News digest
Posted by FocalPlane, on 30 September 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:
- Andor are holding a webinar on 6 October 2022 about democratising access to confocal microscopy, presented by Geraint Wilde
https://twitter.com/AndorTechnology/status/1574760787700244483
- The third Annual Joint Workshop between the Japanese Society of Microscopy and the Microscopical Society of Canada is taking place as a hybrid event on 3-4 November 2022, with a focus on advanced electron microscopy
https://twitter.com/MSC_SMC/status/1572593408358887424
- The Crick Bioimage Analysis Symposium is taking place in London from 21-22 November 2022. Registration is still open:
https://twitter.com/focalplane_jcs/status/1574709936633815043
- The registration deadline for the 11th International Weber Symposium in Uruguay has been extended to 2 October 2022
https://twitter.com/Weber_Symposium/status/1574576992082890754
- Want to find out how to explain the difference between reproducibility and repeatability using just a cup, and orange and an egg? Revisit Robert Haase’s online talk on bioimage analysis:
https://twitter.com/haesleinhuepf/status/1574680823726735360
News and interesting reads:
- An introduction and guide through the sometimes confusing world of microscope objectives
https://twitter.com/amsikking/status/1572984354271539200
- Sign up for France Bioimaging’s newsletter to stay up to date with the latest events, workshops and training
https://twitter.com/Fr_BioImaging/status/1571880306466033668
- Check out this free tool that can help make your figures more accessible to people with colour blindness
https://twitter.com/helenajambor/status/1572574095178596355
Papers:
- A new tool to assess colocalisation in SMLM
https://twitter.com/UlrikGether/status/1575027934909583360
- Automatic tracking of duckweed growth
https://twitter.com/K_Bioguy_Cox/status/1574489285423960064
- Imaging with an mNeonGreen-tagged tropomyosin
https://twitter.com/SPOREMOHAN/status/1573233918735695878
- New methods for imaging cilia on pancreatic cells
https://twitter.com/JingHughes/status/1574100066234953728
Competitions and opportunities:
- Bioimaging North America’s image competition is open for entries until 7 October
https://twitter.com/BioimagingNA/status/1574425684096819203
- Congratulations to all the recipients of the Royal Microscopical Society’s 2022 awards. Read more here:
https://twitter.com/RoyalMicroSoc/status/1575444086424731649
- Congratulations to Manu Prakash and Jim Cybulski, who were awarded the Golden Goose Award for their Foldscope project, which aims to open up access to science:
https://twitter.com/PrakashLab/status/1570224847711526912
Movie time:
- Asymmetric cell division in maize:
https://twitter.com/aribidopsis/status/1574097178703732736
- Intricate actin dynamics:
https://twitter.com/pj_saez/status/1574361801755688960
- Watch the first cell divisions of a brain coral embryo:
https://twitter.com/CoralSci/status/1572318497710956544
- And finally, have you ever seen what mitochondria look like in amoeba?:
https://twitter.com/KatrinaVelle/status/1572001905085415424