Featured image with… our JCS cover competition winner Antara Chakraborty

Posted by FocalPlane, on 30 October 2024

We are delighted to announce that our cover competition winner is Antara Chakraborty. Antara’s winning image ‘Breaking symmetry’ is the cover image for Journal of Cell Science’s Special Issue: Imaging Cell Architecture and Dynamics; you can explore the table of contents here. The image shows a mouse embryonic fibroblast labelled with phalloidin (actin – green),

Engineer in live imaging, for a project on cytoskeleton

Posted by pascale bomont, on 24 August 2021

Job offers: engineer in microscopy. We are seeking highly motivated candidates for applying advanced optical -live cell microscopy in the field of cytoskeleton, using photoconvertible fluorescent proteins.  Science. Major cytoskeletal component of neurons, Neurofilaments (NFs) provide the structural scaffold of axons and exhibit a rich functional diversity throughout the nervous system (Bomont, Curr Opin Cell Biol 2021 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceb.2020.10.011). Important

Postdoctoral Fellow position in Bioimaging Neurofilaments in vivo

Posted by pascale bomont, on 18 February 2021

In the context of an ERC funded project, the laboratory of Dr. Bomont (NeuroMyoGene institute, Lyon, France) is recruiting several fellows. In particular, we are seeking highly motivated candidate who wish to apply advanced live microscopy methodologies to study the dynamics of neurofilaments in vivo. This project is multidisciplinary and will be conducted in an