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Featured image with Lea Berg

Posted by , on 4 July 2025

Our featured image, acquired by Lea Berg and Michael Rassig, shows mature epidermal cell types in a grass leaf of the emerging developmental model system Brachypodium distachyon. Cell outlines are blue, which is plant cell wall UV-autofluorescence. In yellow is stained lignin, a secondary cell wall modification that can be found in the hair cells (shark-tooth-shaped)
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Event carbon calculator

Posted by , on 30 June 2025

I am excited to announce the release of our event carbon calculator, our latest resource to support the creation of sustainable events. Estimate your event’s carbon footprint in five minute or less. Our event carbon calculator provides insights into the main drivers of your meeting’s greenhouse gas emissions, offers reduction scenarios to test and provides
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New strategic funding award for the UK Euro-BioImaging Node

Posted by , on 30 June 2025

Exciting news to share with you all! The UK Euro-BioImaging Node has been awarded £1.8 million in strategic funding from UKRI-BBSRC and UKRI-MRC over five years. This transformative investment will significantly expand access to cutting-edge imaging technologies for UK researchers. What this funding will deliver: This builds on our strong foundation: 14 facilities across 7
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Microscopy preprints - applications in biology

Posted by , on 27 June 2025

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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Featured image with Seth Agyei Domfeh

Posted by , on 20 June 2025

Our featured image, acquired by Seth Agyei Domfeh, shows the nuclear localisation of interferon regulatory factor 9 (IRF9) in human hepatoma (HepG2) cells stimulated with interferon α (IFN-α). HepG2 cells were cultured on a poly-D-lysine-coated coverslip for 24 hours and stimulated with 1000 IU/ml IFN-α. At 24 hours post-stimulation, the cells were fixed using 4%
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Microscopy preprints – new tools and techniques in imaging

Posted by , on 13 June 2025

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! IntAct-U-ExM: Ultrastructure Expansion microscopy of actin networks via an internally-tagged actinAnubhav Dhar, Nishaant Kumar Palani Balaji, Sanjana Mullick, Sucheta Dey, Angana Ghosh, Deepak
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How to organise events more sustainably (webinar)

Posted by , on 10 June 2025

We are pleased to support The Pavilion for People, running alongside the 2025 UN Ocean Conference. Explore the space to learn more and share your thoughts on saving our oceans. As part of The Pavilion for People, we will host a webinar on Thursday 12 June at 11am (BST) on ‘How to organise events more
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MITOtalks and FocalPlane features... webinar - 3 July

Posted by , on 9 June 2025

We are delighting to announce that we are collaborating with MITOtalks on our upcoming webinar celebrating Journal of Cell Science’s Special Issue: Cell Biology of Mitochondria. MITOtalks organisers Nuno Raimundo and Sjoerd Wanrooij have invited the authors of three of the papers published in this issue to present their research. Thursday 3 July, 17:00 CEST,
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Featured image with Rosa L. Salgado García

Posted by , on 6 June 2025

Our featured image, acquired by Rosa L. Salgado García, shows a histological section of female (above) and male (below) gonads at an advanced maturation stage of the simultaneous hermaphroditic scallop Nodipecten subnodosus. The image of the gonadic tissue was obtained using a microscope (Leica DM4B) connected to a digital camera (Leica, DMC2900) using LAS V
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The Company of Biologists Workshop - Macro to Micro: Quantitative Plant Imaging Across Scales

Posted by , on 5 June 2025

Applications are open for funded places for early-career researchers (ECRs) to attend our Workshop on imaging across different spatial levels in plants. 10 ECRs will be selected to participate in the Workshop alongside the invited speakers.
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