Australia Hosted Event
16 April 2026
09:00 - 10:00 AEST (00:00 - 01:00 BST)
Online
The expansion microscopy user group brings together researchers to share experiences to enable rapid uptake of the technology.
At this meeting... We will be joined by Dr Ksena Lomgrin will be presenting their talk "Tricks and treats of Expansion Microscopy: A bumpy ride across five ExM modalities".
Ksena is a neuroscientist with training in chemistry and parasitology, focused on imaging-driven research. They completed their PhD in Auditory Neuroscience at the University of Leicester, followed by postdoctoral work in Infectious Diseases at the University of Edinburgh, and is currently a postdoc in neuroimmunology at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Ksena has worked with expansion microscopy since 2019 and uses ExM routinely to tackle biologically challenging samples. In 2024, they optimised ultrastructure expansion microscopy to expand Toxoplasma microcysts, and is now extending these approaches to neuroimmunology.
Within a broader project on neuro-immune interactions, Ksena is developing the imaging arm - immunofluorescence assay pipelines that map direct communication across brain, lung, liver, and spleen - by combining whole-organ and organoid clearing with multiple ExM modalities and custom light-sheet microscopy.
In publications prior to 2025, you can find them under the name Kseniia Bondarenko.
Organisers:
Gabriela Segal Wasserman
Microscopy Officer at the Imaging Facility, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia.
Dr Segal has a PhD in Tumour Immunology from the Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Melbourne. She has years of experience in sample preparation for confocal and multiphoton microscopy. In her current role as an academic specialist she supports confocal, tissue clearing and Lightsheet applications.
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