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Featured image with Simon Desiderio

Posted by FocalPlane, on 21 April 2023

Our featured image shows the developing dorsal root ganglia of an E12.5 mouse embryo from Simon Desiderio.

Featured image with Ellen Skarpen and José Teles Reis

Posted by FocalPlane, on 5 April 2023

Our featured image shows a Drosophila third instar larval brain with activated ‘Mosaic analysis with a repressible cell marker’ (MARCM) specifically in the Optic lobe, marked by GFP. This genetic technique allows for the labelling and manipulation of mitotically active clones of cells for the study of fate mapping or gene role through gain/loss of function. In this

Featured image with Alexis Lomakin

Posted by FocalPlane, on 22 March 2023

Our featured image, ‘Cellular highways’ shows a small group of rat liver epithelial cells IAR-2 and their internal organelles: the nucleus (cyan), cytoskeletal microtubules (magenta) and the Golgi apparatus (yellow). We caught up with Alexis Lomakin to find out more about the research behind the image.

Featured image with Elkhan Yusifov and Martina Schättin

Posted by FocalPlane, on 10 March 2023

Our featured image, ‘Two eyes looking at an eye’, shows the developing neurons in the eye of a 7-day-old chick embryo. We caught up with Elkhan Yusifov and Martina Schättin to find out more about the image, their research and what they are excited about in microscopy.

Announcing the winners of the Node–FocalPlane image competition.

Posted by FocalPlane, on 27 March 2025

We are delighted to announce the winners of the Node–FocalPlane image competition, which we presented at the Biologists @ 100 conference, as well as on the Node and FocalPlane. In first place is ‘Cell-estial bloom’ from Özge Özgüç. Özge’s image is a colony of live hiPSCs, with fluorescently labelled Lamin B delineating the nuclear lamina

FocalPlane/elmi2024 image competition - vote for your favourite

Posted by FocalPlane, on 3 June 2024

Thanks to everyone who entered our FocalPlane/elmi2024 image competition, we were delighted to receive so many wonderful entries. The organisers of elmi2024 and the JCS team have shortlisted 10 images for our public vote.

FocalPlane image competition - vote for your favourite

Posted by FocalPlane, on 4 July 2023

Thanks to everyone who entered our 2023 image competition, we were delighted to receive so many wonderful entries. We have shortlisted 10 images for our public vote. You can vote using the poll at the bottom of this page and the image with the most votes will be featured on the cover of Journal of

Outcomes of the Hackathon on Web and Cloud Infrastructure for AI-Powered BioImage Analysis

Posted by Caterina Fuster-Barceló, on 22 June 2023

Recently, our community had the opportunity to partake in a dynamic event that demonstrated the vibrant nature of our field: The AI4Life Hackathon on Web and Cloud Infrastructure for AI-Powered BioImage Analysis. This event, organized by Wei Ouyang at KTH Sweden, partner of the AI4Life, with generous support from Global BioImaging. It took place from

FocalPlane image competition 2023

Posted by FocalPlane, on 15 May 2023

We are celebrating our upcoming third birthday by launching our 2023 image competition! We’d love to take this opportunity brighten up our homepage and add to our spectacular image gallery. Submit your favourite images acquired using any microscopy modality. All the images submitted will be featured on FocalPlane. The shortlisted image with the most votes

ELMI/FocalPlane image contest - deadline extended!

Posted by FocalPlane, on 20 May 2022

Does your work involve capturing stunning images on a microscope? Enter your image to our joint contest with ELMI (https://elmi2022.eu/) for a chance to win €250 and have your image featured on the cover of Journal of Cell Science. Competition details: The ELMI/FocalPlane image contest is open to anyone (not only participants of the ELMI

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Microscopy-related articles from our journals

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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