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Welcome to FocalPlane

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

Biologists @ 100 video guide

Posted by , on 17 March 2025

It’s only one week to go until the start of the Biologists @ 100 conference and we’re looking forward to welcoming you in Liverpool. Together with our sister community sites, the Node and preLights, we’ve made a recording to give you a flavour of what to expect during the conference.

Featured image with Omkar Joshi

Posted by , on 14 March 2025

Our featured image, acquired by Omkar Joshi, showcases a U2OS cell immunostained for paxillin (green), TOMM20 (mitochondria, white), and F-actin (labelled using SiR-Actin, magenta), with DAPI (yellow) marking the nucleus.

Vote for your favourite image

Posted by , on 11 March 2025

We are delighted to unveil the shortlisted images in the Node–FocalPlane image competition. Thanks to everyone that entered, we received so many fantastic images and congratulations to all the finalists. You can vote for your favourite image using the poll at the bottom of the page.

Microscopy preprints – bioimage analysis

Posted by , on 7 March 2025

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

ScanR workshop report

Posted by , on 3 March 2025

In mid-August 2024, I had the fantastic opportunity of attending the ScanR workshop; held at the Institute of Biophysics in Brno, Czech Republic and organised by world-leading experts who have been using this technology for >10 years. Being renowned as the birthplace of the father of genetics, Gregor Johann Mendel, the location was also special,

Featured image with Anthony Dornan and Fara van der Schans

Posted by , on 28 February 2025

Our featured image, acquired by Anthony Dornan and Fara van der Schans, showcases the perinuclear distribution of mitochondria in the highly respiratory human pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) tumour cells (Panc-1) stained with the mitochondrial stain TMRE (thermal LUT), the mitochondria are associated with the nuclei, stained with DAPI (cyan). The live cell image is a maximum intensity Z-projection generated

Are you the recipient of a Travelling Fellowship? Tell us your story

Posted by , on 27 February 2025

Did you know that The Company of Biologists’ journals –  Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology and Disease Models & Mechanisms – offer Travelling Fellowships to early-career researchers (graduate students and postdocs) so that they can make collaborative visits to other research laboratories across the world? The first cohort of Travelling Fellowships was launched for Development in

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Image credits

Neuromuscular junctions – Rebecca Simkins

Mitochondria and microtubules – Till Stephan

Mammary gland organoid – Oona Paavolainen

Dopaminergic neuron – Nick Gatford

CLEM HeLa cell – Marie-Charlotte Domart, Chris Peddie

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Updated on 2 October 2024