Posts from the FocalPlane team
Microscopy background: Optical System Development, Image Analysis, Probe Development
Posted by FocalPlane, 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),Posted by FocalPlane, 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.Posted by FocalPlane, 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 14Posted by FocalPlane, on 11 October 2024
Our featured image, acquired by David Gaboriau, shows human fibroblasts with mitochondria (Tom20) in yellow, alpha tubulin in pink and actin in grey. It’s a 3D-SIM image taken on a Zeiss Elyra PS.1, reconstructed in Zen and presented as a maximum intensity projection. Find out more about David’s research below: Research career so far: I’m originally aPosted by FocalPlane, on 4 October 2024
Here is a curated selection of preprints published recently. In this post, we share preprints that use microscopy tools to answer questions in biology.Location: Berlin, Germany
Date: 20 November 2025 — 21 November 2025
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
Date: 15 November 2025 — 19 November 2025
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date: 9 November 2025 — 12 November 2025