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The FocalPlane correspondents: Mariana De Niz

Posted by Helen Zenner, on 27 June 2023

At the beginning of the year, we announced that we will be working with three correspondents, who will be helping us to develop and write content for FocalPlane. We caught up with each of them to chat about their research backgrounds and the topics that they’re excited to write about. This interview is with Mariana

News digest

Posted by FocalPlane, on 29 April 2022

Here is a selection of interesting news, publications and discussions related to microscopy that happened in the last two weeks on Twitter and beyond. Talks, training and workshops: From Images to Knowledge (I2K) is a virtual conference tackling the issue of quantitative analysis of microscopy images. It takes place in early May, and registration is

An interview with Erica Martins Duarte

Posted by Mariana De Niz, on 22 March 2022

Erica Martins-Duarte currently acts as Adjunct Professor at the Department of Parasitology of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, where she develops projects focused on the discovery of new treatments for acute and chronic toxoplasmosis, characterization of drug resistance in atypical Brazilian isolates, and the impact of the infection by atypical isolates of Toxoplasma gondii

News digest

Posted by FocalPlane, on 4 March 2022

Here is a selection of interesting news, publications and discussions related to microscopy that happened in the last two weeks. Thank you to our ‘FocalPlane reporters’ Martin Jones and Parash Prasad who helped us create this list. Twitter Microscopes and imaging tools: miPolScope, multimodal instant polarization microscope https://twitter.com/mattersOfLight/… Python bindings for micro-manager note installable via

News digest

Posted by FocalPlane, on 24 December 2021

Here is a selection of interesting news, publications and discussions related to microscopy that happened in the last two weeks. Thank you to our ‘FocalPlane reporter’ Martin Jones who helped us create this list. Twitter Microscopes and imaging tools: Marijn Siemons continues sharing updates on his #aSnoutyTale https://twitter.com/MarijnSiemons/… A useful tip for those using expansion

preLights – FocalPlane social writing event

Posted by FocalPlane, on 27 October 2021

On Thursday 30 September we hosted our first social writing event in collaboration with our sister site preLights. preLights is the preprint highlighting service run by the biological community and supported by The Company of Biologists. Their dedicated team of scientists (the ‘preLighters’) select, highlight and comment on preprints they feel are of particular interest

Development presents... an Imaging Special

Posted by Helen Zenner, on 12 October 2021

Development presents… is a webinar series hosted by Development. The webinars are chaired each month by a different Development Editor, who invites talks from authors of exciting new papers and preprints. First authors are particularly encouraged to present their work – we hope the series will become a forum for supporting early-career researchers. As well

Microscopy preLights

Posted by FocalPlane, on 23 September 2021

Here is your monthly post with a curated list of interesting microscopy-related preprints as well as preprint highlights written by preLighters. Thank you to the preLights community and the Node community manager, Helen Zenner, who helped us create this list. Here is a curated selection of preprints and highlights published in the last month: Imaging

Microscopy preLights

Posted by FocalPlane, on 26 August 2021

Microscopy preLights

Posted by FocalPlane, on 30 July 2021

Today we start a new monthly post on FocalPlane. With the help of the preLights community, we prepared a curated list of interesting microscopy-related preprints as well as preprint highlights written by preLighters. Here is a curated selection of preprints and highlights published in the last months: CryoET of Dm and DRG neurons provides exciting

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Toggle-Untoggle – a cell segmentation tool with an interactive user verification interface J Cell Sci 2025 138: jcs264154
The ratio of Wnt signaling activity to Sox2 transcription factor levels predicts neuromesodermal fate potential Development 2025 152: dev204661
The short isoform of Tango1 is dispensable for zebrafish survival but is required for skeletal patterning and integrity Biology Open 2025 14: bio062117

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