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Featured image with Ioannis Theodorou

Posted by FocalPlane, on 27 February 2026

Our featured image, from Ioannis Theodorou, was acquired with Leica Stellaris 8 and the TauSeparation mode. It is the TauContrast channel and it shows the average fluorophore lifetime per pixel. The image was processed on Las X and inkscape. The region shown comes from compressed wood tissue.

Featured image with Jan Martinek

Posted by FocalPlane, on 13 February 2026

Our featured image is a spinning disk fluorescence micrograph, acquired by Jan Martinek, showing an Arabidopsis thaliana root that formed a spiral on a forgotten Petri dish lying flat on the bench. In this orientation, the root cannot grow downward gravitropically, so it keeps turning.

Featured image with Denise Scuffi

Posted by FocalPlane, on 30 January 2026

Our featured image, acquired by Denise Scuffi, shows stomata – small pores surrounded by a pair of specialised cells known as guard cells – from Arabidopsis thaliana expressing the fluorescent biosensor roGFP2-Orp1 in the cytosol, which enables in vivo monitoring of intracellular H₂O₂ dynamics.

Featured image with Ivan Radin

Posted by FocalPlane, on 16 January 2026

Our featured image, acquired by Ivan Radin, shows a few epidermal cells of tobacco (Nicotiana benthamiana) leaf, expressing cytosolic GFP. There is a significant variability in expression levels between cells. The brightest region is the nucleus, which is surrounded by a large central vacuole. The cytosol is restricted to the cell periphery. Transvacuolar strands connect

An interview with Ana Waleska Quevedo

Posted by Mariana De Niz, on 11 April 2023

MiniBio: Ana Waleska Quevedo is a researcher at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences at Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. She is also a lecturer at Universidad Católica Boliviana. She is responsible for the Botanics lab at UAGRM. Since early on in her career, she specialized in Plant Anatomy.

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