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Federal Super-Resolution Network in Argentina

Posted by Lucía Lopez, on 4 December 2025

About twenty years ago, a series of methods known today as super-resolution microscopy were discovered. Since then, super-resolution microscopy has become a powerful tool for discovery in cell biology, biomedicine, and biophysics. However, the complexity of some methods, high costs, and demanding sample preparation protocols have hindered their widespread application. In Argentina, the group led

GloBIAS – The Global BioImage Analysts’ Society

Posted by Christa Walther, on 20 November 2025

Over the past two years, GloBIAS has evolved from a visionary concept into a thriving and steadily growing international network.

Image Analysis course with Fiji/ImageJ

Posted by Lior Pytowski, on 8 October 2025

We would like to invite you to an online course introducing you to the basics of image analysis, including automatic segmentation, colocalisation, denoising, 3D, etc. We scheduled two new sessions: November 2025 session: more details and sign up here.(Nov 10th to Nov 14th 2025, in the mornings) December 2025 session: more details and sign up

Africa Microscopy Initiative redistributes research-grade light microscopes to four African institutions

Posted by Africa Microscopy Initiative, on 7 October 2025

Four research institutions in Senegal, Nigeria, Cameroon, and Ethiopia have been selected to each receive a microscope for advancing scientific research in Africa.

There and Back Again – An MBL Story

Posted by Falk Schneider, on 14 September 2025

In May 2025, I had the pleasure of returning to the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, to teach in the PAIR-UP Microscopy course. It was a truly special experience as I not only got to meet and mentor many bright and curious young scientists, but it also marked a return to a

Bridging AI and Super-Resolution Microscopy: Highlights from the AI4Life Workshop & Hackathon at SMLMS 2024

Posted by Estibaliz Gómez-de-Mariscal, on 22 July 2025

In the days leading up to the Single Molecule Localization Microscopy Symposium (SMLMS) 2024, AI4Life hosted the Pre-symposium AI4Life Workshop & Hackathon: Trends in AI for Super-Resolution Microscopy at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC) (now Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine (GIMM)) in Portugal. The event brought together an interdisciplinary group of leading and early-career researchers

Exploring the Microcosmos through Foldscope-Frugal Science Microscopy in Focus

Posted by Aarushi Verma, on 18 July 2025

The third annual iteration of the Lodha Genius Programme at Ashoka University, Sonepat, featured a month-long workshop series for students of grades 9 and 10, introducing them to the intricate diversity of the microscopic world through the use of a frugal science innovation—the Foldscope. Much like the initiative described in this article on IndiaBioscience, this

Event carbon calculator

Posted by Teodora Andreea Rînciog, on 30 June 2025

I am excited to announce the release of our event carbon calculator, our latest resource to support the creation of sustainable events. Estimate your event’s carbon footprint in five minute or less. Our event carbon calculator provides insights into the main drivers of your meeting’s greenhouse gas emissions, offers reduction scenarios to test and provides

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.

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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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