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MITOtalks and FocalPlane features... webinar - 3 July

Posted by FocalPlane, on 9 June 2025

We are delighting to announce that we are collaborating with MITOtalks on our upcoming webinar celebrating Journal of Cell Science’s Special Issue: Cell Biology of Mitochondria. MITOtalks organisers Nuno Raimundo and Sjoerd Wanrooij have invited the authors of three of the papers published in this issue to present their research. Thursday 3 July, 17:00 CEST,

The Company of Biologists Workshop - Macro to Micro: Quantitative Plant Imaging Across Scales

Posted by FocalPlane, on 5 June 2025

Applications are open for funded places for early-career researchers (ECRs) to attend our Workshop on imaging across different spatial levels in plants. 10 ECRs will be selected to participate in the Workshop alongside the invited speakers.

Workshop report: UC Berkeley’s Advanced Imaging Methods Workshop

Posted by Ben Cox, on 29 May 2025

I attended UC Berkeley’s Advanced Imaging Methods Workshop with goals of becoming more familiar with a) high resolution imaging methods and hardware I did not have access to at my home institution and b) image processing and analysis algorithms, especially those based on machine learning/AI. The workshop provided ample opportunity to fulfill both of these

Workshop report: France BioImaging - Advanced Training on Light-Sheet Microscopy

Posted by Clara Hayn, on 22 May 2025

From November 4th to 7th, 2024, I had the privilege to attend the Advanced Training on Light-Sheet Microscopy‘s Principles and Applications to Neuroscience and 3D Cell Culture at France BioImaging in Bordeaux. This comprehensive training, rich in both theoretical and practical knowledge, provided an exceptional platform for learning and engaging with experts in the field.

Workshop report: 18th LFD Workshop in Advanced Fluorescence Imaging and Dynamics

Posted by FocalPlane, on 15 May 2025

The Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics ran their annual Advanced Fluorescence Dynamics Workshop in October 2024. Three of the attendees, Teemly Contreras, Irene Carlon-Andres and Razeen Shaikh were supported by JCS-FocalPlane Training Grants. They shared their experiences at the workshop here: Teemly Contreras The Advanced Fluorescence Dynamics Workshop organized by Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics (LFD) at

Image Analysis course with Fiji/ImageJ

Posted by Lior Pytowski, on 9 April 2025

Online course introducing you to the basics of image analysis, including automatic segmentation, colocalisation, denoising, 3D, etc.

ScanR workshop report

Posted by Rebecca M. Jones, on 3 March 2025

In mid-August 2024, I had the fantastic opportunity of attending the ScanR workshop; held at the Institute of Biophysics in Brno, Czech Republic and organised by world-leading experts who have been using this technology for >10 years. Being renowned as the birthplace of the father of genetics, Gregor Johann Mendel, the location was also special,

How to make labs more sustainable

Posted by Teodora Andreea Rînciog, on 27 January 2025

Due to the high interest in learning more about making labs more environmentally- friendly, we decided to offer you an insight into what sustainable practices we can include in the lab. Therefore, we had invited Jeroen Dobbelaere to be a guest author for our newest series of blogs entitled “How to make labs more sustainable”.

Meeting report: Biomolecular Horizons 2024

Posted by Greg Redpath, on 6 January 2025

In September 2024 I attended the Biomolecular Horizons conference in Melbourne, Australia. This was a large conference with 9 concurrent sessions over 4 days. There was a lot of great biology presented from around the world, but in my meeting report I wanted to highlight something unique about the conference: the Indigenous Perspectives in Biomolecular

Image Analysis course with Fiji/ImageJ

Posted by Lior Pytowski, on 11 December 2024

Online course introducing you to the basics of image analysis, including automatic segmentation, colocalisation, denoising, 3D, etc.

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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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