News digest

Posted by FocalPlane, on 28 October 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:

Registration is open for an EMBO Workshop on in situ structural biology, taking place as a hybrid meeting from 8-11 February 2023
https://twitter.com/SulianaManley/status/1584647927758479360

The Royal Microscopical Society’s International Microscopy Lecture Series returns on 6 December
https://twitter.com/RoyalMicroSoc/status/1585635184132882438

Andor are offering 16-19 year olds an insight into engineering and tech careers on 14 November
https://twitter.com/AndorTechnology/status/1584817487560192000

News and interesting reads:

The Africa Microscopy Initiative Imaging Centre has launched
https://twitter.com/AMI_microscopy/status/1582766675958431746

Check out these experiments using StayGold, a green fluorescent protein that was introduced earlier this year
https://twitter.com/JamesDManton/status/1582093388857634816

Like a good plot? Here’s a visual representation of the performance of different microscope objectives:
https://twitter.com/Maurice_Y_Lee/status/1582315568140472321

Papers:

A novel approach to improve resolution in light sheet microscopy
https://twitter.com/RetoPaul/status/1584573693757337603

PyImageJ, a new tool for combining ImageJ and Python
https://twitter.com/nKiaru/status/1582121796630814722

Competitions and opportunities:

Submissions for the Royal Microscopical Society’s 2023 digital calendar are open now
https://twitter.com/RoyalMicroSoc/status/1583467912974589952

Movie time:

Multi-channel imaging in live cancer cells:
https://twitter.com/AkaashKumarBME/status/1585372088566976512

An intestinal tuft cell viewed in beautiful detail. Can you guess what’s labelled in this video?
https://twitter.com/TyskaLabActual/status/1585267349669744640