Featured article – Streamlined histone-based fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) for studying chromatin organisation

Abderrahmane Kaidi and colleagues introduce a new streamlined and adaptable cell imaging method for quantitative analysis of chromatin organisation in mammalian cells. In this Methods & Techniques article, the authors discuss the application of the new method and reveal a new role for ATM in regulating chromatin structure.

Workshop review – Symbiosis in the microbial world: from ecology to genome evolution

Workshops hosted by The Company of Biologists provide leading experts and early-career researchers from a diverse range of scientific backgrounds with a stimulating environment for the cross-fertilisation of interdisciplinary ideas.

The ‘Symbiosis in the microbial world: from ecology to genome evolution’ workshop, held in November 2017, addressed the origin, maintenance, and long-term implications of symbiosis among microbes from complementary perspectives across various fields of biology. Find out more about the workshop in a FREE Review article from organisers.

First Person interviews

Have you seen our interviews with the early-career first authors of our papers? Recently, we caught up with first authors Laura M. Langan and Leonie Venter.

Why should you publish your next paper in BiO?

Biology Open has strong credentials and publishing with us is easy and fast. BiO aims to provide rapid publication for scientifically sound observations and valid conclusions in developmental, cell, experimental and translational biology. Submit your paper here; you’ll be in good company.

Recent cell biology research highlights in BiO

Spermine modulates fungal morphogenesis and activates plasma membrane H⁺-ATPase during yeast to hyphae transition
Antônio Jesus Dorighetto Cogo, Keilla dos Reis Dutra Ferreira, Lev A. Okorokov, Alessandro C. Ramos, Arnoldo R. Façanha, Anna L. Okorokova-Façanha. Biology Open 2018 7: bio029660

Transfer to Biology Open

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