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FocalPlane features... webinar series returns this November

Posted by , on 2 November 2021

After a short break, we are excited to announce that our webinar series FocalPlane features… returns this November with a new format. Every month, FocalPlane features… will focus on a specific microscopy topic. Each seminar will host three speakers: an invited speaker who is a specialist on the topic and who will give an overview

preLights – FocalPlane social writing event

Posted by , on 27 October 2021

On Thursday 30 September we hosted our first social writing event in collaboration with our sister site preLights. preLights is the preprint highlighting service run by the biological community and supported by The Company of Biologists. Their dedicated team of scientists (the ‘preLighters’) select, highlight and comment on preprints they feel are of particular interest

PUMA Open Source Multimodality 3D Printed Microscope

Posted by , on 26 October 2021

PUMA is an advanced direct vision 3D printed multimodality microscopy system with fluorescence ,phase contrast, Köhler illumination and augmented reality functions - and more.

Microscopy Open Access collection

Posted by , on 25 October 2021

This week is International Open Access Week 2021 (25-31 October). To celebrate it, we have created a collection of Open Access articles on microscopy from the five journals of The Company of Biologists: Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology, Disease Models & Mechanisms and Biology Open. We hope you enjoy our microscopy

Meet the speakers: Hard X-ray Imaging of Biological Soft Tissues symposium (part 2)

Posted by , on 6 October 2021

The Francis Crick Institute is hosting the 2nd edition of ‘Hard X-ray Imaging of Biological Soft Tissues symposium’ on Thursday 14 October 2021, 12:00-18:35 BST. Here is the second post introducing some of the speakers participating in this symposium. You can read about the rest of speakers in our previous post. We hope you find

Meet the speakers: Hard X-ray Imaging of Biological Soft Tissues symposium

Posted by , on 29 September 2021

The Francis Crick Institute is hosting the 2nd edition of ‘Hard X-ray Imaging of Biological Soft Tissues symposium’ on Thursday 14 October 2021, 12:00-18:35 BST. In a series of posts on FocalPlane, we will introduce the speakers participating in this symposium. We hope you find some or all of these talks interesting and you join

Interim Director of Microscopy, University of Richmond (Virginia, USA)

Posted by , on 31 August 2021

The Department of Biology at the University of Richmond invites applications for a full-time position as Interim Director of Microscopy and Imaging to begin in January of 2022. This is a 12-month term appointment, annually renewable for up to three years. The University is committed to supporting the essential role of microscopy and imaging across

Hard X-ray Imaging of Biological Soft Tissues symposium

Posted by , on 20 August 2021

The Francis Crick Institute is hosting the 2nd edition of ‘Hard X-ray Imaging of Biological Soft Tissues symposium’ on Thursday 14 October 2021, 12:00-18:35 BST. This is a half day virtual meeting organised by Carles Bosch, Lucy Collinson, Elizabeth Duke, and Andreas Schaefer. Leading scientists in the field will highlight the questions currently being addressed

FocalPlane features... Michael Dustin

Posted by , on 10 August 2021

In case you missed ‘FocalPlane features…’ this month, here is the recording of the webinar given by Michael Dustin on Tuesday 3 August 2021. Follicular Helper T cells, Cytotoxic T cells (CTL) and Natural Killer (NK) cells are effectors of the immune system that play important roles in defense against viral infection and cancer.   In

FocalPlane features... Eva Nogales

Posted by , on 21 July 2021

In case you missed ‘FocalPlane features…’ this month, here is the recording of the webinar given by Eva Nogales on Tuesday 6 July 2021. As non-crystallizable polymers, microtubules have been the target of cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) studies since the technique was first established. Over the years, image processing strategies have been developed that take care