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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/

And the winner is...

Posted by FocalPlane, on 1 September 2023

We are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2023 FocalPlane image competition is Rebecca Simkin. Rebecca’s image, ‘Neuromuscular junctions’, depicts four NMJs in a lumbrical muscle, located in the hind paw of a wildtype mouse. A wholemount immunostaining was performed using 2H3 and SV2 antibodies to visualise lower motor neurons in green (specifically

Biologists @ 100 conference report

Posted by Margarida Araujo, on 8 May 2025

Biologists @ 100 conference highlights The Company of Biologists, a not-for-profit organization, plays a pivotal role beyond journal publishing by actively supporting biologists and the broader scientific community. At the recent Biologists @ 100 conference celebrating the 100 years of The Company of Biologists held in Liverpool from 24-27th March 2025, an early-career researcher (ECR)

Essay competition: Innovative ideas for the future of sustainable events

Posted by Teodora Andreea Rînciog, on 11 April 2025

The Company of Biologists is organising an essay competition entitled “Innovative Ideas for the Future of Sustainable Events”. Participants are invited to write an essay of maximum 1000 words to details how your idea will change the way we organise scientific events and will open the door to a new concept of organising events more

Our 2024 FocalPlane correspondents - Daniel Doucet, Subhajit Dutta and Greg Redpath

Posted by FocalPlane, on 19 December 2024

We had the pleasure of working with Daniel, Subhajit and Greg as our FocalPlane correspondents in 2024. You can read some of their posts here and look out for a few more coming out in 2025. As the year comes to a close, we took the opportunity to hear from them about their research and

Vote for the cover - #JCSImagingSI

Posted by FocalPlane, on 25 September 2024

Thanks to everyone who entered our image competition to select the cover for the Journal of Cell Science Special Issue: Imaging Cell Architecture and Dynamics. With so many fantastic images to choose from our Executive Editor Seema Grewal, and Guest Editors Lucy Collinson (The Francis Crick Institute, UK) and Guillaume Jacquemet (University of Turku, Finland)

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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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