New Developments and Applications of Advanced Optical Microscopy. A Special Issue Derived from SPAOM 2018 (2nd Spanish Portuguese Meeting for Advanced Optical Microscopy)

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue on “New Developments and Applications of Advanced Optical Microscopy” derives from SPAOM2018, the 2^nd Spanish Portuguese Meeting for Advanced Optical Microscopy celebrated in Granada (Spain), 24–26 October 2018. We welcome contributions in the form of review articles and original research manuscripts, not restricted to participants of the meeting but also from interested field-related authors. Topics covered within the congress and also by the present volume include live optical imaging and analysis of all types of organisms (plants, animals, bacteria, humans, etc.). Imaging methods will be reviewed from using whole organisms to single molecules going through tissues and single cells. Therefore, multiscale, mesoscale, and nanoscale observations are considered. Methodological approaches include clearing, sample processing, labelling, visualization, tracking, high content screening, data mining, and machine learning. Descriptions and applications of instrumental adaptations and new technological developments are also welcome. Reports of imaging protocols and image analysis and improvement strategies and data curation are likewise encouraged.

Submitted articles should provide, as requested by the journal, background information, full experimental details, and comparison with available protocols/methods. The topic fits extremely well with the suggestion of the journal of submitting accompanying video demonstrations, which will be published online. The journal has no restriction on the length of the papers, and publication charges will be waived for the proposed Special Issue. Do not miss this opportunity to publicize your innovative work.

Dr. Juan de Dios Alché Ramírez
Dr. María Calvo Adamuz
Dr. Paula Sampaio
Guest Editors

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