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Journal of Cell Science Special Issue: Imaging Cell Architecture and Dynamics

Posted by Helen Zenner, 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

ComeInCell: a new doctoral training network for synthetic cell science

Posted by Amelia Glazier, 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.

Microscopy preprints - new tools and techniques in imaging

Posted by FocalPlane, 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!

Featured image with… our JCS cover competition winner Antara Chakraborty

Posted by FocalPlane, 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),

Teaching co-localisation analysis from lecture to leisure

Posted by Romain Guiet, 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

Microscopy preprints - bioimage analysis

Posted by FocalPlane, on 18 October 2024

Here is a curated selection of preprints published recently. In this post, we focus specifically on bioimage analysis and data management.

FocalPlane features... Imaging Cell Architecture and Dynamics with Journal of Cell Science

Posted by FocalPlane, on 17 October 2024

Our November webinar is a celebration of Journal of Cell Science’s Special Issue: Imaging Cell Architecture and Dynamics. Our Guest Editors, Lucy Collinson and Guillaume Jacquemet, have invited the authors of three of the papers published in this issue to present their research. View the ‘Special Issue: Imaging Cell Architecture and Dynamics’ here. Thursday 14

Latin America Light Microscopy Fundamentals: Train-the-Trainer

Posted by Claire Brown, on 17 October 2024

From June 3-7, 2024, a dedicated team of imaging scientists ran the Latin America Light Microscopy Fundamentals Train-the-Trainer event in Buenos Aires. Twenty four imaging scientists from across Latin America and Africa were trained in how to run a fundamentals light microscopy course.

Featured image with David Gaboriau

Posted by FocalPlane, on 11 October 2024

Our featured image, acquired by David Gaboriau, shows human fibroblasts with mitochondria (Tom20) in yellow, alpha tubulin in pink and actin in grey. It’s a 3D-SIM image taken on a Zeiss Elyra PS.1, reconstructed in Zen and presented as a maximum intensity projection. Find out more about David’s research below: Research career so far: I’m originally a

Microscopy preprints – applications in biology

Posted by FocalPlane, on 4 October 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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HCR spectral imaging: 10-plex, quantitative, high-resolution RNA and protein imaging in highly autofluorescent samples Development 2024 151: dev202307
filoVision – using deep learning and tip markers to automate filopodia analysis J Cell Sci 2024 137: jcs261274
C omputational tools for quantifying actin filament numbers, lengths, and bundling Biology Open 2024 13: bio.060267

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