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ELMI/FocalPlane image contest

Posted by FocalPlane, on 9 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

And the winner of the FocalPlane 1-year Anniversary image competition is...

Posted by FocalPlane, on 13 August 2021

We are sure that it was very difficult to choose and vote for only one image among the 64 fantastic images participating in the competition. After a week collecting votes from the community, the poll is closed and we have a winner. Congratulations to Tejeshwar C Rao! The image ‘Trippy Tension Turtle Tailing Treats’ received

FocalPlane 1-year Anniversary image competition voting is open!

Posted by FocalPlane, on 4 August 2021

After 1 month of image submissions we are happy to announce that the image competition gallery is complete and voting is open (until 11 August, 5pm UK time). We have 64 fantastic images from 30 different people, covering a range of different microscopy techniques such as widefield, confocal, spinning disk, super-resolution, and electron microscopy. To

FocalPlane Image Competition

Posted by FocalPlane, on 19 July 2021

FocalPlane turned one on Thursday 1 July 2021, and we are organising a new image competition to celebrate it with you. Submit your favourite images acquired using any microscopy modality. All the images submitted will be featured on FocalPlane and will be voted on by the community. The image with the most votes will be

FocalPlane 1-year Anniversary Image Competition

Posted by FocalPlane, on 1 July 2021

FocalPlane turns one today, Thursday 1 July 2021, and we would like to celebrate it with you all by organising a new image competition. Submit your favourite images acquired using any microscopy modality. All the images submitted will be featured on FocalPlane and will be voted on by the community. The image with the most

A career path to bioimage analysis

Posted by Laurent Thomas, on 9 December 2020

I am currently working in Heidelberg, Germany, finishing my PhD thesis between the medical university of Heidelberg and the microscopy company ACQUIFER. My research project is dedicated to the development of user-oriented software solutions (Fiji plugins, KNIME workflows…) to facilitate the handling and analysis of large microscopy datasets of 2D images. The project is motivated

FocalPlane image competition voting is open!

Posted by FocalPlane, on 5 October 2020

After 3 weeks of submissions we are happy to announce that the submissions gallery is now up and running for 1 week (until 12 October, 5pm UK time)! We have 83 fantastic entries from 45 different people who have used a range of different microscopy techniques to acquire their beautiful images. To see our competition

FocalPlane image competition

Posted by FocalPlane, on 9 September 2020

For our first FocalPlane image competition we are delighted to invite our community (you!) to submit your favourite images that you have acquired using a microscope of any modality. The images you submit (up to 3 images per applicant) will be featured on FocalPlane and will be voted on by the community. The image with

And the winner is…

Posted by FocalPlane, on 7 June 2024

In an exciting turn of events, we are delighted to announce that the winner of the FocalPlane/elmi (European Light Microscopy Initiative) is the electron micrograph, ‘Glorious Lymphocyte’ from Rossana Melo! The image shows a leukocyte (lymphocyte) trapped among aggregates of red blood cells in a small lung vessel of a patient with asthma. The image

New look for FocalPlane

Posted by FocalPlane, on 13 November 2023

We are delighted to launch a new look for FocalPlane. Every day this week, we’ll be releasing a new banner image and highlighting the scientist that acquired it. Today, we start with an image from Rebecca Simkin. Rebecca won our 2023 image competition, and you can read our featured image post with Rebecca here: https://focalplane.biologists.com/2023/09/01/and-the-winner-is/

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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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