I am pleased to announce that our application for a small grant from the local Cardiff Uni ARUK pump-priming round was successful! We applied for funds to support a new 20x Fluar objective and lysosensor yellow/blue ratiometric imaging filters (from Cairn and Chroma) for our Zeiss Colibri microscope. These upgrades will significantly improve our productivity as our current higher magnification objectives restrict the number of cells we can image during Ca2+ experiments. We are very grateful to the committee for their support of this application and ARUK for their continued support of the Alzheimer’s research in our lab.