FocalPlane - Where biology meets microscopy

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FocalPlane is a community site for anyone who uses microscopy in their research. It is a place where you can interact with a global community of imaging scientists, engineers, chemists, and bioimage analysts.

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Recent posts

Featured image with Md Hashim Reza

Posted by FocalPlane, 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.

Bioimage Analysis: A Call for Standards and Community Accountability

Posted by Haydee Hernández, on 20 November 2024

Achieving true reproducibility in bioimage analysis is a milestone that may seem far away, but it is a goal to which we must aspire. The current reality is that many published papers lack the necessary documentation, and full disclosure of the steps they followed to obtain results, necessary to reproduce their methodologies accurately. This gap

Microscopy preprints – applications in biology

Posted by FocalPlane, 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.

A journey of a novice in immunofluorescence assay

Posted by Seth Domfeh, on 15 November 2024

I am Seth Domfeh, a lecturer and an early-career researcher from the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana. I am delighted to share my experience before and during my research visit to the Africa Microscopy Initiative (AMI) Imaging Centre, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of

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

Posted by FocalPlane, 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.

New Cross-Title Reviews Editor

Posted by Katie Pickup, 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

Bridging Imaging Users to Imaging Analysis – 2024

Posted by Suganya Sivagurunathan, 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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