2020 Volume 32 Issue 1 Pages 1-2
Many types of microscopic technics have been developed and enable to study various properties of biological phenomena. Currently, these techniques are extensively used to study various biological events at tissue- or cellular-level, as well as ultrastructural observations, for various biological materials from a single cell to multicellular species. In the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Botanical Society of Japan, we organized a joint symposium with the Japanese Society of Plant Morphology and IIRS, aiming to introduce the recent progress in various microscopic techniques, such as latest technique for electron microscope, multidimensional image data analysis, fluorescence imaging, imaging mass spectrometry, and laser microdissection. After presentation by the speakers, we held a symposium to discuss current morphology issues and ways to solve them.
