Microscopy preLights

Here is your monthly post with a curated list of interesting microscopy-related preprints as well as preprint highlights written by preLighters. Thank you to the preLights community and the Node community manager, Helen Zenner, who helped us create this list.

Here is a curated selection of preprints and highlights published in the last month:

Neuronal activity drives pathway-specific depolarization of astrocyte distal processes. Moritz Armbruster, Saptarnab Naskar, Jacqueline Garcia, Mary Sommer, Elliot Kim, Yoav Adam, Philip G Haydon, Edward S Boyden, Adam E Cohen, Chris G Dulla. Highlight by Kristina Kuhbandner.

Engineering functional human gastrointestinal organoid tissues using the three primary germ layers separately derived from pluripotent stem cells. Alexandra K. Eicher, Daniel O. Kechele, Nambirajan Sundaram, H. Matthew Berns, Holly M. Poling, Lauren E. Haines, J. Guillermo Sanchez, Keishi Kishimoto, Mansa Krishnamurthy, Lu Han, Aaron M. Zorn, Michael A. Helmrath, James M. Wells. Highlight by Niveda Udaykumar.

Two redundant ubiquitin-dependent pathways of BRCA1 localization to DNA damage sites. Alana Sherker, Natasha Chaudhary, Salomé Adam, Sylvie M. Noordermeer, Amélie Fradet-Turcotte, Daniel Durocher. Highlight by Giuseppina D’Alessandro.

After traumatic brain injury oligodendrocytes regain a plastic phenotype and can become astrocytes. Xianshu Bai, Na Zhao, Wenhui Huang, Laura C. Caudal, Renping Zhao, Johannes Hirrlinger, Wolfgang Walz, Frank Kirchhoff, Anja Scheller. Highlight by Ranabir Chakraborty.

Semaphorin3f as an intrinsic regulator of chamber-specific heart development. R Halabi, P.B. Cechmanek, C.L. Hehr, S. McFarlane. Highlight by Yen Tran.

Functional characterization of RELN missense mutations involved in recessive and dominant forms of Neuronal Migration Disorders. Martina Riva, Sofia Ferreira, Vera P. Medvedeva, Frédéric Causeret, Olivia J. Henry, Charles-Joris Roux, Céline Bellesme, Elena Freri, Elena Parrini, Dragana Josifova, Renzo Guerrini, Nadia Bahi-Buisson, Alessandra Pierani. Highlight by Ana Uzquiano.

Inflammatory blockade prevents injury to the developing pulmonary gas exchange surface in preterm primates. Andrea Toth, Shelby Steinmeyer, Paranthaman Kannan, Jerilyn Gray, Courtney M. Jackson, Shibabrata Mukherjee, Martin Demmert, Joshua R. Sheak, Daniel Benson, Joe Kitzmiller, Joseph A. Wayman, Pietro Presicce, Christopher Cates, Rhea Rubin, Kashish Chetal, Yina Du, Yifei Miao, Mingxia Gu, Minzhe Guo, Vladimir V. Kalinichenko, Suhas G. Kallapur, Emily R. Miraldi, Yan Xu, Daniel Swarr, Ian Lewkowich, Nathan Salomonis, Lisa Miller, Jennifer S. Sucre, Jeffrey A. Whitsett, Claire A. Chougnet, Alan H. Job, Hitesh Deshmukh, William J. Zacharias. Highlight by Sagar Varankar.

Interspecies interactions in bacterial colonies are determined by physiological traits and the environment. Sean C. Booth, Scott A. Rice. Highlight by SCELSE Summer School.

ACORBA: Automated workflow to measure Arabidopsis thaliana root tip angle dynamic. Nelson BC Serre, Matyas Fendrych.

CellProfiler 4: Improvements in Speed, Utility and Usability.  David R. Stirling, Madison J. Swain-Bowden, Alice M. Lucas, Anne E. Carpenter, View ORCID ProfileBeth A. Cimini, Allen Goodman.

PECAn, a pipeline for image processing and statistical analysis of complex mosaic 3D tissues. Michael E. Baumgartner, Paul F. Langton, Alex Mastrogiannopoulos, Remi Logeay, Eugenia Piddini.

An open-access volume electron microscopy atlas of whole cells and tissues.  C. Shan Xu, Song Pang, Gleb Shtengel, Andreas Müller, Alex T. Ritter, Huxley K. Hoffman, Shin-ya Takemura, Zhiyuan Lu, H. Amalia Pasolli, Nirmala Iyer, Jeeyun Chung, Davis Bennett, VAubrey V. Weigel, Melanie Freeman, Schuyler B. van Engelenburg, Tobias C. Walther, Robert V. Farese Jr., Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Ira Mellman, Michele Solimena, Harald F. Hess.

Automated imaging of duckweed growth and development.  Kevin L. Cox Jr., Jordan Manchego, Blake C. Meyers, Kirk J. Czymmek, Alex Harkess.

MorphoGraphX 2.0: Providing context for biological image analysis with positional information. Soeren Strauss, Adam Runions, Brendan Lane, Dennis Eschweiler, Namrata Bajpai, Nicola Trozzi, Anne-Lise Routier-Kierzkowska, Saiko Yoshida, Sylvia Rodrigues da Silveira, Athul Vijayan, Rachele Tofanelli, Mateusz Majda, Emillie Echevin, Constance Le Gloanec, Hana Bertrand-Rakusova, Milad Adibi, Kay Schneitz, George Bassel, Daniel Kierzkowski, Johannes Stegmaier, Miltos Tsiantis, Richard S. Smith.

A workflow for rapid unbiased quantification of fibrillar feature alignment in biological images. Stefania Marcotti, Deandra Belo de Freitas, Lee D Troughton, Fiona N Kenny, Tanya Shaw, Brian M Stramer, Patrick W Oakes.

Mitotic Spindle Positioning (MISP) is an actin bundler that selectively stabilizes the rootlets of epithelial microvilli. E. Angelo Morales, Cayetana Arnaiz, Evan S. Krystofiak, Marija Zanic, Matthew J. Tyska.

FRET nanoscopy enables seamless imaging of molecular assemblies with sub-nanometer resolution. Jan-Hendrik Budde, Nicolaas van der Voort, Suren Felekyan, Julian Folz, Ralf Kühnemuth, Paul Lauterjung, Markus Köhler, Andreas Schönle, Julian Sindram, Marius Otten, Matthias Karg, Christian Herrmann, Anders Barth, Claus A. M. Seidel.

De novo evolution of macroscopic multicellularity. Ozan Bozdag, Seyed Alireza Zamani-Dahaj, Penelope C. Kahn, Thomas C. Day, Kai Tong, Aishwarya H. Balwani, Eva L. Dyer, Peter J. Yunker, William C. Ratcliff.

Optical nanoscopy reveals SARS-CoV-2-induced remodeling of human airway cells. Wilco Nijenhuis, Hugo G.J. Damstra, Emma J. van Grinsven, Malina K. Iwanski, Patrique Praest, Zahra E. Soltani, Mariëlle M.P. van Grinsven, Jesse E. Brunsveld, Theun de Kort, Lisa W. Rodenburg, Dorien C.M. de Jong, Henriette H.M. Raeven, Sacha Spelier, Gimano D. Amatngalim, Anna Akhmanova, Monique Nijhuis, Robert Jan Lebbink, Jeffrey M. Beekman, Lukas C. Kapitein.

4D live-cell imaging of microgametogenesis in the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Sabrina Yahiya, Sarah Jordan, Holly X. Smith, David C. A. Gaboriau, Mufuliat T. Famodimu, Farah A. Dahalan, Alisje Churchyard, George W. Ashdown, Jake Baum.

DAAM mediates the assembly of long-lived, treadmilling stress fibers in collectively migrating epithelial cells in Drosophila. Kristin M Sherrard, Maureen Cetera, Sally Horne-Badovinac.

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