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:

• Registration is still open for the BNMI (Bridging the Nordic Microscopy Infrastructure) symposium in Iceland
  https://twitter.com/EuroBioImaging/status/1555085772151209985

• The 9th Electron Tomography Congress is happening in September in The Netherlands
  https://twitter.com/BriegelAriane/status/1555111087858647041

News and interesting reads:

• Helen Robertson interviews Michael Reiche, Director of the new Africa Microscopy Initiative (AMI) Imaging Centre, to learn about microscopy initiatives in Africa
  https://twitter.com/focalplane_jcs/status/1554064142868385794

• An Open Access review on developments in volume electron microscopy
  https://twitter.com/JofMicroscopy/status/1554039735273902080

Papers:

• Beautiful cryo-EM structures of the human FucA1 enzyme
  https://twitter.com/JNB_lab/status/1554520002644086786

• CAKE, a new approach for labelling neuronal proteins
  https://twitter.com/WJDroogers/status/1554140918848131073

• Crosstalk between fluorophores at close proximity can change their photophysics
  https://twitter.com/rita_strack/status/1554171804339560448

• Using iPALM to visualise podosomes
  https://twitter.com/HHMIJanelia/status/1555247928746311683

Competitions and opportunities:

• Congratulations to Lauren Moon from the Gurdon Institute who won a Twining Egginton fine arts prize for these beautiful plates, inspired by confocal images of chick development!
  https://twitter.com/GurdonInstitute/status/1554495217650237443

Movie time:

• A squid embryo imaged at The Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole:
  https://twitter.com/voigtvision/status/1554947094892380160

• A cytoskeletal dance:
  https://twitter.com/IsabellaGaeta1/status/1554511982417498112

• Expansion microscopy fries up this beautiful stack:
  https://twitter.com/imag_ic/status/1552866507314540544

• Ever wondered what epiboly looks like in a sea snail? This one’s for you:
  https://twitter.com/Larabeeee/status/1552639224226127872

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