speak on: "From chameleons to sea urchins: Using AI-driven digital dissection tools to study development and evolution".
I have been invited to speak at the UCL BioImage Interest Group meeting on Nov 14 - find the Zoom information on this link, open for anyone wanting to learn about AI-driven digital dissection tools (www.ucl.ac.uk/science-tech...)
UCL BioImage Interest Group
The UCL BIIG - BioImage Interest Group - aims to share knowledge, expertise and foster discussion and collaborations around the topics of bioimaging and bioimage analysis in an informal setting.
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 13, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Join us tomorrow at the @biig-ucl.bsky.social monthly hybrid seminar, to hear @leaveylab.bsky.social speak on: "From chameleons to sea urchins: Using AI-driven digital dissection tools to study development and evolution".
Reposted by Virginia Silio
🔬 THREAD: UK Bioimaging User Access Fund is OPEN!
Up to £5k for imaging experiments, £2k for image analysis
Access world-class facilities at Crick, ESRIC, KCL, Liverpool, Oxford Brookes & York
First deadline: 9 Dec 2025 📅
🧵👇
Up to £5k for imaging experiments, £2k for image analysis
Access world-class facilities at Crick, ESRIC, KCL, Liverpool, Oxford Brookes & York
First deadline: 9 Dec 2025 📅
🧵👇
October 24, 2025 at 1:27 PM
🔬 THREAD: UK Bioimaging User Access Fund is OPEN!
Up to £5k for imaging experiments, £2k for image analysis
Access world-class facilities at Crick, ESRIC, KCL, Liverpool, Oxford Brookes & York
First deadline: 9 Dec 2025 📅
🧵👇
Up to £5k for imaging experiments, £2k for image analysis
Access world-class facilities at Crick, ESRIC, KCL, Liverpool, Oxford Brookes & York
First deadline: 9 Dec 2025 📅
🧵👇
As someone born in a country with national healthcare and living in another one with the same, this is against humanity.
Before ACA, many Americans couldn’t afford insurance
Alex Smith was a diabetic who got kicked off his Mom’s insurance at 26
He made 35k a year which was “too much” for Medicaid, but not nearly enough to cover insurance premiums
He had to ration his insulin & died a month after losing insurance
Alex Smith was a diabetic who got kicked off his Mom’s insurance at 26
He made 35k a year which was “too much” for Medicaid, but not nearly enough to cover insurance premiums
He had to ration his insulin & died a month after losing insurance
Insulin's High Cost Leads To Lethal Rationing
Alec Raeshawn Smith was 23 when diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes and 26 when he died. He couldn't afford $1,300 per month for his insulin and other diabetes supplies, so he tried to stretch the doses.
www.npr.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:37 AM
As someone born in a country with national healthcare and living in another one with the same, this is against humanity.
Sharing this, quite relevant this week. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Remembering my sister Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin died of ovarian cancer in 1958 aged 37 years. Sympathy and feminism
have combined to give us her familiar image as a downtrodden woman scientist, brilliant
but neglected, a heroine t...
www.thelancet.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Sharing this, quite relevant this week. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...