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Highlighting signalling biosensors 1.

Posted by Greg Redpath, on 16 January 2025

Why there is interest in signalling biosensors, considerations for using biosensors, and the original biosensor, GFP. Why write about signalling biosensors? In my first postdoctoral position, I was introduced to the concept of endosomal signalling- a way for receptor signalling outcomes to be changed by delivering a signal to different regions of the cell. I

Meeting report: Biomolecular Horizons 2024

Posted by Greg Redpath, on 6 January 2025

In September 2024 I attended the Biomolecular Horizons conference in Melbourne, Australia. This was a large conference with 9 concurrent sessions over 4 days. There was a lot of great biology presented from around the world, but in my meeting report I wanted to highlight something unique about the conference: the Indigenous Perspectives in Biomolecular

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

VolumeEM: An Interview with Kedar Narayan

Posted by Daniel Doucet, on 14 December 2024

I had the pleasure of sitting down with recent awardee of the Alan Agar Royal Microscopy Award for Electron Microscopy, Dr. Kedar Narayan. Dr. Narayan is very involved with the grassroots Volume EM (vEM) community, and has used his time at Frederick National Laboratory to not only benefit cancer research, but microscopy technique as a

An Interview with Dr. Huaiying Zhang

Posted by Subhajit Dutta, on 6 December 2024

Dr. Huaiying Zhang is an Eberly Family Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Physics. Her research focuses on the functional significance of phase transitions in cells, particularly in the context of cancer. By developing chem-optogenetic tools, she explores

An interview with Dr. Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan

Posted by Greg Redpath, on 4 November 2024

Dr. Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan is the 2025 recipient of the Royal Microscopical Society Award for Life Sciences. She is the first winner outside of Europe, highlighting the incredible cellular imaging she has led across the world. Dr. Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan is an EMBL Australia Group Leader in the Department of Molecular Medicine at UNSW, Sydney. Vaishnavi received

An Interview with Dr. Harikrushnan Balasubramanian

Posted by Subhajit Dutta, on 2 October 2024

Welcome to the FocalPlane Interview Series where we spotlight groundbreaking Asian-origin scientists pushing the boundaries of cell biology and microscopy. Today, we are thrilled to present Dr. Harikrushnan Balasubramanian, a distinguished research specialist at Janelia’s light microscopy core facility. In this engaging interview, he discusses his path to a career in science, his specialization in

From Microscope to Macro-Scope: Same Sobek, New Glyphs

Posted by Daniel Doucet, on 5 September 2024

Thousands of years ago, the Ancient Egyptians depicted their numerous gods on hieroglyphics. One of which is an amalgamation of crocodile and man – Sobek, the god of the Nile River. These sacred carvings (from the classical Greek “heiros”, sacred; “glyphikos”, carving) have to be deciphered carefully by historians who are far removed from the

An Interview with Dr. Zhixing Chen

Posted by Subhajit Dutta, on 19 June 2024

Welcome to the FocalPlane Interview Series where we spotlight groundbreaking Asian-origin scientists pushing the boundaries of cell biology and microscopy. Today, we’re delighted to feature Dr. Zhixing Chen from the Peking University, China. In this exclusive interview, Dr. Chen unveils his transformative research on probe design, shares insights into his remarkable career path, and offers

Education Strategies of Imaging Cores

Posted by Daniel Doucet, on 1 April 2024

Over the past two decades, high profile research institutions have come to rely on distinct core facilities for much of their data and image analysis. The benefits of the newest technologies are often softened by the costs of purchasing and maintaining such equipment for regular use. For microscopy and imaging, it only made sense that

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