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How I got into the Flamingo project, a new way of sharing custom-built light sheet microscopes

Posted by Michael Weber, on 12 October 2020

Sharing microscopy technology is crucial for biomedical research. This is the story how I joined Jan Huisken and his team to give other scientists quick access to custom-built light sheet microscopes.

FocalPlane image competition voting is open!

Posted by FocalPlane, on 5 October 2020

After 3 weeks of submissions we are happy to announce that the submissions gallery is now up and running for 1 week (until 12 October, 5pm UK time)! We have 83 fantastic entries from 45 different people who have used a range of different microscopy techniques to acquire their beautiful images. To see our competition

FocalPlane Community Manager

Posted by Sharon Ahmad, on 28 September 2020

Based in Cambridge, UK Journal of Cell Science and its publisher The Company of Biologists are seeking to appoint a new Community Manager to run our newly launched microscopy community website, FocalPlane. This is initially offered as a two-year fixed term contract with the expectation that as the project develops the role would become permanent in

FocalPlane image competition

Posted by FocalPlane, on 9 September 2020

For our first FocalPlane image competition we are delighted to invite our community (you!) to submit your favourite images that you have acquired using a microscope of any modality. The images you submit (up to 3 images per applicant) will be featured on FocalPlane and will be voted on by the community. The image with

A new bioimaging technical talk series - your opinions please!

Posted by Georgina Fletcher, on 18 August 2020

The RMS and BioImagingUK would like to organise a new series of short talks on the practical side of bioimaging techniques. One of the few upsides of the pandemic has been the availability of excellent talks online, however few have focused on the hands on work of running imaging experiments. Therefore we think this series

Take this quick X-Ray Microscopy Usage Survey!

Posted by Georgina Fletcher, on 17 July 2020

Take part in online poll to gauge use of technique and identify opportunities to expand its application The use of X-ray microscopy techniques is well established in many scientific and engineering disciplines but not all have “seen the light”. The X-ray Microscopy Focussed Interest Group (X-ray FIG) of the Royal Microscopical Society (RMS) would like

Origin story: FocalPlane

Posted by Sharon Ahmad, on 1 July 2020

On a sunny, summer’s day in July 2018, The Company of Biologists was hosting its annual lunch before a meeting with the Board of Directors and Editors-in-Chief. It’s a very friendly affair, and a great opportunity for the in-house staff to mingle with the Board and Editors – people they don’t see on a day-to-day

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Microscopy-related articles from our journals

HCR spectral imaging: 10-plex, quantitative, high-resolution RNA and protein imaging in highly autofluorescent samples Development 2024 151: dev202307
filoVision – using deep learning and tip markers to automate filopodia analysis J Cell Sci 2024 137: jcs261274
C omputational tools for quantifying actin filament numbers, lengths, and bundling Biology Open 2024 13: bio.060267

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