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FocalPlane image competition - vote for your favourite

Posted by FocalPlane, on 4 July 2023

Thanks to everyone who entered our 2023 image competition, we were delighted to receive so many wonderful entries. We have shortlisted 10 images for our public vote. You can vote using the poll at the bottom of this page and the image with the most votes will be featured on the cover of Journal of

Microscopy preprints – applications in cell and developmental biology

Posted by FocalPlane, on 30 June 2023

Here is a curated selection of preprints published recently. In this post, we share preprints that use microscopy tools in cell biology and developmental biology.

Community collective: essential optimisation

Posted by FocalPlane, on 29 June 2023

Microscopy images have the ability to wow us, and the data we can extract from them can help answer our research questions, as well as leading us to pose new ones. Advances in sample preparation and microscopy technology means we have never been in a better position to use imaging in biology but is it

Microscopy preprints – new tools and techniques in imaging

Posted by FocalPlane, on 16 June 2023

Here is a curated selection of preprints posted recently on new tools and techniques in imaging. Let us know if we are missing any preprints that are on your reading list.

#celldyn2023: holotomography with Tomocube Inc

Posted by FocalPlane, on 15 June 2023

Our recent Journal of Cell Science ‘Imaging Cell Dynamics’ meeting took place at Pestana Palace Hotel in Lisbon. In this post, we share the talk from Sumin Lee, Chief Scientist at Tomocube Inc, on their holotomography technology.

Community collective: viewing z-stacks in 3D

Posted by FocalPlane, on 14 June 2023

Have you ever sat at your computer and wondered if you have the best representation of your imaging data? Would another software give you better (or different) results? Joy Franco (@engineering_joy) asked the science community on Twitter for their software recommendations for viewing confocal Z-stacks in 3D. Joy’s top request was being able to finely

Top 5 Tips For The Shift From Academia To Industry

Posted by Elisabeth Kugler, on 12 June 2023

Moving away from academia and into industry is often a major step, which is equally exciting and challenging. As someone who has successfully made the transition from a postdoc at UCL to the business director at Zeeks – Art for Geeks, I understand the hurdles, opportunities, and anxieties that come with this change in trajectory.

#celldyn2023: Andor 'SRRF-Stream'

Posted by FocalPlane, on 7 June 2023

Our recent Journal of Cell Science ‘Imaging Cell Dynamics’ meeting took place at Pestana Palace Hotel in Lisbon. In this post, we share the talk from Bruno Combettes, Microscopy Specialist at Andor, on their real time SRRF (SRRF-Stream) technology.

Microscopy preprints – bioimage analysis tools

Posted by FocalPlane, on 6 June 2023

Here is a curated selection of preprints published recently. In this post, we focus specifically on preprints on bioimage analysis.

#celldyn2023: the benefits of using VT-iSIM

Posted by FocalPlane, on 30 May 2023

Our recent Journal of Cell Science ‘Imaging Cell Dynamics’ meeting took place at Pestana Palace Hotel in Lisbon. The meeting featured excellent talks describing a range of different microscopy techniques and their application to a plethora of questions in cell biology. You can check out our preList from the meeting on preLights. The meeting also

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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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