News digest

Posted by FocalPlane, on 27 May 2022

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:

Abstract submission for the Royal Microscopical Society’s Abercrombie Meeting is open until 1 June. The meeting is in Oxford from 11-15 September 2022 and only takes place once every five years, so don’t miss out!
https://twitter.com/RoyalMicroSoc/status/1527590315653201921

Missed I2K 2022? Don’t worry, you can watch the talks again on their YouTube channel:
https://twitter.com/BioimagingNA/status/1526249254762717190

Once Invisible is a series of talks by Joel Sheffield that covers the history of microscopy. The talks are now available to watch on YouTube:
https://twitter.com/christlet/status/1525963166458564609

A new series of talks focusing on volume electron microscopy begins with a talk from Kedar Narayan on 3 June
https://twitter.com/VolumeEM1/status/1529863159489732610

On 21 June, our Scientific Advisory Board member Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz will be speaking on ‘Looking under the hood of cells: from single molecule dynamics to whole cell organelle reconstructions’
https://twitter.com/focalplane_jcs/status/1529845312298307587

Join us on 30 June for the next FocalPlane features… webinar, this time on quantitative phase imaging in partnership with TELIGHT
https://twitter.com/focalplane_jcs/status/1525019617114132480

If you’re going to Fens Forum in July and have an interest in microscopy, check out The Open Source Microscopy Symposium
https://twitter.com/Chagas_AM/status/1527225061006094336

Registration is still open for the Royal Society of Chemistry’s next Faraday Discussion entitled ‘Challenges in biological cryo electron microscopy’
https://twitter.com/RoySocChem/status/1527207686714056704

Check out this useful thread full of suggestions if you’d like to find microscopy bioimage analysis workshops and meetings to attend
https://twitter.com/HenriquesLab/status/1529140260592095237

News and interesting reads:

Where are researchers going for advice on image processing? Find out in the following thread:
https://twitter.com/digitalsreeni/status/1528713216036990976

Check out Robert Haase’s post here on FocalPlane, on explorative image data science with napari
https://twitter.com/haesleinhuepf/status/1528660928832712705

Elisabeth Kugler’s recent FocalPlane post introduces GliaMorph, a new tool to analyse glial cell morphology in 3D
https://twitter.com/KuglerElisabeth/status/1526516202490761217

Papers:

A new approach for imaging brain tissue at multiple scales
https://twitter.com/Trickymons/status/1529495752430452736

Using fluorescence anisotropy to increase insulin measurement throughput
https://twitter.com/YaoWang0717/status/1528153897356894208

Assessing vascular segmentation in zebrafish
https://twitter.com/KuglerElisabeth/status/1530111789123489792

Optogenetic activation of single glomeruli in the Drosophila olfactory system
https://twitter.com/NeurophysicsT/status/1527628394371944449

GIANI (General Image Analysis of Nuclei), an image analysis software for segmenting nuclei and cells in 3D datasets
https://twitter.com/CALM_STP/status/1521482082115112967

PyZebrascope, new resource that allows light sheet imaging of neural activity across the zebrafish brain
https://twitter.com/T___Kawashima/status/1527492398711980048

Awards and competitions:

Our image contest with ELMI closes on 29 May. Make sure to get your entries in!
https://twitter.com/focalplane_jcs/status/1528689415387750403

Movie time:

Watching the heartbeat of a gecko embryo:
https://twitter.com/PhyloBrain/status/1529446837291204609

Cell divisions visualised in a starfish blastula:
https://twitter.com/ZacSwider/status/1529829558983213056

Watch the process of equal spiral cleavage unfold in the developing sea snail Crepidula atrasolea:
https://twitter.com/LyonsLab_SIO/status/1529723075981217792