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Celebrating 100 years of The Company of Biologists

Posted by , on 14 January 2025

Happy New Year, everyone. 2025 is a big year for us at The Company of Biologists, marking 100 years since the Company was founded. We’re using this opportunity to reflect on what we do, how we got here and what lies ahead, alongside some special celebrations of this once-in-a-lifetime milestone. Here, I highlight four projects
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France-BioImaging Challenge is back! Fuse My Cells

Posted by , on 13 January 2025

For a second running year, France-BioImaging organizes its data machine learning competition: we introduce you Fuse My Cells challenge! What is France-BioImaging? France-BioImaging is a french National Infrastructure in Biology and Health (INBS) laureate in 2011 of the national Program “Investissements d’Avenir” (PIA-ANR) in the field of biological imaging. FBI is at the crossroads between molecular and cell biology,
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Microscopy preprints - applications in biology

Posted by , on 10 January 2025

Here is a curated selection of preprints published recently. In this post, we share preprints that use microscopy tools to answer questions in biology.
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An interview with Lina El Hajji

Posted by , on 9 January 2025

Lina was one of the three-minute talk presenters at our science communication event, SciCommConnect. At the event, which we co-hosted with the Node and preLights, we were treated to fantastic talks on a range of topics. Lina has kindly allowed us to share her presentation and we caught up with Lina to learn more about
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Meeting report: Biomolecular Horizons 2024

Posted by , on 6 January 2025

In September 2024 I attended the Biomolecular Horizons conference in Melbourne, Australia. This was a large conference with 9 concurrent sessions over 4 days. There was a lot of great biology presented from around the world, but in my meeting report I wanted to highlight something unique about the conference: the Indigenous Perspectives in Biomolecular
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What Happens When Light Meets Cell: Is It Stress, Signal, or Something More?

Posted by , on 30 December 2024

In the hub of cellular responses, how does a beam of light trigger a cascade of molecular changes in plant cells? This question solves the mystery of photostimulation-induced stress and signaling, especially at the critical contact points between the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and chloroplasts. These dynamic cellular sites act as points for communication, resource exchange,
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Featured image with the Hughes lab

Posted by , on 20 December 2024

Our featured image, acquired by Sanja Sviben, is an immuno-scanning electron micrograph of a primary cilium, taken from an intact human pancreatic islet. The cilium is a microtubule-based structure and is seen here labeled with colloidal gold for acetylated alpha tubulin.
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Our 2024 FocalPlane correspondents - Daniel Doucet, Subhajit Dutta and Greg Redpath

Posted by , on 19 December 2024

We had the pleasure of working with Daniel, Subhajit and Greg as our FocalPlane correspondents in 2024. You can read some of their posts here and look out for a few more coming out in 2025. As the year comes to a close, we took the opportunity to hear from them about their research and
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The Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium (2024): conference overview

Posted by , on 18 December 2024

Have you missed this year’s Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium (CBIAS2024), or you want to know how this conference went to apply for next year’s edition? Here is our recap of this conference featuring impressions from 3 microscopists coming from different research backgrounds:   Zeinab Rekad, postdoctoral Research Associate, biologist, super-user and here for the 3rd time
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Become a FocalPlane correspondent

Posted by , on 17 December 2024

Are you enthusiastic about science communication and looking for a chance to broaden your writing experience alongside your research activities? FocalPlane, our community site for microscopists, is looking to appoint three scientists as correspondents who will play a key role in developing and writing content over the coming year.
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