This week I had the pleasure of attending the #MesoSPIM Symposium in Zรผrich, 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:

๐Ÿšจ Call for Abstracts โ€“ mesoSPIM 10-Year Anniversary Symposium ๐Ÿšจ
Weโ€™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.

๐Ÿ“… When: October 13-15, 2025
๐Ÿ“ Where: University of Zurich, Switzerland
๐Ÿ”— Submit your abstract & register: https://www.ema.uzh.ch/en/register/the-mesospim-10-year-symposium.html

Themes include:
๐Ÿ”ฌ Applications of light-sheet microscopy in life sciences & physics
๐Ÿฆ  Tissue clearing techniques
๐Ÿ’ป Image processing & analysis (open-source and commercial)
๐Ÿ› ๏ธ Hardware and software for large-scale imaging
๐Ÿ’ก Open-source microscope designs and hacks

๐Ÿ‘‰ Abstract submission is open now โ€” we want to hear from you!
Letโ€™s shape the next 10 years of open-source microscopy together ๐Ÿ’ช

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 ยตm lat, 3.3 ยตm 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