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New Developments and Applications of Advanced Microscopy in the Biological and Material Sciences. A Special Issue Derived from MFS2019 (Microscopy at the Frontiers of Science. Joint Meeting of the Spanish and Portuguese Societies of Microscopy)

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Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue on “New Developments and Applications of Advanced Microscopy in the Biological and Material Sciences” derives from MFS2019, the Microscopy at the Frontiers of Science Series of Joint Meetings of the Spanish and Portuguese Societies of Microscopy celebrated in Granada (Spain), 11–13 September 2019. 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 all kinds of microscopical and related disciplines, in both the Life Sciences and the Material Sciences. 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
Prof. Dr. Jordi Arbiol
Dr. Dra. Erin Tranfield
Prof. Bruno Trindade
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Keywords

  • 3-D EM
  • 4Pi microscopy
  • Aberration correction
  • Array tomography (AT)
  • Atomic force microscopy (AFM)
  • Automated processing
  • Big data
  • Bioluminescence imaging (BLI)
  • Brightfield and other transmission microscopy contrasts
  • Clearing
  • Colocalization
  • Correlated light and electron microscopy (CLEM)
  • Cryo-electron microscopy
  • Data mining
  • Detectors
  • Dyes design
  • Electron tomography
  • Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS)
  • Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM)
  • Focused ion beam SEM (FIBSEM)
  • Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET)
  • High-content screening (HCS)
  • High-resolution TEM, STEM, SEM and diffraction
  • High-speed confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM)
  • High-voltage electron microscopy
  • Hyperspectral imaging
  • Image analysis
  • Image analysis/colocalization
  • Image analysis/software
  • Image analysis/deconvolution
  • In situ EM
  • In vivo imaging
  • Light sheet microscopy (SPIM, DSLM, DiSPIM)
  • Low-energy electron microscopy—STEM, TEM, SEM, FIB, EELS, EFTEM, EDX, CL
  • Machine learning
  • Mesoscopic imaging
  • Multiplex imaging
  • Multiscale imaging
  • Nonlinear microscopy (TPEF, SHG, THG)
  • Optical tweezers
  • Phase-related techniques
  • Photoexcitation and photoablation
  • Serial block face SEM (SBEM)
  • Single molecules detection
  • Super resolution microscopy (STED, STORM, PALM, structured illumination)
  • Tissue imaging
  • X-ray tomography

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