🔬🔦In their Imaging spotlight, @taylashakespeare.bsky.social and @ijayas.bsky.social highlight their research dissecting receptor sorting in endosomes using the calibrated 3D ExM toolkit that they developed.
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Light sheet lab. We image anything from cells to plants to shrimp.
@fedegasparoli.bsky.social @excitedemissions.bsky.social are running the machines!
These images show live embryos of animals (jellyfish, crustacean, worm, sea urchin, sea squirt, beetle) and one of animals closest single-celled relatives. They were captured taking advantage of fluorescent proteins localised on the outer membrane of cells, allowing us to observe cell outlines. 1/9
🔬📖Check out our #preprint list showcasing the latest research using microscopy to answer questions in biology.
📨Drop us a message if you have any recommendations for this list.
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Don’t hesitate to contact our Help Desk – our @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social data stewards will be happy to assist you with their expertise.
To the Help Desk:
👉 nfdi4bioimage.de/en/helpdesk/
🔈 Heading to Euro Evo-Devo #EED2026 in Glasgow? Don't miss out our Fish Satellite Meeting! Co-organized with Mike Dorrity @mwdorr.bsky.social, Ralf Schneider @ralfschneider.bsky.social, Laure Sanders @lsaunders.bsky.social and Joost Woltering, and with a list of outstanding speakers 👇
I am thrilled and beyond grateful to receive a CNRS bronze medal this year - this is an incredible honour especially for an INRAE researcher like myself! A big thanks to my amazing team and the research community @RDP for all the great science we have done together!
An illustrated summary of the BSDB Spring Meeting 2026
In this post, @alexneaverson.bsky.social shares her insights on using illustration to share the joy of developmental biology at the 2026 @bsdb.bsky.social meeting.
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🔬IGMM (CNRS/ Univ Montpellier) is hiring Group Leaders in Innovative Biology. @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @cnrs.fr @umontpellier.bsky.social
📅 1 May–15 June 2026
📩 search2026@igmm.cnrs.fr
📎Full information 👇
#LifeScience #MolecularBiology #Research #PI #CNRS
📢 The France-BioImaging April newsletter is out!
Updates from our nodes, recent events, training opportunities, job offers... everything you need to know about France-BioImaging is inside.
How to read it? Click here ⤵️
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Why choose JCS?
- FREE to publish (with OA options available)
- Fast-track option for papers with reports
- Submissions handled by Academic Editors
- Published by a not-for-profit publisher
- A tree planted for every peer-reviewed article🌳
Find out more at:
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📢 Two weeks to go until the first webinar in our new series on quantitative plant imaging across scales.
We’ll hear from @blace.bsky.social and Simon Gilroy in this webinar chaired by @ajcellbio.bsky.social and @joemckenna.bsky.social.
📢Call for images
Our FocalPlane-ELMI2026 @eulimi.bsky.social image competition is open for entries. Share your favourite images for your chance to win £200 and see your image on the cover of @jcellsci.bsky.social.
Deadline: 18 May 2026
#ELMI2026
@ppbioimaging.bsky.social
📢 We are inviting you to the second session of the 2026 @cambridgeflyclub.bsky.social talks.
And this one took a while—736 days. I wrote about why there is more behind this paper than the chemistry. communities.springernature.com/posts/736-days
Now you can check out our paper highlights in our @focalplane.bsky.social blog post!
We demonstrate the use of a calibrated ExM toolkit to visualise complex nanodomain architectures at membrane-bound organelles in the cell ▫️➡️ ⬜ 🔬
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🌱🔬We’re exciting to be hosting a new webinar series on quantitative plant imaging with @ajcellbio.bsky.social & @joemckenna.bsky.social. The first webinar will be on 30 April at 15:00 BST.
For more info and to sign up to our mailing list or volunteer to give a talk ⤵️
In this interview, @juliabatki.bsky.social, FMI’s newest group leader, reflects on the early curiosity that drew her to science, why FMI is the right home for her lab, how studying cell clearance could help us understand disease, and her love of improv.
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We are looking for an experienced light microscopy specialist, motivated to support our users in the Advanced Light Microscopy Facility at EMBL Heidelberg.
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j... -closing date 11 May 2026 @eurobioimaging.bsky.social @globalbioimaging.bsky.social
Don't forget to register for the Young Embryologists Network (YEN) Conference 2026!
Francis Crick Institute, London
June 15th, 2026
Abstract Deadline: May 13th, 2026
Lots of opportunities for talks from abstracts!
Link: forms.gle/fxtmNHjEziVTFprN6
#DevelopmentalBiology
#ReproductiveBiology
Registration for the Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium @cbias.bsky.social is open!
The symposium will take place from 23-24 Nov at The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk in London. Check out our meeting reports from the previous versions of the event:
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Explore image data analysis the FAIR way with @galaxyproject.bsky.social ! Join us April 16 🕒️ 15:00–17:00 CEST for a hands‑on introduction to web‑based, HPC‑ready workflows.
#Galaxy #ImageAnalysis #FAIRdata #BioImaging #Workshop 🌌
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We're turning 29 episodes old! Learn from @erinweisbart.bsky.social and @bethcimini.bsky.social about Pooled Cell Painting, Cell Painting's version of Optical Pooled Screening. It's high-throughput heaven!
#HappyMicroscopyMonday #microscopycommunity- Wayne S. Rasband Open Source Imaging Award recognizes individuals advancing open source imaging software or hardware by making tools freely accessible, modifiable, and impactful.
Nominate or apply by May 1, 2026!
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#cryosky crowd: for a project we are looking for Quantifoil R0.6/1 copper grids that are currently unavailable from the manufacturer. If anybody has any stock to spare, please let me know! #cryoEM
#HappyFluorescenceFriday #microscopycommunity- The Richard and Rosaria Haugland Industry Award recognizes individuals in the imaging industry sector who advance the bioimaging community. Nominate or apply by May 1, 2026!
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How important do you feel discovery research and ‘basic’ science is for understanding disease? Well, I have a little bit of a biased view on the topic, since I'm a basic scientist myself. The lab has made more and more discoveries with very strong therapeutic implications, and often people ask me why we are not pursuing these further ourselves. Part of it is that I think about this very much as an ecosystem. People have different skills – I have colleagues who are very good at the application side of things and I have other colleagues, including people in my lab, who are very good at the basic science. There are a lot of very smart people at every stage in the ecosystem and, sometimes, we have to acknowledge that we can't all be experts in every step. A lot of basic science discoveries will end up having profound implications in the clinic – if you don't have the full imagination about how to get it there, that's okay, because you're still a very important piece of the jigsaw puzzle and other people can help. If the basic science discoveries didn't exist, then it's quite possible that the well would run dry. We cannot simply rely on the idea that the therapies currently in clinical trials are going to be enough because we already know that – for diseases, such as cancer, and with rapidly evolving viruses – there needs to be a constant influx of new ideas to stay ahead of the arms race. I'd also make a plug for the fact that, ultimately, we are all interested in human disease, but disease research in humans is not ethical or possible. This is why creating and studying model organisms in a high-throughput, low-investment context is incredibly important. We cannot just say ‘okay, we're going to stop work on anything that is not related to human research’, because – actually – it's all relevant to humans.
Do you think basic science is particularly threatened by cuts to funding? Science itself is quite uncertain. We do experiments wondering if they will even work. It's discovery, and you don't know where it's going to lead. It could lead to a billion-dollar company, something like mRNA vaccines or CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing, or it could simply be something that interests you. Sometimes it might appear esoteric from the outside, but there are very smart people dedicated to this work. We shouldn't lose sight of the fact that most of this work is paid for by taxpayers, but funding uncertainty creates a very unstable foundation. If the foundations are weak, people are going to get much more conservative about the science that they're doing and worry that ‘blue-skies research’ is not worth pursuing because it won't get funded. And that would be a mistake because all innovation in science really originates from blue-skies, basic research. The second thing that uncertainty does is send a message to our young trainees – who are our future – that this is not a career option that will provide professional and personal stability. I worry that this kind of uncertainty will mean we lose an entire generation of people, and that would be a loss we might not be able to overcome.
I was interviewed by @katiepickup.bsky.social recently for @dmmjournal.bsky.social. This has a little bit of my background, a little bit on science and mentoring, and a little bit (ok, more than a little bit) on funding in science.
Check it out at: journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/...
⏱️ Starting soon! #EuroBioImaging's Image Data Community Days event takes place online this week. Don't miss the first session starting at 🕒️ 9 am CEST TODAY to learn more about our Data Services!
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Thanks for this initiative! Great idea. Happy to see @blace.bsky.social from our lab @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social and involved in imaging approaches @sfb1381.bsky.social kicks it off. Hope to see many people online.
🎲 Metadata made fun! Join the REMBI Role Play Game on April 15 🕒️ 15:00–17:00 CEST to explore imaging metadata and FAIRness in an interactive way.
#REMBI #FAIRdata #BioImaging #Workshop
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