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 now open for EMBO’s practical course on volume electron microscopy by automated serial SEM
  https://twitter.com/SchwabYannick/status/1542428280774696960

• If you couldn’t make it to ELMI 2022, don’t worry. You can find many of the talks on Turku BioImaging’s YouTube channel:
  https://twitter.com/guijacquemet/status/1542940129903403012

• Watch Jean-Yves Tinevez’s TrackMate workshop from I2K2022
  https://twitter.com/jytinevez/status/1541758459481407494

• Check out the slides from Robert Haase’s Frontiers in Bioimaging keynote
  https://twitter.com/haesleinhuepf/status/1544356373286330369

News and interesting reads:

• Find out about using an autocollimator to help build a microscope
  https://twitter.com/DrBrianPatton/status/1542185468221079552

• Browse this database of dyes
  https://twitter.com/microscopyEd/status/1541870018094170112

Papers:

• A new near-infrared fluorescent protein
  https://twitter.com/joachimgoedhart/status/1544239022968651776

• A comparative analysis of two fluorescence-lifetime SMLM systems
  https://twitter.com/JoergEnderlein/status/1544703318185938945

Competitions and opportunities:

• The Royal Microscopical Society have launched their new mentoring project. Find out more and apply:
  https://twitter.com/RoyalMicroSoc/status/1544351433176371200

• Our publisher, The Company of Biologists, is inviting Workshop proposals for 2024. The deadline is 29 July, so be sure to check out our post outlining why you should apply!
  https://twitter.com/focalplane_jcs/status/1542134503891783683

Movie time:

• The students on the MBL Physiology Course at Woods Hole have been let loose on the microscopes. Check out this movie of cilia on a starfish embryo: 
  https://twitter.com/tzerhan29/status/1544418256290811906

• Meanwhile, the MBL Embryology Course is still going. Here’s some mesoderm cells on the move in a frog explant:
  https://twitter.com/yinan_wan/status/1543709977919078401

• A beautifully dramatic cell division:
  https://twitter.com/pj_saez/status/1542889365386534914

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