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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/
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.
📢 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]
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
This #EMmonday we are looking at these beautiful L. mexicana axoneme cross-sections from Chandra Ramakrishnan, Cécile Fort, Linda Kohl, Richard Wheeler, Robert Sinden and colleagues. They examined the role of Rsp9 in axoneme assembly.
#OpenAccess
Summary: Radial spoke head protein 9 (RSP9) is found in the flagella of trypanosomatids and malaria parasites, and is important for motility in trypanosomatids but critical for fertilisation in Plasmodium.
