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Posted by FocalPlane, on 9 November 2026

We invite you to complete our survey to help us shape the next few years for FocalPlane and make the site even more useful for our community.

Featured image with Giorgia Del Cioppo

Posted by FocalPlane, on 6 November 2026

Our featured image, acquired by Giorgia Del Cioppo, shows a tomato plant (Solanum lycopersicum) subjected to drought stress, captured from a top-down perspective using pulse-amplitude-modulated (PAM) chlorophyll fluorescence imaging.

FocalPlane features... Imaging Cell Architecture and Dynamics with Journal of Cell Science

Posted by FocalPlane, on 4 November 2026

Our next FocalPlane features... webinar is a celebration of Journal of Cell Science's Special Issue: Imaging Cell Architecture and Dynamics. Our Guest Editors Francesca Bottanelli and Giulia Zanetti and our academic Editor Guillaume Jacquemet have invited the authors of three of the papers published in this issue to present their research.

Microscopy preprints – new tools and techniques in imaging

Posted by FocalPlane, on 30 October 2026

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

FBI Connect webinar is back!

Posted by Marine Beraud, on 29 October 2026

The new edition of FBI Connect, the France-BioImaging’s webinar series dedicated to imaging-related developments and innovative approaches within the FBI community, will take place on Thursday, November 5, 2026, from 11:00 to 12:00. This session will focus on a new generation of fluorescent probes, with Ludovic Jullien, researcher at the ENS-PSL Chemistry Department. Ludovic Jullien

Imaging spotlight: the role of intestinal muscles in remodelling the intestine

Posted by FocalPlane, on 28 October 2026

In this Imaging spotlight, Alessandro Mineo and Irene Miguel-Aliaga highlight the key findings from their research looking at the role of intestinal muscles in remodelling the intestine. They talk about developing the protocols and pipelines that allowed them to image and segment whole intestines. In the future, they’d like to be able to combine whole-organ

Behind the paper: How tensin 1 condensates regulate cell adhesion dynamics

Posted by FocalPlane, on 27 October 2026

Behind the paper story from Michal Dibus on how tensin 1 condensates regulate cell adhesion dynamics.

FocalPlane features... Marcel Dickmanns and Laura Copeland - recordings

Posted by FocalPlane, on 26 October 2026

In October, we heard from Marcel Dickmanns on ‘Exploring the Molecular Landscape within Plant Cells by Cryo-Electron Tomography’ and Laura Copeland on ‘Multimodal Quantitative Fourier Ptychographic Microscopy and Fluorescence Imaging Reveals Stable Bacterial Colonisation Architecture Under Phosphate Limitation’. You can find the recordings of the talks here.

2026 CCP-volumeEM Community Meeting

Posted by Helen Spiers, on 26 October 2026

You are invited to join us on Wednesday, 18 November at the National Railway Museum in York, as we bring together the volume electron microscopy community to reflect on recent progress, explore emerging challenges and help shape future priorities for CCP-volumeEM.

JCS snapshot - Dissecting assembly mechanisms of the novel ECM protein SNED1

Posted by FocalPlane, on 26 October 2026

In our latest JCS snapshot we hear from Alexandra Naba who, in two companion papers together with Leanna Leverton, Dharma Pally and team, characterised the understudied ECM protein SNED1 and dissected its role in ECM construction and remodelling. In this video, Alexandra takes us through the key findings from their research.

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Microscopy-related articles from our journals

Toggle-Untoggle – a cell segmentation tool with an interactive user verification interface J Cell Sci 2025 138: jcs264154
The ratio of Wnt signaling activity to Sox2 transcription factor levels predicts neuromesodermal fate potential Development 2025 152: dev204661
The short isoform of Tango1 is dispensable for zebrafish survival but is required for skeletal patterning and integrity Biology Open 2025 14: bio062117

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