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Featured image with Peggy Paschke

Posted by FocalPlane, on 29 September 2023

Our featured image is called Dictyostelium Trees on Fire and was acquired by Peggy Paschke. The image shows Dictyostelium discoideum cells stably expressing the cAMP sensor Flamindo2. Cells were imaged as 5×5 tile scan for 5 hours with a Nikon AXR (488 nm excitation) using a 4x air objective. Shown is a cropped part of

Head, Advanced Light Microscopy Innovation Lab (ALMIL) at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Posted by FocalPlane, on 29 September 2023

The Sloan Kettering Institute (SKI) of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) is seeking an accomplished, motivated, and innovative individual to head an Advanced Light Microscopy Innovation Lab (ALMIL). The ALMIL is envisioned as a platform for cutting-edge light microscopic image data acquisition and analysis, serving the broader Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) community.

How to… Publish Images blog series

Posted by FocalPlane, on 27 September 2023

by Helena Jambor In biology, images document appearances or structures of animals, issues, or cells, and increasingly are a source of quantitative insights of biological processes. Many papers are published every single day with images (Lee, 2018).Not all of these images are truthful or insightful. Some images are manipulated to mislead audiences (Bik et al.,

Trustee Directors - The Company of Biologists

Posted by FocalPlane, on 26 September 2023

The Company of Biologists is a not-for-profit publishing organisation dedicated to supporting and inspiring the biological community through scientific journals, meetings and grants. The Company publishes five specialist peer-reviewed journals: Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology, Disease Models & Mechanisms and Biology Open. We are looking to appoint new Trustee Directors to