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New Cross-Title Reviews Editor

Posted by , on 15 November 2024

Hi everyone! My name is Katie Pickup and I’ve just joined The Company of Biologists as a new Reviews Editor. I will be working with FocalPlane and Journal of Cell Science, but my role also involves working across the Company’s other journals: Disease Models & Mechanisms, Development and Journal of Experimental Biology. I’m really looking
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Bridging Imaging Users to Imaging Analysis - 2024

Posted by , on 13 November 2024

The Center for Open Bioimage Analysis (COBA), BioImaging North America (BINA), the Royal Microscopical Society (RMS), and Global BioImage Analysts (GloBIAS) are conducting a biennial survey to understand the needs of the imaging community and shape future tools and resources for image analysis. What is image analysis? If you’ve made quantitative measurements on your microscopy
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International Microscopy Facility Survey

Posted by , on 9 November 2024

Some of you may have seen this already (thanks if you have already filled this in). I have been running an International Microscopy Facility Survey over the last few months. It is based on the excellent BioImaging UK survey that was published a few years ago, but with an extended focus to include Optical Microscopy,
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FocalPlane features... reproducibility in imaging - recordings

Posted by , on 8 November 2024

For the October edition of FocalPlane features…, we hosted a webinar on reproducibility in imaging with talks from Helena Jambor and Kota Miura. Helena told us, ‘How not to lie with image data’ and focussed on data presentation. Helena also touched on the importance of accessibility when presenting data and much of the discussion following
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Featured image with Jyoti Maddhesiya

Posted by , on 8 November 2024

Our featured image, acquired by Jyoti Maddhesiya, is a laser scanning confocal image of H9c2 cardiomyoblast cells. The green shows BMP7 in the cytoplasm, the blue highlights the nuclei and the cytoskeleton protein F-actin is labelled in red. The cells were transfected with a BMP7 construct and fixed and labelled 48 hours post transfection. The
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Journal of Cell Science Special Issue: Imaging Cell Architecture and Dynamics

Posted by , on 5 November 2024

Journal of Cell Science’s Special Issue on Imaging Cell Architecture and Dynamics is now complete. The original research in this Issue, guest edited by Lucy Collinson and Guillaume Jacquemet, covers a diverse range of imaging methodologies including CLEM, super-resolution imaging, volume EM, high-throughput imaging, FRET, expansion microscopy, mesoscopy and immuno-SEM, as well as showcasing new
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ComeInCell: a new doctoral training network for synthetic cell science

Posted by , on 4 November 2024

We are delighted to announce that Journal of Cell Science has recently partnered with ComeInCell, a new European doctoral training network for integrative synthetic cell design.
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Microscopy preprints - new tools and techniques in imaging

Posted by , on 1 November 2024

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!
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Featured image with… our JCS cover competition winner Antara Chakraborty

Posted by , on 30 October 2024

We are delighted to announce that our cover competition winner is Antara Chakraborty. Antara’s winning image ‘Breaking symmetry’ is the cover image for Journal of Cell Science’s Special Issue: Imaging Cell Architecture and Dynamics; you can explore the table of contents here. The image shows a mouse embryonic fibroblast labelled with phalloidin (actin – green),
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Teaching co-localisation analysis from lecture to leisure

Posted by , on 20 October 2024

The origin There was one thing I was always skeptical about: colocalization analysis. When I started out as a BioImage Analyst, it was one of the first things I had to help users with in the BIOP at EPFL. I started learning more about it (and still continue to do so), tried with my own
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