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Posts from the FocalPlane team

MITOtalks and FocalPlane features.... recording

Posted by FocalPlane, on 14 July 2025

Our recent FocalPlane features… webinar was a collaboration with the popular MITOtalks series and showcased research published in Journal of Cell Science’s Special Issue: Cell Biology of Mitochondria. MITOtalks organisers Sjoerd Wanrooij and Nuno Raimundo hosted the webinar with talks from Yuli Buckley on ‘Fis1 regulates mitochondrial morphology, bioenergetics and removal of mitochondrial DNA damage

Featured image with Lea Berg

Posted by FocalPlane, on 4 July 2025

Our featured image, acquired by Lea Berg and Michael Rassig, shows mature epidermal cell types in a grass leaf of the emerging developmental model system Brachypodium distachyon. Cell outlines are blue, which is plant cell wall UV-autofluorescence. In yellow is stained lignin, a secondary cell wall modification that can be found in the hair cells (shark-tooth-shaped)

Featured image with Seth Agyei Domfeh

Posted by FocalPlane, on 20 June 2025

Our featured image, acquired by Seth Agyei Domfeh, shows the nuclear localisation of interferon regulatory factor 9 (IRF9) in human hepatoma (HepG2) cells stimulated with interferon α (IFN-α). HepG2 cells were cultured on a poly-D-lysine-coated coverslip for 24 hours and stimulated with 1000 IU/ml IFN-α. At 24 hours post-stimulation, the cells were fixed using 4%