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Call for I2K 2026 Workshops & Submissions

Posted by BioImaging North America, on 16 April 2026

On behalf of the I2KxBINA 2026 organizing committee, we are excited to invite submissions for workshops, talks, and posters for the I2K portion of I2KxBINA 2026, taking place September 27 to October 2, 2026, in Madison, WI. I2KxBINA 2026 brings together imaging scientists, developers, researchers, and trainees working at the intersection of biological imaging and computational image

BioImaging North America- Builder's Workshop Series- Today- April 16

Posted by BioImaging North America, on 16 April 2026

Join BINA today for “Industry Involvement in Open-Hardware” featuring speakers from customScopes, ASI, Pacific Optica & Cephla.

Call for images: FocalPlane-ELMI2026 image competition

Posted by FocalPlane, on 16 April 2026

We are delighted to be collaborating the European Light Microscopy Initiative (ELMI) on our FocalPlane-EMLI2026 image competition. Enter your favourite microscopy images for your chance to win £200 and see your image on the cover of Journal of Cell Science.

Imaging spotlight: Calibrating expansion microscopy to map receptor sorting domains in endosomes

Posted by FocalPlane, on 15 April 2026

In this behind the paper story, Tayla Shakespeare and Izzy Jayasinghe share their research mapping receptor sorting domains in endosomes using expansion microscopy (ExM). As part of this research, they developed a calibrated 3D ExM toolkit to measure local expansion.

Registration is open for the Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium 2026

Posted by Stefania Marcotti, on 10 April 2026

We are pleased to announce that registration for the seventh edition of the Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium (CBIAS 2026) is now open! The symposium will take place at the Francis Crick Institute in London (UK) on November 23rd-24th, 2026.

Featured image with Emily Oren

Posted by FocalPlane, on 10 April 2026

Our featured image, acquired by Emily Oren, shows the surface stiffness of an Arabidopsis thaliana hypocotyl. It was acquired using a Bruker Biowizard 5 Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) and is of plasmolysed epidermal cells on a live seedling.

[FRANCE-BIOIMAGING] Join the SFBS 2026 workshop & symposium!

Posted by Marine Beraud, on 9 April 2026

Registrations are now open for the Sino-French BioImaging Symposium 2026 (SFBS 2026), which will take place in Bordeaux (France) from October 14 to 21, 2026. This event is organized within the framework of the International Research Network (IRN) BioImage between France and China, aiming to strengthen scientific exchanges between the French and Chinese bioimaging communities

Microscopy preprints – new tools and techniques in imaging

Posted by FocalPlane, on 3 April 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!

The NFDI4BIOIMAGE Research Data Management Community Survey 2026

Posted by Lisa Schaefer, on 2 April 2026

German BioImaging, within its work in the NFDI4BIOIMAGE consortium, and in collaboration with Euro-BioImaging ERIC, has launched the NFDI4BIOIMAGE Research Data Management Community Survey 2026. The survey aims to better understand how bioimaging data are generated, processed, managed, and shared across the life sciences community.

Imaging spotlight: Minimally invasive live tissue clearing with SeeDB-Live

Posted by Takeshi Imai, on 1 April 2026

In this paper highlight from Shigenori Inagaki and Takeshi Imai, we learn about SeeDB-Live, a methodology for applying tissue clearing to live-cell imaging.

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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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