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James Manton

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Applied physicist & microscopist/microscopologist

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James Manton @jamesdmanton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I've been working on a fast, high-ratio image compressor to try and alleviate the data storage issues myself and some of my colleagues have recently been facing. Before I 'release' version 1, it'd be great to gain some feedback regarding performance and missing features. github.com/jdmanton/rad...
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GitHub - jdmanton/radelta
Contribute to jdmanton/radelta development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Buzz Baum @buzzbaum.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We are looking for a research assistant! Come join the team: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSZ826/r...
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Research Support Officer | Cell Biology | Dr Buzz Baum | LMB 2904 at MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...
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James Manton @jamesdmanton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I very much enjoyed Lisa Cuneo's talk at FOM2026 on a new approach to deconvolution, so it's great to see the preprint is now out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @vicidominilab.bsky.social
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Independent noise realizations enable morphologically agnostic image reconstruction in single-photon-sensitive microscopy
Advances in single-photon sensitive detectors are rapidly expanding the adoption of photon-counting fluorescence microscopy. Under the Poisson photon-counting statistics, iterative Richardson-Lucy (RL...
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Nils Norlin @nilsnorlin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I am looking for postdoc candidates for two opportunities in my lab at Lund University. 1. Co-application for a two-year postdoc scholarship on method development in 3D spatial biology, with applications in lung physiology, cancer and neuroscience.
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Sjors Scheres @sjorsscheres.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Michel Goedert and myself are looking for two postdocs to work on #cryoEM and #masspec of #alphasynuclein filaments from neurodegenerative disease. Come join our bubbly and friendly team at the @mrclmb.ac.uk in lovely Cambridge, UK. www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Postdoctoral Scientist | Neurobiology | Dr Michel Goedert | LMB 2842 - Cambridgeshire job with MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology | 12864505
Postdoctoral Scientist Salary £42,694 per annum Fixed term, 3 years MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK To work in the group of Dr M...
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Stephen McLaughlin @lmbbiophysics.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Registration is closing tomorrow, 9th September, for our 10th Next Generation Biophysics Symposium. Join us either in-person or on-line by clicking here: www3.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/sites/nextge...
A card with information on the Next Generation Biophysics Symposium on 16th September 2026 at the LMB. Registration is closing 9th September. A QR code link to registration website.
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Lara Krüger @lara-kruger.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
📢 We are looking for a Junior Group Leader to join us at @institutcurie.bsky.social! Having joined the department just over a year ago, I can honestly say that it is an exceptionally stimulating and supportive scientific environment, filled with outstanding colleagues — all in the heart of Paris.
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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.ac.uk · 25/08/2026
Looking to solve complex, technical challenges across hardware, software and large-scale computing systems? Join our Scientific Computing team and use open-source software and custom-built systems to support the LMB's computing infrastructure. Closes 17 SEP Read more: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSR455/s...
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology hiring Scientific Computing Officer to support breakthrough discoveries with complex computing tasks.
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Heilemann Lab @heilemannlab.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
🚨 2x PhD opportunities: single-molecule/super-resolution microscopy & image analysis of membrane proteins 🔬(DM for details) 👉🏻 tinyurl.com/5dt7ncby 👉🏻 tinyurl.com/5e52dth2 🙏 Dear colleagues & friends, pls distribute - Thank you! 🙏 @crc1507.bsky.social imol.uni-frankfurt.de @goetheuni.bsky.social
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James Manton @jamesdmanton.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
GCHQ strikes again and deems knowledge of our new approach to tissue clearing too dangerous for public consumption! We're still working on the information included on the website, so hopefully we're unblocked by the time we've finished. If you never hear from me again you know what's happened...
A web warning from the National Cyber Security Centre, a part of GCHQ, stating:

"This site may be associated with malicious activity or malware.

Access to this site has been blocked by the Protective DNS Service

Site: replicaclearing.org

Please contact your local Network Administrator or IT support if you require further assistance"
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Anh Hoang Le, PhD 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇻🇳 @anhhle2702.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Yey, I figured out how to display 3D movie stacks in #ChimeraX, thanks to @dabiophysicist.bsky.social for the suggestion. My original tiff was not ome-tiff so you'll need to convert it first (do this with #Python), then adjust voxelsize in ChimeraX so the image isn't flat, record, and voila!
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Kevin Dean @kevin-dean.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
New preprint! Using multiscale ExM/OPM/ASLM, we show that oncogenic drivers leave distinct 3D architectural fingerprints in intact liver tissue: NRAS primarily remodels cell shape, whereas CTNNB1 shifts mitochondrial architecture toward a pericentral-like state. tinyurl.com/kepy33m6
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Deciphering the Multiscale Morphology of Somatic Oncogenic Alterations in Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Somatic oncogenic mutations are typically defined by their molecular alterations, yet how they reorganize cellular architecture within intact tissues remain largely unknown. Here, we demonstrate that ...
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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.ac.uk · 26/06/2026
2026 marks the tenth edition of the Next Generation Biophysics Symposium! Registration for this year’s event, happening at the LMB on Wednesday 16th September, is open now ➡️ www3.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/sites/nextge…
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James Manton @jamesdmanton.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
We've updated our cleared-tissue direct-view oblique plane microscopy preprint to include our latest resolution-enhancing results. Now the Nyquist sampling of our camera is no longer a limitation and so we obtain a diffraction-limited 2 μm lateral resolution! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
An panel of three images showing 1) raw data, 2) bicubic interpolated data on a two-fold finer grid, 3) properly upsampled data on a two-fold finer grid, for two parallel neuronal filaments that can only be resolved as separate entities in the upsampled image.
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Adam Bowman @adam-bowman.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Excited to share our first lab preprint! We enabled fast wide-field FLIM with low noise and high dynamic range. We built compact resonant modules for EO-FLIM that fit into your hand and developed methods to capture multi-exponential phasor plots at up to 500 Hz. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
2.5 x 2.5 x 5 in
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Biohub @biohub.org · 11/06/2026
In a series of 3 papers and preprints, we’re thrilled to share with you the working laser phase plate. In collaboration with research led by Holger Müller at UC Berkeley, this is a huge innovation in imaging to make small and faint objects inside cells visible. bit.ly/4vK9LVn
Waves of laser light coming from four different directions and meeting in the middle brightly inside the cavity of the laser phase plate
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Sandrine Lévêque Fort 🔬 @slfort.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
🔬 Happy to share our new paper showing that fluorophore brightness open a new dimension in SMLM microscopy ! Thanks to all authors @laurent-le.bsky.social S. K. Sreenivas @emmanuelfort.bsky.social ! @ismolab.bsky.social @instlangevin.bsky.social @cnrs.fr rdcu.be/fmIeD doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Loïc A. Royer 💻🔬🧪 @loicaroyer.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Want to build some of the most advanced light-sheet microscopes in the world to watch life assemble itself cell by cell? The Royer Lab @ Biohub is hiring an Optical Engineer (Advanced Light Sheet Microscopy). 🧪🔬💻🔧 #Hardware + #Python + Advanced #Optics job-boards.greenhouse.io/biohub/jobs/...
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Optical Engineer, Advanced Light Sheet Microscopy
San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)
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Ali Shaib @alishaib.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Hello #world, meet 1,000× Expansion Microscopy. A small gel would grow to the size of an Olympic swimming pool, while amino-acid-scale distances become visible with ordinary light microscopy. Led by Helena Hu from @eboyden3.bsky.social's lab, in collab with us. Story: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Karl Deisseroth @deisseroth.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Directional elements: the preprints are out! 1/n Congratulations to our amazing team: biorxiv.org/content/10.6... biorxiv.org/content/10.6... biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We screened for principles governing global brain dynamics by developing a set of new methods: 1) conformal immersion microscopy;
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Michael Lin, MD PhD @michaelzlin.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Excited to announce big steps for electrical imaging in the brain! In 4 preprints, we and collaborators present 2 new GFP-based voltage sensors: ASAP6c for high-throughput spike recordings, and ASAP7y for subthreshold 1P and 2P imaging bit.ly/4x3k3kX bit.ly/3RKZhq3 bit.ly/4o4fKl3 bit.ly/4uHXuk3 🧵
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James Manton @jamesdmanton.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
We present: Index-agnostic oblique plane light sheet microscopy of centimetre-scale cleared tissues at subcellular resolution www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Image of first two pages of manuscript.
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James Manton @jamesdmanton.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
It's not every day you set up a new website and have it blocked by the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), an intelligence service so secretive the UK government didn't formally acknowledge its existence until 1994, 75 years after it was founded...
A web warning from the National Cyber Security Centre, a part of GCHQ, stating:

"This site may be associated with malicious activity or malware.

Access to this site has been blocked by the Protective DNS Service

Site: www.ctdvopm.org

Please contact your local Network Administrator or IT support if you require further assistance"
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Julia Lazzari-Dean @jlazzaridean.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
We invented “triplet tumbling microscopy” (TTM) to track protein-protein interactions in living cells! Tag your protein with GFP and see it interact with *untagged* binding partners www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
A cartoon overview of triplet tumbling microscopy, comparing data from bound and unbound samples.
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James Manton @jamesdmanton.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
A new direct-view oblique plane microscope is released into the wild, taking the number of lenses that need to be aligned down from four to two, all while maintaining the field-of-view and resolution!
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Stephen McLaughlin @lmbbiophysics.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Hope you can join us for our 10th Next Generation Biophysics Symposium @mrclmb.ac.uk in September. We have a fantastic speaker line up: www3.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/sites/nextge...
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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.ac.uk · 15/04/2026
The LMB is proud to launch the Career Returner Fellowship, a three-year, fully funded postdoc placement for scientists who have had a career break of over 1 year. Applications are open now! More details: mrclmb.ac.uk/careers-and-... Please share this post with anyone who may be interested!
Three-year funded postdoctoral fellowship for scientists returning after a 12-month career break, deadline May 17, 2026.
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BioImagingUK @bioimaginguk.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
🔬 UK researchers - funding is available to access world-class bioimaging facilities! The UK Bioimaging User Access Fund offers up to £5K for bioimaging or £2K for image analysis at 6 UK sites Open to PhD students, postdocs, technicians & PIs 📅 Next deadline: 31 Jul '26 👉https://shorturl.at/M2ckv
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Joe Beckwith @jsbeckwith.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
We are very excited to present spatial-spectral single-molecule microscopy. We use spatial patterning of filters on commercial cameras to enable multiplexing and spectroscopy. We really put the technique through its paces, and it did everything we threw at it! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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louiseatkin.bsky.social @louiseatkin.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Been away from scientific research for over a year and want to get back to the bench? LMB's new Career Returner Fellowship bridges the gap for those who want to re-enter lab-based research. Applications open 13 April More info mrclmb.ac.uk/careers-and-... PLEASE SHARE THIS! @mrclmb.ac.uk
Women scientists look at sample
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James Manton @jamesdmanton.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
In preparation for Focus on Microscopy 2026, I cajoled an LLM to build the website below to aid in designing a personal programme of which talks to attend. It'll warn you when you select two talks that occur at the same time and works on mobile with no account. www.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/jmanton/fom2...
A screenshot of the FOM talk planner, showing two talks on Sunday that occur at different times, and two talks on Tuesday that clash temporally.
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James Manton @jamesdmanton.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I have been unreasonably fortunate to work with some extremely clever and notably kind people during my career so far. Katerina is a prime example of such. Whilst I obviously cannot guarantee the outcome of any endeavour, I'll be damned if I don't recommend this PhD opportunity most wholeheartedly!
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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.ac.uk · 18/03/2026
How do primordial germ cells (PGCs) migrate across a developing embryo? #LMBResearch from Katharine Goodwin and Kate McDole (@cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social) uncovers the mechanisms PGCs use in mouse embryos to navigate this long and surprisingly risky journey. Read more: mrclmb.ac.uk/news-events/...
Microscopic view of a glowing, irregularly shaped primordial germ cell with long protrusions with purple and green fluorescence against a dark blue background.
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Simon Bullock @simonbullock11.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Delighted to announce the posting of our latest preprint, which links stress-induced relocalisation of multiple organelles by dynein to adaptive changes in gene expression in the nucleus (1/n) 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Hao Yin @haoyin.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Optical clearing & time-lapse fluorescent imaging of Live mouse Brain (up to 800 μm of depth)🤯 An acute olfactory bulb slice(P11) loaded with GCaMP6f (Ca2+ sensor) was imaged with #2PM at a depth of 150 μm during clearing with SeeDB-Live👹 #NatMethods 2026 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.ac.uk · 12/03/2026
On today’s episode of BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time, @buzzbaum.bsky.social, Group Leader in @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social, joined for a discussion on all things archaea. Check it out here (requires BBC login): www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... #LMBintheNews
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BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Archaea
How a discovery in the 1970s changed the theory of the origin of complex life on earth.
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James Manton @jamesdmanton.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Myself and @immunoah.bsky.social are looking to hire a postdoctoral scientist to build a next-generation high-throughput high-resolution light sheet microscope for imaging entire cleared organs/tissues and to further develop live & fixed tissue clearing methods. www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Buzz Baum @buzzbaum.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Amazing work by Kris and gang! For the first time we have been able to image division ring components live in Sulfolobus. And guess what - CdvA is asymmetrically inherited.
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Feline Lindhout @felinewlindhout.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
📣🧠 We're looking for someone to join the Lancaster Lab family as a Research Support Officer (maternity cover). You'll be studying the origins of human brain specialisations using brain organoids, as part of a great team at one of the world's great research environments. mrc.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...
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Research Support Officer - Cell Biology - Dr Madeline Lancaster - LMB 2788 - Medical Research Council
Location: Cambridge. Vacancy: Research Support Officer - Cell Biology - Dr Madeline Lancaster - LMB 2788. Closing Date: 25/03/2026, 23:55
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Lori Passmore @lapassmore.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
We are excited to be recruiting a new tenure track group leader in the Structural Studies Division at MRC LMB! It is an amazing place to start your own lab. @mrclmb.bsky.social Please get in touch if you have any questions. www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Research Group Leader Tenure Track - Structural Studies - LMB 2775 - Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (GB) job with MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) | 12854636
Research Group Leader Tenure Track Starting Salary £67,979 to £76,868 per annum MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK The MRC Laborato...
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Lewis MacKenzie @lemackz.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
The Royal Society Netwton International fellowship for non-UK early career researchers opens soon. If anyone in the world of #upconversion is interested, please let me know because I can host. royalsociety.org/grants/newton-international/
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Newton International Fellowships | Royal Society
This fellowship is for non-UK scientists who are at an early stage of their research career and wish to conduct research in the UK.
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Kevin Dean @kevin-dean.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Introducing Cyclically Multiplexed Expansion Microscopy (Cy-ExM): a workflow for 3D nanoscale, high-plex imaging in whole cells. Cryo-preserved ultrastructure + iterative labeling + expansion microscopy → 20 targets in one dataset with ~70 nm lateral resolution. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Unraveling Subcellular Ultrastructure with Cyclically Multiplexed Expansion Microscopy
Despite advances in fluorescence microscopy, spectral overlap and limited resolution hinder the dense mapping of the cellular ultrastructure. To overcome these challenges, we developed Cy-ExM, a high-...
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Yamuna Krishnan @krishnanyamuna.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Organelles do NOT have a single uniform pH. And if you think they must, because “protons diffuse fast,” this paper is for you. A thread on why that assumption is wrong; and what we found instead. 🧵 1/n
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James Manton @jamesdmanton.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Now published with peer-review-induced improvements in Biomedical Optics Express: doi.org/10.1364/BOE.579043 We continue to recommend the use of Sarstedt lumox dishes for ease of use and high-quality imaging performance: bsky.app/profile/jame...
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Kiarash Jamali @kjamali.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
I’m excited to announce that I will be starting my research group on computational enzyme design at the Generative Biology Institute, Oxford, UK (@eitoxford.bsky.social)! PhD applications are open, deadline is Jan 8th (www.chem.ox.ac.uk/genbio-dtp). Email kiarash.jamali@eit.org with any questions!
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GenBio DTP
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Josh Dickerson @joshdcryoem.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Now out in full form. Again, a big thanks to #teamtomo and @alisterburt.bsky.social for developing the infrastructure to build this on. journals.iucr.org/d/issues/202...
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Leopard-EM: an extensible 2D template-matching package to accelerate in situ structural biology
In situ cryo-EM coupled with 2D template matching (2DTM) holds the potential to visualize the cellular structureome in context, but further developments are required to make this a reality. We describ...
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Crick Image Analysis Team @crick-ia-team.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Applications for the next @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social “Introduction to image analysis” workshop are now open! Join us for 3 days in Cardiff in May to learn the foundations of #bioimageanalysis using Fiji, Python and @napari.org www.rms.org.uk/rms-event-ca...
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Introduction to Image Analysis 2026
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James Manton @jamesdmanton.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
For an internal talk, I wanted an easy way to disprove the prevailing myth that expansion microscopy gels expand due to repulsion between charged polymer strands. I did a quick calculation of the supposed energy released during a standard experiment and it's equivalent to a small nuclear bomb...
A calculation of the energy released by four-fold swelling of a 5 mm expansion microscopy hydrogel, containing 1 mmol of sodium acrylate. The calculation assumes a sphere of uniform charge density, in water, and gives an energy of 9.4E13 Joules, or approximately 22.5 kilotons of TNT.
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Jonathan Taylor @jtimaging.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
A great opportunity to come to Glasgow for an interdisciplinary PhD, benefitting from enhanced support and stipend, and a diverse cohort of students alongside you for an inclusive, team experience for your PhD! Please share widely, and spread the word with your undergraduate students.
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Yongdeng Zhang @yongdengzhang.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
We are happy to share our latest work, 4Pi-SIMFLUX, which combines structured illumination with interferometric detection to achieve near-isotropic 3D localization precision of 2–3 nm and resolve sub-10 nm structural features across whole mammalian cells. www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/eQVxt
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4Pi-SIMFLUX: 4Pi single-molecule localization microscopy with structured illumination - Nature Methods
4Pi-SIMFLUX is a single-molecule localization microscopy approach that achieves a near-isotropic resolution below 10 nm in whole mammalian cells.
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