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FocalPlane is a community site for anyone with an interest in microscopy. Hosted by @J_Cell_Sci and @Co_Biologists.
Meng-Meng Shan, Ping-Shuang Lu, Shao-Chen Sun and colleagues discover that CLASP1 regulates DYNC1I1 for PLK1-mediated spindle organisation and cytokinesis in oocyte meiosis. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/13…
Our latest #preprint list is now up on FocalPlane. This week we focus on new tools and techniques in imaging🔬. Let us know if you’ve come across a recent preprint that we’ve missed. focalplane.biologists.com/2025/07/25/mic…
I am honored to won 2025 Emerging Leader in Molecular Spectroscopy! My research at UCSD on advancing molecular imaging tools to push the boundaries of scientific discovery. A huge thank you to my incredible team, mentors, colleagues, and collaborators for their support! @Spect
The 2025 Emerging Leader in Molecular Spectroscopy: Lingyan Shi of the University of California, San Diego spectroscopyonline.com/view/the-2025-… via @SpectroscopyMag @UCSanDiego @UCSDJacobs @UCSDCancer @ucsdbe @AdamEnglerUCSD @biogerontology @MaxUnfried @UCSDCancer
Read more about the great work being done to bring more students into the microscopic world! Reach out to us if you want to learn how to create these experiences for more students!
Exploring the Microcosmos through Foldscope-Frugal Science Microscopy in Focus Aarushi Verma shares how their team used Foldscope 🔬to introduce students to the microscopic world as part of the Lodha Genius Programme, hosted at Ashoka University. focalplane.biologists.com/2025/07/18/exp…
We are also highlighting Andrea Brand, who authored @Dev_journal's most cited paper, as an extraordinary biologist this week. #100biologists
‘These signals, they’re made for jogging’: Nodal and FGF signals regulate early zebrafish cardiac morphogenetic events. Theodora Stougiannou #preLights the #preprint by Vanessa Gonzalez &co. prelights.biologists.com/highlights/syn…
A beautiful tour through an AAV-PHP.B-GFP-transduced intact cochlea as visualized via lightsheet microscopy after tissue clearing by Julien Cicero. Cochlea dissection and prep by Xiaobo Wang. Magenta is a hair cell marker, yellow is a neuron marker, and green is AAV-GFP…
Exploring the Microcosmos through Foldscope-Frugal Science Microscopy in Focus Aarushi Verma shares how their team used Foldscope 🔬to introduce students to the microscopic world as part of the Lodha Genius Programme, hosted at Ashoka University. focalplane.biologists.com/2025/07/18/exp…
🚨Registration for #SMLMS25 is still open! If you're considering attending it, this happened the year before at the pre-symposium with @AI4LifeTeam & @SMLM_Symposium 🌟: (spoiler: results from collaborations seeded there will be around at #SMLMS25👀🤩) 👉 focalplane.biologists.com/2025/07/22/bri…
Our latest interview is with 2025 @Official_BSCB WICB early career medal winner Helen Weavers @Hm_Weavers. We hear about what winning the award means to Helen, her research and her advice on staying resilient. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/13…
Have a paper that's been reviewed elsewhere? JCS is pleased to consider such manuscripts for 'fast-track' decisions. Send us the manuscript together with the full set of reviews and decision letters, and we’ll use these to make a decision. Find out more: journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/reas…
In this Editorial, Reinier Prosée and Katherine Brown explore the transformation of the preprint landscape since 2013 and how @Co_Biologists has adapted to and embraced this (new) way of sharing research. doi.org/10.1242/bio.06…
📣 Applications are *open* for our Technical Specialist Job Shadowing scheme in #microscopy, #imaging and #FlowCytometry Spend up to five days at a UK imaging or flow core facility and learn first-hand about the technical job roles essential to their running 🔬😃…
📣 All the news from #EuroBioImaging! #AnnualReport2024, UK funding, visits to the Portuguese BIN Node & the Multimodal Imaging Brno Node, plus updates & opportunities.... Don't miss our July newsletter🔽 mailchi.mp/eurobioimaging…
Looking for an opportunity to work on cutting super-resolution microscopy and AI? There's still time to apply to the two positions!
Our goal is to develop methods to understand the dynamics of biomolecules, using the latest developments in super-resolution microscopy and AI-based image analysis. Apply here: uni-goettingen.de/de/699491.html uni-goettingen.de/de/699489.html
🚨 Deadline: 31 July! Apply now for the CTLS Job Shadowing Programme - a unique mobility grant to visit a peer facility & exchange best practices in management, data tools, safety & more. 🔗ctls-org.eu/community/job-… #Professionaldevelopment #CoreFacilities #researchinfrastructures
Thanks to @Co_Biologists for the support! Cytoskeleton meeting sept 2025 in Lyon/france 👇 registration with QR code in the pic @ConnectingIFs
MEETING! It is NOW ! We are happy to open registration/website for the "Euro-IF 2025" meeting in Lyon/France. Thxs @BonneGisele @etiennemannevil A. Bertrand O. Agbulut & @atoutcomagency. Please spread the words @ConnectingIFs @ERC_Research #cytoskeleton
#JobAlert Excited about organoids, FLIM and iPSC-based 3D models recapitulating interactions of disease-associated microglia with neural cells in AD and MS as a postdoc at Ghent University? Apply with CV and 2 refs via email 'project MINDFUL' to me & @SVergult before 31-Aug!
Flip a switch, control cell adhesion! Another #sciArt #preLight features graphical abstracts by Barbora Knotkova and Sonhita Chakraborty and presents the work of Ryosuke Nishimura from the @KanchanawongLab💫 prelights.biologists.com/highlights/opt…
What’s everyone using for 3D vis of microscopy data for code-free biologists? On @fiji for a workshop demo. #ClearVolume isn’t supported anymore ☹️