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The cover image depicts a combination of a 3D reconstruction of ER-TGN contact sites by focus ion beam-scanning electron microscopy (FIB-SEM) and five images showing the visualization of the contacts by FRET/FLIM. The 3D reconstruction of the Golgi stack was generated from FIB-SEM tomography of a HepG2 cell using IMOD software. The ER cisterna is shown in red (with ribosomes as white circles), while the trans-most cisterna of the Golgi stack is shown in green (with emerging clathrin-coated buds decorated by pink dots). The five FLIM images are from HeLa cells expressing a TGN reporter (TGN46-GFP) and an ER reporter (mCherry-Cb5). The pseudocolour scale represents donor (i.e. GFP) lifetime (τ) values ranging from 1.8 (blue) to 2.7 ns (red) under conditions that destabilize (left) or stabilize ER-TGN contact sites. For further information, see the review by Venditti and colleagues (pp. 187–197). Image courtesy of Maria Antonietta De Matteis.