📢 Join us next week for our mini-symposium with the membrane trafficking webinar series Featuring talks from @nickader.bsky.social, @maiblab.bsky.social and Mónica Quiñones-Frías, and a keynote lecture from Gillian Griffiths @griffithslab.bsky.social.

Great to see this in the wild!

Call for papers: Cell Biology of the Nucleus We invite you to submit your latest research to our special issue: Cell Biology of the Nucleus, guest edited by Abby Buchwalter @abbybuch.bsky.social, working alongside Megan King @luskinglab.bsky.social. journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/nu...

I'll be there!

Really excited to be back in my home away from home, Berlin, for my first conference in Germany: "Life at the Edge: The nuclear envelope in nucleocytoplasmic transport and genome organisation" Really looking forward to it!

Come work at Nature Methods! A dream job. I know from experience 😄

Hyped to be moving to the Blizard Institute @qmul.bsky.social in the Autumn. As part of an exciting new development in infection research within the Blizard, I’ll be a Group Leader, Academic Lead of the Blizard Advanced Light Microscopy (BALM) Facility and soon take up a Senior Lectureship.

Hugely excited to work with this!

This was a lot of fun! Great to be back in my Alma Mater.

Great to see this out! And very fitting the last publication from my PhD is in a @microbiologysociety.org journal. Who played a significant role in supporting my EARLY early career!

I cannot believe I didn't post about dark sectioning! I can only blame my crazy travel schedule. Check out this amazing tool for background removal in fluorescence microscopy. An important new concept, not 'just another' denoising algorithm.

Really great talk by @melghazaly.bsky.social from @towerslab.bsky.social in #CSH #Retroviruses !

Yesterday, @mattvxwhelan.bsky.social gave a fantastic talk! Thanks for all the engaging questions and all the great science chat afterwards! #cshretro

It was a huge honour to speak today in the beautiful locale of Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, NY. At an epic post entry events session on the 50th anniversary of #CSH #Retroviruses

Can't wait for this!

Our latest preprint list is now up on FocalPlane. Our list this week is focusses on research using 🔬microscopy tools to answer questions in biology. As always, please let us know if there are other preprints that you’d like to see included. focalplane.biologists.com/2025/05/16/m...

Join us at Virtual Virology for an afternoon of excellent science!

🖱️ Picking out individual cells in distorted microscopy images is now as easy as clicking a button, thanks to Cellpose3: www.janelia.org/news/newest-...

A computational framework links transcriptomic analyses with mechanical signatures to study the interplay between cell mechanical forces and gene expression. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are #hiring! We have two open postdoc/research scientist positions to join our #ERC funded project MITOFOLD to resolve the organization of mitotic chromosomes! 1) experimental biologist shorturl.at/LjGEM 2) data scientist shorturl.at/nDdhQ Please share! 🙌 We look forward to your application! 🤩

Do you LOVE organelles?? Well I am THRILLED to announce that Nellie has been published in @naturemethods.bsky.social! Nellie a fully automated pipeline for organelle segmentation, tracking, and hierarchical feature extraction in 2D, 3D, timelapse, multichannel live-cell microscopy 🧵1/N

[Phys.Org]A completely new type of microscopy based on quantum sensors - Phys.org Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have invented an entirely new field of microscopy called nuclear spin microscopy. The team can visualize magnetic signals of nuclear magnetic resonance with a...

We wrote a protocol to quantify plasma membrane fluidity using a confocal microscope 🔬 Hopefully those interested in measuring membrane biophysical properties in live cells find it useful. We also provide an ImageJ/Fiji tool to make the analysis as easy as possible. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Bring your samples into focus! A new version of the #Cellpose cell boundary mapping tool, developed at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social by @computingnature.bsky.social and @marius10p.bsky.social, now works on less-than-perfect microscopy images that are noisy, blurry, or undersampled.

How is transport directionality achieved through the #trypanosome nuclear pore complex? The current model is symmetrical, but this study reveals that the trypanosome #NuclearPore has an asymmetrical architecture, with conserved hubs that direct mRNA transport 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/3Q36QV2

Time flies... 7 years ago this week. I was a green PhD student off to do a stint in the Suzuki lab at the CZC @hokkaido-univ.bsky.social. Living in Sapporo was like a dream. The excitement for research I witnessed and found in this place was my inspiration to pursue a life in academia!

#1 Happy to share our last work published in @NatureCellBio about a new cell cycle checkpoint that senses nuclear shape & mechanics to guarantee genome integrity www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Great work from @sol-herve.bsky.social & Andrea Scelfo in close collaboration with @katemiro.bsky.social

"Given the exodus of the academic community from X to Bluesky, we would advocate that publishers and database managers incorporate direct-share links to Bluesky, and so assist the academic community in its shift to a platform more suited to scientific discussion." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I finally got around to making a video about my utilities to render 3D projections in Jupyter notebooks. The code is useful but a bit rough so I also suggest taking a look at @guiwitz.bsky.social microfilm and @haesleinhuepf.bsky.social stackview as more polished options. youtu.be/9yOA8R03trE

📢Now up on FocalPlane: Probes 101 – How to choose a fluorescent probe for your imaging experiment. Lina El Hajji talks us through the optimal photophysical properties & weighs up the pros & cons of FPs versus small molecule dyes & the options in between! focalplane.biologists.com/2024/12/14/p...

There are now 24 step-by-step guides, explaining how to create these ⬇️ data visualizations with R/ggplot2 - I hope this is a useful resource. Find them all here: joachimgoedhart.github.io/DataViz-prot...

jobs.surrey.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... At the University of Surrey, we are looking for a new colleague. Join us as Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Immunity and Infection Biology at the School of Veterinary Medicine. Do get in touch for any queries or forward to your networks 🙂 #MicroSky #IDSky #MicrobiomeSky

We're looking for an Assitant Professor in Microbiology to join us @tcdgenmicro! Come and join our growing team. www.tcd.ie/microbiology... www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies/ Job ID: 037876. Closes 31st January

Useful orders of magnitude

Dune has the same plot as the Westminster Dog Show: After generations of careful breeding, we have produced this perfect little freak of nature and now it has behavioral issues

Happy #MicroscopyMonday! The recordings of the #Virtual #I2K2024 workshops are available now tinyurl.com/VirtualI2K20... Thanks to all who presented! Please re-share! 2022 and 2023 content available too: www.youtube.com/@I2KConference

One of my favourite things to do at FocalPlane is hosting webinars (well, not so much the speaking on screen…). I’ve met some fantastic scientists & getting email saying they'll speak is so exciting! You can check out the recordings of our webinars here: focalplane.biologists.com/focalplane-f...