This week I had the pleasure of attending the #MesoSPIM Symposium in Zürich, Switzerland - and what an experience it's been! Top-notch presentations, great posters and great chats with my fellow #lightsheet #microscopy and #tissueclearing nerds. You know it's a good conference when you come back with a full notebook and a head fizzing with ideas on what to do next.
I could make the night train journey there thanks to @Co_Biologists's DMM Conference Travel Grant - much appreciated!
From @nvladimus : "We have opened the #mesoSPIM official User Forum" at https://forum.image.sc/tag/mesospim alongside #Fiji #ImageJ #ilastik #BiaPy #napari #DeepLabCut and many other open source softwares for bioimage informatics.

From Nikita Vladimorov, mesoSPIM lead microscopy engineer:

🚨 Call for Abstracts – mesoSPIM 10-Year Anniversary Symposium 🚨
We’re celebrating a decade of open-source innovation, discovery, and community in light-sheet microscopy!

Join us for a unique 3-day event bringing together biologists, physicists, developers, facility staff, computer scientists, and industry experts to explore the latest in tissue clearing, imaging, image analysis, and microscope building.

📅 When: October 13-15, 2025
📍 Where: University of Zurich, Switzerland
🔗 Submit your abstract & register: https://www.ema.uzh.ch/en/register/the-mesospim-10-year-symposium.html

Themes include:
🔬 Applications of light-sheet microscopy in life sciences & physics
🦠 Tissue clearing techniques
💻 Image processing & analysis (open-source and commercial)
🛠️ Hardware and software for large-scale imaging
💡 Open-source microscope designs and hacks

👉 Abstract submission is open now — we want to hear from you!
Let’s shape the next 10 years of open-source microscopy together 💪

See also:
https://www.adabd.uzh.ch/en/events/mesospimsymposium.html

#mesoSPIM2025 #mesoSPIM

The mesoSPIM 10-year Symposium

Day 1: Monday, October 13-th , Day 2: Tuesday, October 14-th, Day 3: Wednesday, October 15-th | Careum Auditorium

UZH Event Portal

The Benchtop #mesoSPIM: A next-generation #OpenSource light-sheet #microscope for large cleared samples:

-resolution: 1.5 µm lat, 3.3 µm ax
-magnification: 20x
-sample sizes: < 1 mm up to several cm

https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.16.545256
#DIYbio #lab #instruments #imaging #LSM #microscopy