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:

• From Images to Knowledge (I2K) is a virtual conference tackling the issue of quantitative analysis of microscopy images. It takes place in early May, and registration is open now:
  https://twitter.com/KuglerElisabeth/status/1518528626202972162

• Join Kevin Schey for the next Correlated Imaging Series lecture on 20 May, when he will speak about multimodal imaging of retina pathology
  https://twitter.com/EuroBioImaging/status/1518517843557588993

• Some resources for anyone new to volume EM…
  https://twitter.com/VolumeEM1/status/1518558188538404865

• …and a monthly seminar series all about EM https://twitter.com/drtranfield/status/1517815427346354176

News and interesting reads:

• Pete Bankhead has updated his famous book on image analysis, which is completely free to access
  https://twitter.com/petebankhead/status/1516729400137551878

• Check out this thread explaining how you can combine a confocal, some sub-resolution fluorescent beads and ImageJ to push the resolution limit
  https://twitter.com/CAS_mitolab/status/1516358645738524672

• A set of 18 new LUTs, devised by Melissa Quintanilla, are now available in Fiji
  https://twitter.com/christlet/status/1517955217505009668

• A new plugin to get your structural biology data into Blender
  https://twitter.com/bradyajohnston/status/1519116778181328896

• A guide to live-cell time-lapse microscopy
  https://twitter.com/SchmollerLab/status/1517197374543826944

• This week we’ve been highlighting articles from Development’s imaging Special Issue on FocalPlane’s social media channels. We kicked off with #EMmonday!:
  https://twitter.com/focalplane_jcs/status/1518545366018256897

• 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/

• 29 April is the deadline to apply to join the preLights community. This is a great opportunity to gain experience in science writing and editing by highlighting your favourite preprints (including microscopy-related ones!)
  https://twitter.com/preLights/status/1516415871295578129

Papers:

• A discussion on the potential of the recently published fluorescent protein StayGold, a new GFP that is highly photostable
  https://twitter.com/christlet/status/1518645377779576832

• A pipeline for extracting morphological parameters of cells in mouse myocardial cells
  https://twitter.com/blg_journal/status/1518495223793733632

• Using EM to investigate the structure of ATP synthase under strain during catalysis
  https://twitter.com/RubinsteinJohn/status/1518595958505938944

• Using 3D single molecule super-resolution microscopy to image the whole nuclear lamina
  https://twitter.com/Dr_Ash_Rozario/status/1519551130594050049

• A protocol for all-optical interrogation of mouse neural circuits
  https://twitter.com/NeuralCompLab/status/1519394304589979648

Awards and competitions:

• Nikon’s Small World competition closes on 30 April
  https://twitter.com/NikonSmallWorld/status/1518622554814128128

Movie time:

• A killer T cell attacking a lymphoma cancer cell, imaged on lattice light sheet:
  https://twitter.com/RitterLab/status/1516778400614010887

• Mitochondrial dynamics visualised in budding yeast:
  https://twitter.com/felix_thoma/status/1518609529046450178

• Those new LUTs in action:
  https://twitter.com/AxonsAlex/status/1518488952172433410

• Neurons growing within a zebrafish:
  https://twitter.com/slava__bobrov/status/1518577839288860675

• Using Python to make a hybrid supplemental video:
  https://twitter.com/ZacSwider/status/1519392269178130433

• Stunning movies of a novel human organoid forming somite-like structures:
  https://twitter.com/EbisuyaMiki/status/1519629696819937282

• Watch these macrophage-like U973 cells undergoing optogenetically-induced pyroptosis:
  https://twitter.com/kat_shkarina/status/1519603296289406976

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