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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🌱🔬 October can mean only one thing… it’s time for the next webinar in our FocalPlane features… quantitative plant imaging series! We’ll be treated to talks from Marcel Dickmanns @madic.bsky.social & Laura Copeland @lauracopeland.bsky.social. Register now: focalplane.biologists.com/2026/09/23/r...

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Joe McKenna @joemckenna.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🌱🔬 We're hiring! 2-year Senior Technician in the McKenna Lab @warwicklifesci.bsky.social. Plant cell biology meets proteomics. We want someone enthusiastic to help drive our research forward. Interested? DM or email for an informal chat. workwithus.warwick.ac.uk/job/COVENTRY... #PlantScience #Jobs

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Senior Research Technician

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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🌱🔬Register now for our plant imaging series! In this webinar, @madic.bsky.social will take us exploring through plant cells using cryo-ET, while @lauracopeland.bsky.social focuses on root-microbial dynamics using FPM and fluorescence microscopy. 🗓️15 October focalplane.biologists.com/2026/09/23/r...

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Alex Johnson @ajcellbio.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Super happy to announce that in October I will be joining the University of Warwick as an assistant professor! We will be continuing to examine the molecular mechanisms of intracellular trafficking using a range of samples, including plants and diatoms ⚽️🌱🔬

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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Less than one week to go! We're excited to hear talks from @laurabacete.bsky.social and @sventruckenbrodt.bsky.social. Join us online on Thursday 16 July at 15:00 BST.

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Alex Johnson @ajcellbio.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

This session will showcase some really state-of-the-art imaging techniques to look at cellular architecture (@sventruckenbrodt.bsky.social) and live, contact free biomechanics (@laurabacete.bsky.social)! Sign up below! #expansionmicroscopy #brillouin #plants 🌱🔬

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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

🔬🌱Register now for the second webinar in our new series on quantitative plant imaging. We’ll be hearing about using Brillouin microscopy to measure plant cell wall mechanics from @laurabacete.bsky.social, while @sventruckenbrodt.bsky.social will introduce PlantEx. 🗓️16 July at 15:00 BST

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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Also in our list, we highlight a preprint on Phasor-based analysis for multiplex imaging in plants from Beatrice Lace @blace.bsky.social & Thomas Ott @ottlab.bsky.social. You can learn more in our 1st webinar in our quantitative plant imaging series: focalplane.biologists.com/2026/05/19/f...

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FocalPlane features... Thomas Ott and Simon Gilroy - FocalPlane

FocalPlane features... Thomas Ott and Simon Gilroy - News

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LMB-EPFL Graduate Life Sciences Symposium 2026 @lmbphdsymposium.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

We’re excited to hear from Alex Johnson of the University of Exeter! 🎉 Alex investigates clathrin-mediated endocytosis in plants and algae, highlighting how photosynthetic organisms sense and respond to their environment through mechanisms that differ from those in mammalian or yeast systems.

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Sven Truckenbrodt @sventruckenbrodt.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Come join us online on July 16 to learn about PlantEx — using expansion microscopy to image plants at 20–60 nm resolution, and in multi-colour no less! ☘️🌈🔬

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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

🌱🔬Save the date for the second webinar in this series: Thursday 16 July at 15:00 BST. Updates will appear on our webpage or you can sign up to our FocalPlane features... mailing list to stay up-to-date with the latest information. focalplane.biologists.com/macro-to-mic...

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Alex Johnson @ajcellbio.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

If you ever wondered about the history and current state of plant Clathrin-mediated endocytosis....here is a review just for you! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Was really fun to write this with awesome co-authors! ⚽️🌱🔬

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Clathrin‐Mediated Endocytosis in Plants: Historical to Modern Advances

Ultrastructural studies by Bonnett and Newcomb in 1966 revealed the existence of coated vesicles budding from the plant cell plasma membrane. This review introduces this discovery and early questions...

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

There is still time to register for @focalplane.bsky.social's inaugural plant imaging webinar tomorrow. #plantimaging focalplane.biologists.com/2026/03/30/n...

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New webinar series on plant imaging - FocalPlane

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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

📢 Two weeks to go until the first webinar in our new series on quantitative plant imaging across scales. We’ll hear from @blace.bsky.social and Simon Gilroy in this webinar chaired by @ajcellbio.bsky.social and @joemckenna.bsky.social.

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Thomas Ott @ottlab.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Thanks for this initiative! Great idea. Happy to see @blace.bsky.social from our lab @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social and involved in imaging approaches @sfb1381.bsky.social kicks it off. Hope to see many people online.

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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

We are excited to launch a new webinar series, Macro to micro: quantitative plant imaging across scales, organised by @ajcellbio.bsky.social and @joemckenna.bsky.social. Our first webinar will featured talks from @blace.bsky.social and Simon Gilroy. focalplane.biologists.com/2026/03/30/n...

FocalPlane features… quantitative plant imaging across scales
Thursday 30 April, 15:00 BST (UTC+1)
Organised by Alex Johnson and Joe McKenna
Image of Beatrice Lace (University of Freiburg)
Multiplexing and Endogenous Fluorescence Discrimination Using FLIM in Plants
Image of Simon Gilroy (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
Do plants feel pain? How imaging has brought plant wound signaling into the human timescale.
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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

🌱🔬If you’re a plant biologist using imaging in your research, check back with us on Monday for an exciting announcement! @ajcellbio.bsky.social @joemckenna.bsky.social #teaser #plantbiology #microscopy

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sylmerlot @sylmerlot.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

In the frame of the French ANR funded project HOMONIME project (anr.fr/Projet-ANR-2...), we will open 3 PhD positions to work on nickel homeostasis in plants using genomic, proteomic, metabolomic and spectrometric approches in Toulouse, Grenoble and Pau. Contact me for further informations

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Exploration des mécanismes de l'homéostasie du nickel chez les plantes à l'aide d'une espèce hyperaccumulatrice

Le nickel est un métal essentiel pour les plantes. Il est le cofacteur indispensable à uréase, qui dégrade l’urée pour recycler l’azote. Cependant, le nickel est toxique quand il est présent en excès,...

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Alex Johnson @ajcellbio.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Abstract deadline extended until March 20th! Come talk about plants and microscopy! #imc21 🌱🔬

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Alex Johnson @ajcellbio.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Abstract deadline extended until March 20th! Come talk about plants and microscopy! #imc21 🌱🔬

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Alex Johnson @ajcellbio.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Current invited speakers are @priyaramakrishna.bsky.social and Malcolm Bennett

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Alex Johnson @ajcellbio.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

If you like plants and microscopy (optical, spectroscopic, and/or electron based), George Littlejohn and I are charing the plant session at #IMC21: Abstract submission is open, so come join us in Liverpool! 🌱🔬😎 www.imc21.org.uk/congress/abs...

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Priya Ramakrishna @priyaramakrishna.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

A big thanks to Alex, Joe, Marketa, Mark and @biologists.bsky.social for bringing together plant imaging enthusiasts across scales and career stages - all in a classic English countryside setting!🔬🌱 @ajcellbio.bsky.social @joemckenna.bsky.social @focalplane.bsky.social

Workshop venue seating with speakers with introduction by Helen Zenner from Company of Biologists

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Plant Energy Biology Lab @schwarzlanderlab.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

A huge thank you to Joe, Alex, Marketa, Mark and @biologists.bsky.social for bringing together an absolutely amazing community in plant imaging 🌱🔬 in the stunning Sussex countryside.

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Giselle Cheung @giselletycheung.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

⚡️Funded PhD position in my lab in Exeter 🧠 @exeter.ac.uk If you are interested in brain development, cell-type diversity, neuroglia, subcortical structures and neurodevelopmental disorders, check out this opportunity. Deadline 28 Feb. Please RT🙏. www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

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PhD Funding: Subcortical brain deve | University of Exeter

The University of Exeter’s Department of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences is inviting applications for a PhD studentship to commence on September 21st, 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter.

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obcbioimaging.bsky.social @obcbioimaging.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Post-lunch, @ajcellbio.bsky.social telling us about imaging plant endocytosis using multiple techniques 🔬

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obcbioimaging.bsky.social @obcbioimaging.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

We’re excited to announce our special guest speaker for Flora in Focus: A Microscopy Conference for Plant Scientists Join us as Dr Alex Johnson, Research Fellow at University of Exeter, presents “Probing plant endocytosis at multiple scales.”

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James Manton @jamesdmanton.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

The final version of our multispectral microscopy manuscript is now online at Nature Photonics: www.nature.com/articles/s41... The main additions are some further comparisons to yet more unmixing algorithms, in which we find that our algorithm is still the most accurate.

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Multispectral live-cell imaging with uncompromised spatiotemporal resolution - Nature Photonics

A tree-like arrangement of dichroic mirrors and multiple cameras coupled with an iterative spectral unmixing algorithm enables multispectral imaging of live cells in up to eight spectral channels with...

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Alex Johnson @ajcellbio.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Deadline for funded places for PhDs, post docs and newish PIs has been extended to the 5th of September!

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Alex Johnson @ajcellbio.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Deadline for funded places has been extended to the 5th of September! So if your a PhD, post doc, newish PI and like imaging plants - this is a great chance to hang out and talk with some experts in a fancy English countryside house 🌱🔬😎

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Gatsby Plant Science Education Programme @gpsep.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Organised by Alex Johnson and Joe McKenna, who we have had the pleasure of working with at the Gatsby Plant Science Summer School, this is a great opportunity not to be missed! Just 2 more days to apply for a funded place if you are an ECR

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Early-career researchers, apply for a funded place at our Macro to Micro: Quantitative Plant Imaging Across Scales Workshop. Find out more: www.biologists.com/workshops/fe... #Workshop #Plants #Cells #Imaging #Microscopy #Microscope #Research #PlantPhysiology #PlantCells

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EMBL @embl.org · 16/07/2025

Brillouin microscopy showing strength in non-invasive, live-imaging applications! Studying fruit fly embryos during gastrulation as cells rapidly change shape @prevedel-lab.bsky.social @gomezjm-devmech.bsky.social @marialep.bsky.social characterised & mapped mechanical changes in 3D. rdcu.be/ev6ZX

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Alex Johnson @ajcellbio.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Interested in imaging plants, then this is a great workshop for you! We have a great line up of speakers from plant and ‘outside’ fields, fantastic location and spaces for ECRs to come and join in the fun! 🌱🔬💻🤓

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Alex Johnson @ajcellbio.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

Super happy for 1st author Michelle this is out! It was fun to help out and try some new ways of imaging. 🌱🔬 #plantsarepretty

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