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Featured image with Amy Engevik

Posted by FocalPlane, on 14 February 2025

Our featured image, acquired by Amy Engevik, shows a differentiated intestinal organoid from a germline Myosin 5b knockout mouse.

Apply for The Company of Biologists Workshop on Democratising Microscopy in Latin America

Posted by FocalPlane, on 11 February 2025

The deadline for places at The Company of Biologists Workshop on Democratising Microscopy in Latin America in Baños de Agua Santa, Ecuador is coming up soon. The Workshop organisers, Constadina Arvanitis, Mario Del Rosario, Helena De la Torre, Mariana De Niz, Maria Fernanda Latorre Barragán and Licyel Lenny Paulas Condori, have put together a fantastic

Microscopy preprints - new tools and techniques in imaging

Posted by FocalPlane, on 7 February 2025

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

Enter the Node-FocalPlane image competition

Posted by FocalPlane, on 5 February 2025

To accompany the Biologists @ 100 conference, we are launching the Node–FocalPlane image competition. Enter your best biological research images for your chance to win £250.

Featured image with Ellen C. O'Shaughnessy

Posted by FocalPlane, on 31 January 2025

Our featured image shows the locations of exocytic hotspots in a developing cortical neuron.

Microscopy preprints - bioimage analysis

Posted by FocalPlane, on 24 January 2025

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

STED Microscopy User Group, February 13, 12pm EST

Posted by Ethan A. Perets, on 23 January 2025

The next installment of the BioImaging North America and Canada BioImaging STED user group will take place via Zoom on February 13 at 12 pm EST. Timothy H. Wong (University of British Columbia) will deliver the presentation, “Investigating Caveolin-1 Endocytosis in Response to Osmotic Shock Using STED Super-Resolution Microscopy”, followed by Q&A. We hope you will join us!

Euro-BioImaging Scientific Ambassador programme: now accepting applications!

Posted by Marianna Poli, on 16 January 2025

We are excited to announce that Euro-BioImaging is now accepting applications for its 2025-2026 Scientific Ambassador program. This program will raise awareness about the services and opportunities provided by Euro-BioImaging, by engaging with new user communities. Through their advocacy and engagement, Scientific Ambassadors help foster a greater understanding of Euro-BioImaging services, making imaging technologies more

Celebrating 100 years of The Company of Biologists

Posted by Alex Eve, on 14 January 2025

Happy New Year, everyone. 2025 is a big year for us at The Company of Biologists, marking 100 years since the Company was founded. We’re using this opportunity to reflect on what we do, how we got here and what lies ahead, alongside some special celebrations of this once-in-a-lifetime milestone. Here, I highlight four projects

France-BioImaging Challenge is back! Fuse My Cells

Posted by mberaud, on 13 January 2025

For a second running year, France-BioImaging organizes its data machine learning competition: we introduce you Fuse My Cells challenge! What is France-BioImaging? France-BioImaging is a french National Infrastructure in Biology and Health (INBS) laureate in 2011 of the national Program “Investissements d’Avenir” (PIA-ANR) in the field of biological imaging. FBI is at the crossroads between molecular and cell biology,

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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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