Our latest preprints list is up! This week we focus on research in bioimage analysis. Let us know if there are any preprints that we have missed.
focalplane.biologists.com/2024/05/03/mic…

Interested in Professor or Associate Professor position in Cell Biology at world class BioCity Turku campus in the happiest country in the world? Fantastic core facilities TurkuBioscience For foreigners no Finnish or Swedish language required Join us/RT abo.rekrytointi.com/paikat/index.p…

Hanna09 (she/her) and I just scored funding to organize image analysis course: From ugly image to pretty graph 🥳 Now planning the course content, if you always wanted to come to Turku to teach image analysis, raise your hand now!

🛠️ We keep rolling! We have made three new #BiaPy releases in the last four days to add many new functionalities ⚙️ and fix bugs 🐛🪲🐞. The latest release is 3.4.2 and, it's already available in our usual channels 👇
github.com/BiaPyX/BiaPy/r…

Registration is now open for our #FocalPlanefeatures webinar on open microscopy and accessible workflow on 16 May, 15:00 BST.
We are delighted to have talks from Richard Bowman Richard Bowman, Jan Huisken Jan Huisken and Dumi Lumkwana Dumi Lumkwana.
focalplane.biologists.com/2024/05/02/foc…

We will be looking for new group leaders, with focus on (AI) methods, and especially young scientists. We evaluate by potential not just your current track record - great place to start a lab (speaking from experience!) - contact if interested, & please RT

The brand new NordForsk-funded Nordic EMBL P'ship postdoc programme #NORPOD now welcomes applications for seven exciting collaborative postdoc positions! FIMM is involved in four of these projects - for further details and links please see the thread.
projects.au.dk/nordic-embl-pa…

Postdoctoral Researcher in Bioimage Informatics and Machine Learning

Project: Machine learning methods to reconstruct the organelle landscape of single cortical neurons

Main PI: Lassi Paavolainen (@FIMM_UH), co-PI: Chao Sun (@dandrite)

Read more:
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-P…

It's back! #TheMicroscopists kicks off with Euro-BioImaging ERIC Director General John Eriksson
Watch/Listen: bit.ly/microscopists7…
#microscopy #sciencepodcast

Another reason to publish with J Cell Science instead of Frontiers and MPDI journals who just take your money and give nothing back!

Exciting news from Meta! 🚀 Meta Llama 3: the next leap in AI technology. Choose from 8B or 70B versions— the 8B model runs on consumer GPUs, while the 70B model rivals or surpasses ChatGPT 4 Turbo. Plus, Llama 3 is open source, empowering developers worldwide!

You can now apply for JCS-FocalPlane Training Grants to support your attendance at a microscopy course. The first application deadline is 7 June, and we have two further deadlines later in 2024.
Find out more: focalplane.biologists.com/2024/05/01/jcs…

Are you developing tools for #AI enabled research practices that also promote open research? We want to hear from you! Submit your ideas to our RFI so we can build a more effective scientific community together ▶️ bit.ly/49ZUR26

We are excited to launch our new JCS-FocalPlane Microscopy Training Grants. Early-career researchers in cell biology can apply for grants of up to £1,000 to support their attendance at microscopy courses.
focalplane.biologists.com/2024/05/01/jcs…

What a wonderful initiative 🎉🎉

CODA day!
The CODA team at Johns Hopkins University maps pancreatic precursor lesions in 3D and at single-cell level. First 3D spatial genomic maps of large tissue samples. A human pancreas contains a staggering ~1000 lesions, some showing multifocality.
Here: nature.com/articles/s4158…

Working on evolutionary cell biology? We have just a handful of places left at our upcoming meeting on this topic (organised by Gautam Dey, Lillian Fritz-Laylin, Snezhka Oliferenko, Meg Titus and Michael Way) so register soon if you’d like to attend. The deadline is this Friday!

I am so excited to guest edit this issue! JCS is an amazingly supportive journal and it’s a privilege to have this opportunity to showcase the excitement of the mitochondrial field. Get your submissions ready!!

Our next special issue will be on the cell biology of mitochondria. We encourage submissions of Research Articles, Short Reports, & Tools & Resources papers. The issue will be guest edited by Ana Garcia-Saez Garcia Saez Lab & Heidi McBride Heidi McBride, Ph.D.
journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/mito…

I successfully defended my #PhD thesis last Friday. The whole day was just perfect and I was surrounded by the most amazing people! Special thanks for Carolina Wählby for being the best opponent and Guillaume Jacquemet for getting me there. Åbo Akademi University