New preprint! eFIB-SEM unlocks stunning 3D views of biology, but streaks—the “curtain effect”—impact the micrographs. We demonstrate a simple tweak that significantly reduces these artefacts. Thrilled to share this work with the Hess lab @ HHMI/Janelia!
📝 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📢 Submissions are now open for the CellMap Segmentation Challenge.

Build the best method for segmenting cellular organelles in vEM using our 289 annotated volumes, 40 organelle classes, and 22 diverse cell and tissue types.

🔗 hhmi.news/410evJQ

On this day 5 years ago #HHMIJanelia and Google released the "hemibrain", a map of neural connections in much of the #Drosophila fly brain. At the time it was the largest such #connectome ever created. Here's a video from the release (polished a bit), showing the interesting shapes of the neurons.

9️⃣ Janelia’s Advanced Imaging Center @aicjanelia.bsky.social marked 10 years of pushing microscopy forward. Since 2014, the AIC has given hundreds of researchers access to cutting-edge microscopes, at no cost. 🔬
https://buff.ly/3ZUmmXT

🦠A team led by the Lippincott-Schwartz Lab used a new technique developed at Janelia called high-resolution template matching, or HRTM, to uncover in unprecedented detail the movement of ribosomes – the molecular structures that synthesize proteins inside cells.

🔗 hhmi.news/401LKMq