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Imaging cell biology

Nature Cell Biology volume 24, pages 1180–1185 (2022)Cite this article

Imaging technologies drive discovery in cell biology. Innovations in microscopy hardware, imaging methods and computational analysis of large-scale, complex datasets can increase imaging resolution, definition and allow access to new biology. We asked experts at the leading edge of biological imaging what they are most excited about when it comes to microscopy in cell biology and what challenges need to be overcome to reach these goals.

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  1. The Donnelly Centre and the Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

    Brenda Andrews

  2. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea

    Jae-Byum Chang

  3. Electron Microscopy Science Technology Platform, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK

    Lucy Collinson

  4. National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, CAS Center for Excellence in Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Dong Li

  5. College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Dong Li

  6. Science for Life Laboratory, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

    Emma Lundberg & Julia Mahamid

  7. Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

    Emma Lundberg

  8. Department of Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

    Emma Lundberg

  9. Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Emma Lundberg

  10. Structural and Computational Biology Unit, Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany

    Julia Mahamid

  11. Institute of Physics, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

    Suliana Manley

  12. Epigenomics & Single Cell Biophysics Group, Department of Cell Biology FNWI, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Musa Mhlanga

  13. Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Musa Mhlanga

  14. Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Musa Mhlanga

  15. Live Cell Super-Resolution Imaging Research Team, RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics, Wako, Saitama, Japan

    Akihiko Nakano

  16. Center for Neural Circuits and Behavior, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA

    Johannes Schöneberg

  17. Division of Biology and Bioengineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA

    David Van Valen

  18. Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Ting ‘C.-ting’ Wu

  19. Wyss Institute, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA

    Ting ‘C.-ting’ Wu

  20. Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

    Assaf Zaritsky

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Andrews, B., Chang, JB., Collinson, L. et al. Imaging cell biology. Nat Cell Biol 24, 1180–1185 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41556-022-00960-6

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