This #TechnicalTuesday we’re reading the #preLight from Girish Kale highlighting the beautiful #preprint on embryo mechanics from Sacha Ichbiah, Hervé Turlier, & team.

@preLights https://prelights.biologists.com/highlights/embryo-mechanics-cartography-inference-of-3d-force-atlases-from-fluorescence-microscopy/

The deadline for Workshop proposals with @Co_Biologists is fast approaching. We’re looking for proposals that address cutting-edge science on emerging themes.

Deadline: 30 June 2023

Check out our post to find out more: https://focalplane.biologists.com/2023/06/12/the-company-of-biologists-workshops-2025/

This #EMmonday we are focussing on SBF-SEM with a case study from Federica Mangione. Federica and colleagues used SBF-SEM to dissect the cellular assembly of tactile organ of Drosophila, identifying a new cell type, the F-Cell.

https://focalplane.biologists.com/2023/05/19/inputs-and-outputs-of-vem-in-a-sensory-system/

#volumeEM #drosophila #devbio

For more from the volume EM community: https://focalplane.biologists.com/category/volume-em/

We’re celebrating #FluorescenceFriday by highlighting the #OpenAcess @BiologyOpen study from Siyu Yang, Mingzhe Cao and colleagues. They use #zebrafish to investigate retinal development and function and find that loss of flrt2 leads to microphthalmia.

https://journals.biologists.com/bio/article/12/6/bio059784/316746/Loss-of-flrt2-gene-leads-to-microphthalmia-in

📢 New post on FocalPlane

Next up in our rotation of preprints topics are new tools and techniques in imaging. The list this week includes advances in hardware, sample preparation, probes and accessible imaging systems. Let us know if we have missed any recent preprints from your reading list. https://focalplane.biologists.com/2023/06/16/microscopy-preprints-new-tool-and-techniques-in-imaging-5/

📢 New post on FocalPlane

In our ‘Community collective’ posts we aim to give a permanent (and searchable) home for those nuggets of advice collected from the community. Our first post focusses on 3D viewers after a request for software recommendations from @engineeringjoy

https://focalplane.biologists.com/2023/06/14/community-collective-viewing-z-stacks-in-3d/

If you have requested (or seen) any microscopy advice that you would like to see be given a home on FocalPlane, comment here or contact us at [email protected]

#microscopy
#cellbiology

Our aMAZ(E)ing #MidweekMovie comes from Connie Shen, Judith Mandl, Nienke Vrisekoop and colleagues. They discover that neutrophils with segmented nuclei have a speed advantage when migrating through confinement spaces

📖 @J_Cell_Sci: https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/136/11/jcs260768/316606/Nuclear-segmentation-facilitates-neutrophil

📢 New post on FocalPlane

We are excited that @KuglerElisabeth, Director at Zeeks – Art for Geeks, shares her top tips on moving from academia to industry in a post FocalPlane. Elisabeth uses her personal journey to give advice that will be useful for any career path.
https://focalplane.biologists.com/2023/06/12/top-5-tips-for-the-shift-from-academia-to-industry/