News digest

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

Talks, training and workshops:

• Check out Xiaojie Zhang’s seminar ‘Expect the unexpected in cellular cryo-electron tomography: the story of our discovery of stress-induced mumps virus reactivation’ on the HHMI YouTube channel:
  https://twitter.com/Ulrike_Boehm/status/1512160382386909192

• Don’t miss the next ‘Ask the Experts!’ session with Robert Haase and Anna Klemm on artificial intelligence for image analysis
  https://twitter.com/GerBI_GMB/status/1513804118917320717

• Life Sciences Switzerland (LS2) is running a microscopy webinar series:
  https://twitter.com/LS2Switzerland/status/1511730344915050503
  

• Applications for the Virtual Edinburgh Super-Resolution Imaging Consortium (ESRIC) Summer School are open until 29 April 2022:
  https://twitter.com/RoyalMicroSoc/status/1510932101008404481

The deadline for the EMBL Summer School ‘Visualising Life’ is 30 April 2022. It is aimed at students with a non-biology background: https://twitter.com/EuroBioImaging/status/1513413619265978370

News and interesting reads:

• For #WorldMicroscopeDay Helen Robertson spoke to Michael Reiche about their new Review article in JCS discussing how specimens can impact image acquisition
  http://focalplane.biologists.com/2022/04/13/a-new-review-in-journal-of-cell-science-discusses-how-specimens-can-impact-image-acquisition/

• Mariana De Niz is conducting interviews for her Latin American Microscopists series. You can read the latest ones here on FocalPlane:
  https://focalplane.biologists.com/category/blog-series/latin-american-microscopists/

• A thread that will be of interest to anyone who does calcium imaging: https://twitter.com/RichieHakim/status/1511689453097656333

• What’s the most popular fluorescent protein? Check out this list from FPbase – you might be surprised:
  https://twitter.com/joachimgoedhart/status/1511314804987908101

Awards and competitions:

• Zeiss Microscopy Image Contest 2022: https://twitter.com/zeiss_micro/status/1512098492814184450
  

• Nominations are open for the RMS Awards. If you have a colleague whose microscopy work deserves recognition, the deadline for putting them forward is 22 April 2022:
  https://twitter.com/RoyalMicroSoc/status/1512450065792745476
  
  

• Congratulations to the winners of the BSCB Image Competition 2022!
  https://twitter.com/Official_BSCB/status/1514174694370512897
  

Movie time:

A migrating cell suffers from a trapped nucleus: https://twitter.com/pj_saez/status/1512764931720028160

An anaphase bridge caught in the act: https://twitter.com/NicholasAder/status/1512165115134681100

A killer T cell of the immune system destroying a monstrous ovarian cancer cell https://twitter.com/RitterLab/status/1514742717162541056

Zebrafish embryonic axis extension https://twitter.com/ZebrafishRock/status/1513204490211577858

A micropatterned HeLa cell ‘on fire’ https://twitter.com/aaandmoore/status/1512918933556408331

Travel through the brain of a zebrafish https://twitter.com/KuglerElisabeth/status/1513074051996037122

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