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Frontiers in Bioimaging 2024 (Oxford, UK)

Posted by , on 12 September 2024

  Frontiers in BioImaging is coming up soon! This year’s meeting will be held in Oxford on November 11th and 12th. We have a great line up of speakers covering Spatial Omics, Tissue Mechanics, Clinical Imaging, Image Analysis, and Expansion Microscopy (listed below). We will also have a special session with Mark Leake, chair of
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SAFE Labs Survey

Posted by , on 11 September 2024

We need your help to optimise the SAFE Labs Handbook before it is disseminated throughout the academic community. Please complete our this survey to help optimize this tool for the academic community. This handbook is an outcome of the 2024 SAFE Labs workshop, where new bioscience group leaders from across Europe discussed Starting Aware, Fair,
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Microscopy preprints – bioimage analysis

Posted by , on 6 September 2024

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

Posted by , on 2 September 2024

MicroList’s database of resources are now available on FocalPlane. The resources, which have been created by the global imaging community, are presented as cards that are divided into community resources, education resources and tools. The database is fully searchable using our search bar or can be filtered using a variety of categories.
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Featured image with Shivangi Verma

Posted by , on 30 August 2024

Our featured image, acquired by Shivangi Verma, gives us a peek into the brain of a zebrafish. It depicts neurons in the whole brain of a larva expressing GCaMP6f, a fluorescent reporter of neuronal activity, using a pan-neuronal promoter. A 10-day old transparent homozygous albino larva was embedded in agarose and imaged using ZEISS Lightsheet
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Microscopy preprints – applications in biology

Posted by , on 23 August 2024

Here is a curated selection of preprints published recently. In this post, we share preprints that use microscopy tools to answer questions in biology.
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FocalPlane features... data management

Posted by , on 22 August 2024

Our next FocalPlane features… webinar is on data management with talks from Tom Boissonnet and Caterina Strambio De Castillia. As part of this webinar, we’ll also hear about foundingGIDE, and the upcoming community event, from Maria Mirza.
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Featured image with Marina Schernthanner

Posted by , on 16 August 2024

Our featured image, acquired by Marina Schernthanner, shows the hair follicles of a young (postnatal day 9) C57B6 mouse’s back skin. By using ethanol-based tissue clearing, Mariana stained fixed whole-mount tissue samples of the murine skin after removing the surface haircoat and subcutaneous fat layer. LYVE-1 (orange) marks the lymphatic vasculature, Keratin-14 (red) highlights the
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New Intern for FocalPlane

Posted by , on 14 August 2024

Hi everyone! My name is Ryan Harrison and I’m an intern who will be working on the community sites at The Company of Biologists, including FocalPlane, for the next three months.
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Merfish-ing across the Pacific: from New Zealand to California, USA

Posted by , on 12 August 2024

I am an early career postdoc at the University of Auckland (UoA), New Zealand. My research interest is in neurodegeneration and molecular biology, with a focus on RNA biology and omics. My current work is dedicated to people who live with a devasting neurological disorder known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). This disease is usually
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