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Vote for the cover - #JCSImagingSI

Posted by , on 25 September 2024

Thanks to everyone who entered our image competition to select the cover for the Journal of Cell Science Special Issue: Imaging Cell Architecture and Dynamics. With so many fantastic images to choose from our Executive Editor Seema Grewal, and Guest Editors Lucy Collinson (The Francis Crick Institute, UK) and Guillaume Jacquemet (University of Turku, Finland)
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FocalPlane features... reproducibility in imaging

Posted by , on 23 September 2024

Our next FocalPlane features… webinar is on reproducibility with talks from Helena Jambor and Kota Miura. Helena's talk will cover the community checklists for publishing images, which were developed by QUAREP-LiMi and published at the end of 2023, as she tells us 'How not to lie with image data'. Kota's talk will focus on bioimage analysis and
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FocalPlane features... data management

Posted by , on 23 September 2024

The fourth webinar in the latest series of FocalPlane features… was on data management. Caterina Strambio De Castillia introduced us to the topic of research data management, while Tom discussed how to use OMERO from the perspective of a group leader, a microscopist and an image analyst. We wrapped up the webinar with a short
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Microscopy preprints – new tools and techniques in imaging

Posted by , on 20 September 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 Ciarán Butler Hallissey

Posted by , on 13 September 2024

Our featured image, acquired by Ciarán Butler Hallissey, is a maximum-intensity projection of rat hippocampal neurons processed with ultrastructure expansion microscopy (U-ExM) and captured with a spinning disk confocal microscope. Find out more about the image and Ciarán’s research below. More about the image: Expansion microscopy physically increases the size of your sample to improve
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Recent events by FocalPlane

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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Microscopy: multi-dimensional imaging and analysis

Location: London, UK

Date: 14 September 2026 — 18 September 2026

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