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Imaging with… Unidad de Microscopía, Universidad Mayor, Chile

Posted by , on 2 February 2026

In our ‘Imaging with…’ blog post, we meet the team at Unidad de Microscopía Avanzada, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
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Featured image with Denise Scuffi

Posted by , on 30 January 2026

Our featured image, acquired by Denise Scuffi, shows stomata – small pores surrounded by a pair of specialised cells known as guard cells – from Arabidopsis thaliana expressing the fluorescent biosensor roGFP2-Orp1 in the cytosol, which enables in vivo monitoring of intracellular H₂O₂ dynamics.
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JCS snapshot: Tracking coordinated cellular dynamics in time-lapse microscopy with ARCOS.px

Posted by , on 29 January 2026

In our latest JCS snapshot we hear from Maciej Dobrzyński, who, together with Benjamin Grädel and colleagues, developed ARCOS.px, a software tool to automatically identify and track coordinated dynamic cellular events in time-lapse microscopy movies.
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Microscopy preprints – applications in biology

Posted by , on 23 January 2026

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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Imaging spotlight: visualising synaptic vesicle fusion by cryo-ET

Posted by , on 21 January 2026

In this paper highlight from Jana Kroll and colleagues, we hear about their research combing optogenetic stimulation with plunge freezing and cryo-electron tomography to study synaptic vesicle fusion.
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Recent events by FocalPlane

Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium 2026 (CBIAS 2026)

Abstract submission deadline: 31st August 2026

Location: London, United Kingdom

Date: 23 November 2026 — 24 November 2026

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Materials Science and Engineering congress - Microscopy Characterization of Soft-Hard Interfaces symposium

Abstract submission deadline: 31st January 2026

Location: Darmstadt, Germany

Date: 29 September 2026 — 1 October 2026

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Microscopy Characterization of Soft-Hard Interfaces

Abstract submission deadline: 31st January 2026

Early registration deadline: 1st June 2026

Location: Darmstadt, Germany

Date: 29 September 2026 — 1 October 2026

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