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Attention all microscopists!

It’s FREE to publish in Journal of Cell Science – there are no page charges, colour charges or hidden fees. And if your institution has a Read & Publish agreement, you can publish immediate OA free of charge.

Find out more: journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/re...

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New research provides insight into how division orientation is controlled to ensure robust tissue architecture during plant growth.

Learn more in this week’s issue of #ScienceAdvances: https://scim.ag/3Okfjp7

📢 Registration for the 28th Annual Meeting of the Club Exocytose-Endocytose is open until April 15 !
👉 Register here: exoendo.org/en/evenement...
Please share widely!
@gdrimabio.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social @sbcf.bsky.social @embo.org @febsletters.bsky.social @sneuroendo.bsky.social

#ZebrafishZunday: Valentine's Day Edition ❤️ Beating heart of a transgenic zebrafish embryo. Credit to @zebrafish007.bsky.social. 🧪

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

Labeled cortical neurons projecting to the preBötC, the central pattern generator for breathing

A projection atlas of excitatory and inhibitory inputs to the

preBötzinger Complex:

substrates for multimodal breathing control

www.biorxiv.org/content/bior...

There was so much to unpack with this data, we teamed up with the marvellous @margotriggi.bsky.social to help explain what we think is going on. (Please also check out our model of central apparatus assembly here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...)

I have more live imaging of actin in B cells from this week for this #FluorescenceFriday

#fluorescencefriday 🧠 from AppNL-G-F mouse model triple stained for amyloid beta (Cyan) IBA1 (microglia magenta) and CD31 (blood vessels yellow) thanks to @shahrzadbahrampour.bsky.social @nadiahaghbinphd.bsky.social and @arashsalah.bsky.social @mind-western.bsky.social

Apparently, it’s #fluorescenceFriday too!!!

A Sticky Dance Between a Cell and a Neuron. #neuroscience #science #mysterious #HiddenWorld #cell #FluorescenceFriday
➡️A Schwann cell precursor interacting with sensory axons 🔬🧫🧪

Intruder waving
#Fluorescentfriday #Actin #neurons #astrocyte

Pues que terminen de estudiarlo y lo hagan. Ese evento incita a conductas de claro riesgo para la salud pública, en pleno repunte del sarampión. ☹️

I agree, #ExM really changed my microscopy work…

BINA STED User Group, February 12, 12 PM ET - FocalPlane BINA STED User Group, February 12, 12 PM ET -

The next @bioimagingna.bsky.social @canadabioimaging.bsky.social Nanoscopy (previously STED) User Group meeting is on 12 February from 12 pm ET. The group welcomes researchers at all levels for an open discussion on nanoscopy methods.
focalplane.biologists.com/2026/02/02/b...

✨ En ce début d’année, l’équipe du pôle photonique s’est dit qu’il était temps de changer des slides et des listes d’équipements 📄❌

👉 Résultat : un mini-film un peu décalé pour présenter nos systèmes de microscopie, d’optique et d’instrumentation 🔬

La photonique, mais en version musicale 🎶

#ImageOfTheMonth February 2026 ✨
Fluorescent fibers (hundreds of µm) of a Platinium complex visualized in Fiji using orientation-based pseudocolors 🎨. Image acquired during the BIC hands-on microscopy training 🔬
Credits: F. R. Lauro, A. Virepinte (ISM), J. Teillon (BIC)

🏆 Image of the Year 2025
226 votes, 12 Images of the Month, and a race decided by just one vote 😮
With 58 votes, @tdhellemmes.bsky.social wins for his cleared brain image acquired using light-sheet microscopy and will proudly carry the colors of the BIC 🎉🔬✨

Congratulations to Bob Asselbergh, who was named runner-up in the Autumn round of the Four Seasons of the Invisible imaging contest hosted by Euro-BioImaging! 🏆

https://www.eurobioimaging.eu/news/congratulations-to-the-winners-of-the-autumn-imaging-contest/

Are you a cell biologist who secretly thinks cellular cryo-electron tomography is just George Palade-era EM, but fancier?

Join this webinar to see how modern #teamtomo has shifted from pretty pictures to quantitative, local membrane biology, and how that changes the questions we can ask.

Advanced fluorescence imaging techniques EMBL Course

Curious about Advanced fluorescence imaging techniques? 🔬 Check out this course organised in collaboration with @embl.org Node experts, taking place at EMBL Heidelberg from May 17-22.
🗓️ Apply by February 8 🔽
www.embl.org/about/info/c...

Look the video @mag-bic.bsky.social !!!

Applications for QI 2026 are due on Friday! 🔬 🖥️ 📊 😺

Save the date 🤩🤩🤩!

Our student-led Young Scientist Symposium will take place on the 4th & 5th of June this summer!

More information and registration available soon!

At the Special Edition #VirtualPub, Christian Holz of Molecular Devices presents large‑scale solutions & services for automated organoid culture expansion, 4D image acquisition platforms, and AI‑based analysis tools.
🗓️ Fri, Jan 30
Abstract🔽
www.eurobioimaging.eu/news/3d-orga...

Hey! IMARIS rocks, but the trainers rock even more!!! @bic-bordeaux.bsky.social

Quentin Lebel was awarded a @jcellsci.bsky.social-FocalPlane Training Grant to attend an IMARIS course organised by @bic-bordeaux.bsky.social.
Read about Quentin’s experience here: focalplane.biologists.com/2026/01/23/i...

Next application deadline: 20 February.
www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-f...

CytoTape in a neuron

Our CytoTape work is published today in Nature @nature.com! CytoTape is a genetically encoded, flexible, intracellular protein tape recorder for spatiotemporally scalable and multiplexed recording of cellular activities continuously across weeks in vitro and in vivo. www.nature.com/articles/s41...