This epic paper, which has been a heroic 10 year journey for the lead author, Ricardo Barrientos, is finally out in Cell today! Many thanks to all co-authors, especially Billie Meadowcroft and Andela Saric for their beautiful MD simulations www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Basement membrane turnover controls cell shape

Basement membranes are scaffolds of proteins, like collagen, that give organs shape. During development, basement membranes must adapt to the growing organ. We infer how fast the basement membrane ada...

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Got to try out another microscope woo! 8 positions stitched taken on the new @Bruker lightsheet this morning

Delighted to share our latest preprint "NucleiSky enables cross-scale multimodal registration of microscopy data using nuclei constellations" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Code and App: github.com/CellMigratio...

🔬 Exciting to see the publication of DySTrack in the Journal of Cell Science: a modular, open-source tool designed to transform how we approach live-cell imaging. 👉 Read the paper: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... #Microscopy #Bioimaging #LifeSciences #CellBiology #UCL

DySTrack is officially published!: doi.org/10.1242/jcs.... If anyone is keen on using it feel free to reach out as we are more than happy to help and demo if need be!

DySTrack – a modular smart microscopy tool for live tracking of dynamic samples on modern commercial microscopes

Summary: DySTrack is an easy-to-use open-source tool that bridges standard microscope control software with the Python image analysis ecosystem to enable automated tracking of moving, drifting, or gro...

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Zimeng Wu@zimengwu33.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Pleased to say that Jonas Hartmann (bs-less) and I have finally released DySTrack (“diss track”) - Dynamic Sample Tracking. It’s a Python-based, modular tool that brings smart microscopy to everyday imaging on commercial systems. Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... [1/6]

We are particular fans of DySTrack (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...) by @zimengwu33.bsky.social & Jonas Hartmann at UCL for live tracking of dynamic samples & WaveOrder (arxiv.org/abs/2412.097...) by @mattersoflight.bsky.social et al as a wave-optical framework for scalable biological microscopy 🐟🔬

FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 7mo ago

📢Our latest #preprint list is now up on FocalPlane In this list, we focus on new tools and techniques in imaging 🔬. Let us know if you have any recommendations that we have missed. focalplane.biologists.com/2026/01/09/m...

I always get weirdly sad setting up/collecting my fish/embryos for the last time every year and hope that they have a happy holidays too

Pleased to say that Jonas Hartmann (bs-less) and I have finally released DySTrack (“diss track”) - Dynamic Sample Tracking. It’s a Python-based, modular tool that brings smart microscopy to everyday imaging on commercial systems. Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... [1/6]

DySTrack: a modular smart microscopy tool for live tracking of dynamic samples on modern commercial microscopes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.02.691816v1

My timely return to social media - just ahead of something fun we’re releasing next week! Until then here’s a movie of the zebrafish pLLP migrating past motor neurons and under the spinal cord as a teaser.

Thought I was being really novel when I designed and 3D printed this mold for zebrafish transplants based on the microinjection one, but found out today it already exists… Bottom: my PLA mold that’s bent from warm agarose Top: a very kind (more robust looking) gift from @mongeralab.bsky.social

BIOIMAGE ANALYSTS ASSEMBLE!!! #CBIAS2025

What a fun #CBIAS2025 !!

Courtney @courtneyl7a7.bsky.social has written a lovely piece on this wonderful community initiative we’ve been running for 5 years at UCL - have a read! And follow @biig-ucl.bsky.social !

FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 12mo ago

📢New post on FocalPlane - Connecting Researchers Through Bioimaging: Reflections from UCL’s BioImage Interest Group Courtney Lancaster @courtneyl7a7.bsky.social‬ reflects on the success of the BioImage Interest Group at UCL, offering a template for other communities.

Our second perspective talk was by Rob Tetley from Nikon Instruments with beautiful example movies developmental dynamics across scales sharing his experience in making the most of resonant scanning confocal imaging.