FocalPlane features… Imaging Cell Architecture and Dynamics with Journal of Cell Science
Posted by FocalPlane, on 4 November 2026
Our next FocalPlane features… webinar is a celebration of Journal of Cell Science’s Special Issue: Imaging Cell Architecture and Dynamics. Our Guest Editors Francesca Bottanelli and Giulia Zanetti and our academic Editor Guillaume Jacquemet have invited the authors of three of the papers published in this issue to present their research. This issue and our webinar is sponsored by Beijing NanoInsights-tech Co., Ltd.
The special issue is still building; you can follow along with the table of contents here.
Thursday 26 November 2026, 15:00 GMT/UTC
Beata Kaczyńska, University of Helsinki (current affiliation: Tampere University)
Directional cell motility facilitates side-branching in the mammary epithelium in a tension-sensitive manner
Claire Ortmann de Percin, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH (current affiliation: Bernhard-Nocht Institut for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg)
In situ visualization of autophagy reveals the presence of vesicles at the expanding phagophore rim
Hélène Spangenberg, University of Oslo
A phosphoinositide and RAB switch controls early macropinocytosis