■Foreword

Greetings from a New President of JSM

Nobuo Tanaka

■Feature Articles: Novel Insights and Perspectives in Microbiology Obtained from Time-Lapse and Spatial Serial Observation of Single Bacterial and Yeast Cells

Novel Insights and Perspectives in Microbiology Obtained from Time-Lapse and Spatial Serial Observation of Single Bacterial and Yeast Cells

Hiroyuki Yamada

Visualization of Gene Expression Dynamics in Single Living Cells Using Single-Molecule Fluorescence Microscopy

Yuichi Taniguchi

Adaptive Roles of Phenotypic Fluctuation and Single-Cell Statistics

Yuichi Wakamoto

Basic Morphological Properties and Ribosome Enumeration Data of Virulent Mycobacterium tuberculosis Obtained from Structome Analysis

Hiroyuki Yamada

Structome Analysis of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Masahi Yamaguchi

■Reviews

Quantitative Measurements of the Activity of Signaling Molecules by Two-Photon Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy

Hideji Murakoshi

Local Structure Analysis of Amorphous Materials Using a STEM Diffraction Method

Akihiko Hirata and Mingwei Chen

■Lectures

Lorentz Microscopy

Ken Harada

Ultrastructure of the First Optic Neuropil, the Lamina in the Fruit Fly, Drosophila melanogaster

Yoshitaka Hamanaka and Kouji Yasuyama

■Researches Today

Diffusional-Displacive Transformation of Synchronized Long Period Stacking Ordered Structure in Mg Alloys

Takanori Kiguchi, Kazuhisa Sato and Toyohiko J. Konno

Remote Image-Sharing by the Application of Internet-Video Conference System to Electron Microscopy

Akira Sawaguchi, Yoshiteru Goto, Takafumi Yotsuji and Kosuke Iwata

Visualization of Spatial Distribution of Small Drug Molecules inside Biological Tissues

Kazuhiko Misawa and Sumio Terada

■From Microscopy: Editor’s Choice Articles

■Conference Reports

Report on the Joint Meeting of the 120th Annual Meeting of The Japanese Association of Anatomists & the 92nd Annual Meeting of The Physiological Society of Japan

Akira Sawaguchi

Report on PICO 2015

Jun Yamasaki

■Staff Commentary

Hiroyuki Yamada