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:

• The final programme for the 2022 Single Molecule Localisation Microscopy Symposium is out. Online registration is still possible before 25 August: https://twitter.com/S_LevequeFort/status/1559235918334140416

• An opportunity to get hands-on experience of SMLM at this workshop in Edinburgh, running from 6-8 September
  https://twitter.com/scotmicro/status/1559521907770380288

• A hybrid meeting where imaging facility users and managers can come together to learn from each other
  https://twitter.com/Daniel_Wa19/status/1557824545549164544

• The EMBO practical course on light sheet microscopy is in full swing. If you couldn’t make it, Robert Haase has made his slides on image processing and analysis available here:
  https://twitter.com/haesleinhuepf/status/1559477755284262912

• The seminars from the Advanced Bioimaging Unit are now available on their YouTube channel
  https://twitter.com/BioimagingNA/status/1557798634955177984

News and interesting reads:

• Joachim Goedhart takes us on a journey into the history of biosensors
  https://twitter.com/joachimgoedhart/status/1558025823705243651

• A new tool for labelling images for training AI, Biodock Autolabel, has just been released
  https://twitter.com/MichaelLee04/status/1557738197068656640

• An exciting new project combining expansion microscopy and FISH
  https://twitter.com/Dey_Gautam/status/1558009141666500609

• Read about the return of EMBL’s Lautenschläger summer school
  https://twitter.com/Prevedel_Lab/status/1557092402023866368

Papers:

• Using confocal Raman microscopy to visualise tell-tale signs of SARS-CoV-2 infection
  https://twitter.com/MuriauxD/status/1559289437640687619

• An analysis of the differences between Gaussian and lattice light sheets
  https://twitter.com/So_lets_kiLab/status/1559538756297924608

• Investigating the link between photoswitching contrast and chromophore conformation to improve fluorescent proteins
  https://twitter.com/vnzloy/status/1559165088086589440

• A new method to detect residues in cryo-EM structures that may be misassigned 
  https://twitter.com/rita_strack/status/1557817925892988928

Competitions and opportunities:

• The Royal Microscopical Society offers bursaries to help its members attend meetings, workshops and outreach events. Find out more here:
  https://twitter.com/RoyalMicroSoc/status/1559812719989211136

• The winners of the Annual International Dictyostelium Conference’s image competition have been announced. Congratulations to the winner, Shashi Singh:
  https://twitter.com/PexiMexi/status/1557730152779771904

• The conference also held a video competition, which was won by Sarah Koerber:
  https://twitter.com/PexiMexi/status/1557737403095588865

Movie time:

• A sea angel flying through the water:
  https://twitter.com/SarahMackAttack/status/1559582302304456706

• A tardigrade dance, imaged using a Foldscope:
  https://twitter.com/hollyastuart/status/1558611543566286850

• A plethora of organelles imaged in a pair of U2OS cells:
  https://twitter.com/AkaashKumarBME/status/1557045591498276868

• Peek inside a young squid to watch its chromatophores in action:
  https://twitter.com/voigtvision/status/1559146268647215104

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