News digest

Here is a selection of interesting news, publications and discussions related to microscopy that happened in the past two weeks.

Thank you to our ‘FocalPlane reporters’: Martin Jones, Manish Kumar, Andrey Andreev and Parash Prasad who helped us create this list.

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Microscopes and imaging tools:

• Localization atomic force microscopy, applying super-resolution methods to AFM https://twitter.com/George_R_Heath/…

• A new Snoutscope design using a commercial base https://twitter.com/MarijnSiemons/…

Bioimage analysis:

• New blog from Robert Haase & co on bioimage analysis https://twitter.com/psobolewskiPhD/…

• A look back on the first year of the NEUBIAS gateway on F1000 https://twitter.com/F1000Research/…

• Deconvolution with CLIJ is getting stronger https://twitter.com/truenorth_ia/…

• ABBA: a Fiji + QuPath workflow for image registration of brain slices https://twitter.com/AlvaroCrevenna/…

News and interesting reads:

• Incredible work to x-ray image the staining process for electron microscopy on large biological samples https://twitter.com/AdrianAWanner/…

• Serene sunset view or single slit diffraction? https://twitter.com/MillisBryan/…

• Fourteen Visual Proteomics projects funded by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative https://twitter.com/kevinmbyrd/…

• … one of the projects funded is led by Lucy Collinson, member of FocalPlane Scientific Advisory Board: https://twitter.com/TheCrick/…

• Jason Swedlow, co-founder of BioImagingUK, received an honorary OBE for services to biological imaging https://twitter.com/RoyalMicroSoc…

• Studying malaria invasion in 4D with lattice light sheet microscopy https://twitter.com/geogphotog/…

• Fantastic talk by Alice Pyne on using AFM to image DNA structure https://twitter.com/NucleusSciTalks/…

• A request for microscope vendors https://twitter.com/haesleinhuepf/…

• Cryo-CLEM study in plants and another happy ending story of preprints publishing back-to-back in the same journal https://twitter.com/bengeliscious/…

• Biological Electron Microscopy survey https://twitter.com/MattRGR/…

Courses and conferences:

• 13th Joint meeting of the BDIAP and the Pathological Society (6-8th July), including using light, electron and x-ray microscopy for imaging human biopsies https://twitter.com/EM_STP…

• One of the big conferences on the microscopy calendar: MMC (virtual this year). FocalPlane will be there too! https://twitter.com/mmc_series/…

Funding and projects:

• Call for Pilot UK Community Access Nodes for EuroBioimaging https://twitter.com/BioImagingUK/…

• Chan Zuckerberg Initiative call for plugin development for Napari https://twitter.com/ChanZuckerberg/…

• A nice microscopy related citizen science project for kids https://twitter.com/Ankita_13Jha/…

Hands-on scientists:

• Mark Pickering reminds us to check dimensions when ordering: mm is not the same as cm! https://twitter.com/PickeringLab/…

• Maurice Lee (re)discovers fluorescence of tonic water (what?!) https://twitter.com/Maurice_Y_Lee…

• Paula Montero-Llopis fixed, painted, and donated a small microscope. We don’t always need new and shiny things! https://twitter.com/LlopisMontero/...

• Andrew Plested got a new optical table and it is huge https://twitter.com/AndrewPlested/...

• John Dudley does science communication at the L’Université de Franche-Comté radio station https://twitter.com/johnmdudley/…

• Marijn Siemons 3D-printed parts to rebuild a custom TIRF microscope https://twitter.com/MarijnSiemons/…

Movie time:

• VR tour of a wax moth’s gut, imaged in x-ray microscopy https://twitter.com/DrRichJohnston/…

• 3D structure of butterfly ovaries https://twitter.com/davislaundon/…

• Vimentin doing weird things https://twitter.com/aaandmoore/…

• Escaping white blood cells https://twitter.com/joachimgoedhart/…

• Zebrafish heart embryo at single-cell resolution https://twitter.com/ZebrafishRock/…

• Beautiful 3D-STORM of actin https://twitter.com/christlet/…

We hope you find this post interesting. Please let us know if you think we should include other topics or discussion platforms.

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