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Cell biology jobs and events on FocalPlane

Posted by , on 4 December 2024

Did you know that, in addition to our popular microscopy jobs and events pages, you can now post cell biology jobs and events on FocalPlane?
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Democratising Microscopy in Latin America: Imaging Across Scales and Regions

Posted by , on 25 November 2024

In 2025, The Company of Biologists will host a Workshop on Democratising Microscopy in Latin America in Baños de Agua Santa, Ecuador. The Workshop organisers,  Constadina Arvanitis, Mario Del Rosario, Helena De la Torre, Mariana De Niz, Maria Fernanda Latorre Barragán and Licyel Lenny Paulas Condori, have put together a fantastic programme for the event
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Featured image with Md Hashim Reza

Posted by , on 22 November 2024

Our featured image, prepared by Md Hashim Reza, is an Andy Warhol-inspired illustration of a Candida albicans cell, post-expansion and labelled with BodipyTR, highlighting features of internal membrane organisation.
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Microscopy preprints - applications in biology

Posted by , on 15 November 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... Imaging Cell Architecture and Dynamics with Journal of Cell Science

Posted by , on 15 November 2024

Our latest FocalPlane features… webinar was a celebration of the research in Journal of Cell Science’s Special Issue: Imaging Cell Architecture and Dynamics. Our Guest Editors Lucy Collinson and Guillaume Jacquemet hosted the webinar with talks from Md Hashim Reza, Melanie Rug and Vikas Tillu.
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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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