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Featured image with Elkhan Yusifov and Martina Schättin

Posted by , on 10 March 2023

Our featured image, ‘Two eyes looking at an eye’, shows the developing neurons in the eye of a 7-day-old chick embryo. We caught up with Elkhan Yusifov and Martina Schättin to find out more about the image, their research and what they are excited about in microscopy.
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preLights’ 5th Birthday webinar: A career discussion with preLights alumni

Posted by , on 7 March 2023

Our sister community site preLights will host a career discussion webinar to celebrate its 5th birthday. It will feature talks given by preLights alumni who have taken a range of career paths.
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AI4Life First Open Call

Posted by , on 20 February 2023

The European project AI4Life aims at narrowing the gap between life scientists performing biological imaging and developers of AI-based methods to analyze microscopy image data.  This is the first of a series of annual open calls, meant to provide life scientists who have unmet image analysis needs with adequate deep learning enhanced workflows for their
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Latin American Women in Microscopy: special issue for the International Day of Women and Girls in Science

Posted by , on 11 February 2023

The FocalPlane blog of interviews to Latin American scientists who specialize in microscopy was “born” with various aims in mind. One of the main aims is to shed light into the people behind the microscope –scientists from Latin America – their life and career paths, their contributions to science, and their expectations and hopes for
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Announcing the FocalPlane correspondents

Posted by , on 6 February 2023

At the end of 2022 we invited budding science communicators from the microscopy community to apply to become FocalPlane correspondents. We were delighted to receive many fantastic applications and we are excited to announce that Mariana De Niz, Marta Forcella and Mai Rahmoon will be our FocalPlane correspondents for 2023. They will benefit from a
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New Community Manager for FocalPlane

Posted by , on 25 January 2023

Hi all, My name is Helen Zenner and I am delighted to introduce myself as the new Community Manager of FocalPlane. Microscopy, along with membrane trafficking, has been a strong theme throughout my scientific career, starting during my PhD with Dan Cutler at the LMCB in London. During this time, I was introduced to the
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Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium (CBIAS) 2022 - a review

Posted by , on 14 December 2022

Did you want to participate in the Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium (CBIAS) but missed it? Are you planning to join us next year for CBIAS2023 but unsure if it would be relevant for you? We’ve asked three of this year’s participants to tell us about their experience and collated their reports here! We’ll hear from
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Microscopya – A New Science Video Game Exploring the Beauty of the Molecular World

Posted by , on 8 July 2022

Beata Science Art is offering a fresh take on science communication by announcing the release of Microscopya on July 8, 2022
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EMBL Imaging Centre: Enabling imaging across scales

Posted by , on 17 June 2022

With its first symposium, the EMBL Imaging Centre introduced its services, aims, and missions to the scientific community, celebrated advancements in imaging, and provided a sneak-peek into the cutting-edge technologies and advanced training it will make accessible to researchers all over the world.
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