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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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BINA Award Nominations Open Until May 1

Posted by BioImaging North America, on 23 April 2026

BINA now has four annual awards- two that are new for 2026! Michael W. Davidson Memorial Award- honors a highly innovative and multi-talented researcher, who recognized the power of communicating science through images. Richard & Rosaria Haugland Industry Award- recognizes individuals in the imaging industry sector who advance the bioimaging community through innovation, impact, education and

[FRANCE-BIOIMAGING] Join FBI.data next webinar

Posted by Marine Beraud, on 21 April 2026

The second edition of FBI Connect will take place on Thursday, May 21st at 11:00 AM. This webinar will present BioImage Cloud, a solution developed within France-BioImaging to support the management and reuse of bioimaging data. FBI Connect is a webinar series dedicated to showcasing projects developed within France-BioImaging. It provides an opportunity for the

Microscopy preprints – applications in biology

Posted by FocalPlane, on 17 April 2026

Here is a curated selection of preprints published recently. In this post, we share preprints that use microscopy tools to answer questions in biology.

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.

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