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Featured image with Jyoti Maddhesiya

Posted by , on 8 November 2024

Our featured image, acquired by Jyoti Maddhesiya, is a laser scanning confocal image of H9c2 cardiomyoblast cells. The green shows BMP7 in the cytoplasm, the blue highlights the nuclei and the cytoskeleton protein F-actin is labelled in red. The cells were transfected with a BMP7 construct and fixed and labelled 48 hours post transfection. The
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Microscopy preprints - new tools and techniques in imaging

Posted by , on 1 November 2024

Here is a curated selection of preprints posted recently on new tools and techniques in imaging. Let us know if we are missing any recent preprints that are on your reading list!
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Featured image with… our JCS cover competition winner Antara Chakraborty

Posted by , on 30 October 2024

We are delighted to announce that our cover competition winner is Antara Chakraborty. Antara’s winning image ‘Breaking symmetry’ is the cover image for Journal of Cell Science’s Special Issue: Imaging Cell Architecture and Dynamics; you can explore the table of contents here. The image shows a mouse embryonic fibroblast labelled with phalloidin (actin – green),
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Microscopy preprints - bioimage analysis

Posted by , on 18 October 2024

Here is a curated selection of preprints published recently. In this post, we focus specifically on bioimage analysis and data management.
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FocalPlane features... Imaging Cell Architecture and Dynamics with Journal of Cell Science

Posted by , on 17 October 2024

Our November webinar is a celebration of Journal of Cell Science’s Special Issue: Imaging Cell Architecture and Dynamics. Our Guest Editors, Lucy Collinson and Guillaume Jacquemet, have invited the authors of three of the papers published in this issue to present their research. View the ‘Special Issue: Imaging Cell Architecture and Dynamics’ here. Thursday 14
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Recent events by FocalPlane

IMC21

Location: Liverpool, UK

Date: 30 August 2026 — 4 September 2026

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Microscopy of Oxidation 12

Abstract submission deadline: 30th September 2025

Location: ,

Date: 18 May 2026 — 20 May 2026

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Journal of Cell Science – Imaging Cell Dynamics

This meeting will provide a unique opportunity to bring together experts working at the interface between cell biology and imaging, with a focus on researchers who use advanced light and electron microscopy approaches, and novel image analysis tools.

Location: Montanyà Hotel, Catalonia, Spain

Date: 11 May 2026 — 14 May 2026

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