#EuroBioImaging's UK Node 🇬🇧 is expanding, from 7 to 13 sites after a successful upgrade application. More technologies, FAIR image analysis support & better geographic coverage ... 👀 check out what the upgraded UK Node has to offer! ⤵️ www.eurobioimaging.eu/news/the-uk-... @bioimaginguk.bsky.social

Leishmania news! "Identification of a conserved gene family with an essential role in Leishmania parasite–insect vector adhesion" doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Identification of a conserved gene family with an essential role in Leishmania parasite–insect vector adhesion | PNAS

Adhesion to tissues and surfaces is used by pathogens to avoid clearance, maintain infections, and facilitate transmission. An important example is...

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Leishmania news: "Regulation of Leishmania surface coat proteins by the nuclear protein ESB1" doi.org/10.1242/jcs....

Regulation of Leishmania surface coat proteins by the nuclear protein ESB1

Summary: The surface of the Leishmania parasite in the mammalian host is covered by a protein called amastin whose expression is tightly regulated. We show that amastin expression regulation is contro...

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New review in the Journal of Microscopy: From EM to AI:Multiscale imaging of the secretory pathway with insights from plant cells Charlotte Pain and Emily Farley discuss the history of imaging the ER, from classical EM to fluorescent super-resolution LM, and future possibilities with AI analysis

Laser ablation and confocal microscopy of fluorescent marker lines to reveal more about how meristems and apical dominance operates in Marchantia polymorpha www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New insights into cell fates of the Arabidopsis inflorescence meristem @sebamorenor.bsky.social generated the most detailed map to date of this critical stem cell niche, identifying 18 distinct cell type clusters, including precursors to cortex & vascular tissues www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/new-ins...

How ancient are the building blocks of animal sensory systems? Key components of animal sensory systems evolved before animals. We find that choanoflagellates possess diverse & spatially segregated TRP channels, pointing to ancient origins of sensory specialization. doi.org/10.64898/202...

Our June issue of infocus Magazine #RMSinfocus is now freely available to read online! Loads of great content - including a colourful preview of the 21st International Microscopy Congress (#IMC21) coming to Liverpool, UK, this summer! Read the issue: https://ow.ly/jQgg50Zanmt

Exciting results from experiments, accepted papers and upgraded microscope systems. Occasionally science gives you a good week, and last week was such a week :)

If you missed the first webinar, featuring talks from Thomas Ott @ottlab.bsky.social (on behalf of Beatrice Lace @blace.bsky.social) and Simon Gilroy, you can view the recordings here: focalplane.biologists.com/2026/05/19/f...

FocalPlane features... Thomas Ott and Simon Gilroy - FocalPlane

FocalPlane features... Thomas Ott and Simon Gilroy - News

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Register now for the 2nd webinar in our new series on quantitative plant imaging, hosted by @ajcellbio.bsky.social & @joemckenna.bsky.social. In this webinar we’ll hear from @laurabacete.bsky.social on Brillouin microscopy & @sventruckenbrodt.bsky.social on expansion microscopy. 🗓️16 July, 15:00 BST

Register for FocalPlane features... quantitative plant imaging across scales - FocalPlane

Register for FocalPlane features... quantitative plant imaging across scales - News

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Congratulations to the PhD graduands getting their degrees conferred today- in particular BioImaging users Nadine, Barrack, Alistair, Emily and Grace!

We are very pleased to announce Prof. Paul Guichard and Dr. Virginie Hamel @centriolelab.bsky.social as joint winners of the RMS Award for Light Microscopy 🔬 👏 🏅 Huge congratulations to both! Read more about Paul and Virginie's achievements: www.rms.org.uk/resource/pro...

Built different: ER cisternae formed by the Arabidopsis Lunapark proteins differ in ultrastructure and affect ER–Golgi transport nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Built different: ER cisternae formed by the Arabidopsis Lunapark proteins differ in ultrastructure and affect ER–Golgi transport

The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is a key structure in plant cells that helps produce and transport proteins. We discovered that different Lunapark proteins shape ER structures in distinct ways, affect...

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🔬 UK researchers - funding is available to access world-class bioimaging facilities! The UK Bioimaging User Access Fund offers up to £5K for bioimaging or £2K for image analysis at 6 UK sites Open to PhD students, postdocs, technicians & PIs 📅 Next deadline: 31 Jul '26 👉https://shorturl.at/M2ckv

🔬🔦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. focalplane.biologists.com/2026/04/15/i...

Imaging spotlight: Calibrating expansion microscopy to map receptor sorting domains in endosomes - FocalPlane

Imaging spotlight: Calibrating expansion microscopy to map receptor sorting domains in endosomes - News

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Baby shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo (apologies to everyone who now has this song stuck in their head for the rest of the day)

(Scientific) Riddles in the Dark

Advances in imaging Arabidopsis embryogenesis Babić et al. @istaresearch.bsky.social @milanzupunski.bsky.social @frimllab.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

PhD Opportunity Alert! The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions PhD programme AGILE (Advanced microscopy and image analysis around the plant nucleus) has 15 PhD positions in 6 different countries. This includes one here at Oxford Brookes University with the Kriechbaumer group.

TEM Rorschach time! First up: fish

On Saturday we Zoomed Into Life at the @obu-hst-research.bsky.social Science Bazaar! Cool things included beetles close up, build-a-cell and a peek at life from the River Thames: featuring a heliozoan, lots of choanoflagellates and a hunting Lacrymaria cilliate

Showbiz news! Our microscopes will be featured in the new series of CBBC's Operation Ouch, starting with "Awesome Earwax" at 6pm on 23rd February!

Preparations are underway for the "Zooming into Life" activity stall at the @obu-hst-research.bsky.social 2026 Science Bazaar. Here is a photo from last year, and a sneak preview of one of our samples for this year!

We are very excited that they are trying to revive The Muppet Show 🐸🐷

What a beautiful dividing cell, we can clearly see the chromosomes and even count them with MAGNIFY in Arabidopsis root tip. © Magali Grison @monica-bic.bsky.social @lbm-bordeaux.bsky.social

John Gurdon taught us that the beginning of life is never truly lost — only waiting to be reawakened. Long before his ideas were accepted, he showed that a cell remembers more than it appears to know: that within a differentiated nucleus lies the latent capacity to begin anew go.nature.com/3Mf8SD0

John Gurdon 1933–2025 - Nature Biotechnology

Nature Biotechnology - John Gurdon 1933–2025

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🔬UK researchers: Access cutting-edge bioimaging tech + expert support with our User Access Fund! 💷 £5k for imaging 💷 £2k for image analysis Choose from 6 top UK facilities, contact them, then apply! rms.org.uk/user-access-fund ⏰ Next deadline: 31 March ✅ Decision in 4 weeks Pls share!

Congratulations to Barrack Owino on passing his PhD viva! Barrack used a range of our LM and EM systems to do his research on Leishmania. We will miss you Barrack; @macleanlab.bsky.social you've gained a gem!

The lab is a hive of activity today- no wonder the microscopes are booked out so much next week!